It probably still is the second best in its series, but there isn't much competition. Guitar Hero 3 does beat out GH1 which has its own charms but is ultimately really unpolished and weird, and beats out GH80's which is really kind of limited and doesn't have a ton of fun songs to play either. GH2 is the best by a pretty wide margin. For me, after that, GH kind of died spiritually when Harmonix moved onto RB, which in my opinion remains the superior franchise. GH:WT and everything that followed just sort of unsuccessfully tried to follow in its footsteps.