Guitar Hero

When I first saw Guitar Hero I had no idea what the game was. Then about a three months later I picked up the color coded string based plastic guitar and rocked the house. Of course I was only on medium difficulty at the time, but who cares.
Guitar hero did for me what dance dance revolution would do for someone who has no rhythm. It made me feel as if I could actually play guitar in real life. Some of the more notable points of Guitar Hero are the facts that it weaves you into harder difficulty with the songs getting harder and harder as you play through the difficulty. By the time you beat all the songs on one difficulty, you are inevitably ready to take on the easiest song of the next difficutly.
Guitar Hero mimicks the motions of moving up and down the frets pretty well. I found that I did a lot better in hitting notes that I otherwise might have been late hitting if I simply slid my hand up and down the frets rather than trying to take my finger off the fret and putting it on another fret. Again, mimicking real guitar playing.
The song selection in my mind was great. There were a lot of songs I recognized, and I'm not even a rock fan. I also like the fact that the song selection was spread out with a little bit of rock, pop rock, and somewhat jazz like tunes. Overall, if you want to feel like you can rock out and get on stage with the best of the best (while still knowing you only completed easy mode), Guitar Hero is a great game.