Following the release of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, this is the second game in the Guitar Hero series to focus on a particular band.
This title borrows heavily from the innovations introduced in Guitar Hero: World Tour, including band career modes for single or multiple players with a cartoon-style storyline, competitive modes online, and the ability to play with different instruments such as a regular guitar, a bass guitar, drums, and doing the vocals. The plot outlines how a band aspires to follow in Metallica’s footsteps and become a headlining act on their tour. This edition includes an Expert+ difficulty option in which players must drum using a second bass pedal to emulate the playing technique of the band’s drummer, Lars Ulrich. Members also participated in motion capture sessions for the avatars in the game.
The music selection comprises 28 master recordings and 21 extra tracks chosen by the band from various artists. Various videos and music trivia are included as extras. Progress is made through completing song sets rather than a series of shows set in venues significant to the band’s career, like in Guitar Hero: World Tour. Performances are rated with stars, and a particular number of stars are required to advance and unlock a new set.
GHTunes from World Tour is also included in the game, where new songs may be made and shared. A new Drum Mode allows you to play the drums without using an existing drum track to create new rhythms, and the Battle mode (from Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock) has been updated with Metallica-inspired power-ups such as Fade To Black, Under The Ice, and Ride The Lightning.
Although it was packed with a guitar controller and a Metallica faceplate in Europe, other territories received merely a solus edition. Pre-order bonuses included custom drumsticks and a second bass pedal at some retailers.
Following the release of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, this is the second game in the Guitar Hero series to focus on a particular band.
This title borrows heavily from the innovations introduced in Guitar Hero: World Tour, including band career modes for single or multiple players with a cartoon-style storyline, competitive modes online, and the ability to play with different instruments such as a regular guitar, a bass guitar, drums, and doing the vocals. The plot outlines how a band aspires to follow in Metallica’s footsteps and become a headlining act on their tour. This edition includes an Expert+ difficulty option in which players must drum using a second bass pedal to emulate the playing technique of the band’s drummer, Lars Ulrich. Members also participated in motion capture sessions for the avatars in the game.
The music selection comprises 28 master recordings and 21 extra tracks chosen by the band from various artists. Various videos and music trivia are included as extras. Progress is made through completing song sets rather than a series of shows set in venues significant to the band’s career, like in Guitar Hero: World Tour. Performances are rated with stars, and a particular number of stars are required to advance and unlock a new set.
GHTunes from World Tour is also included in the game, where new songs may be made and shared. A new Drum Mode allows you to play the drums without using an existing drum track to create new rhythms, and the Battle mode (from Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock) has been updated with Metallica-inspired power-ups such as Fade To Black, Under The Ice, and Ride The Lightning.
Although it was packed with a guitar controller and a Metallica faceplate in Europe, other territories received merely a solus edition. Pre-order bonuses included custom drumsticks and a second bass pedal at some retailers.
Metallica’s song list includes:
Every Nightmare Long Battery
Broken, battered, and scarred
Death is creeping up on you.
Heroes of Cyanide Disposability
Dyers Sandman Enters Eve
Fight fire with fire, fade to black
Whom the Bell Tolls?
Frantic Fuel
Turn on the Lights
Puppet Master King Nothing
The Memory Survives
(Medley) Mercyful Fate
My End-of-the-World
(Alive) No Leaf Clover
Nothing Else Is Important
One Orion
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Search and Destroy
The Straw with the Shortest Length
The Thing That Must Not Be Forgiven
Salutation (Sanitarium)
Whiplash, wherever I may roam
The following guests appear on the tracklist:
No Excuses by Alice in Chains
Turn the Page (Live) by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Conformity Corrosion – Albatross Diamond Head – Am I Evil?
Stacked Actors – Foo Fighters
Hell Bent for Leather by Judas Priest
Demon Cleaner by Kyuss
Lynyrd Tuesday’s Gone Machine by Skynyrd Head – Lovely Mourning
Blood and Thunder by Mastodon
Fate’s Mercy – Evil
Michael Schenker Group – Prepared and Armed
Ace of Spades by Motörhead
Stone Cold Crazy by Queen
Mother of Mercy – Samhain
War Ensemble Slayer
Mommy’s Little Monster (Live) by Social Distortion
Suicidal Tendencies – The Battle Within My Head
Toxicity in the System of a Down
Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back in Town, The Sword – The Black River
Metallica songs from the Death Magnetic album, purchased for prior editions, are included in the game.
