New Guitar Hero III Info

[Shadow19]

http://gonintendo.com/?p=21874#comments

ScoreHero was invited to play Guitar Hero III this past Monday, and they brought back with them a little new info for us:

Venues:

Backyard Bash
Mitch’s Moose Lounge
Video Shoot
Ye Olde Royal Odeon
Shanker’s Island
Desert Rock Tour
Kaiju Megadome
Lou’s Inferno

New Songs:

Suck My Kiss - Red Hot Chili Peppers (Master Track)
La Grange - ZZ Top
Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden (Master Track)
Through The Fire And Flames - Dragon Force (Master Track)

[BigfootGus]

cool stuff

[Alias]

I was just about to post this, I saw it last night. :spit:

But here's some more info, including impressions and stuff.

http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19183

This past Monday, a group of ScoreHero members was flown out to visit Neversoft's Southern Calilfornia offices to play/test Guitar Hero III:
Legends Of Rock. Upon arriving, we were led to Neversoft's spacious mo-cap area, where we each had our own plasma screen and wireless Les Paul setup to demo as much of the x360 version as our hands could take over the span of about 5 hours. Now that we've returned to our respective homes, we're proud to bring back some exclusive info about the game, which is being announced on ScoreHero before anywhere else.

Pictures of the after party at the hotel! (http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19125&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=)

First up: the Grim Ripper will be returning as a playable character along with some old favorites from the Guitar Hero series, and a couple of new characters. The list of characters so far is:

Characters

Axel Steel
Casey Lynch
Grim Ripper
Izzy Sparks
Johnny Napalm
Judy Nails
Lars Umlaut
Xavier Stone
Midori (new)
Slash (legend)

Venues

We also have the list of all-new venues that will be appearing in the game over the 8 tiers, which are:

Backyard Bash
Mitch's Moose Lounge
Video Shoot
Ye Olde Royal Odeon
Shanker's Island
Desert Rock Tour
Kaiju Megadome
Lou's Inferno

Songs

Last, and certainly not least, we have FOUR brand new songs to announce, exclusively to ScoreHero:

- Suck My Kiss - Red Hot Chili Peppers (Master Track!)
- La Grange - ZZ Top
- Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden (Master Track!!)
- Through The Fire And Flames - Dragonforce (Master Track!!!)

(which is in addition to the already-announced songs:)

Alice Cooper - School's Out
Beastie Boys - Sabotage (Master)
Foghat - Slowride
Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle (Master)
Heart - Barracuda
Kiss - Rock N Roll All Nite
Living Colour - Cult of Personality (Master)
Muse - Knights of Cydonia (Master)
Pearl Jam - Evenflow (Master)
Priestess - Lay Down (Master)
Rolling Stones - Paint it Black (Master)
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock (Master)
Tenacious D - The Metal (Master)
The Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Weezer - My Name is Jonas (Master)

It should also be noted that over 50% of the main-tier songs are master tracks, and over 70% including the bonus tracks!

Through this post, everyone who attended the session will add their own comments on their playtesting, but before then, some general information on the game:

- One of the biggest gameplay changes was with the system for hammer-ons and pull-offs. Rather than being based solely on the timing of the notes, Neversoft is able to program certain notes to be strummed or hammer-ons. The general guideline is, if a note is strummed on a real guitar, it will probably have to be strummed in-game. When a note is a hammer on for a real guitar, you'll probably be able to do a hammer-on for it in-game. This provides a much more realistic feeling to the charts.

- After our lengthy demo session, we sat down with some of the guys from Neversoft GH3 team in order to provide feedback on how the game was coming along, and what would be nice to see changed before release. We sat in for two hours and were able to discuss all parts of the game from top-to-bottom with the developers. It's an understatement to say that all of us who were out there are very eagerly awaiting the release of the latest game in the Guitar Hero franchise.

- "Through the Fire And Flames" is REALLY hard. We'll leave it to the individual posters to tell you how many times they failed it at 1-3%.

This was an unbelievable experience. Many thanks to Neversoft for having us all out to L.A.

The Neversoft guys were all very cool, and very open to all our ideas and suggestions. Some even came back to our hotel rooms afterwards to play GH2/customs with us!

Now, the game itself...

The Guitar is pretty much handed down from heaven. The strum bar felt great (better than previous iterations I dare say), the whammy was perfect (bye-bye, explorer), and the select button was back! All that, and wireless that was pretty much perfect, even from 50+ feet away.

We had access to a full setlist (don't ask about tracks we haven't already talked about--sorry, we can't tell you :) ), and pretty much every track I played was fun in its own way. There were challenging and new patterns and chord switches, lots of variety in types of song and beat, and the difficulty was a very large scale as well. Let's just say that Dragonforce wasn't the only song that failed most of us.

There were good improvements to the interface from GH2 (something I was going to bring up regardless). For instance, the career screen was tabbed, so you don't have to scroll through a billion songs to get to DLC--just hit a button to switch tabs. Such simple improvements really eliminate stress that would come from just interacting with the game, thus improving the experience by a lot.

I played a decent amount of co-op and pro face-off with emptyset, and all of it was loads of fun. We did manage to pass Dragonforce co-op on our second try (thanks emptyset for being good enough to pass the intro). The song is much more supporting of co-op than Jordan is, since there are parts that the second player actually has enough notes to help out on the lead's solos. The co-op note chart in full? Yeah, it's around 6800 notes. Holy shit.

I think the funniest moment of my few hours of playing was doing Battle Mode against emptyset on Dragonforce. Granted, he had practiced it more than I had, and could pass the intro, so I didn't expect a long fight. However, he managed to get the "Double Note" powerup almost immediately, and use it. The Double Note powerup turns single notes into chords, chords into 3-note chords. So, the HOPO-based intro that I already couldn't pass turned into CHORDS. It was basically like setting off a nuclear weapon on my side of the screen. W-T-F.

At least my death was quick and (mostly) painless.

I'm sure I speak for everyone who attended when I say that we would all do it again in a heartbeat. Because of this event, I'm now looking forward to this iteration of the series way more than any other before it. Bravo to everyone at Neversoft.

Impressions from the trip:

First of all, much thanks to RedOctane and Neversoft for making this happen. The opportunity to travel and test/demo GH3 and the time we were able to spend with Neversoft's GH3 developers was incredible. If you guys ever had any doubts about how GH3 would be handled, please leave them at the door. You are in for something special. :)

As for the game itself, we got to play a full-featured GH3. The engine is completely new from the ground up. The graphics are amazing, and the animations are lifelike enough that they can even steal your attention while playing (but in a good way). The guitar is wireless, and is Les Paul-shaped. In terms of feel, the strumbar operates more smoothly and consistently than previous controllers, allowing for faster strumming while retaining control. The frets are softer and more responsive, and *you guessed it* the RETURN of the properly-located Select button! Oh, and did I mention it's the first Microsoft-licensed wireless peripheral for the 360? Mmm, delicious.

As for the songs themselves...they are loads of fun to play. You'll see lots of note patterns you haven't seen before, and many of the sequences are modeled after the actual progressions from a real guitar. The hammer-ons and pulloffs are also modeled to resemble how the actual guitar part is played. It was slightly disorienting at first, but it really grew on me as I felt more like I was playing the part the way it was being heard. This isn't just with the HO/POs, but with the charts in general. Chord progressions, strum sequences, etc. will surprise you at first, but will make sense as you move through.

If I haven't mentioned Battle Mode yet, I'm going to take this time to say "Fun, fun, fun, fun...fun!" I unleashed a powerup on Echelar in TFAF's intro and won within a fraction of a second. :) I digress...it is a fun mode of faceoff, especially when players of varying skill take each other on. That's all I'll say...I loved it. Phr34k and GetThere1Time battled for almost an hour...all I heard from their end of the room was laughter, shouting and screaming. ^.^

Perhaps the best part (aside from playing GH3 for five hours straight) was the time afterward spent with Neversoft's dev team. We were only scheduled to have a roundtable discussion for a little under an hour, but we stayed for nearly 2 1/2 hours, discussing all of the ins and outs of the game, making suggestions, comments, criticisms, and jokes. It's clear that they are very interested in what ScoreHero members have to say about their product, and they value our input as well as the community's. This is clearly a game made by GH fans for die-hard GH fans, but will retain much appeal to the casual player.

I'll have more to add later, but I'll let the other guys have their say.

Damn!

This was an amazing experience to have a chance to go out to Neversoft to demo GHIII. Many thanks to them for going through all the trouble of getting us out there to play. If anyone had any doubts in Neversoft being able to produce a good Guitar Hero game, leave them behind.

The note charts are amazingly well done, they are a blast to play, emulate real guitar playing really well, and are quite accurate. I enjoyed every single song that I played, and there were no signs of songs that were so easy that you'd FC them and never want to play them again.The gameplay is set up very well, especially considering that the game was built from scratch. The Dragonforce chart is fucking insane, I spent a nice chunk of my time in practice on the intro, and still, my highest failing percent was a whopping 3%.

The new controller was hands down the best controller I have ever used. Any problems you may have had with the Xplorer are taken care of, and even after only playing for about 5 hours, I find myself wanting to switch back to the new controller as I play on my SG. The feel of the buttons and strum bar is wonderful, the whammy activates properly, and we have gotten our beloved select button back.

The new hammer on system, while it is a change, I loved it. As a guitar player, it gave the charts a much more realistic feel. Battle mode turned out to be a lot of fun, and will be great for partying situations.

The guys at Neversoft were awesome to meet and talk to throughout the day. A few of them even brought TVs back to the hotel, where we all raided emptyset's room for some more Guitar Hero action (as if we hadn't played enough during the day). It was awesome to see Barfo nail an exact score run on the first try, wuLFe sightread a FC on my Super Colossal CUSTOM CHART, and emptyset's reaction after getting destroyed by the solo in Because, It's Midnight.

I guess I could talk a bit about the trip and such.

First of, as everyone else has said already, much MUCH kudos to Red Octane, Neversoft and Activision for flying us all out there. Easily the best experience of my life :D

Everyone has already talked about the godly wireless controller of godly. However they forgot to mention that it feels about 2x as heavy as the SG, which is a wonderful thing.

Everyone else has touched on the mechanics of the game, so I will focus mainly on the graphics and such.

The characters are amazing this time around. Not only do their animations look more realistic, but they are much more customizable this time around. I wont go into detail exactly just yet, but each character on average has 2-3 outfit styles with each style having 3-4 colour sets that affected the entire look of the character. So yes, there really is a Pandora style option in the characters :D

The in-game guitars are absolutely incredible. There are a LOT more non-standard guitars this time around. All are incredibly detailed and all awesome. For each character setup I was using I was finding a special guitar that looked just right for that specific outfit.

Each venue was amazingly well done. Lots of attention to details this time around. The effects and stage animations kept stealing my attention from the note charts, enough to fail a couple of easier charts XD

Knights of Cydonia indeed stole my soul. Amazing chart. My life is complete having played it now.

GetThere1Time sucks absolute balls at Battle Mode. That is all.

ChrisVance enjoys the taste of beer.... many types of beer. The amount of beer that man drank was insane. Though he still sat on the wrong end of the table at dinner.

I wish I could talk about more stuff... but you guys will just have to wait for us to be allowed to hehehe...

Wow theres so much to say i dont have time ot say it all here right awya, so ill update this more later.

Baiscally this was an incredibly amazing experience. I went in somewhat skeptical because neversoft was an unknown entity (to me) and i havent been happy with some of the recent choices for the franchise and i had nagging worries that the franchise might be about to go downhill. And i left with all those doubts blown out of water and replaced with incredible confidence in Neversoft both from seeing the quality of theiractual product and how carefully and well they lsitened to use, and just from hanging out and talking to them personally.

The most exciting parts for me were the new HOPO system which really felt great, and both remove some of the arbitrary thigns of the onld system and allow for a bit of extra challenge here and there on easy songs where you sometimes have to watch a bit closer to know waht you can HOPO and what you cant (and im eager to play it more and get better at that). Also the Les Paul was amazing, im incredibly devoted to my balck SG, i dont like much my red one or my wireless (and i wont even mention the xplorer which i dont own, but i think we can agree is lacking in some ways), and pretty much the Les Paul felt awesome and maybe it was the adrenaline, but i was acutally rocking out to the songs which i pretty much NEVER do at home, which made me finally see the value of a wireless controller. Most people missed it i think but i saw one of the employees do a test to show off the range of the controller too and he was controlling the game from about 60 feet away or something. Later i moved my controller off the sation i had been using ot play coop some and when i came back to try and use it again fo rmore single player i thougth the game was in demo mode, but it actualyl was vance, like thirty feet away behind me sitting and playing (i almost blocked the screen when goign ot reassign my controller to that console).

Other htan that i was really impressed b the feel of the songs. Evenflow, and suck my kiss were both awesome, as well as a few songs i cant mention right now. It felt simultaneously very much like a GH game, but also fresh, with new combinations and patterns taht im not used ot seeing. Props ot the note guys who really know their stuff and set to rest any doubts i had that HMX was the only people who can make great note charts. They make incredibly good use of three button chords and some challenging switches, which was really neat, and importantly it felt really fresh and FUN.

Lots of subsidiary aspect ot the game were all improved too, in the way that you really like ot see for a sequel to a game which shows that they are takign care of all the little details. Thigns such as incredibly good bandmember animations (they mocapped everybody and they have a huge range o fanimations that they programmed to synch with the charts). The singer mouthign the words to the song was amaazing, and i almost never notice the back up band.

Finally the session at the end was amazing, we really did si tthere for liek almost two hours breaking down everybodys impressions of the game with the lead producer, designer, and programmer and a bunch more team members (and the prez of neversoft for most of it), having a really constructive back and forth of both things that we think could be improved or tweak form what we saw, as well as a laundry list of things we (and you as well) as a community would liek to see for GH franchise regardign improvements over GH2, and other topics. Amazingly many of the bullet points on that list that we brought in were rnedered moot because they were already fixed in the build we saw (not sure i fi can mention specifics). It really felt that this was a focus group and a two way conversation and not jsut htat they brought us in solely for PR reasons, they actually wanted to let us have a small role in developing the game and help them make it better.

Thats all for now ill try and update more when i can, but in closing this was really amazing and i thank everybody involved. At some point ill talk baout all the crazy non GH3 news stuff that happened while there and during the post-party int he hotel room.

Holy cow, this ended up long.

I'm kind of the one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other in this group. I'm not a moderator like the rest of this crew, but as GameSpy's resident GH guru, I have a pretty good relationship with Red Octane, and since I'm a regular poster here and live pretty close to Neversoft, we'd chatted about the possibility of this event for a while. When they told me they were finally doing it as a special ScoreHero event, I was totally stoked, obviously to see more of the game, but also knowing how excited the SH guys would be to play it for the first time.

It was ridiculously cool to have us set up in the mo-cap area, with everyone getting their own station to test on, complete with plasma screen and new Les Paul wireless, which, as I've said both here and in my official previews, is by far the best guitar I've played for any Guitar Hero game to date.

After a short tour and signing some NDA's, they basically turned us loose on the game, and I was surprised to see that it wasn't just the E3 demo -- it was the entire game from start to finish. So, standing about 20 feet away from Wulfe shredding away at the next station, I started pounding my way through as many tracks as possible. Many of these early tracks have been announced already -- Slow Ride, School's Out, Rock N Roll All Nite, etc -- and I 5-starred everything on my sightread through the first four tiers. But they're not boring songs. There isn't an I Love Rock & Roll or We Got The Beat in the bunch; every song seems to have at least a few tough sections so you won't 100% it in 20 minutes and then never want to play it again.

While playing through the tiers, we got to test out the hero battles. There are currently three of these in the game, including one against Slash. It's been announced that one of the others is a real guitarist, and the other is fictional. Basically, it plays like a single-player version of the new Battle Mode: the other guitarist plays a lick, then you try to repeat it. There are special powerups you can acquire if you successfully hit a phrase, and if you time it right, you can totally screw over the other guy with things like double notes, increased difficulty, broken string (where you need to mash one button repeatedly) or lefty flip (aaack). Honestly, I'm not crazy about the multiplayer version of Battle Mode, but I think having this single-player bit in the tour is a cool addition; I wouldn't mind if they had one in every tier before the encore.

It'll probably be repeated countlessly in this thread: the new Les Paul guitar is awesome in every way imaginable. It's the first third-party wireless controller that Microsoft has allowed for the 360, and the strum bar, fret buttons and whammy bar feel a billion times better than the X-Plorer. There's a lock on the back that allows the neck to be removed for easier portability, and the faceplates can be removed and swapped out as well; there's no word on how many there might be at launch, but it sounds like they'll be at least a few. The only problem with the guitar is an oversensitive Star Power mechanism; it's a known issue and one they're hard at work on fixing. In our post-testing chat, the possibility was raised that there could be a tilt-calibration tool built into the game so you can adjust the tilt to your own preference, but that's yet to be finalized.

About halfway through our testing, former ScoreHero-custom-chart creator-turned-Neversoft-chart-creator Chris Vance gathered everyone up for a special announcement. He was showing off a song from a band people have been begging for in Guitar Hero forever: Dragonforce's "Through the Fire and Flames." As he showed off the song, it became clear this was the new Jordan, as the song starts off with an insane flurry of hammer-ons that caused almost everyone to fail only 1-3% into the song. Even Wulfe, who's ranked #1 on the XBL leaderboards, must have failed the intro twenty times before getting the hang of it. As did Chris, who made the freaking note chart, and he eventually had to use a debug cheat to show us most of the rest of the song (before he eventually failed on one of the later solos).

TTF&F is crazy enough that it's worth spending some time talking about. The intro alone is a mess of hammer-ons (it's even called THEY'RE HAMMER ONS in the "more stats" section) that the fingering is something like: 2131412131415131415141315 at around eight notes a second. Eventually, some of us started figuring out we had to told down the green button and strum every other note, but that only started the crazyness.

The rest of the song is like pieces of Misirlou and Jordan solo C and solo F strung together for about 8 minutes. Outside of Wulfe, who was the only person in our group to pass the song in single-player (don't worry -- it's a bonus song and not part of the main campaign), I think I got the farthest, failing at 69%, 70%, 70%, 78%, 81% and 79%. Watching Elx and Echelar play the song on co-op later, it became clear that there were at least three more spots I probably would have failed after that. And as determined as I was to beat the song, I couldn't play it multiple times, as I'd literally be dripping in sweat after a single attempt (the mo-cap area got pretty hot late in the afternoon).

The other songs that were announced were amazing. ZZ Top's "La Grange" has been in need of the Guitar Hero treatment for a while. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Suck My Kiss" will be an awesome co-op track. And, oh yeah -- a master track of Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast"? It's in the final tier, it deserves to be, and it's an absolute blast to play.

The original post mentioned the new hammer-on system, but really, considering Neversoft has rebuilt the entire game engine from scratch, they've done a great job recreating the feel of GH2 -- in some ways, it might even feel better. In my last E3 preview, I mentioned how I felt like it was a little easier to hit crazy phrases, that maybe the timing windows had been relaxed a little. It's not a massive difference, but it was something that other players commented on as well, so at least I know it's not just me.

The bonus songs in GH3 are a different animal than previous games. Whereas Harmonix used a lot of in-house bands to fill out the bonus track list, there are now so many groups eager for exposure via GH that the bonus tracks will predominantly feature songs from somewhat newer bands. I only recognized three bands on the list (I'm not sure if it was complete), but as we've found with previous GH games, there are often a lot of cool little gems on the bonus list. In this case, it seems there are going to be a lot of harder songs jammed into the bonus list (including one song that made my strum arm hurt more than Six).

The one thing I really didn't spend much time with was the Battle Mode. I did play a few matches against Wulfe, who I actually beat a single time on Knights of Cydonia, but then totally destroyed me on every other song we played, including one of my all-time favorite tracks ... and one he'd never heard in his life. Watching Wulfe play is just ... insane.

The post-game chat with the Neversoft guys was, I thought, extremely productive. I seemed we covered a hundred different topics, like the tread rate when your rock meter's in the red or how the lag calibration system could be improved from GH2. I get the vibe that the Neversoft team is both completely thrilled to be working on the Guitar Hero series and understands that there's some big competition coming with Rock Band, and the combination is driving them to make an absolute kickass game.

Overall, I thought it was just awesome of Red Octane / Neversoft / Activision to have the Scorehero guys come out to playtest and offer feedback. I've now met Scorehero guys on 4 or 5 different occasions at various tourneys, and I've yet to meet a single one I don't like. It's like this big, weird happy family spread out everywhere who are always excited on the rare occasion they get to meet up in person, let alone talk directly to the developers and blow their mind like Barfo did talking about the scoring system. I was a little bummed I had to drive home after dinner and couldn't stick around to play in the hotel afterwards, but I had a Rocks the 80s review to finish the next morning. The work never ends. :)

First and foremost I want to say it was an amazing experience. Jordan, the PR guy from Red Octane, went the whole nine yards working on this to get us there. (He's very modest though, but we know how hard he worked.)

The guys from Neversoft were all very accomodating and all cool as hell- The Neversoft office is just a dream world, it was truly amazing.

In hindsight, I wish I'd spent my 4-5 hours of on hands time with GH3 a little differently (playing difficulty levels other than expert, playing some boss battles, etc).. As is, I spent the time playing as many songs from the main set list as I could, then Barfo and I played a lot of pro face off and a pile of co-op. Let me tell you, that was a TREAT. Barfo and I are probably as closely matched skill-wise to one another as any two people on Scorehero, which was nice-- since the other 7 people from Scorehero there greatly outmatched either of us.

What I can tell you from the gameplay is that Neversoft really cares about making this game feel the same as previous incarnations. Building the code from the ground up is no easy task, and while what we tested is still technically a beta, it hardly felt like it. Some minor issues, yes, but I can say with no hesitation that the final release of GH3 is going to be absolutely amazing.

The setlist is great- I'm one of those people who knew shit about music before Guitar Hero 2-- and still know shit compared to most people now. But I enjoyed every song I played, and the charts have had a lot of TLC put into them. The Paint it Black chart is AMAZING, and a hell of a lot of fun to play. The Knights of Cydonia chart was challenging and yet a joy to tear through. I'm one of the guys who only got 1% of the way into TtFaF.. I did that about 3 times and decided I needed to better spend my time there, so went back to the main setlist.

I didn't really care for battle mode, I'm not saying it isn't good, just not my cup of tea. I think for your average players at a party, battle mode on easy/medium may wind up being the game of choice. The co-op charts were also spectacular, with a lot of really challenging bass/rythm sides.

The controller is amazing- The Les Paul has about the same size and feel as the original black SG does, but without the 'I'm strumming/fretting so fast I think the guitar is going to fly apart!' It felt solid, much more solid than any controller (3rd party or otherwise) to date. The whammy mechanics were flawless, the fretting buttons were perfectly responsive, and the tilt sensor on my particular prototype (the Les Paul's we used were all prototypes, and not necessarily the finished product) worked perfectly. There was only one very minor complaint we all had about the controller, and since I genuinely feel that having had our input on this, they will work to fix it, I'm not even going to mention it. Needless to say, even with that minor issue, this would be my controller of choice if I had one in my posession right now.

Some of the most favourable memories came from back at the hotel chilling with all the guys from Scorehero (and ChrisVance / orange22 from Neversoft). Barfo asking someone to call out a random score for Red Lottery-- then he NAILS it. (I believe it was 87583)... Wulfe FC'ing the Super Colossal CUSTOM-- on a SIGHT READ. Me beating elx on pro faceoff on the Hotel California custom.. (Ironically enough, in a hotel in California). Granted, his hand was mashed from playing some really difficult customs that night, but I had a pretty wicked run that song to overcome the obvious skill difference. We all crashed at about 4am for a very brief snooze...

We met in the lobby for 9am.. When Phr34k finally came down to meet us (25 minutes late), he looked like a freight train had hit him-- which may not be far from the truth! But we made it to the airport on time and we all lifted off on our way home safe and sound- The memories of the past day flooding my mind all the way back.


I like how the PR's name was Jordan. :lol:

[<3frosty]

Thanks for posting all that information, but what did that have to do with anything really? I just wanna know the songs, the gameplay already sounds top-notch even though i had low expectations for Neversoft.


La Grange was one of my big-wishes, and Dragon Force was mentioned ALOT before GHII was released. People are nutty over that band.

[Alias]

I know there's a lot of junk in it, but some of it is pretty new. Impressions from the usual GH junkies.

[Phoenix]

Through the Fire and the Flames! I love you, Guitar Hero people whoever is making this game I forget since it changed! I am so excited that I don't use proper sentence. Structure any more. Nor do I use correct punctuation?

[Alias]

It's Neversoft now.

And IGN is saying the release date now is October 28, 2007.

[D3adcell]

Dragon Force and more Iron Maiden! w00t. I can't wait for this.

[Colin™]

Through the Fire and the Flames will be the new Jordan.

[Alias]

The custom videos of Through the Fire and the Flames on youtube are crazy.

[Phoenix]

The real one will likely be about as hard, although a little more natural.

[FoeHammer]

dang.

those guys are probably all better than me, and they failed Dragonforce song at 3 percent.

dang.


i just got through with the 80's edition, and it was awesome. i will be playing that pretty much until GH3 comes out. And then i will play that game forever. and then i'll go back and play all the games until rock band.

but i really can't wait for GH3.
they didn't pick the best chili peppers song, but maybe it has one of the best guitar part of any of their songs, i don't know.

[the poe collector]

Since Maiden is in the game they should make Eddie a boss character.

[BigfootGus]

Since Maiden is in the game they should make Eddie a boss character.

or at least have him onstage for an encore or somethin

[Gilly]

I guarantee Through The Fire and Flames will rape everyone and their mothers in their sleep.
That song is absolutely crazy.

[HPK]

Guitar Hero III just got better. More Iron Maiden and DragonForce? The Guitar Gods have answered my prayers! Through the Fire and Flames is probably going to rape us all, but we always have pro-face off mode to beat it in =P (or we just avoid it on expert).
I'm psyched about this game. I want it now.

and I have to agree with poe: Eddie should be a boss character. Considering Slash is in it, I'm pretty sure Eddie will be there.

[BigfootGus]

are any boss characters confirmed besides Slash?

[FoeHammer]

I think there's only three, maybe four.
Eric Clapton is cool.
he should be a boss

[LiquidEagle]

I gotta say from my time with the game that it is definitely not as natural as GH1 & 2 when it comes to emulating the real guitar part. Playing 1 & 2 on extreme was really comfortable for me because I've been playing guitar for 11 years now, and extreme is as close as it gets in the game to playing the real song -- every note makes sense. In GH3, it felt way more counter-intuitive to how the songs are really played (and I played songs I know how to actually play on guitar).

My 2 cents right there...

[FoeHammer]

when did you play GH3?

[TheGreenElf]

This has some great songs, but ones I really want to see include:

REM-The One I Love
Dio-Rainbow in the Dark
The Bled-Never Met Another Gemini
Something by Blondie
Aerosmith-Sing for the Moment
Smashing Pumpkins-Tarantula
Coheed and Cambria- Ten Speed of God's Blood and Burial/Welcome Home
Bayside-Devotion and Desire (downloadable on Xbox 360)
AFI-Miss Murder (or something fun)

I'd be happy for awhile there...although there are certainly other bands I'd love to see, none of which include Metallica or Led Zeppelin. I just don't care to play them, but the more the better I guess.

[Alias]

Even More GHIII Tracks Revealed
The flood of songs continues.
by Daemon Hatfield

August 2, 2007 - Last week we received word about four new tracks in Guitar Hero III:

Suck My Kiss, Red Hot Chili Peppers
La Grange, ZZ Top
Number Of The Beast, Iron Maiden
Through The Fire And Flames, Dragonforce

Today Activision confirmed an additional seven songs we'll be jamming to come October 29, including some real finger-bleeders:

Miss Murder (by AFI)
Through Fire and Flames (by Dragonforce)
Number of the Beast (by Iron Maiden)
3's and 7's (by Queens of the Stone Age)
Suck My Kiss (by Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Raining Blood (by Slayer)
Reptillia (by The Strokes)
Paranoid (as made famous by Black Sabbath)
Cities on Flame (as made famous by Blue Oyster Cult)
Mississippi Queen (as made famous by Mountain)
La Grange (as made famous by ZZ Top)

Interesting to note that Mississippi Queen is also featured in Rock Band.

Jade Puget, guitarist for AFI, says, "if you're going to start playing Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, make sure you have, say, the next 2 years free, because that's all you're going to want to do."

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/810/810113p1.html

[Phoenix]

This has some great songs, but ones I really want to see include:

AFI-Miss MurderA winner is you!

[Alias]

Eh, from his list, I would've preferred Dio - Rainbow in the Dark the most.

[Phoenix]

Since we're on a lucky streak here, could we see Yngwie Malmsteen's Trilogy Suite? :)

[Shadow19]

Metallica's One has also been confirmed.

http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20668

[<3frosty]

This has some great songs, but ones I really want to see include:

REM-The One I Love
Dio-Rainbow in the Dark
The Bled-Never Met Another Gemini
Something by Blondie
Aerosmith-Sing for the Moment
Smashing Pumpkins-Tarantula
Coheed and Cambria- Ten Speed of God's Blood and Burial/Welcome Home
Bayside-Devotion and Desire (downloadable on Xbox 360)
AFI-Miss Murder (or something fun)

I'd be happy for awhile there...although there are certainly other bands I'd love to see, none of which include Metallica or Led Zeppelin. I just don't care to play them, but the more the better I guess.

I think you mean Dream On....

[HPK]

Metallica's One has also been confirmed.

http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20668

So...wait, we're getting One and Enter Sandman?

edit: DURR! I decided to mentally fuse Rock Band and GHIII together.

One will be pretty fun to play, but Master of Puppets would've rocked more.

[Alias]

Dragonforce's Through The Fire and Flames. First sneak peak.

_ZutgOyA9EY

[masteratt]

Metallica's One has also been confirmed.

http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20668

First thought: HOLY SHIT YESSSSS!!!!! OMG OMG!!!

Second thought: ...How the FUCK am I gonna play that solo!?

Wow this is awesome.

1st Day Purchase.

[the boney king of nowhere.]

playing 3's & 7's is gonna rock.

[HPK]

Wow, that video looked pretty sweet. I was actually more amazed by how fluid and smooth the game looks than how difficult the song will be (I like how they didn't show the solos. It's like showing someone Jordan, but only the synthesizer parts).

[D3adcell]

..............AFI.............I guess we had to expect some 'poopular' emo bullshit band. I may never get through hard/expert unless someone else can sacrifice their ears to play through that song.

[Alias]

Most of us have already had to deal with Tattooed Love Boys and Institutionalized. I'm sure I can handle AFI also (and yes, I've heard it)

[FoeHammer]

every song is pretty fun to play the first and second time.
i've only played tattoed love boys when i have to for career.

that song isn't that bad, anyways, but it sucks compared to the rest of the songlist.

[TheGreenElf]

I think you mean Dream On....

Yeah, sorry. Damn eminem...I was going through itunes and saw that, not thinking, and was reminded of the aerosmith song so I put the wrong title. Oops. Anyway, hopefully more of my hopes/predictions/dreams come true. Call it emo, call it bullshit, whatever, but I am thrilled. Also, more QOTSA and Iron Maiden neer hurt anyone, but I could do without having to play through a Slayer song, and come on? Dragonforce...they should be one of the co-op only bands since they have 2 lead guitarists...

Oh well.

every song is pretty fun to play the first and second time.
i've only played tattoed love boys when i have to for career.

that song isn't that bad, anyways, but it sucks compared to the rest of the songlist.

Exactly, suck it up. You might find songs you thought you once hated to be much more fun in game...example, two of my favorite songs from past guitar hero's include the Donna's "Take it off" and Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend".

And if not, oh well, there's nothing worse than gettin stuck on an Avenged Sevenfold or Lamb of God song...

Edit: Sorry, somebody can combine these two posts...

[Phoenix]

Most of us have already had to deal with Tattooed Love Boys and Institutionalized. I'm sure I can handle AFI also (and yes, I've heard it)Hey, Institutionalized is a pretty cool song, except for the guy... talking... over it. Blech.

EDIT: I am feeling a strange combination of love at first sight and blinding terror after seeing that video. That has to be the final song. It just has to be... That actually, despite my initial thoughts, might be harder than Jordan.

[Alias]

It's already been confirmed to be a bonus song, like Jordan.

Although not many people have seen the full note chart, I've been seeing a lot of "Easier to pass than Jordan, but harder to 5 star" comments.

[Phoenix]

Oh, darn. I guess it'd be too cruel to be in the main list, yes.

About the Jordan comparison, I would have imagined the opposite. That song (and everything by Dragonforce for that matter) is just nonstop speed, contrary to Jordan, which is just one long-ish burst of insanity. You'd think that it would wear down all but the fastest hands in a few minutes and fail them all, but once you beat it and start to get a hang of the non-solo patterns you can get crazy insane points from them. But this is the person who still has 3 songs on the '80s game without 5 stars, so I guess the "experts'" opinions matter more than mine.

[Alias]

Jordan is easier to 5 star than Misirlou (while Misirlou is obviously easier to pass). That's where it comes from. In Jordan, it's easy to perfect the whole song other than the solo. Misirlou is different. It's almost impossible to keep your combo in that song for more than 20 seconds.

[<3frosty]

I cant remember, but im pretty sure you can mute the band itself.


EDIT: Hol7y SHIIIIIIAAAAATTTTT at that DragonForce song. UGH. I thought Jordan was bad.

[FoeHammer]

i was kind of hoping that DragonForce would be a bonus song.
If it wasn't, there'd be a lot less people who were able to beat the game on Expert.

jordan is my nemesis right now.
i'm sure this dragonforce song is gonna piss me off for a long time, too.

[Sikknot]

On guitar hero III comes out. drangon force- through the fire and the flames will be a playable song.

[D3adcell]

Did you not read the thread?

[<3frosty]

Did you not read the thread?

Or the two posts right above his own....

[Phoenix]

Hey guys! Guitar Hero III will be coming out on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii now!

[<3frosty]

Hey guys! Guitar Hero III will be coming out on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii now!

What happened to the DS? :devious:

[Alias]

Slash is a boss!!?!?!

Battle mode too!

[Phoenix]

You guys hear about this new band forming, Guns n' Roses?

OK, that's quite enough.

[FoeHammer]

which metallica song is on GH3?

[masteratt]

'One'

One of their countless classics.
It's also known for having a kick ass (hard to play) solo.

Not that it matters but it's about a guy who loses his arms and legs in a landmine accident and wants to die but can't.
It's fast, it's written better than lots of short stories I've read and it's musically awesome too.

I love Metallica too much.

[Phoenix]

I think we can all agree on that.

[FoeHammer]

how do you lose your arms AND legs and not die?
i don't think i've heard that one.
i've only heard a few metallica songs, though

[TheGreenElf]

i was kind of hoping that DragonForce would be a bonus song.
If it wasn't, there'd be a lot less people who were able to beat the game on Expert.

jordan is my nemesis right now.
i'm sure this dragonforce song is gonna piss me off for a long time, too.

It, from what I hear is going to be a bonus song. And I don't like metallica, but i think it's very fitting they are on here.

[downtime19]

I'd prefer Fade to Black or NO Leaf Clover personally...

'One'

One of their countless classics.
It's also known for having a kick ass (hard to play) solo.

Not that it matters but it's about a guy who loses his arms and legs in a landmine accident and wants to die but can't.
It's fast, it's written better than lots of short stories I've read and it's musically awesome too.

I love Metallica too much.

[masteratt]

Well, yes they are awesome too and many more songs.
As I said, 'One' is only...
One of their countless classics.

[Phoenix]

Sonata Arctica played Fade to Black better. :P

[FoeHammer]

i have all but five achievements for gh2.
really close to getting guitarmageddon- 2 songs.
need 2 guitars to get 800k pair.
never going to beat jordan, 5-star all expert, or get 500k on any song.
well, not for a while, at least.

[HPK]

i have all but five achievements for gh2.
really close to getting guitarmageddon- 2 songs.
need 2 guitars to get 800k pair.
never going to beat jordan, 5-star all expert, or get 500k on any song.
well, not for a while, at least.

Hold on...you managed to get 1,000,000+ in co-op but not 800,000+?

Something doesn't seem right about that.

[FoeHammer]

i didn't mention that.
didn't think i had to cause common sense kicked in and i realized that one million is a bigger number than 800k, so thus thereforth i should have put that one there too, just to avoid confusion.
i don't know.
but yeah, never gonna get that one either.

[Phoenix]

Isn't there an achievement for failing a song on Easy?

[FoeHammer]

yes.
it's honestly hard to get though.
my game wouldn't let me fail on easy career, i think i had to do it in quick play or somethin.
achievements are cool.

[BigfootGus]

what song is it possible to get 500k on?

i only have like 4 achievements left

edit: on guitar hero 2

is this relevant?

[FoeHammer]

free bird

[Alias]

X-treme and Killing in the Name also. Free Bird and X-treme are easiest.

[masteratt]

I don't want this thread to die so here is a preview of what we'll be dealing with.

Metallica- One (Ending).
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If your fret hand doesn't get tired, your picking hand will fall off.

More videos/ solos of the songs in the game would be appreciated.

[BigfootGus]

cool idea

that should be its own thread though

[Colin™]

yep, not beating expert difficulty in this one, either.

[masteratt]

^hahaha.

Don't worry just save you superstar power, the beginning of the song is nice and easy.

[BigfootGus]

it doesnt seem TOO hard

its looks passable with starpower

[masteratt]

yeah its just fast picking, the fret hand doesn't move that much.

[Phoenix]

From that video, I can't say I'm a big fan of most of that song, but that solo is awesome. Should be a lot of fun. It doesn't look too hard, though, except the beginning of the fast part which will be... :wtf:

[masteratt]

WARNING: Metallica blabbing below.

It's one of Metallica's most famous solos along with....Oh I dunno, about 7 other awesome ones (most of them are good but these seven are like HOLY SHIT WOW!).

Unfortunately Enter Sandman isn't one of the famous solos (unlucky 'Rock Band'..also unlucky because you cost $200).

*Moves the thread onto other tough solos in the game although we generally agreed this one isn't that tough*

[Phoenix]

It won't get much harder than Through the Fire and the Flames. While the quality of that song (and band for that matter) is extremely disputed, few will argue against Dragonforce being some of the hardest guitar music to play period.

Unfortunately Enter Sandman isn't one of the famous solosEnter Sandman has a solo? :P

[BigfootGus]

ive been training for guitar hero 3 a lot lately

[masteratt]

Enter Sandman has a solo? :P
Yeah, a good one actually, not AMAZINGLY good, but good.

The tongue makes me think you are kidding.....But about what?

Want me to upload the solo bit of Enter Sandman?

[Phoenix]

I have the song. I was joking.

[masteratt]

I was joking.
"It has a solo"

"NO IT DOESNT! HAHAHAHAHA!!!"

...Not the best joke. ¬_¬

[Phoenix]

I was sarcastically reinforcing the lack of noteworthiness the solo has.

[BigfootGus]

i would like to hear this unnoteworthy solo

[masteratt]

Here you go [1.04MB] (http://www.zshare.net/audio/3410867cfe3cfc/)

[Phoenix]

i would like to hear this unnoteworthy soloAhem...

Whaaaaaaoaoaommwa wa, weaa weaheahmmWEEEEE WEEE! Whaeowmmwhaeowmmwhaeowmmwhaeowmmdadada, dadada, dadada, mwoooh. Meeoememememememememememememememe meedelymeedelymeedelymeedelymeedelymeedelymeedelym eedely meedelymeedelymeedly meedelymeedelymeedly meedelymeedely MWEEEEEEEEEEEEE! MWEEEAaaaaahmmm mweaaaahmwah mweh, mwamle, dodododweeeh, lalalalaladadadadaladadalalalaladadadadalaladadado oooooo. Weeaoh dow dow, mweeaoh dow dow, mweeaoh dow dow, mweeaoh dwaewdwaeeeeeew woowoowoowoowoowoo, meedelymeedlelymeedelymeedelymeedelymeedely weeeeeeddweeddweeeee! Dadnana, dadnana, dadnana, dadnanaaaoooooow... dowdoaoaaaaaaaoow... doodoooooooooooooooooh...

EDIT: Damnit, Masteratt. That took too long and you beat me. :cry2:

[BigfootGus]

it will be a bitch to play

[masteratt]

Fuck technology right Phoenix?

[Phoenix]

Pfft, who needs it?

That post alone clearly took more skill than it did to originally play it.

[masteratt]

Hang on.

*Gives the post to the mail-man on a horse to deliver it to you*

[Phoenix]

You're just jealous. It's actually pretty hard. :P

I'll prove it by making my own request. If you transcribe the entirety of a guitar solo song titled "Trilogy Suite Op: 5" by Yngwie Malmsteen into this thread like I just have for the Enter Sandman solo, I will literally +rep you ten times. It'll take me about a week due to the rep limit, but I'll do it. Also that song should totally be the finale or a bonus track in GHIII.

[BigfootGus]

you all are so knowledgeable of the musics

[masteratt]

Enough of your nonsense, music other than Metallica doesn't exist.
If you requested a Metallica song I would have at least attempted it.
And you didn't even link me to the song thus me obviously not knowing what it is.
*sigh*
I can't work under these conditions.

Anyway back on topic:
it will be a bitch to play
Not as much of a bitch as paying $200 for the game (rock band......which is the game that has Enter Sandman).

[BigfootGus]

yes, i will have to split the paycheck with the brothers of mine

[Phoenix]

you all are so knowledgeable of the musicsNot really. The two of us just know what we like. That said, you should totally look that song up, Maste Ratt. The guy's a beast.

I'll probably be splitting this game with a friend or two as well. I can't afford $200. Well, I can (as well as almost anything at 17-year-old could want), but I really don't want to.

[the poe collector]

Guitar Hero 3 doesn't cost $200, and neither will Rock Band unless you buy every instrument.

IDIOTS!

[masteratt]

Yeah but then it becomes a boring game.

Just vocals= Just get Singstar, more options.
Just guitars= GH
Just drums = Ah.

They should call it Drum Band.

[the poe collector]

One person isn't going to be able to play everything at the same time.
Start out with one instrument and then get the rest when you can.

Also, you could look into making friends so they'll play.

[BigfootGus]

but if there are more than one of you always playing the game?

i wanna get every instrument eventually though

[the poe collector]

If there's more than one of you it means you actually have friends, and they can help pay for the game.

[masteratt]

Yes but I've got friends 'let's get drunk and act our age' friends, not videogame friends.

If I asked them to put money towards a videogame they'll probably won't even answer.

[FoeHammer]

those aren't real friends.
if you don't play guitar hero, you suck.

[Alias]

Did anybody preorder GH3 yet? I'm about to as I got over $100 worth of EB gift cards.

[Phoenix]

I have it preordered.

[FoeHammer]

you can preorder it at eb?
shoot, imma do that.
then i'm gonna get it!
and play it!
and beat every song except dragonforce

[Phoenix]

The song is called Through the Fire and the Flames...

And I'm gonna beat it! I've practically memorized the entire song long ago, so I just need to get my hands up to speed.

[FoeHammer]

i don't believe you.

anyways...i saw something on ign about tom morelli from rage against the machine being a boss in gh3.
i don't think or know if it's true, but that would mean another one of their songs, and also a duel with him.
maybe so, maybe notso, but i like any guitar hero 3 news.

[Phoenix]

I want to do battle with Steve Vai.

[Colin™]

Bulls on Parade is in. Original recording.

I'm giddy like a school girl.

[FoeHammer]

i don't know any steve vai songs.
just the battle on crossroads
that was cool
what's bulls on parade?

[the poe collector]

Enjoy.

-58-36lSqG4

[FoeHammer]

oh, cool

[Phoenix]

I'm not the biggest Rage Against the Machine fan, but I enjoyed Killing in the Name in II. Unfortunately, I can't say the same about this. It seems too repetitive for GH. I am, however, interested in seeing how that "record scratch" solo will work.

[the poe collector]

RATM guitarist Tom Morello is in as a boss character. So far it's just him and Slash, unless I'm forgetting someone else.

I've said this before but Eddie from Iron Maiden should be in there along with Satan himself.

[Phoenix]

I think Poison's lead guitarist is in there too.

Eddie Van Halen would be cool too.

[the poe collector]

Definitely, but I don't think there are any Van Halen songs announced. They could've had a battle with Hendrix but that one character already looks too much like him.

[Phoenix]

His people didn't even want Hendrix's voice imitated in the first game, so I strongly doubt they'd let them make a virtual version of him.

[the poe collector]

Well the character I'm talking about is already a blatant rip-off of him. I don't remember the name though.

[Phoenix]

I know, I'm just saying that's why they'd never make him a boss.

I liked the old Xavier Stone. :(

[FoeHammer]

the lenny kravitz one.
i think i beat gh on expert for the first time with him

they definitely should have more than three bosses
it's called legends of rock.
get some more legends

[the poe collector]

Wait, there's only going to be three?

That's fucking weak.

[FoeHammer]

swut i heard
i'm not sure.
all i know is that there's sposed to be two real bosses, one fake one, and that bret michaels is gonna sing for the poison song. theres probably more.

[Alias]

Here's the rumored setlist..



1.Starting Out Small
Slow Ride by Foghat
Talk Dirty to Me by Poison
Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benatar
Story of my Life by Social Distortion
Rock and Roll All Nite by Kiss
Sabotage (coop exclusive) by The Beastie Boys

2.Your First Real Gig
Mississippi Queen by Mountain
Schools Out by Alice Cooper
Sunshine of your Love by Cream
Barracuda by Heart
Tom Morello Boss Battle (Original Song)
Bulls on Parade by Rage Against the Machine
Reptilia (coop exclusive) by The Strokes

3.Making the Video
When You Were Young by The Killers
Miss Murder By AFI
The Seeker by The Who
Lay Down by Priestess
Paint it Black by Rolling Stones
Suck My Kiss (coop exclusive) by Red Hot Chili Peppers

4.European Invasion
Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Anarchy in the U.K. by The Sex Pistols
Kool Thing by Sonic Youth
My Name is Jonas by Weezer
Evenflow by Pearl Jam
Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll (coop exclusive) by Blue Oyster Cult

5.Bighouse Blues
Holiday in Cambodia by The Dead Kennedys
Rock you like a Hurricane by Scorpians
Same Old Song and Dance by Aerosmith
La Grange by ZZ Top
Slash Boss Battle (Original Song)
Welcome to the Jungle by Guns n Roses
Helicopter (coop exclusive) by Bloc Party

6.The Hottest Band on Earth
Black Magic Woman by Santana
Cherub Rock by Smashing Pumpkins
Black Sunshine by White Zombie
The Metal by Tenacious D
Pride and Joy by Stevie Ray Vaughan
Monsters (coop exclusive) by Matchbook Romance

7.Live In Japan
Before I Forget by Slipknot
Stricken by Disturbed
3's and 7's by Queens of the Stone Age
Knights of Cydonia by Muse
Cult of Personality by Living Colour

8.Battle For Your Soul
Raining Blood by Slayer
Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson
Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden
One by Metallica
Lou (Devil) Boss Battle – The Devil Went Down to Georgia (Metal Version)

Bonus:
Avalancha by Héroes del Silencio
In the Belly of a Shark by Gallows
Cant Be Saved by Senses Fail
Closer by Lacuna Coil
Don’t Hold Back by The Sleeping
Down 'N Dirty by LA Slum Lords
FCP Remix by Fall of Troy
Generation Rock by Revolverheld
Go That Far by Bret Michaels Band
Hier Kommt Alex by Die Toten Hosen
I’m in the Band by The Hellacopters
Impulse by An Endless Sporadic
In Love by Scouts of St Sebastion
Mauvis Garcon by NAAST
Metal Heavy Lady by Lions
Minus Celsius by Backyard Babies
My Curse by Killswitch Engage
Prayer of the Refugee by Rise Against
Radio song by Superbus
Ruby by Kaiser Chiefs
She Bangs the Drums by The Stone Roses
Take This Life by In Flames
The Way it Ends by Prototype
Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce



And then there's this found as well..

http://www.guitarherogame.fr/spip.php?rubrique22#tracklist

Weren't Atreyu and Velvet Revolver supposed to be in the game?

[the poe collector]

Awesome, there's at least 2 or 3 songs I really like in each set list.

I still think it's lame that there's only 3 bosses but at least The Devil made the cut.

[TheGreenElf]

FALL OF FUCKING TROY AND RISE AGAINST, Killswitch!!!??? Fuck yeah!

[Alias]

The Devil Went Down to Georgia is gonna be awesome. It's this version:

Qepv1mtYdx0

[FoeHammer]

Gee whiz, what is this?
FIDDLE HERO?!

i'm not so sure that the last boss should be the devil.
how would you top that in GH4?
guitar battle against Jesus?
in Heaven?
and after you beat him, you have a duel against God on Mt. Olympus?

There would be black clouds above, snow-topped cliffs on the mountain of holy doom, all of heaven watching the ultimate guitar battle between God and the earthling prodigy.

[BigfootGus]

i would want to guitar duel jesus

that set list is ... holy shit, awesome

[Alias]

Gee whiz, what is this?
FIDDLE HERO?!

i'm not so sure that the last boss should be the devil.
how would you top that in GH4?
guitar battle against Jesus?
in Heaven?
and after you beat him, you have a duel against God on Mt. Olympus?

There would be black clouds above, snow-topped cliffs on the mountain of holy doom, all of heaven watching the ultimate guitar battle between God and the earthling prodigy.

A song in the final setlist will obviously be Stairway to Heaven then. :-p

[the poe collector]

Jesus can shred.

[Phoenix]

I don't know what to think about this being real or not, but The Devil Went Down To Georgia would make for a great novelty duel, but the final challenge? Blech.

[FoeHammer]

maybe they enhanced it/made it crazier if it's the last song

[Alias]

The song has a chance. Look at this version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioD7gp41GYU

Also, four of the already announced songs have new videos out. Still not showing the full songs though, unfortunately.

Paint It Black (http://www.gamekult.com/video/8314102/)
Even Flow (http://www.gamekult.com/video/8314103/)
Cult of Personality (http://www.gamekult.com/video/8314104/)
Bulls On Parade (http://www.gamekult.com/video/8314105/)

You get a peek at a solo in Cult, but of course that's when the video ends.

[Phoenix]

Cliffs of Dover sounds really cool, I hope it's actually in the game.

[Alias]

I have a feeling the list is correct. Especially since after checking the site linked below again, it was recently edited with "???" replacing the songs that haven't been "announced" yet (already posted).


And then there's this found as well..

http://www.guitarherogame.fr/spip.php?rubrique22#tracklist

[Phoenix]

Woot, Cliffs of Dover confirmed?

[TheGreenElf]

I don't particular like Devil Went Down to Georgia, but anything is better than Lynard Skynard...

[Alias]

Today Anarchy in the UK was announced (http://wii.ign.com/articles/822/822837p1.html). And it's on the list.

[FoeHammer]

i watched a cover of cliffs of dover on youtube.
that song is flippin awesome.

but gh2 is making me go nuts right now!
I MISS ONE FUCKIN NOTE IN XSTREAM AND GET FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX THOUSAND INSTEAD OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND AND I THINK I'M USING STARPOWER IN THE RIGHT PLACES, AND I PLAYED THAT SONG AT LEAST FIFTEEN TIMES IN A ROW AND DIDN'T GET FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BECAUSE OF THAT STUPID BULLSHIT SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!

I need to get better
hopefully gh3 will help

[emiwee]

from http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3163483

Activision finally announced the rest of the track list for Guitar Hero III, and celebrated with a jam session that turned us loose with full versions of the PS3, 360, and Wii versions. Almost as importantly, there were plenty of the new Gibson Les Paul wireless controllers to play with. The presentation got a little carried away with expressions like "best console peripheral ever created," but after playing with it, the new guitar shows quite a few significant improvements -- so much so that playing the game felt almost as fresh as it did the very first time we picked up a plastic guitar.

A number of practical, aesthetic, and functional upgrades make this new guitar a whole new device. Along with the iconic silhouette, interchangeable faceplates for the body offer you a number of custom looks for your axe. We saw everything from flags to color fades, but as the sales take off on the game it's easy to imagine ever more creative designs becoming available. With the neck now removable, other bodies may even be ultimately introduced down the line. The ability to break it down also could come in handy when packing it up to take to a friend's house.

While all those are nice, the mechanical improvements really make the biggest difference. For starters, not only do the fret buttons no longer look like they belong on a kiddy toy, they don't feel like it either. Instead of mushing under your finger, they move cleanly to each touch. Likewise, the strum bar gets a whole new precise mechanism that eliminates problems with phantom second strums that could disrupt your chords at any time. And the sensor for activating your star power has been replaced with a more sensitive accelerometer -- no more shaking your guitar in frustration trying to get it to activate.

For all three consoles the guitar is wireless, but with a different connection for each. On 360 this marks the first third party controller to use the built-in wireless on the console. On PS3 it's no more difficult to get hooked up, but you have to use a USB dongle (one for each guitar). Wii takes a little different approach. A compartment in the top portion of the body holds the Wii Remote, which provides the wireless connection to the console and the motion sensor for activating star power. It also allows one other unique element to come into play. When you miss a note, the ugly guitar string twang sound comes from the little speaker in the remote, so it sounds like it's coming from the right place. Not a huge deal, but it's cool and in multiplayer it's much less distracting than the sound coming through the main channels when the other person messes up.

Getting down to business, once you play with these new guitars, you'll be ruined on the old ones. In particular, those tricky spaghetti runs of hammer-ons work so much better you'll start to wonder how many times it was the guitar's fault more than your own that you blew a song in the old versions. The strong new songs will grab your attention quickly enough that the thought won't last long: From first tier to last, the game recaptures much the same energy that the original held.

Along with great songs, the note tracking -- how the musical notes get converted into the buttons you press -- does a fantastic job of convincing you you're playing guitar. This really stands out on a couple of tunes. On the runs leading in and out of the solos on "Welcome to the Jungle" you get a strong sense of moving up and down the neck to hit all the notes. And in the thick of it, all the passages just seem to naturally fall under your fingers. "Cherub Rock," on the other hand, shows that complicated chord structures don't have to be frustrating to be sophisticated. Its crunchy changes feel like you're hammering out bar chords with the ring finger down and your other three changing positions -- without parts that knot up your ring and middle fingers.

Don't confuse this playability with the game being easy. It's not. By the time you hit "Pride and Joy" in the sixth tier, and "Cult of Personality" in the seventh you'll have been plenty tested. A big part of that also comes from the guitar battles. With all due respect to Tom Morello, taking on Slash in the fourth tier was a highlight of our hands-on session. In battles, successfully hitting the highlighted sections that usually fill you star power instead arm you with attacks to throw on your opponent. Tricks like doubling the notes they have to hit or upping their difficulty help you outlast them. The first player to drop through the red and fail loses.

Fun as it is playing against the machine, in multiplayer it gets even better. Though the game may be competitive, the intrinsic fun of playing Guitar Hero makes it the real definition of a friendly battle. Throwing the attacks back and forth at each other is only part of the equation. It's even more triumphant to get hit with one, look over at your opponent, and then continue to play right through it un-phased.

While it won't give you that eye-to-eye satisfaction, net play does finally appear in Guitar Hero III on all three platforms. Live and PSN offer the expected friend and matchmaking options, but the Wii version doesn't cut any corners either. You will have to exchange the unwieldy friend codes, but once you do, you get essentially all the stuff the other consoles do including auto matches, strangers match, create a match, leaderboards, links to the Guitar Hero website and more. In both battle and co-op modes you see both fret boards on the screen. Mostly you'll be too busy to pay much attention, but playing cooperatively, you need to keep an eye on your partner's side of the screen to watch for the sign to trigger your star power.

Between the new guitars and set list, the few hours we spent playing this demo gave us the feeling that the change in developer has rejuvenated the series. With the release date now just around the corner we won't have to wait long to see if that sense holds up to closer, long-term scrutiny.


I don't know about anyone else, but I'm sold on the wii guitar.

[masteratt]

I'm not clicking a 1Up link but I can pretty much assume it goes:

1) Wii guitar
2) Xbox 360 guitar
3) Ps3 guitar (because of the "dongles")

[Alias]

Did anyone see Cult of Personality's solos yet?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r5XTRfW6lgM

[TheGreenElf]

A song in the final setlist will obviously be Stairway to Heaven then. :-p

Jesus I hope not. :)

[the poe collector]

I am tired of your anti-Led Zeppelin sentiments.

[Phoenix]

I'm no hater of lead zeppelins or anything of the sort, but to be fair, I don't think Stairway to Heaven would make the best Guitar Hero song.

[the poe collector]

Neither do I. While I love the song I don't know how many people would have the patience to play through it multiple times. There are other Zeppelin songs that would fit better in the game.

Heartbreaker!

[Alias]

I wasn't serious about having it in a game, although it will probably appear at some point. Just thought it was funny how someone said battling Jesus in heaven.

I just played the demo on 360 at Gamestop.. I beat Lay Down, Even Flow, Rock You Like A Hurricane, and The Metal, all on expert. :-D

I didn't bother playing Hit Me With Your Best Shot

[the poe collector]

Show-off...

demo, when did this happen? how was the new guitar?

Answer me.

[Alias]

There's two ways you can get the demo, assuming you have a 360. It just came out a few days ago. Buy the new Tony Hawk game and it comes with it. Or buy the latest OXM magazine (77 with Call of Duty 4 on the cover.) It comes with a demo disc with GH3. I don't have a 360 so the only way I can get away with playing is at stores :-D

The new guitar isn't out yet. Any stores that have it set up such as EB, Best Buy, etc. are using the 360 GH2 controller. It only has 5 songs, listed above in my previous post.

The game plays really well though.. The note charts are harder or appear harder, but it's easier to hammer on and it's easier to hit notes as it allows a bigger gap. I'd say it's about even to GH2 in terms of difficulty. Harder than GH80s.

[the poe collector]

Thank you good sir. I knew there was going to be a demo with the new Tony Hawk but I wasn't sure if they were going to put one on Live or release it some other way. I'll just pick up the magazine.

[Ivory_Soul]

I can't believe Disturbed and Slipknot are actually in here! I LOVE Disturbed more than anything (know how to play all their songs on a real guitar).

[Alias]

I can't believe it either. Maybe because GH3 needs more Megadeth instead. :-/

There was a rumor going around that Washington is Next (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5yQCZt4wt0) by Megadeth was in the game. Not sure what's going on though. Either hasn't been announced yet, DLC, or not happening.

[BigfootGus]

i bought the wrong issue :(

[Phoenix]

They've had Megadeth in the last two games, and to my knowledge they probably want to avoid using one artist in all three games. I really enjoyed Symphony of Destruction and Hangar 18, but all in all I've never really liked Megadeth, so it's no skin off my back.

[Colin™]

I can't believe Disturbed and Slipknot are actually in here!

Me either.... :(

I keep looking for that OXM but my area isn't quite an area that would have a good literary selection. Probably won't have the mag in stock until about when the game is out.

[Shadow19]

I can't believe Disturbed and Slipknot are actually in here!.

Screw Disturbed & Slipknot, I'd rather have:
Tool, Soundgarden, Porcupine Tree, A Perfect Circle.

[Phoenix]

Yeah, I say screw them, but rather than list some bands I'd like in their place, I will instead not participate in a rather irrelevant side-discussion. :)

[FoeHammer]

I'm considering buying tonyhawk's to play the demo
but i don't know

[Phoenix]

It's only coming out in a few weeks, is it really worth buying for just a demo?

[BigfootGus]

tony hawk games are okay though

[Alias]

If by okay you mean the original THPS1 & 2 then you are correct.

But don't buy it for the demo. The game is out on the 28th and it's almost 10 days away. Don't waste the $60. Put it towards another guitar or maybe Rock Band or something. That's my opinion.

They've had Megadeth in the last two games, and to my knowledge they probably want to avoid using one artist in all three games. I really enjoyed Symphony of Destruction and Hangar 18, but all in all I've never really liked Megadeth, so it's no skin off my back.

I don't think it matters. GH3 will be the third with Iron Maiden. GH2 360 had The Trooper, GH80s had Wrathchild, and GH3 has Number of the Beast. Unless it's because The Trooper and Wrathchild are exclusive to their systems.


Edit - Here's the GH3 version of The Devil Went Down To Georgia. http://www.mp3tube.net/musics/Steve-Ouimette-The-devil-went-down-to-georgia-Guitar-hero-III-version/63178/

[Colin™]

Well, in fact, if you can find it, the torrent of the GH3 demo is now available. No modded xbox and its not an illegal copy. Simply, download it, burn the .iso, and stick it in your xbox.

My impressions:
-Lots of fun, the graphics got serious overhaul and its for the better.
-Master track of Evenflow makes me wet.
-The singer looks likes something from a nightmare.
-They seem to be focusing a lot more energy on HO/PO this time around.

Overall, should be a good game.

[Phoenix]

Do the generic keyboardists not look like they're kneading bread this time?

[Colin™]

Can't say I've noticed, but everything looks tons more polished than GH2, so I imagine it looks good.

And Judy Nails is actually hot now. She definitely went running and got some augmentation done between 2 and 3.

[Alias]

They even look like their singing now. At least more so than in GH2. It appears they worked on everything, likely improved everything for the better. Most noticeably other than graphics is obviously the hammer ons. The only thing I'm not a real fan of is the star power bulb things. I preferred the bar personally. It's not a big deal though.

Also, if anyone is getting it for 360 and has seen the achievements yet, one of them is "Meet Your Maker." In order to get it you need to beat a maker of GH3. Read here (http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30904) if you're interested in achieving that. Gotta warn you though, Chris Vance is pretty good judging by his scores.

[LiquidEagle]

They even look like their singing now. At least more so than in GH2. It appears they worked on everything, likely improved everything for the better. Most noticeably other than graphics is obviously the hammer ons. The only thing I'm not a real fan of is the star power bulb things. I preferred the bar personally. It's not a big deal though.

Oooooh boy do the singers look terrible in Guitar Hero 3. I played it a bunch today and their jaws have been elongated by about 200% at least. It honestly looks horrendous and awkwardly stretched out.

[FoeHammer]

thanks for making me look forward to the game
matt bellamy is awesome, though
can't wait to play the muse song in gh3

[Alias]

Cliffs of Dover sounds really cool, I hope it's actually in the game.

This one's for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kxiAcB5yls (Embedding disabled)

Doesn't look hard enough for the final tier..


Knights of Cydonia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5cA1aPsQKA) looks like a lot of fun too.

[Phoenix]

You kidding? That looks really really tiring. It may not have burst speed, but that's still a lot of notes for a long time.

Also drool.

[Colin™]

wow, Cliffs of Dover is incredible. Great song, too.

Knights of Cydonia doesn't look overly hard at all, but it will be a bitch keeping a streak going.

[masteratt]

Wow that 50 NOTE STREAK thing really gets annoying.

Hope you can turn it off.


Cliifs Of Dover requires one hard to play tune repeated for a while, i'll be lucky to past the intro.
It looks really fun to play though, good variety within.

And the same user has a 'One' vid and I'm definitely going to hate that song after this game :(

[BigfootGus]

holy shit, they both look awesome

super +rep

knights of cydonia looks pretty easy for the most part

cliffs of dover looks manageable except for that one part where theres the orange note between every note

you know what i mean

[the poe collector]

that dude has around 12 songs on his youtube and he's been updating it like every hour, if you didn't know...

Raining Blood frightens me.

[Alias]

Yeah I've been keeping an eye on his account. The Devil Went Down To Georgia looks pretty challenging.. in battle. If you were to play it in quick play it doesn't look so difficult.

[Phoenix]

Ugh, Raining Blood... They've usually done a good job of having really hard songs that are enjoyable and musical. Sadly they missed this one. I hate having to practice the hell out of a song I don't like.

...Heheh, The Devil Went Down To Georgia is intimidating to the point where it's hilarious. Love how fast the strumming is in that one part on Lou's track.

...Aaaand, One. I usually am not a Metallica fan but that looks like a really fun song. The only part I dislike is the ending, minus the solo. Non-solo ending = painful, boring, ugly. Solo = more painful, fun, awesome.

[Alias]

He has a total of 35 GH3 videos uploaded now.

http://www.youtube.com/user/pdtecrj

P.S. Tom Morello is gonna get owned in battle mode.

[masteratt]

How many songs in total?

[Alias]

It's either 72 songs or 76 songs, in the game if that's what you were asking.

The guy has 44 videos now, and there's a note saying that he will be removing them all ASAP upon request.

He redid The Devil Went Down To Georgia.. didn't pass again but got further. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUVYbmikXgI I saw a demo video of battle mode in Even Flow and saw someone save two powerups and unleash them both at once.. I didn't know you could do that. Might need to do that to beat the devil.. The person used Lefty Flip and Double Notes.. It looked intense.

[FoeHammer]

wow, i just got the demo and it's awesome.
I think Lay Down is my favorite song, but all of them are pretty fun.
i've only played each one twice, and evenflow is the only one i haven't figured out yet.

[the poe collector]

Man, I suck. it's been a few months since I played any GH game.

Another thing that doesn't help is that I despise the 360 guitar. I can't wait to try out the new one.

[BigfootGus]

are you able to use the new guitar on GH2?

[Alias]

For which system? For Ps2 & 360 I think you can but not Ps3.

[BigfootGus]

360

i got the demo yesterday, and i five starred all the songs on expert except The Metal

maybe on the new guitar and with some more practice ill be able to

[OG_Monkey]

I thought id never say this...but after playing the GH3 demo...IM BUYING THIS GAME! Its actually more fun then i thought!

[BigfootGus]

you never played a GH game before?

[Lucent Beam]

Downloading the demo now. :-D Yay!
(And played Freya in the meantime. :( )

EDIT: Fun, fun, fun. Played all the songs on expert & beat all but the last. I think the notes look like happy marshmallows. I want this game...

[Phoenix]

Curse you people and your 360s... I can't get the demo on my PS2. :(

[Alias]

You're crushed by not getting the demo? I guess you don't care about online play?

[BigfootGus]

loser phoenix

[Phoenix]

You're crushed by not getting the demo? I guess you don't care about online play?Not really. If they're not there beside you, it's just a computer that misses notes more. Leaderboards would be cool, but not a huge deal.

[BigfootGus]

you can talk to them though

[OG_Monkey]

you never played a GH game before?

nope

[BigfootGus]

its addictive

so watch out!

[OG_Monkey]

i cant tell, i played the demo...a demo already over 30 times with my lil bro

[BigfootGus]

yep, i started playing like a year ago, and im still always trying to get better

even though im a beast right now

[OG_Monkey]

yea, but i dunno if im all into the guitar thing, a controller is str8 for me but i dunno

[BigfootGus]

you didnt play on the guitar controller?

wow, why am i even speaking to you?

lol, just kidding, but if you like playing the game on the regular controller, it will be ten times funner for you on the guitar

you feel like a rock god, especially when you start getting better

[Phoenix]

It's really an awesome feeling. I know it's nothing like a real guitar but it really feels like you're making music.

[Alias]

I can't even play it on the controller. I suck on the controller cause I always played with the guitar.

[BigfootGus]

me too

[OG_Monkey]

you didnt play on the guitar controller?

wow, why am i even speaking to you?

lol, just kidding, but if you like playing the game on the regular controller, it will be ten times funner for you on the guitar

you feel like a rock god, especially when you start getting better

well i dont have the guitar so...yea

i played it at one store today thought, GH2 with the guitar...it was oooook. The game comes with one guitar right? How much is it gonna be?

[JasonXe]

I did pretty good with the controller but I wish I had the guitar. I bought GHII for my gf and its currently at her house. I'll buy one for the both of us eventually. Its very addicting and can't wait to try multiplayer.

[Alias]

Dragonforce's Through The Fire and Flames already got owned. On expert co-op :-X

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Left - Rhythm
Right - Lead

[Phoenix]

Wow. That's gonna be a fun one. I love how they name the sections. :)

[the poe collector]

they used a gameshark.

[Alias]

Hahaha. I didn't even know gameshark was still around.

[HPK]

Haha, that was a fun video to watch. I thought it was kind of cool hearing the guitars click like crazy. But yeah, the names of the sections are funny, particularly "What the!?"

[Hylian-Advocate]

wow.....I dont think I am ever going to get more than 2 percent of that song.....lol

anyway....does anyone know why this game has a sunday release???...... most all games release on mondays so they are in stores on tuesday like DVDs and other mdeia....

the reason I ask is.....have they already shipped and are goin to be in stores on sunday..... I ask this becuase typically I thought shiping like this wouldn't happen on sunday.

[Alias]

All stores have had them for about a week already. In their storage. Hell, some broke the street date rule and sold them early.

[Cofey]

Check out XBL...I'm ranked no. 4 on Sunhine of Your Love.

Yay for single digits!

[Phoenix]

Guitar Hero III get! I played it at my friend's house this morning, but I'm not letting myself play alone until my homework's done. My guitar has just the killer bunny sticker on it... awesome.

Is it lame that I use Midori? They took off Clive and Pandora. :(

[Cofey]

Yeah, I miss Clive. He was my favorite. They made Xavier Stone a lot cooler though - he's my main man now.

[OG_Monkey]

$100!? WTF! Fuck the guitar, im just getting the damn disc

[FoeHammer]

the new guitar is worth the money
its awesome as hell
Paint it Black is my favorite song out of what i've played

[Phoenix]

I didn't like the white look at first glance, but it's grown on me. I like the guitar. The frets feel better, too, but that might just be because it's new.

[FoeHammer]

i have the black one.
not sure about putting stickers on, but definitely going to get a faceplate for it sometime

[OG_Monkey]

but damn...$100? I mean, me and my bro have fun on the controller. Maybe its just me but im passing on that one. I can still buy the guitars seperate if i change my mind right?

[Alias]

Depends what system you have. I know as a Ps3 GH3 owner, I'm stuck with the guitar I got in the bundle. None of the older guitars are compatible and they aren't selling the guitars for Ps3 separate yet. The only way to get one at the moment is to buy the bundle. I don't have the co-op exclusive songs, but I do have a friend with a Ps3 that got the game with me last night. We may do career soon.

Ps2 and Xbox 360 are both compatible with older guitars that can be found separately though. Not sure about the Wii version.

Oh and I have the black one.

[OG_Monkey]

I was gonna get it on the 360 so i could buy a GH2 one if i wanted then right?

[Phoenix]

The Wii version is also not compatible with any old guitars and does not offer extra guitars. That said, the Wii guitar is pretty sweet.

[Alias]

I was gonna get it on the 360 so i could buy a GH2 one if i wanted then right?

Yeah, but I don't see why you would do that because the difference in pricing between the two guitars is probably minimal and Wireless Les Paul > Xplorer

[BigfootGus]

me and my brothers have been playing co-op with one old controller and the new one that came with the game

some of those achievements are fucking insane

knights of cydonia, paint it black, and ... my name is jonas are my favorites so far

im stuck on cult of personality right now ...

[Alias]

I was playing with a friend of mine, online. We did a few songs on Co-Op, then Pro Face-Off Through The Fire and Flames on expert twice. It was pretty intense. Like the second time I only won by 800pts.

Battle mode is a lot of fun IMO. We did a best of 7 games and we each chose 3 songs. I won 4-2. If you know you're going to sudden death, I realized a good trick is to save your powers because they do actually carry over into sudden death. I busted an amp overload on my friend that I saved right before the battle power notes came up in sudden death and got the death drain ftw while he couldn't pinpoint where the notes were.

[Rorange T-rex]

I've been playing it for a while now.
It's my favorite game out of the whole series.
My favorite songs are.
1.Knights of Cydonia by Muse
2.One by Metallica
3.Bulls on Parade by Rage Against The Machine
4.Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden
5.The Metal by Tenacious D

[OG_Monkey]

Yeah, but I don't see why you would do that because the difference in pricing between the two guitars is probably minimal and Wireless Les Paul > Xplorer

ah fuck it, ill fork over $100 for the game and guitar together...eventually

[BigfootGus]

ive beaten all the career songs on expert except Raining Blood

i just need to hit both starpowers and im pretty much set

me and my little brother beat Expert on Co-op, which was awesomely fucking awesome

ill have to hook up my 360 to Live pretty soon to get the rest of the achievements

[Alias]

Here's an update on GH3 DLC for Ps3/Xbox 360 (Reason why I didn't post this in the Wii section ;-] )

VELVET REVOLVER, FOO FIGHTERS AND BOSS BATTLE ANTHEMS
SLIDE ONTO GUITAR HERO® III: LEGENDS OF ROCK
AS DOWNLOADABLE TRACK PACKS

SUNNYVALE, CA – November 8, 2007 – Adding to the legendary set list for Guitar Hero® III : Legends of Rock, Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI ) announced that master recordings from Grammy Award winning artists Velvet Revolver and the Foo Fighters will be the first downloadable track packs for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system for the month of November. Both packs are now available on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and will be released on PLAYSTATION®Store later this month.

The Velvet Revolver Track Pack includes master recordings of “Messages,” “She Builds Quick Machines” and the 2004 Grammy Award winner for Best Hard Rock Performance, “Slither.” The Foo Fighters Track Pack includes master recordings of “The Pretender,” “This Is a Call” and the 2002 Grammy Award winner for Best Rock Song, “All My Life.”

Additionally, later in November, the Boss Battle anthems will be available, free of charge. Originally composed music by Slash and Tom Morello along with “The Devil Went Down to Georgia ” can be downloaded to play outside of Career mode.

“The Guitar Hero franchise was a pioneer into the music download space for next generation gaming,” said Dusty Welch, Head of Publishing for Activision/RedOctane®. “We're excited to provide Guitar Hero fans an opportunity to download and play their favorite hits from legendary artists.”[/size]

Taken from here http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36684