Career is the primary game mode of the Guitar Hero series. It is equivalent to another video game's "story mode".
Types of career modes[]
Career[]
In Career for most Guitar Hero video games, the object of the game is to successfully play every song in a setlist known as a tier at a venue, and then play the encore song for that tier. Once that is accomplished, the player can move on to the next tier, until the final tier is reached. When the final encore song is played, the career is beaten, and the player can now focus on either the bonus songs, or boosting their career score.
In most games, a tier must be reached in Career before it can be unlocked in Quickplay, which makes Career Mode the first thing that most players go to when they get a new Guitar Hero game.
Co-op Career[]
- See also: Cooperative
Co-op Career is a two-player game mode exclusive in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock where two players play together in cooperative play in Career mode (no cash earned though) with the career setlist re-arranged into 6 tiers (with new tier names) based on a balanced two-player cooperative difficulty level. While Guitar Hero: Aerosmith was based on Legends of Rock, it does not feature a Co-op Career mode.
There are no Guitar Battles in Co-op Career but Co-op Career has new encore songs exclusive to it that can be unlocked for Quickplay and other multiplayer game modes after unlocking them in Co-op Career. These Co-op Career encore songs include "Sabotage", "Reptilia", "Suck My Kiss", "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll", "Helicopter", and "Monsters".
Some Xbox 360 achievements in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock can only be earned by playing in Co-op Career including "That's What Friends Are For", "Guitar Wizard" and any other cooperative-based achievements.
Career in the Backstage Pass mobile games[]
- Main article: Guitar Hero III: Backstage Pass/Career
- Main article: Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile: Backstage Pass/Career
Career mode in the Guitar Hero III: Backstage Pass and Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile: Backstage Pass is different in which it features a story mode with a hub world, buildings, and minigames where the player manages their character's band with the goal of becoming a rich and famous rock star by learning songs, buying/obtaining guitars, playing music-based minigames, earning money (while avoid being fined), and playing gigs at venues.
Quest in Warriors of Rock[]
- Main article: Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock/Quest Mode
- Main article: Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Mobile/Quest Mode
Quest mode is Career in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Mobile, and Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Mobile More Music. Rather than selecting your own character, you play through certain characters through certain tiers and use their unique abilities during their songs until they are strong enough to defeat "The Beast" at the end of their Quest.
Career score[]
Career score is one of the best ways to determine one's skill at Guitar Hero. Formerly, Career score was the total of one's scores on all of the songs, across all difficulties. For example, if one has 180,000 points on a certain song on Expert, but 195,000 on that same song on Hard, the Hard score would be counted toward the Career score.
However, in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, there were difficulty specific Career scores. That means that only Expert songs would count toward the Expert Career score and so on. In Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, a 14 million Career score is considered a very big achievement, since it requires Full Combo'ing nearly every song in the game.