The game features 28 master recordings spanning Metallica's career and an additional 21 songs selected by members of Metallica. In addition to the normal difficulty levels presented in Guitar Hero World Tour, Guitar Hero: Metallica provides an "Expert+" difficulty for drums that allows the use of a second bass drum pedal to match the drumming style of Metallica's Lars Ulrich. The game has many of the same features from World Tour, including single-player and band Career modes, online competitive modes, and the ability to create and share songs through "GHTunes". The game is based on Guitar Hero World Tour, with support for lead and bass guitar, drums, and vocals.
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It is the second game in the Guitar Hero series to focus on the career and songs of heavy metal band, Metallica, following Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. The game was released in North America on the PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 on Maand on PlayStation 2 on April 14, 2009, with an Australian and European release in May 2009. Meanwhile, head over to our game page for all related media and info.Guitar Hero: Metallica is a 2009 music rhythm video game developed by Neversoft and published by Activision.
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Guitar Hero Metallica is due for release in Australia May 27, and we've been ripping it up pretty hard, so stay tuned for our full in-depth review closer to that date. Activision would make an absolute killing if they released Guitar Hero Metal, Guitar Hero Punk or Guitar Hero Emo.
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Adding the other "hand-picked" influences from throughout their career just reaffirms this point. There is one gripe that does follow the impending (slow) release of this game on Aussie shores, and that's the idea that, despite this game being cool and featuring some awesome Metallica stuff from their long history, we really need a GH that covers the whole genre - not just a single band within it. There's also a pretty neat film-grain that reminds me a little more of Rock Band's presentation than Guitar Hero, but I doubt this was deliberate - more likely an attempt to match the gritty nature of the tunes found within. The usual Guitar Hero presentation is intact, and the visuals are pretty close to World Tour with a slightly more realistic emphasis (likely at the band's bequest to not be represented as cartoonish characters - which is slightly ironic). It's the sort of thing fans would crave and eat up - the closest thing to being that some kind of monster you've always wanted to be. Long-time Metallica fans will look past the modern virtual recreations of the band as it is today, and see the Puss Head artworks that so emblazoned their thrash-metal mark back in the day, the various instruments the band has utilised throughout their career and their ultimate actions, stage movements and general demeanour. And to top it all off, you're not just ripping it up with the Big M's tracks, either - there're a host of rad songs from some of the best bands to set foot in the heavy music circle such as Mastadon, Judas Priest, Slayer, Machine Head, Suicidal Tendencies, Social Distortion, Queen and heaps more.īut it's not just the core gameplay element of this package that stands out. Drumming too, comes with a level of challenge World Tour barely scratched upon. You can, of course, play as the whole band, and having to sing songs in a more aggressive, gruff voice adds something to the showmanship potential of the game for those all-important Guitar Hero/red cordial parties. In fact there are insanely awesome thrash tracks from the 80s where Metallica carved out their name as one of the all-time great thrash-metal bands, and so fans will definitely eat it up. There's barely any St Anger or the new one. On top of adding more challenge (and an extra challenging mode, to boot), the actual manifest of Metallica songs does not even come close to sucking as hard as I thought it would. A lot of this has to do, clearly, with the songs being of the heavy persuasion so there's a fair amount of technical playing going, which of course needs to be matched in-game, but it really feels like Neversoft and Metallica thought this one through. I could have pretended I'm a shredder from way back and did that myself, but the truth is I'm glad it was all already unlocked, because even my actual GH-shredding housemate, Chad, could barely finish half the songs on Hard (and he plays other GH games on Expert).
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Activision recently sent across a preview build of the game with almost every track in the game unlocked for us.