Guitar Hero III's Les Paul in the wild

Yeah, we've seen this puppy around before, but never gotten this close. This here's the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero III's Les Paul, complete with green-glowing Xbox 360 Guide button and wirelessness. Big ups to Red Octane for the extra fret board stylings and refined look, but we'd to look forward to playing with this one come October if they wired up a cardboard box to do the honors.

Gallery: Guitar Hero III's Les Paul in the wild

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[Chris21788 @ Sep 26th 2007 6:11PM]

They even have a wii one on the ground in the one picture...

[Mike @ Sep 26th 2007 6:26PM]

my friend just did a commercial for this with slash!
it should be out soon he was telling me all about this guitar

[Rob @ Sep 26th 2007 6:33PM]

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but have they announced which games the GH2/GH3/Rock Band guitars are going to work with on the 360? I know they said GH2 guitars would work with Rock Band, but I haven't heard anything else (i.e. will GH2 guitars work with GH3 and vice versa?). If they aren't mutually compatible, there are going to be a lot of people (me included) that will be pissed off because they don't want a room full of plastic guitars to play all these games.

[SteveG @ Sep 26th 2007 6:42PM]

GH2 controllers will work with RB and GH3.
RB controller is backwards compatible, but unknown if it will work with GH3.
Same goes for the GH3 controller - backwards compatible but no one knows yet if it plays nice with RB.

[Rob @ Sep 26th 2007 6:45PM]

So the GH2 controllers will play nice with everything, and all the new stuff will play nice with GH2. That's good to know. Hopefully they GH3 and Rock Band play nice as well, I don't think anybody (well, anybody but Activision/Red Octane) wants to have to buy separate guitars for separate games.

[adam @ Sep 26th 2007 6:49PM]

Wow - if you are going to go this far... why not learn how to play a real guitar?
Could probably pay for a few professional lessons with the money that you would spend on the guitar and game.

[Elaine @ Sep 26th 2007 7:19PM]

Um, actually, no?
You'd have to pay for a real guitar, which alone costs more than GH3 (which is $100/$90). And the cost of professional lessons, I'm guessing, is more than $100?

Besides, who wants to play a real guitar when veg out on your sofa playing GH3 in hi-def and pwn noobs on Xbox Live? ;]

[teej @ Sep 27th 2007 11:50AM]

yeah, but learning to play a real guitar actually has some merit in the game of life.

[Dave @ Sep 26th 2007 7:55PM]

Guitar Hero Guitar != Real Guitar

[Goatee Man @ Sep 26th 2007 8:04PM]

Guitar Hero = Game

You = idiot

It's just for fun, so shut up.

[jbodar @ Sep 26th 2007 8:26PM]

@ adam and Dave-

Did you think up those all by yourselves? Or did your mommy help?

In other news...
Battlefield 2 != fighting in a war
Gran Turismo != racing a car
Madden != playing football
Grand Theft Auto != building a crime syndicate

You have just stated the obvious. Video games are for leisure.

[Dave @ Sep 26th 2007 7:55PM]

Guitar Hero Player != Musician

[Dipendra @ Sep 26th 2007 8:01PM]

Hey I've played guitar for close to 15 years now and dissed it too until I played it at a friends house. It's really a lot of fun, especially when you play with people who can't play guitar that kick your ass! I also bet that there are a lot of kids that get the urge to learn the real thing from these games too.

[linkman2004 @ Sep 26th 2007 10:54PM]

I know I bought a real guitar because of Guitar Hero. :)

[Farris @ Sep 27th 2007 2:23AM]

Actually, I got a bass because of GH1.

And my brother got a guitar because I got a bass... so I guess technically Guitar Hero influenced him, too.

Transitive property of video games, I suppose.

[Ben @ Sep 26th 2007 8:51PM]

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