Guitar Hero: Metallica!

[Dr. Doom]

I am so there.

Originally Posted by Gamespot (Old habits die hard)

Earlier this year, Activision unveiled Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, the first installment in its billion-dollar rhythm series based entirely on a band. No sooner had the publisher announced the deal than speculation began to spread about what the second band-based Guitar Hero game would be. Along with Van Halen, the most mentioned group was Metallica, the legendary San Francisco Bay Area heavy-metal quartet.

Now, talk of Guitar Hero: Metallica is no longer a case of wishful thinking or idle speculation--it's fact. When sifting through an SEC filing of Activision's over the weekend, Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Edward Woo--associate of the highly visible Michael Pachter--uncovered a gem in the section where the Santa Monica, California-based publisher discussed its upcoming game slate.

"In fiscal 2009, we plan to publish Guitar Hero: On Tour for the NDS; Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Guitar Hero: Metallica, and Guitar Hero IV across multiple platforms," the company said in its report. Activision's fiscal year ends on March 31, 2009, which means that the game will likely follow the holiday release of Guitar Hero: World Tour (nee Guitar Hero 4).

Guitar Hero: Metallica will be the first time a game based on the multiplatinum-selling band--which has become only slightly less famous for its antipiracy efforts as its musical achievements--has made it to retail. However, it is the second such game to be announced. In 2003, Vivendi Games--which will soon merge with Activision--struck a deal to create a vehicular combat game inspired by Metallica's music. Unconfirmed reports stated that the project had been quietly canceled in 2005.

[Peanut]

Of course you'll be there! What with your long girly hair, spiked accessories and your black metal band shirts!

[GK Punk]

Id jump in on the "Make fun of the long haired hippy!' bandwagon, But I grew my hair out. I already miss those jokes.

should be a cool version of guitar hero. a Megedeth version would be even better.

(at least to me.)

[Hannah]

Metallica is such a douchebag band. So not there.

[Dr. Doom]

Shut the hell up you trollop.

[Hannah]

Hi, my name's Lars Ulrich, and I'd like sue the f*ck out of you any chance I get! I mean, you can never be too rich!

[Spitfire]

Since this will be comprised of studio tracks of their songs not bad news I'd say. I enjoy their first 3 CDs, though I doubt those will be the only ones they pull music from.

Yes Hannah they suck now and are media whores but back in the day they started out just like everyone else did at the time. Every band whose together gets bad at some point. Some bands pull themselves out, like Iron Maiden, and some bands just stay bad forever, like Metallica have. Their new CD is supposed to bring us back to the old days as they have their old CD artist working on the designs and their playing old instruments. This to me hardly means crap so I'll wait till I hear it before I pass judgment. I think they realize most people think their new songs suck and want to try and touch back with the old fans.

You get to a point where you can only be so famous before that means nothing anymore. At some point it becomes about your fans again and I don't think anyone who was around for the "Metal Up Your Ass" days stuck with them after "...And Justice For All" I always put it this way, if you were them you'd do the same thing. Kirk is the only of the bunch I still respect and even he seems to just be there because of all the money he's making.

[Ra]

I have a friend who will be jumping for joy when she hears this. Complete Metallica nut. As for me...not really my taste. I'm just happy with Guitar Hero III and it's single Metallica song.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Have fun with your Playskool guitar guys!

[Ninjinister]

At the risk of seeming unpopular, I'm going to stick with the other games in the series. I never had a taste for Metallica.

[raphael_is_cool]

I'm not a fan of Metallica but I hope that fans of the series and band don't get screwed over by retarded note charts.

[Dr. Doom]

Originally Posted by ThirdMarioBro

Have fun with your Playskool guitar guys!

Like you have any right to look down upon anyone else for any reason ever.

[Ninjinister]

I don't see what the big deal is. I'm assuming the comment was made in reference of a Guitar Hero controller being astronomically different and dumbed down from a real guitar; as a recent issue of EGM indicated, how is that any different than any other game? Does one make fun of every single person who plays games that cannot do in real life what the game has the player doing? In fact, I know real musicians who play Guitar Hero, as well as real soldiers who play Call of Duty, real martial artists who play Virtua Fighter, and real football players who play Madden.

Next you'll be laughing at the kid playing the Dragon Ball Z game because he can't levitate and shoot chi from his hands.

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by ThirdMarioBro

Have fun with your Playskool guitar guys!

You never show up to post anything anymore, yet here you are pulling out the old as f*ck "Playskool" guitar joke. Even if you were trying to be funny, it was a failure, dude.

[Barkworm]

Enough with the Guitar Hero sh*t already! Jesus!

[GK Punk]

You're just jealous that you can't even play a playschool guitar! OOOOH BURN.

[Barkworm]

... It's true.

[Ra]

You know, I was just looking at my Guitar Hero III controller a few minutes ago, and just realised it's covered in a very fine layer cobwebs. I might sell it soon...

[Mr. Stay Puft]

How about we just do Guitar Hero: F@&%ing Metal. Take some of the greatest metal songs from the last 40 years, and throw them in one game.

Metallica, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Sepultura, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, All That Remains, Children of Bodom, Bleeding Through, At the Gates, In Flames, etc. All in one game. I'd take that over Guitar Hero: Aerosh*t. Seriously, Aerosmith = Highly overrated.

[Hannah]

When did you start being cool? I haven't read a post by you in, like, a year.