When the house lights go down, virtual rock stars across the globe will shred, drum and wail to an explosive set list featuring over 45 tracks from Metallica’s illustrious career and a wide variety of other legendary artists personally.
“But if you want to get in there and just play some songs, it’s there for you. This spring, Guitar Hero Metallica will take music fans through the band’s fabled library of songs, plus the music and musicians who influence them. “It’s a game that can be really hard if you’re up for that challenge,” Flores said. The second bass pedal, compatible with the existing “Guitar Hero: World Tour” drum peripheral, will be sold in stores separately when “Guitar Hero: Metallica” is released. The biggest addition is the “expert-plus” difficulty to all the gameplay modes, which adds a second bass pedal so that “Guitar Hero” drummers can play double bass drum tracks with both feet, just like Ulrich does. The bonus material includes virtual re-creations of the venues Metallica’s played in, pop-up trivia about the band’s history and lyrics, unlockable videos of live performances and exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage from their motion-capture sessions. “So we took that as a blueprint and crammed a lot of new bonus stuff in there.”
“They were really impressed by it, and they basically wanted a similar treatment,” he said. “We wanted to hit you hard, and we didn’t want to put that off.”įlores, a longtime Metallica fan himself who’s worked on past “Guitar Hero” games, said that when his company, Activision Blizzard, showed the band their work on June’s “Guitar Hero: Aerosmith,” it was a no-brainer. “The very first thing you do is you play as Metallica,” Flores explained. Players will take on the role of musicians trying to follow in Metallica’s footsteps, but they’ll also be able to play as singer James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo. The game’s plot line is based on a true story of European fans who attended every Metallica show until they were finally invited by the band to open for them onstage. “Guitar Hero: Metallica” is similar to November’s full-band music game, “Guitar Hero: World Tour,” but players will get to jam to songs strictly by Metallica and the musicians that inspire them. “Metallica gave us input on guest artists they’d like to see in their game, bands that they felt were really important to them,” the game’s lead designer, Alan Flores, told MTV News during a demo in New York earlier this month.
The band’s official Web site recently revealed the full set list of songs that will appear in “Guitar Hero: Metallica,” due March 29, which includes 28 tracks spanning Metallica’s entire career, as well as tunes from 21 other artists, such as Foo Fighters, Slayer, Queen, Alice in Chains, Lynyrd Skynyrd System of a Down. Metallica are so excited about their upcoming “Guitar Hero” video game that they couldn’t wait to tell their fans what songs were in it. In addition to 28 Metallica tunes, game features tracks by Foo Fighters, Alice in Chains, System of a Down, more. Guitar Hero Metallica is expected to hit the same platforms as Guitar Hero World Tour-PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii-when it arrives in 2009.METALLICA ‘GUITAR HERO’ DETAILS REVEALED: Michael Schenker Group - "Armed and Ready".The in-game tracks known thus far follow:
The game is said to pack about 45 songs, with roughly 60% of those being Metallica. As the latest issue of Game Informer, which promises an exclusive look at Guitar Hero: Metallica, finds its way to subscribers, Kotaku noticed that denizens of the reputable ScoreHero forums have begun collecting the wealth of new information.Īllowing for full band play-drums, guitar, vocals, bass- a la Guitar Hero World Tour, the game will sport a new difficulty level for drummers-one that allows for use of double kick pedals-along with new Metallica tones for the included GH Tunes music creator.Īs with Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, the band-specific game will include tunes from other artists that have worked closely with or are just generally liked by Metallica.