Customer Ratings & Reviews

Rocksmith is a great way for people to pick up guitar. Personally, I haven't really used my guitar for a while, so I can use this as an excuse to start guitar playing again. The game is designed to encourage players to keep building their skills and even has fun guitarcade games. The main problem with this game is that the game has no way to give you the full guitar arrangement of a song for experienced guitar players. Everyone starts out playing only a few notes of a riff and it takes a while to add more notes to the full part.

Lots of songs on disc and a ton more available via DLC. Game scales difficulty based on your performance, so its always at just the right difficulty level.

A great game, I play guitar and I recommend. Only a little of lag, but nothing to worry about. Included cable.

This is a fun game that helps you actually learn how to play the guitar. It makes learning fun.

This is a nice program and great for what it is - a fun introduction to guitar instruction. This game will not take you to levels that a hands on instructor could, of course. But it's a great tool to use to introduce one to the guitar and to determine if guitar is something interesting enough to actually spend time and money on lessons fore.

I really love this game. I have been playing guitar for 20 years, and I still found this game fun. You play along with songs and use a real guitar, unlike Rockband and Guitar Hero. The soundtrack of the game itself wasn't my cup of tea, but there are lots of great DLC tracks. The biggest draw back is the long load times every time anything needs to change.

Rocksmith is a great tool to help learn the basics of guitar. It's easy to navigate and any age can use this game to help them learn by making it fun. I definitely like that it helps you to tune your guitar as well. This is a very useful and entertaining game. I would recommend this to anyone who is interested in learning the basics.

Great product to help you learn to play real guitar, while being layed out into a game. Great songs with many more downloadable tracks via xbox live. Overall a great game if you like music games.

Really fun game. It actually teaches you how to play guitar. In game guitar tuner works great. Decent songs. The sound of the guitar, pedals and different amps in the game sound really nice.

I just got this with the cable, which makes it worth the purchase price alone. After trying it out for just a few days I had some good riffs down and I am still going.

Works great as a teaching tool for beginners. It'll be interesting to see if I can continue to learn from it.

Fun Game For Beginners Who Want to Learn Guitar. Songs are classics that engage you into playing the game and learning how to play guitar.

The game itself is mainly just to play electric guitar. It starts off really slow and gradually picks up in difficulty. For 10 bucks this is a really cool concept and fun to play!

Great game and for the price i payed well worth it, if your a beginner with a guitar you defenetly need to try this game.

Fun game. Good for teaching the guitar. Lots of songs. It is pretty challenging though!

It's a good teaching tool that shows you how to play guitar pretty quickly.

All in all great investment, easy way to learn to enjoy the guitar.

I'm sure everyone is pretty familiar with the Rocksmith product, but I think it is a unique interface that has let me pick up the basics of playing the guitar. Something I've always wanted to do, but i'm not so good at being self taught and never had the time for actual lessons.

I purchased this “game”. Its “ok” fun, but not as good as I’d hoped. It should be noted that I’m an amateur, only playing for about 2 yrs now, but with some music in my background. Areas I had difficulty with: • Time lag – haven’t gotten this fixed yet, and its annoying. • It ratchets up difficulty at a weird rate sometimes, and doesn’t show you how to move your hand at all to compensate. So, you’re playing along in an “anchored” position and all of a sudden it throws 2-3 notes in a new position at you, with no discussion on hand movement, finger positioning, or anything like that. What ends up happening is either I skip them, or I try to play them in a different position (7th fret on one string can be 2nd fret on another), but it didn’t like that either. • It promotes sloppy play – when it shows that you need to play a note, you can play a bunch around it and its “OK”. For instance, lets suppose you’re to play 3rd fret on A string. If you “barre” your finger across all 3rd frets and play low E, and the A, it’ll give you full points, even though you hit the wrong string in the process. • It doesn’t show you likely spots to put your fingers, so doesn’t promote learning the neck and when/how to move around, all it wants you to do is hit the right fret at the right time, regardless of technique. • It doesn’t show you repetitive patterns in a good way; i.e. when I memorize a song it’s usually around verses and choruses. They don’t represent that well. They want you to memorize, note for note, the song. Hard to do with most music. Things I liked: • Representation of the guitar and the “sound” of the guitar. Not sure yet if I like the color-coded strings, but I could probably get used to it w/time. • Variety of music is not bad – not my picks, but how much Metallica could they put on it anyways?  • I plug MY guitar into MY Xbox. How cool is that! • Some songs in dropped tunings! That was a surprise. Overall, I’ll play it some more, but it didn’t quite hit my expectations out of the box.

This "game" series basically tries to teach one how to play the guitar or base guitar. There are many different aspects that it delves into as it walks you down the beginners road all the way to fully self taught. This series certainly is no "rock band" type experience.