Guitar Hero: Metallica - PS3

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Release Date: 3-26-2009
Moby Score (1-10): 8.3
Genre(s): Action, Music / rhythm, 3rd-person (Other)
Media Type(s): Physical

Experience full-on Metallica by playing as the band in Guitar Hero® Metallica®. Rock on guitar, bass, vocals, and drums with the definitive collection of Metallica's music, plus over 20 other rocking bands, the full Guitar Hero World Tour feature set, and now the ability to play double bass drums just like Lars.

• Authentic Metallica: Play as the band with their actual motion captured moves and likeness, representing the FULL presence and intensity of James, Lars, Kirk, and Robert. Take the stage in some of the world's most amazing and epic venues featuring famous Metallica stages and iconic imagery. Of course, all tracks and content are "Metallica Approved," so you know they rock.
• Over 20 superstar guest acts: Over 20 bands are in the game all personally chosen by Metallica, including Queen, Alice in Chains, Slayer, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the Foo Fighters. Guitar Hero Metallica lets you jam to a wide variety of high-energy rock. Go beyond the music of Metallica to bands they have collaborated with, and the music that has inspired them.
• Full feature set from Guitar Hero® World Tour: Up to four players can join together and rock locally, or battle other bands online with up to eight players. Guitar Hero Metallica includes Rock Star Creator, playing with friends online, the full Music Studio and the user-created music sharing service, GHTunesâ„ . You can even play the Death Magnetic downloadable content as Metallica themselves.
• New content and gameplay: For the first time ever, the game supports TWO kick pedals, and in a new Expert + mode, there are two separate pedals signals, letting you play like Lars on double bass drums. Go deeper into Metallica, with guerilla-style videos straight from their concerts and the option to test your Metallica know-how on any song you beat with facts from the band's history, and how the guest acts are tied to Metallica. The whole game is true to Metallica, from the updated attacks in Battle Mode to the new samples in the Music Studio.

Guitar Hero: Metallica is the second game in the Guitar Hero series to focus on specific band, following the release of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith.

This title largely borrows from the novelties introduced in Guitar Hero: World Tour, with band career modes for single or multiple players with a storyline drawn as a cartoon, competitive modes online, and the possibility to play with different instruments such as a regular guitar, a bass guitar, drums, and doing the vocals. The storyline describes how a band wants to follow in the footsteps of the Metallica and become a leading act on their tour. This edition adds an Expert+ difficulty mode where players need to drum using a second bass pedal to mimic the playing style of Lars Ulrich, the drummer of the band. The members also did motion capture sessions for the avatars in the game.

The music selection consists of 28 master recordings and 21 additional songs by others selected by the band. Bonus features include various videos and trivia about the songs. Progress is made by completing sets of songs, rather than a series of gigs as in Guitar Hero: World Tour, set in venues that were in important in the band's career. Performances are rated with stars and a certain amount is needed to progress and unlock a new set.

The game also includes the GHTunes from World Tour where new songs can be created and shared. A new Drum Mode offers the possibility to play the drums without an existing drum track to create new rhythms, and the Battle mode (from Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock), has been updated with Metallica influences for the power-ups, with names like Fade To Black, Under The Ice and Ride The Lightning.

Although released in Europe packaged with a guitar controller and Metallica faceplate, other regions were not so fortunate and only received a solus edition. Custom drumsticks and a second bass pedal were offered as pre-order bonuses in certain stores.

The Metallica tracklist includes:

• All Nightmare Long
• Battery
• Broken, Beat & Scarred
• Creeping Death
• Cyanide
• 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
• The Memory Remains
• Mercyful Fate (Medley)
• My Apocalypse
• No Leaf Clover (Live)
• Nothing Else Matters
• One
• Orion
• Sad But True
• Seek & Destroy
• The Shortest Straw
• The Thing That Should Not Be
• The Unforgiven
• Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
• Wherever I May Roam
• Whiplash

The guest tracklist includes:

• Alice in Chains - No Excuses
• Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - Turn the Page (Live)
• Corrosion of Conformity - Albatross
• Diamond Head - Am I Evil?
• Foo Fighters - Stacked Actors
• Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather
• Kyuss - Demon Cleaner
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone
• Machine Head - Beautiful Mourning
• Mastodon - Blood and Thunder
• Mercyful Fate - Evil
• Michael Schenker Group - Armed and Ready
• Motörhead - Ace of Spades
• Queen - Stone Cold Crazy
• Samhain - Mother of Mercy
• Slayer - War Ensemble
• Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster (Live)
• Suicidal Tendencies - War Inside My Head
• System of a Down - Toxicity
• The Sword - The Black River
• Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town

Metallica songs of the Death Magnetic album bought for previous versions are incorporated into the game.

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