Guitar Hero Live is a different entry from the Guitar Hero series in that the guitar no longer has 5 buttons, but six, and are stacked into two rows of three. One row is black while the other is white. On the easiest difficulty, all you need to do is strum and my kids prefer that for the time being. As the difficulty increases, you get more and more complicated pairings of the buttons. In reviews I've read, people claim this mimics real chords and how one would actually play a guitar, and that seems fairly true (at least it is closer to playing an actual guitar...). The song selection is fairly decent. In order to unlock all the songs, you must first play through a series of setlists with different bands at different venues. The gameplay puts you as a member of these bands, interacting with other band members on stage and with an audience of live (not cartoony) people. The audience reacts to your playing, cheering and singing along as you perform well and booing as you do poorly. The changes in audience approval seem rather seamless (though you do notice when those changes occur). If you get tired of the included music, you can hop over to GHTV, a sort of MTV like station of music videos that you can play along with and earn credits to 'purchase' other songs to play. You can only play the song once before you have to buy it again but this does give you a bit more liberty without having to put real money into it (as you have to do with Rock Band 4). I only give it three stars for a number of reasons: first, you can't have someone playing bass and another playing guitar. If two people play, they both play the same parts. Second, the second player can't log in to a profile and therefore can't save progress. So if the second player wants to play under their own profile later, they would have to unlock everything on their own. Third, although you can use a microphone, the singing experience is subpar at best. The support for that is insufficient. Finally, there is no drum support whatsoever! At max, you can only have 3 people play at one time. Guitar Hero Live seems to go back to its roots, focusing solely on guitar. If you enjoyed the other entries in the Guitar Hero series, you will probably enjoy this one, but maybe not as much as the others.