Guitar Hero Metallica

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• 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

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B001PKHRTG
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 3.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 29, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,146 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #20 in Video Games > PlayStation 3 > Rhythm > Musical Instruments
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Amazon.com 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 Description

If you love the band that took Heavy Metal to the next level, you will love Guitar Hero® Metallica for PS3®. Play along with the definitive collection of Metallica's music as you watch James, Lars, Kirk and Robert on screen perform with their renowned intensity and style. Songs from over 20 other rock bands were chosen by Metallica themselves, and you can play along on guitar, drums, vocals and bass.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for GH Fans, May 24, 2009

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Mike Keeley "SGT Keeley" (Iraq) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Guitar Hero Metallica (Video Game)

This Guitar Hero game is by far my favorite, great game play, every song has its own unique style and flare from the digital band themselves. You do not have to play through the entire career mode to quickplay any song you want. However customizing your rocker is not as fun considering 80% of the songs that are fun to play are Metallica and you always have to play as the band. I rarely see my rocker at all.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hardest version of Guitar Hero (overall), April 23, 2009

By 

irukandji - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Guitar Hero Metallica (Video Game)

Firstly, this has to be the hardest version of Guitar Hero. It's not Dragonforce hard, but still has lots of solos and strumming. I played on Expert only.

This version is pretty much setup exactly like Guitar Hero: World Tour. Same interface etc. The quickplay song list is set up in one big list ala World Tour & Rockband. Career mode is useless, all the songs are already unlocked in quickplay so why bother. 28 Metallica Songs, and 21 other artists. If you play a song in Career mode, that high score won't transfer down to the quickplay, like Guitar Hero: Aerosmith did.

I like Metallica, but not die-hard fan. Some of the songs are rather long. Mercyful fate takes awhile, I didn't have a stopwatch but it is listed as a 11 minutes 12 seconds long off that respective album, that seems about right.

The rest of the "Other Artist" songs, 21 in all, are listed below:

ALICE IN CHAINS - No Excuses
BOB SEGER - Turn The Page
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Albatross
DIAMOND HEAD - Am I Evil?
FOO FIGHTERS - Stacked Actors
JUDAS PRIEST - Hell Bent For Leather
KYUSS - Demon Cleaner
LYNYRD SKYNYRD - Tuesdays 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
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - War Inside My Head
SYSTEM OF A DOWN - Toxicity
THE SWORD - Black River
THIN LIZZY - The Boys Are Back in Town

Aside from System of A Down & perhaps Alice in Chains, these songs were subpar to play.

I liked Guitar Hero III & Aerosmith. But I'd advise renting this game, especially if you are not a die-hard Metallica fan or weren't too fond of Guitar Hero: World Tour. However, if you're really good and want more of a challenge on Expert, this may prove of some value.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like Metallica, you will LOVE the game, February 5, 2010

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E. Genova - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Guitar Hero Metallica (Video Game)

Pretty good game overall. The reason why I got into Guitar Hero to start with, back in January 2009, was because I found out Metallica Guitar Hero would be coming out in March of that year. Metallica happens to be my favorite band of all time, I have been to their concerts, etc, so this game is probably one of the best and most enjoyable, FOR ME anyway, games I have ever played. Set up like any other Guitar Hero games, if you are really into it, then the difficulty level here is greater and a good challenge. If you are one of those people that will play, at most, at Medium Level in other guitar Hero games, then this may not be the best choice for you. In Guitar Hero World Tour I play every song in Advanced Level, and only a few in Expert. Guitar Hero Metallica is harder (and it makes sense because if any of you know the band at all, they have probably some of the best guitarrist and drummer in the world). The songs will require for you to go into Training Mode to be able to play them at Hard Level. Expert Level is for those people that have the time to spend several hours a day playing the game. You will find the Medium Level is HARD in many of the songs. Again, if you love Metallica like me, you will trully feel you are one of them, at least for a few seconds... if you only know a few Metallica songs, then think about it twice because this is ALL Metallica. One guy said some of the songs were too long, like Mercyful Fate or Orion, but really, to me is actually the opposite, I like they are long because I know their songs and they mean something to me.

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