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Guitar Hero Metallica
 
Manufacturer: Activision Inc.
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Product Description
Metallica and Guitar Hero fans rejoice: Guitar Hero: Metallica has landed for PlayStation 3. Like Guitar Hero: Aerosmith before it, Guitar Hero: Metallica will focus on the career and songs of Metallica. With 28 Metallica songs and 21 other songs that influenced the band, fans will love playing guitars, drums, and singing vocals alongside Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, and Robert Trujillo.



The band looks incredibly life-like thanks to motion capture technology. View larger.


In Expert Plus mode, you'll play double bass pedals like Lars Ulrich. View larger.


Play gigs in famous real-life venues like The Forum. View larger.


Rock out to your favorite Metallica tracks. View larger.
Follow the Career of Metallica and Play as Your Own Upstart
Guitar Hero: Metallica is similar to Guitar Hero World Tour in that you play a full suite of instruments. When the game starts, you're the new band on the block with aspirations of opening for Metallica. The game goes back and forth between performances by Metallica and performances of songs that influenced Metallica by your band. The band was motion captured so you'll recognize their unique motions on screen and style of playing.

As you progress in the game, you'll start to unlock bonus features such as videos of old Metallica performances, backstage photos, and "Metallifacts," which enables different trivia to show up while a song is playing, similar to VH1's Pop-Up Video.

Metallica Recordings from Original Masters and More Via Download
Guitar Hero: Metallica features 49 songs in total, 28 Metallica songs, and 21 songs that are favorites of the band and have influenced them. The Metallica songs are sourced from original masters so you'll have the best audio quality available. You'll also be able play downloadable content from their latest album, Death Magnetic.

Game Difficulty Goes from One All The Way Up to Eleven
Metallica exhibit technical prowess while performing, and this game goes from Beginner all the way to Expert Plus difficulty. Hardcore gamers will not be disappointed. You'll have to play guitars, drums, and sing, and in the "Expert Plus" difficulty, you'll have to plug in a second bass pedal for double bass pedal drum work.

Real-Life Venues
As you go on tour, you'll be playing venues small and large, and you might recognize some that you've been to. Famous venues that played a part in Metallica's career such as The Stone and the Hammersmith Odeon are included in the game and have been duplicated with great detail.

Grab Your Friends and Play Together
Multiplayer is part of what made Guitar Hero such a hit and it is no different here. Gather your friends and family, and jam Metallica tunes together. The game also features Metallica-specific power ups for competitive multiplayer. For example, "Fade to Black" will black out your opponent's notes, and "Trapped Under Ice" will freeze their whammy bar.

Create Your Own Music
Those familiar with Guitar Hero World Tour will welcome back the Music Studio, where you can create new music and then upload and share them through the GHTunes service. The Music Studio in Guitar Hero: Metallica gives you Metallica specific tones such as Hetfields' ESP Truckster guitar, as well as Metallica drum sounds. Songs made in Metallica and World Tour are compatible with each other through the GHTunes service.

Guitar Hero: Metallica Track List
  • All Nightmare Long
  • Battery
  • Creeping Death
  • Disposable Heroes
  • Dyers Eve
  • Enter Sandman
  • Fade To Black
  • Fight Fire With Fire
  • For Whom The Bell Tolls
  • Frantic
  • Fuel
  • Hit The Lights
  • King Nothing
  • Master of Puppets
  • Mercyful Fate (Medley)
  • No Leaf Clover
  • Nothing Else Matters
  • One
  • Orion
  • Sad But True
  • Seek And Destroy
  • The Memory Remains
  • The Shortest Straw
  • The Thing That Should Not Be
  • The Unforgiven
  • Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
  • Wherever I May Roam
  • Whiplash

Product Details
  • 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 that you can share with others

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Customer Reviews
Best Guitar Hero game to date!
 
Review Date: August 8, 2010
Reviewer: Charles N. Ouderkirk,
This guitar hero has the best sound, graphics and extras out of any of the guitar hero games! this is one of the best games i own!
Hard Game - Good Content
 
Review Date: July 19, 2010
Reviewer: W. Shepler, Columbus, OH
My boyfriend is a huge Metallica fan, which is the main reason this was purchased. I think the game has great content, and is fairly difficult (which in my opinion makes it more fun).
A great game for Metallica fans and Guitar Hero fans
 
Review Date: July 13, 2010
Reviewer: S. D. Graham,
As a fan of both Guitar Hero and Metallica this game was an absolute delight to play. There is almost 30 Metallica songs (40 if you downloaded the Death Magnetic pack) along with around 20 guest acts, most of them are artists that have either covered past Metallica songs, or are songs that was covered by Metallica. This game was also the first Guitar Hero to introduce Expert+ for the drums, a whole new difficulty where all bass drum kicks are included in the songs, and usually require 2 pedals to play. Expert+ is fun to play, though songs like Dyers Eve and Fight Fire With Fire are incredibly challenging and very tiring, at least to me. A must buy for fans of both Metallica and Guitar Hero.
GH Metallica
 
Review Date: June 4, 2010
Reviewer: Nelson Pantaleon, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Great game and as others have mentioned, it is indeed more difficult (overall) than the rest of the GH games. I mainly play the drums and this game is a lot of fun. I currently play using the rockband 1 drumkit which gets you 4 lanes only. I've read that if you get the GH drumset you'll get 5 lanes for notes. I'm planning on buying the ion rocker kit (or a cheap electronic drumset). I'll see how it goes with this game.

My complaint is that the game doesnt share the DLC from the other games on the series which wouldve made for a very good feature.
Challenging and fun.
 
Review Date: May 14, 2010
Reviewer: A. Kennedy, Northern NM
GH Metallica allowed me to revisit Metallica and reappreciate just how good their music is and how much fun it can be to play their songs. I love the extras, especially the Master of Puppets live recording. Very cool to see musicians getting involved in the presentation of their music through a game. Overall, one of the more difficult GH games, but such a challenge that it's absolutely exciting to play.