'Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock' wordt met het toetsenbord en muis of de speciale gitaarcontroller gespeeld. Met behulp van de controller moet de gitaarpartij van een muzieknummer nagespeeld worden. In onder meer de career, battle en co-op mode kunnen een of meerdere gitaristen hun kunsten laten zien en meer nummers unlocken. Aspyr Media, dat verantwoordelijk is voor de pc- en Mac-versie van Legends of Rock, heeft een nieuwe patch voor Guitar Hero III klaargezet. De update heeft versienummer 1.1 meegekregen en kan door te klikken op deze link gedownload worden. De ontwikkelaars van Aspyr Media hebben de volgende veranderingen doorgevoerd in de 1.1-patch:
This official patch for Guitar Hero III will update any earlier version to 1.1. Version 1.1 adds many general fixes and improvements so it is recommended that all users apply the update.[break]
- Adds Co-op Quickplay game mode for Online multiplayer.
- Adds Lens Flare and Crowd settings in the Graphics Options menu.
- Adds a new UI screen in the Controller Options menu that displays default keyboard controls.
- Improves the whammy bar sound effects.
- The star power electricity effect now displays correctly when using the Low Graphics Detail option.
- The skeleton in the Shanker Island venue now displays correctly on all supported graphics cards.
- Fixes a bug that caused the animations for Lous puppet to fall out of sync.
- The Leaderboards now update more quickly.
- Fixes an issue that caused some rare instability when joining Online multiplayer games.
- Fixes a bug that caused some finished games to be listed in Online game searches.
- Fixes an issue where menus would become corrupted when Demonware servers are under maintenance.
- Fixes pauses, rare freezes, and other strange behaviors that were occurring on the Video Shoot venue.
- Fixes a bug where practicing a section of a song before entering an online match results in starting from that point in the song.
- Pressing Alt+tab during an empty hosted game no longer displays as a disconnection from the previous opponent.