[Chromer]

And thus you reveal the view of 95% of American who play this game. America is so vague in thier perception of other video games, that anything that make them feel more "American", will generally be more well received. What red-blooded white American wouldn't love to play a guitar like their favorite rockers of yesterday? Point is, it's the actual music that is selling this game. If it was Japanese, America wouldn't give a flying ****. Oh yeah, they don't.

If you want an objective opinion about GH here you have it:

IMO, Guitar Hero is an average music game for the average joe. It simplistic controls may make the game enjoyable at first, but suffer from extreme lack of replayability in the end. The song selection is quite varied but more of the well known classic rock songs seem to be missing (Enter Sandman I think is not in the game). Overall, if you are an average person looking for about 30 minutes of fake-guitar playing, GH is for you. 6.5/10