Guitar Hero 3 Leaked?

[RyoriNoTetsujin]

I heard that somehow Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock has found its' way to teh Intarwebz before its' release date.

I'm not asking where to get it -- but can anyone confirm this as truth?  If so, can someone explain to me how that's possible?





Edit: bad grammar

[SlammedNiss]

yes, I can confirm the PS2 ver. was released.

[AtomSmasher]

yes, I can confirm the PS2 ver. was released.

Oh nice, I didn't even know there was going to be a ps2 version.  I was planning on buying the Wii version with a guitar, but I already have 2 guitars for the ps2, so I'll be buying that one instead.

[shmokes]

The PS2 version of Manhunt 2 was also recently leaked.  This is especially significant because this is the controversial version that was going to get an adults only rating and be illegal in Europe.  The game got delayed to be reworked for an M rating, but now the offending version is out there.

[SavannahLion]

I'm not asking where to get it -- but can anyone confirm this as truth?  If so, can someone explain to me how that's possible?

It depends. It could happen any number of ways.

For instance. The source to Half-Life 2 (IIRC one of the Quakes also fell victim in a similar way) was stolen when someone successfully exploited a flaw in Outlook in order to install a Trojan into Gabe's computer. From there, the person gained access back to the main host server and other selected clients. During this time, Valve kept telling the fans that the game was nearing completion and the release date was X. That every thing was kosher. In essence, Valve lied to the community when the game was nowhere near completion. When the release date came and gone. The person downloaded and released most of the source code up until that point to show the community that the game was nowhere near GOLD. ANON. From what I can tell, gaining access to the CVS server in some fashion seems to be the most common way.

This happened to several games, but I don't recall which ones off the top of my head. A developer and a team had a bit of a falling out over some thing or another. In a fit of rage, the developer copied the code, left the team, and released it to the public.

Someone on the "inside" but not generally a developer gets a hold of the game and releases. More common with the game itself but not the source code. Generally, these are people who work as game testers, QC, or someone else in the chain of the process. For example, Microsoft pre-release OSes make their way to the open net because it's actually pretty easy to become a member of the MSDN and sign up for BETA testing new OSes as they come out.

Sometimes, the developer releases the source code in some fashion. Willingly or unwillingly. Half-Life, Quake, and Unreal fall into this category to some degree.

I'm sure there are others, but I believe those are the biggies.

[shmokes]

The PS2 version of Manhunt 2 was also recently leaked.  This is especially significant because this is the controversial version that was going to get an adults only rating and be illegal in Europe.  The game got delayed to be reworked for an M rating, but now the offending version is out there.

I forgot to mention that the leaked version of Manhunt 2 would otherwise never have seen the light of day had it not been leaked.

[testicle187]

From what I have seen where I live the rental stores got copies of Guitar Hero 3 two days ago and were sitting there.  My bet is someone picked it up, made an iso file and uploaded it to torrent sites.

[ChadTower]

Part of my job is source control security... the odds of someone cracking that far into a corporate network AND getting into source control are pretty damn low.  It's about a thousand times more likely that someone just ripped a review copy and put it out there.

[crashwg]

Anyone here anything about this "leaked" version being messed up in any way?  I'd like the think the manufacturer wasn't dumb enough to screw it up the way it seems to be for me...

You see, while I am no "Guitar Hero Ninja" I am pretty good at it.  Beat all but the last 2 songs on the original along with most of GH2 and Rocks the 80's.  For some reason it seems like GH3 is totally messed up when it comes to registering the notes I play.  I KNOW that I'm getting the note spot on but it's telling me I suck.  Well not literally of course...  .

I'm using the same old analog panasonic tube that I have used for all the other games so video lag is not a problem.    I just don't know

[AtomSmasher]

Anyone here anything about this "leaked" version being messed up in any way?  I'd like the think the manufacturer wasn't dumb enough to screw it up the way it seems to be for me...

You see, while I am no "Guitar Hero Ninja" I am pretty good at it.  Beat all but the last 2 songs on the original along with most of GH2 and Rocks the 80's.  For some reason it seems like GH3 is totally messed up when it comes to registering the notes I play.  I KNOW that I'm getting the note spot on but it's telling me I suck.  Well not literally of course...  .

I'm using the same old analog panasonic tube that I have used for all the other games so video lag is not a problem.    I just don't know

No idea, but I'll let you know if I have any issues when I pick up the retail version sometime next week.

[AtomSmasher]

Well I beat metriod prime 3 earlier today, so I went and picked up guitar hero 3 (for the ps2).  At first I thought you were right because I was missing some streaks that I thought I nailed, but then I realized that every note you could hammer on or pull off and not have to strum was marked.  I saw that some sections that appeared you could hammer on and pull off the whole way through actually needed me to strum in certain parts, and once I realized that I no longer had a problem.

[crashwg]

I believe my problem is "strum bar bounce" due to my overzealous flicking of the thing.  If I chill out on the thing it works much better... 

It must be that this version is not setup to deal with the bounce as well as the previous versions.  Whether that is on purpose or not / a good thing or not is yet to be decided.

[SavannahLion]

Part of my job is source control security... the odds of someone cracking that far into a corporate network AND getting into source control are pretty damn low.  It's about a thousand times more likely that someone just ripped a review copy and put it out there.

Tell that to Valve and Id.
Anyways, I misunderstood the original question. I made a generalization of how such a thing could occur and I included theft of source code into my explanation. Stealing source code and ripping a review copy aren't necessarily on the same level.

[SirPoonga]

For the 360 the demo got leaked onto the internet early.  Though I think it was extracted from the tony hawk dvd.  Tony hawk comes with the gh3 demo.  Traditional Neversoft, pimp their games through their games.

[Red]

An article about Manhunt 2 and the leaked version:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071030/ap_en_ot/manhunt2_violence

"Steyer, who has not seen the version of the game being released this week, was talking about an unrated version that has been circulating free on the Internet since August. That version contains more violence and sexually explicit content than the one being released commercially, including a scene where a man's testicles are mutilated with a pliers."


"A spokesman for New York-based Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. said the unrated version used a color encoding system common to Western Europe and could be played in the United States only using a Sony PlayStation 2 console modified without company permission."

I wonder what this last paragraph means about the color encoding system?  Do they mean the PAL standard?

Red

[SavannahLion]

"A spokesman for New York-based Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. said the unrated version used a color encoding system common to Western Europe and could be played in the United States only using a Sony PlayStation 2 console modified without company permission."

I wonder what this last paragraph means about the color encoding system?  Do they mean the PAL standard?

Red

Certainly sounds like it.