

(By the way, i am a Metallica fan, not a metal extremist. I was waiting for this game price to come down a bit, ended paying a total of 27.00 on ebay, but really, had i known it was this great i would have got it at 60.00 hands down. For one the song selection its excelent, including most of the band all time greatest songs, you can play them all in quickplay with out having to pass the career mode, but this last mode is great also, the additional band songs are nice, and if you dont want to, yo dont have to play them in order to continue the career, just have to get good scores on the metallica ones. I CAN NOT WAIT, i am half way trough it, and right at the start you can feel this is a great game for the Metallica fans and guitar hero players. I wanted to write this review after i played all the game. We didn't get to sample these, but we've been reliably informed you'll be able to "fade to black" your opponents note track. Themed Battle Modes will make an appearance too. With guest artist songs, you can learn how each band is tied to Metallica, along with lyrics and history facts. Not only will you have access to a comprehensive extras submenu that features unlockable venues, songs, commentary, videos and behind-the-scenes footage, you can also replay completed songs with trivia pop-ups that give information about each track. Where Aerosmith dabbled in video featurettes and location-specific gigs to immerse the player, Guitar Hero: Metallica goes way further. Motorhead is a recurring theme in Guitar Hero: Metallica, as not only is the Motorhead anthem "The Ace of Spaces" included, frontman, bassist and all-round legend Lemmy features as a playable character. album), Lynyrd Skynyrd (the first album James Hetfield bought was from Lynyrd Skynyrd, paid for with his lawnmower money) and Motorhead. Some of the more notable include Bob Seger ("Turn the Page" was covered by Metallica on their 1998 Garage Inc. There's a good selection of not only Metallica classics, but songs from artists that have inspired Metallica, and those they've either performed with, or produced covers of. We've compiled a list of all the current known songs in this release on page two of this article. There's also no need to perform endless early songs to get to the later stuff, as in Quickplay mode, all set list songs are unlocked by default. Speaking of which, you'll no longer have to play gigs to progress, Metallica harks back to the original Guitar Hero set lists style, each requiring you to not only pass songs, but achieve a certain number of stars to progress. Imagine starting your career mode off with Motorbreath, or Pulling Teeth you'd need carpal tunnel surgery before the second set.

It's important to realise that career progression is not done in chorological order like Aerosmith - Metallica vetoed that suggestion, and it's just as well. This is based on a group of fans who followed Metallica around on tour in the early 1990's. The band members were involved in every step of the development, with James Hetfield personally laying down the basic idea for the Career Mode storyline. World Tour and Aerosmith were noticeably easier than Guitar Hero III, the former going as far as to require much more accurate tracking for hammer-ons and pull-offs, the latter - well, Aerosmith could be described in a lot of ways, but "brutally hard" would not be one of them.īefore we get to what it's like to play, it's worth noting just how inclusive this title is when it comes to Metallica lore. Overjoyed as we were with the news last year that Metallica would not only contribute a bunch of their songs for a band-exclusive Guitar Hero title, we were far more interested to see just how developers Neversoft would deal with the difficulty level. The reason you never got past hard on Guitar Hero III was because of Slayer, not Santana. No, the song that will have you staring in fear at a wall of notes while your rock meter goes into the red faster than ACC will almost certainly be metal, and extremely heavy at that. I'm not talking about a Pat Benatar number, or something from the Killers or Nirvana.

If You're a Metallica Fan, Then You have To Own This!Īnyone who has ever played any Guitar Hero title for an extended period of time will invariably come across a song that completely owns them.
