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- Follow Metallica on a tour through their career while playing their greatest hits
- Play 28 Metallica songs and 21 songs by artists that influenced their career
- Grab your friends and make up the entire band with guitars, drums, and vocals
- Expert Plus difficult lets you plug in a second bass pedal
- Enter the Music Studio to create your own music
Product Description
Ride the Lightning and join Metallica, the greatest metal band of all time as well as musicians selected by the band, including Alice In Chains, Foo Fighters and Queen. It’s all in a new Guitar Hero experience — Guitar Hero: Metallica. Grab your friends and feel the intensity and skill of Metallica’s music as you shred guitar, rip on drums and wail to songs that span the band’s illustrious career. Guitar Hero: Metallica’s set list is comprised of over 45 expl… More >>
02/23/2010 at 3:16 pm
When I first heard this game, I was amazed at how cool it seemed! I played it for hours and hours on end. My mom would bang on my door and tell me to turn that crap off, but I just cranked up the volume and played on! Everything was awesome, and I started growing my hair out like the characters in the game!
Then one day the game caught fire. I don’t know what it was. At first I thought it was all part of the show, but apparently something went horribly wrong. Now the game is somewhat scarred, and just doesn’t play quite the same. It looks totally different too! It’s like some kind of Hollywood record exec slipped in a new “trendy” cover in my game box. But it was the same old game play as before, just rehashed to sound new. I started getting tired of it pretty quick.
Well so one day I decided to lend this game to a friend. He played it a couple times on his game system and really seemed to enjoy it too. In fact he said one of his friend’s wanted to borrow it for a while. I figured what the heck! I didn’t care. But then I got this letter in the mail from Lars Ulrich threatening me and telling me that I was a thief, and that what I was doing was illegal. He said I wasn’t allowed to give his game to my friends without paying him some kind of royalty or something. The guy was f’n crazy!! He wrote that it’s “sickening to know that our art is being traded like a commodity rather than the art that it is.”
I didn’t realize this game was a piece of art. So I decided to burn it. Not make a copy. Burn…as in some gasoline and a match. I figured if it’s a piece of art that costs $49, if I destroy one, that means the other remaining artwork will go up in value. So consider this game a steal at $46.99! Someday this artwork might hang in the Louvre!
Rating: 2 / 5
02/23/2010 at 5:29 pm
Luckily, the game delivers in many of the ways that we had hoped for. The track list is stellar, the presentation is top-notch, the band is very well represented, and, perhaps most surprising of all, there’s a ton of stuff for fans of the band to check out. While the game isn’t as immense as the franchise’s yearly big update, and while it generally sticks to the same tried and true formula of past releases, there’s just a feeling of care taken with the experience that makes it a must-play for fans of the band and metal in general.
Click the image to watch the video review.The title is a full-band game, just like Guitar Hero World Tour, so guitar, bass, drums and vocals are all part of the mix. Rather than the gig-based progression from World Tour, you’ll find something much closer to the original two titles where it’s a tier-based system, but instead of having to beat each song in a tier to progress, you need only meet a total star requirement. I actually “finished” the game after having only beaten 40% of the songs, so there’s a ton of leeway in allowing you to move on if you get stuck on something. Obviously there are incentives to go back and play everything else in the name of unlockables and so forth (including the band’s instruments), not to mention fun, but it’s unlikely that you’ll get stuck unless you choose a difficulty that’s way over your head.
Though it presents less of a challenge and winds up taking away a little of the reward for beating some of the game’s hardest songs (like Slayer’s “War Ensemble”), it’s nice to know that you won’t get caught up having to repeat the same track over and over to progress. Also, it means that you can almost skip right past the early stuff and quickly get to the big tracks, like “Master of Puppets” and “One”, if you really want to.
Speaking of the tracks, as I mentioned before, the set list here is absolutely killer, not only in terms of song quality but the overall enjoyment level with respect to actually playing them as well. There’s just something about the way that these guys play their stuff that translates really well to a plastic guitar (if that makes sense). Plenty of fast power cords, blistering solos, melodic breaks that don’t bore you to death and just awesome riffs all around. Lars’ drumming also turned out to be incredibly fun, offering up cool bass work with some thundering toms here and there.
As for the song choices, the tracks span the entirety of Metallica’s career, pulling titles like “Seek and Destroy” and “Whiplash” from Kill ‘em All, all the way up to “Broken Beat and Scarred” from Death Magnetic. You’ll find at least a couple tracks from each of the band’s first five original albums (up through the Black album), with a scattering of stuff from the latest four, which is great news for long-time fans. My only complaint in the song selection department is that “Blackened” and “…And Justice For All” don’t appear here, likely because of their availability as DLC for Rock Band. Still, those seem to be the only two major tracks that I’m sad aren’t here. I’m sure everyone will have their personal favorites, but the available songs read like the quintessential “Best Of” track list for the band. Killer stuff all around. http://ps3.ign.com/articles/967/967551p1.html
My biggest complaint for the game is actually tied to the available songs, however, and it’s assuredly going to be a disappointment to many folks. The only DLC that the game supports is Death Magnetic – that’s it. None of the downloadable tracks for World Tour work here, which means that you’ll have to swap back to that disc to play the bulk of your library if you’ve invested in some new tunes. Really, downloadable content like this should be cross-franchise, and as it’s not, the game feels like it’s a little separated from the would-be pack.
With regards to presentation, as I had alluded to before, a lot of care was put into making sure this was a die-hard fan’s game. The band members all look great, sporting more realistic (though not entirely) looks than any of the characters previously seen in the franchise, including Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. The band came in for a series of motion capture sessions, and their movements have been transferred into the game quite well. Gone are the stilted animations that we had seen in the past, instead replaced by lifelike movements from James, Lars, Kirk and Robert. Great stuff here, right down to the camera work.
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Rating: 5 / 5
02/23/2010 at 5:54 pm
We finally purchased a gift my son and family love. We purchased the Nintendo Wii for my son for Christmas. He and his family purchased Guitar Hero World Tour and have had so much fun with it. They also purchased guitars, drum, etc. For his recent birthday, we gave him “Guitar Hero Metallica” and he was anxious to try it. They just love it. As a child growing up, my son played guitar and wanted to be a rock star. Now he finally is and his family is members of his band. The kids and adults enjoy doing this activity together and they are having fun doing it. I highly recommend it to anyone who dreamed of being a rock star or just wants to have fun.
Rating: 5 / 5
02/23/2010 at 6:50 pm
this is by far the best guitar hero game to date, without a doubt. the game play, the animations,the set lists, with the exception of the mercyful fate song (the group, not the metallica medley, which, by the way is 12 minutes of badassery) and the extras. any metallica fan ,or metalhead, is going to have a blast with this my only complaints are minor and somewhat nitpicky. i would have led the game off with the band version of “the ecstacy of gold”, but you get “for whom the bell tolls” which is great, but getting to play “teog” as the opener would be better, and the aforementioned inclusion of king diamond. i know that mercyful fate/king diamond was a big influence on metallica but king diamond is the gayest of the gay, the voice is aweful and the makeup is worse, i blame him and dio for the way some people percieve metal as being a joke. and bob seger’s “turn the page” didn’t make for a good gh experience, the guitar isn’t really noticeable in his version and the actual notes you play are repititive and boring. now for a few more great things, the screen shake on “sad but true” is awesome(probably my favorite song to play on here), lemmy comes out when you play “ace of spades”, “one” is structered better than it was on gh3,and playing at as metallica is better than any of the characters from gh3, and it may just possible that “disposeable heroes” will replace “through the fire and the flames”.
Rating: 5 / 5
02/23/2010 at 7:55 pm
Say what you will about Metallica, but the band remains an iconic group even to this day. I grew up loving them, and still love their old material, and more than likely always will, which is one reason my mouth watered when Guitar Hero: Metallica was announced. First and foremost, for Metallica fans (or metal fans in general), Guitar Hero: Metallica is a treat and a must have. Featuring a fantastic setlist that includes the songs you’d figure would be on here (“Enter Sandman”, “Master of Puppets”, “Fade to Black”, “One”, “Fuel”) and some surprising but more than welcome choices (“Disposable Heroes”, “Orion”, the Mercyful Fate medley from “Garage Inc.”), it’s safe to say that if you’re a Metallica fan new or old, you’ll be in Heaven. The game makes full support of the Guitar Hero: World Tour prepherils, including an Expert drummer mode that makes use of two kick-pedals, which is nothing short of intense. Added to all this are extra songs from other bands including Mercyful Fate (complete with King Diamond coming out on stage!), Diamond Head, Alice in Chains, Judas Priest, Samhain, Corrosion of Conformity, Suicidal Tendencies, Motorhead, Queen, Slayer, Foo Fighters, and more besides; all of which amounts to one of the best overall track lists (in my opinion anyway, but then again, I love old school metal and this is all right up my alley) to hit a Guitar Hero game yet. I would have loved to have seen some other Metallica tracks (like “Motorbreath”, “Whiskey in the Jar”, “Harvester of Sorrow”, or “Of Wolf and Man”) instead of “All Nightmare Long”, “Frantic”, or “No Leaf Clover”; but that’s just me personally. All in all though, Guitar Hero: Metallica is a blast to put it simply, and if you’re a Metallica fan or old school metalhead, you will find much to admire here.
Rating: 4 / 5