Topic: PREVIEWS: Guitar Hero: Metallica

[NWR_Neal]

This full-band Guitar Hero spinoff will feature an assortment of Metallica songs as well as songs from other metal and rock bands along with a double kick pedal, a first for the series.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/previewArt.cfm?artid=17397

 Information about Activision's upcoming rhythm game, Guitar Hero: Metallica, is slowly being revealed as it hurtles towards an early 2009 release. In addition to being the second full band game in the series, Guitar Hero: Metallica will also feature a number of new features the biggest of which is the addition of the Expert Plus drum difficulty. In order to accommodate for Metallica's furious bass pedals, the game will allow intrepid players to use two kick pedals provided they have two pedals and a splitter. However, Expert Plus will not be compatible with the Guitar Hero: World Tour leaderboards.    

Guitar Hero: Metallica will also feature a variety of DVD style features such as photos and rare footage of band both on stage and behind the scenes. Also, there will be Metallifacts, which will overlay songs in the game with various trivia about the Los Angeles-based band. The game will also feature new tones for the GHTunes music creator from both Metallica, and Slayer's guitars. The Drum Fills will also gain a boost with a cheat code that will allow the freestyle sections to be played with Metallica drum sounds.    

As of now, this is the confirmed setlist:    

   




• Metallica Songs
 
• Enter Sandman
 
• For Whom The Bell Tolls
 
• Fuel
 
• Hit The Lights
 
• King Nothing
 
• Master of Puppets
 
• No Leaf Clover
 
• Nothing Else Matters
 
• Sad But True
• The Unforgiven
 
• Where I May Roam
   



   




• Other Bands
 
• No Excuses by Alice In Chains
 
• Turn The Page by Bob Seger
 
• Hell Bent For Leather by Judas Preist
 
• Demon Cleaner by Kyuss
 
• Tuesdays Gone by Lynyrd Skynyrd
 
• Blood and Thunder by Mastodon
 
• Armed and Ready by Michael Schenker Group
 
• Mother of Mercy by Samhain
 
• Black River by The Sword
 
• Unannounced songs by Foo Fighters, Queen, and Slayer
   

[Morari]

Are we to assume that the Queen song will be Stone Cold Crazy?

[DAaaMan64]

No it's Fat Bottom Girls.

Iwata: (laughs)

[Morari]

I'd go for that as well.

I stil think it's a shame that they're wasting such great songs on some one-off band installment like this. Why have downloadable content when these wanna-be expansion packs are still around?

[NWR_Neal]

I guess the bigger question is whether or not you can import these songs into GH:WT.

[Ian Sane]

I stil think it's a shame that they're wasting such great songs on some one-off band installment like this. Why have downloadable content when these wanna-be expansion packs are still around?

I agree.  I think Activision is being way too optimistic about Guitar Hero's lasting appeal.  We just got the full band Guitar Hero game.  Unless you introduce keyboards we don't really need any more instrument controllers.  All we really want now is new songs and DLC is the best method of doing that.  Now they can release track pack discs every once in a while in stores that takes the DLC songs and makes them available for people that don't have internet access.  That's fine.  But the era of buying a full game every six months with a new piece of hardware is going to be over soon, if it isn't already.  Activision can try but I doubt the market will support these for long.

Though to be fair this Metallica game was announced years ago.  Even if Activision felt that DLC was the way to go they couldn't just drop their deal with the band.  In fact that is something that is always going to be an issue.  They have to negotiate with the bands and some acts are going to have more strict restrictions.  Case in point The Beatles aren't Rock Band DLC.  They're getting their own game.  That's what they want and they've got the clout to make those sorts of demands.

I think what we would all like would be for their to be ONE game with ONE set of instruments that don't add minor changes each year and all the songs put in these games thus far are released for it as DLC.  That's not going to happen though.  I don't even want the game to have any songs built in.  I want complete customization of the songs I have and the game instead comes with a certain amount of free downloads that I can apply however I wish.  So everyone gets a full game's worth a songs, we just can pick whatever those songs are.  Then after that every additional song costs money.

[Rize]

It's cool that they're making a version with double bass pedals.  Very cool in fact.  However, the set list is just a joke.  None of those Metallica songs *have* any serious double bass.  I can see why they'd want to avoid songs like Battery and Trapped Under Ice which contain balls to the walls double bass sections, but they could have at least threw One in there.  The only double bass in that set list (the Metallica songs anyway) is accenting triplets.

[Justin Nation]

Odd as it may be to say, I'd go nuts for Stone Cold Crazy alone if that were the song by Queen. Just love the song, sue me!