This new iteration is a welcome change for these types of plastic instrument games . Unlike Rock Band who seems to have taken the easy way out to release its latest iteration the developers of DJ Hero seemed to step up their game providing both an instrument that would challenge even veteran plastiq rockers as well as the new folk alike . The Guitar hero T.V idea is a great one on a lot of levels . But a miss in some key areas . I have never played so many guitar hero songs (or rock band for that matter) . Providing an MTV like experience where we jump in jump out of a persistent ever evolving (they promise) playlist presented in a way that appeals directly to my 80s youth . All of this is great when its firing on all cylinders ... When it works. Playing during opening week I found that , for me , the ability to connect to this server was spotty at best . Sometimes going days with a vague Dolomite error that I had to go out of my way as a user to research online what the possible meaning was . Not very user friendly ... not at all. But when it is working it is truly a blast and a great new direction for the series . YES you can no longer own a track to play when you want to BUT you earn tokens as you play and they stack up quickly . These tokens can be redeemed to play any specific song in their play library which consists of over 200 songs at the moment and they promise will expand quickly . This makes it a harder task to play these jams on repeat and truly master them at the hardest difficulty but the trade off is that you don't have to shell out 2.00 per song just to "own" it . There are some issues with the latest plastiq band in a box iterations from both developers but I feel as though Guitar hero has taken the most risks and has in turn reaped the greatest rewards as far as a fun experience