Guitar Hero Van Halen

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Live out the excitement of playing as the legendary band Van Halen
• Perform an incredible arena rock set list that includes 25 Van Halen songs, three Eddie Van Halen signature solos and 19 songs from guest acts
• Includes the Van Halen songs And the Cradle Will Rock, Atomic Punk, Beautiful Girls, Cathedral, Eruption, Everybody Wants Some!!, Feel Your Love Tonight and Hang 'Em High
• Includes the Van Halen songs Hear About It Later, I'm the One, Ice Cream Man, Jamie's Cryin', Little Guitars, Loss of Control, Mean Street, Panama and Pretty Woman
• Includes the Van Halen songs Runnin' with the Devil, So This Is Love?, Somebody Get Me a Doctor, Spanish Fly, Unchained and You Really Got Me

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0028ZNXE0
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches ; 3.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: December 22, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,154 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #29 in Video Games > PlayStation 3 > Rhythm > Musical Instruments

Product Description

Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Amazon.com Product Description

It's time to prove you've got the swagger and showmanship to stand alongside these rock-n-roll legends. In Guitar Hero: Van Halen, you can live out the experience of performing as one of the biggest rock bands of all time. See if you have what it takes to keep up with Eddie Van Halen's revolutionary guitar playing or David Lee Roth's unique performance style as you savor all the hot licks and scissor kicks that have helped this band achieve legendary status.

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Synopsis Guitar Hero: Van Halen lets you stand in the shoes of this Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band as you perform 25 epic Van Halen tracks, three signature Eddie Van Halen solos and 19 guest act tracks. Get the crowd roaring with your arena rock stylings on Van Halen hits like Jump, Hot for Teacher, Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love and Dance the Night Away, as well as songs like Billy Idol's White Wedding, Foo Fighters' Best of You and Blink-182's First Date. Experience the excitement of playing as this ultimate party band as you rock out to dozens of enduring hits and prove you have the talent and the style to live up to the Van Halen legend. Key Game Features: Live out the excitement of playing as the legendary band Van Halen Perform an incredible arena rock set list that includes 25 Van Halen songs, three Eddie Van Halen signature solos and 19 songs from guest acts Includes the Van Halen songs And the Cradle Will Rock, Atomic Punk, Beautiful Girls, Cathedral, Eruption, Everybody Wants Some!!, Feel Your Love Tonight and Hang 'Em High Includes the Van Halen songs Hear About It Later, I'm the One, Ice Cream Man, Jamie's Cryin', Little Guitars, Loss of Control, Mean Street, Panama and Pretty Woman Includes the Van Halen songs Runnin' with the Devil, So This Is Love?, Somebody Get Me a Doctor, Spanish Fly, Unchained and You Really Got Me Features songs by guest acts Alter Bridge, the Clash, Deep Purple, Foreigner, Fountains of Wayne, Jimmy Eat World, Judas Priest, Killswitch Engage and Lenny Kravitz Features songs by guest acts Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Tenacious D, the Offspring, Third Eye Blind, Weezer and Yellowcard

Product Description

Guitar Hero is back and you get to rock with the ultimate party band, Van Halen! Experience the hot licks and scissor kicks that made Van Halen the legends they are today. 25 epic Van Halen tracks, three scorching Eddie Van Halen signature solos, and 19 guest acts give fans the most comprehensive arena rock set list to date. With over 80 million albums sold worldwide, Van Halen is one of the most influential rock bands of all time. Led by Eddie Van Halen's revolutionary guitar playng and David Lee Roth's unique brand of showmanship, the band has cemented their place in the Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame since they dropped their self-titled album in 1978. Van Halen is one of only five rock bands that have had two albums sell more than 10 millions copies in the United States.

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Should have been a track pack, January 6, 2010

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Hubcap (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Guitar Hero Van Halen (Video Game)

I got the freebie copy of GH:VH from the GH5 promo. GH:VH uses the GH: Metallica engine - it has expert-plus drums and better star power indicators, but it doesn't have the easy group play drop-in/drop-out stuff of GH5 or the instrument challenges that make that game a little more interesting.

Positives: If you like classic David Lee Roth Van Halen (no Van Hagar here) you'll love it. You'll also dig it if you like playing hard guitar parts. It's difficult without being annoying - a lot of hard guitar songs are mostly endless strings of HOPOs and alt-strums. These are more interesting, and with a bunch of fun slide parts.

Negatives:
1) For most of the game you're "Van Halen in 2008." You too can be middle-aged guys reliving their youth! Not exactly my rock-n-roll fantasy. And yes, the game has Eddie's son Wolfgang on bass. I don't want to pick on him, but even his videogame avatar looks a little embarrassed to be there. Eventually you unlock classic VH...with Wolfgang sort of foolishly wearing Michael Anthony's sleeveless dice tee from 1984. O the humanity. Still, that was Eddies's call and not Activision's fault.

2) The cut scenes, venues and characterization are pretty thin. Except for one classic Van Halen club, the venues are all generic.

3) The non-Van Halen set list. I know it's personal taste. Maybe you love it, that's cool. But apart from a handful of period-appropriate songs (Foreigner, Deep Purple, The Clash), the non-VH songs are a grab bag of generic modern rock (Blink-182, Yellowcard, the ubiquitous Foo Fighters) and stuff that's already been released on Rock Band (Painkiller; Sick, Sick, Sick; Master Exploder; the egregious Pretty Fly for a White Guy). It feels like a bunch of songs that Activision had lying around because they didn't make the cut for GH5.

One thing I liked about GH: Metallica was that the non-Metallica tracks were songs the band liked, and songs that influenced or were influenced by Metallica. There was some intelligence behind the setlist and the whole game hung together. It wouldn't have been too hard to do this with GH:VH - mix more cheezeball 70's guitar rock (Nugent, Foghat, Alice Cooper, Styx), some Guitar God tracks (Jimi, Clapton, Santana), and some GH Rocks the 80's songs (Ratt, Journey, Autograph). Stuff that VH listened to, stuff that was inspired by VH, stuff that was on the radio when VH was big. Not too hard. But instead we get a set list assembled by the marketing staff. Meh.

GH: VH feels like GH: Metallica done on the cheap. Like halfway through development Activision realized this should have been a track pack and not a standalone game, but by then it was too late so they just half-assed it to get it out the door. Though my complaints melt away when I fake-play the opening chords of "Unchained." Three stars if you like Van Halen and don't care about money ($50 for 45 songs is painful). One star otherwise - if Van Halen isn't your thing, just stay away.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Could had been better if they did not rush the development., December 27, 2010

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A. Whiteman - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Guitar Hero Van Halen (Video Game)

This could had been a 5 star title but as some reviews stated it was rushed and used the same engine as the Metallica game. Come on Activision you had a diamond in the rough and you blew it. This comes from a die hard Van Halen fan since 1980.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Game!!, January 27, 2012

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Javier A. Ruiz (Lima, Peru) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Guitar Hero Van Halen (Video Game)

The game is addicting, is great, i have a lot of fun with it!!
Highly recomended!!!
All the songs are great!

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