Guitar Hero 5

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Software compatible with Guitar Hero World Tour peripherals.
• In the all-new Party Play mode, players can now jump in or drop out of gameplay seamlessly, without interrupting their jam session.
• Play with any in-game instrument combination in any game mode - multiple vocalists, guitarists, bassists and drummers.
• Features new in-game artists and rock legends, including Johnny Cash, Carlos Santana and Shirley Mason from Garbage.
• The entire 85 song set list is available from the beginning of the game.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0028ZH7EC
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches ; 3.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 1, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,245 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #11 in Video Games > PlayStation 3 > Rhythm > Musical Instruments
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PLAYSTATION 3 | Edition: Game only

Amazon.com Product Description

Featuring the best variety and biggest rock stars of today combined with classic rock anthems, Guitar Hero 5 cranks it up again for video game rockers. For the first time ever, players can customize the make-up of their band by rocking with any combination of instruments in-game: whether it be two guitars and two drums, or three guitars and a microphone, any combination is possible, allowing players to experience music their own way. New modes like RockFest. View larger. Play any combo of instruments. View larger. Rock with Shirley Manson of Garbage. View larger. And Carlos Santana. View larger. Classic Guitar Hero action. View larger. Brand new, innovative, easy-to-use gameplay modes like Party Play and RockFest put fun, competition and control at center stage as fans tailor the Guitar Hero experience to match their personal style and interests. For extended hours of entertainment, downloadable content from Guitar Hero World Tour will be compatible with the game and will automatically be updated to include all of the upgrades and enhancements of Guitar Hero 5. Assemble Your Band and Rock Any Way You Want Guitar Hero 5 allows fans to play alone, as a full band or, for the first time, with any combination of multiple guitarists, bassists, drummers or vocalists, to customize their musical experience. Players now have the control to rock any way they want whether it is with two guitars and two drummers, four guitarists, or three guitarists and a vocalist, any combination is possible. This freedom is available in all modes of play: online, Party Play, Quickplay, RockFest and even Career. The Definitive Rock ‘n’ Roll Set List Experience furious finger fretting, intense drumming, and lyrics that will challenge even the best vocal chops with songs from some of the hottest bands of today to all-time favorite classic anthems including: Tom Petty, Kings of Leon, The White Stripes, Santana, Johnny Cash, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Featuring 85 master tracks, the breadth of rock-centric styles ensures that every Guitar Hero fan will find their favorite tracks and discover new ones. Join The Party It has never been easier to rip it up and rock out with friends than it is in Guitar Hero 5. The brand new Party Play Mode puts players straight into the action with the press of a button and allows them to jump in or drop out, or switch difficulty level at any time without interrupting the jam session. Become the Best. Shred the Rest In Guitar Hero 5 players can test their skills against others with four-player local and up to eight-player online battles in the all-new competitive RockFest Mode. Within RockFest Mode, players can choose from various head-to-head gameplay types, including Momentum, Perfectionist, Elimination, Do-or-Die, Streakers, and Pro Face Off. Limitless Jams Guitar Hero 5 delivers hours of endless entertainment, as fans will be able to play Guitar Hero World Tour downloadable content in the game, experiencing all of the upgrades and new features in Guitar Hero 5. Song List A Perfect Circle - "Judith" AFI - "Medicate" Attack! Attack! UK - "You And Me" Band Of Horses - "Cigarettes, Wedding Bands" Beastie Boys - "Gratitude" Beck - "Gamma Ray" Billy Idol - "Dancing With Myself" Billy Squier - "Lonely Is The Night" Blur - "Song 2" Bob Dylan - "All Along The Watchtower" Bon Jovi - "You Give Love A Bad Name" Brand New - "Sowing Season (Yeah)" The Bronx - "Six Days A Week" Bush - "Comedown" Children Of Bodom - "Done With Everything, Die For Nothing" Coldplay - "In My Place" Darker My Love - "Blue Day" Darkest Hour - "Demon(s)" David Bowie - "Fame" Deep Purple - "Woman From Tokyo ('99 Remix)" The Derek Trucks Band - "Younk Funk" The Duke Spirit - "Send A Little Love Token" Duran Duran - "Hungry Like The Wolf" Eagles Of Death Metal - "Wannabe In L.A." Elliott Smith - "LA" Elton John - "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)" Face To Face - "Disconnected" Garbage - "Only Happy When It Rains" Gorillaz - "Feel Good Inc." Gov't Mule - "Streamline Woman" Grand Funk Railroad - "We're An American Band" Iggy Pop - "Lust For Life (Live)" Iron Maiden - "2 Minutes To Midnight" Jeff Beck - "Scatterbrain (Live)" John Mellencamp - "Hurts So Good" Kaiser Chiefs - "Never Miss A Beat" King Crimson - "21st Century Schizoid Man" Kings Of Leon - "Sex On Fire" Kiss - "Shout It Out Loud" Love and Rockets - "Mirror People" My Morning Jacket - "One Big Holiday" Nirvana - "Lithium (Live)" No Doubt - "Ex-Girlfriend" Peter Frampton - "Do You Feel Like We Do? (Live)" The Police - "So Lonely" Public Enemy Featuring Zakk Wylde - "Bring the Noise 20XX" Queens Of The Stone Age - "Make It Wit Chu" Rammstein - "Du Hast" The Rolling Stones - "Sympathy For The Devil" Rose Hill Drive - "Sneak Out" Rush - "The Spirit Of Radio (Live)" Santana - "No One To Depend On (Live)" Scars On Broadway - "They Say" Screaming Trees - "Nearly Lost You" Smashing Pumpkins - "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" Sonic Youth - "Incinerate" Spacehog - "In The Meantime" Sublime - "What I Got" Sunny Day Real Estate - "Seven" T. Rex - "20th Century Boy" The Sword - "Maiden, Mother & Crone" Thin Lizzy - "Jailbreak" Thrice - "Deadbolt" Tom Petty - "Runnin' Down A Dream" Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "American Girl" Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk" Weezer - "Why Bother?" The White Stripes - "Blue Orchid" Wild Cherry - "Play That Funky Music" Wolfmother - "Back Round" 3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite" Arctic Monkeys - "Brianstorm" Blink-182 - "The Rock Show" Dire Straits - "Sultans Of Swing" Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American" Johnny Cash - "Ring Of Fire" Megadeth - "Sweating Bullets" Motley Crue - "Looks That Kill" Muse - "Plug In Baby" Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Queen & David Bowie - "Under Pressure" Stevie Wonder - "Superstition" The Killers - "All The Pretty Faces" The Raconteurs - "Steady As She Goes" TV On The Radio - "Wolf Like Me"

Product Description

This fall, living room legends will rock any way they want in Guitar Hero 5. The entire set list is at players’ finger tips from the start, featuring genre-defining hits from some of the biggest rock artists and bands of all time, including The Rolling Stones, The White Stripes, Kings of Leon, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Santana and Vampire Weekend. Players take complete control as Guitar Hero 5 allows gamers to personalize and customize how they experience music by being able to play with any in-game instrument combination -- multiple vocalists, guitarists, bassists and drummers, in any game mode. With the game’s all-new Party Play Mode, getting the band back together has never been easier. Players can now jump in or drop out of gameplay seamlessly, without interrupting their jam session. Elevating the Guitar Hero series to new heights with unmatched social gameplay, an enhanced style, new in-game artists and more rock legends, Guitar Hero 5 features new surprises and challenges that will fire-up long-time fret board fanatics and create a new generation of enthusiasts.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Guitar Hero 5 - Best Guitar Hero yet?, October 9, 2009

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K. Wright "guitarist ordinaire" (USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Guitar Hero 5 Stand Alone Software (Video Game)

I rented this game from Blockbuster before purchasing because I wanted to be 100% sure that it was compatible with my Rock Band guitars and mic, as well as the ION drums. The good news is that the game works 100% on my PS3 with all my existing equipment!

Pros: Lots of new songs to play, new features such as party play let you jump in & out (very nice) and multiple instrument play (ex: 4 guitars).

Cons: The Bass Drum indicator is gray, unlike Rock Band, which is orange. It's difficult to see because the normal measure separators are also gray; the bass drum ones are only slightly thicker. My son typically scores in the high 90's on Expert and is totally turned off by this.

Overall, this game is a hit and should provide many hours of rocking!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Basically a massive Track Pack (and that's a good thing), September 11, 2009

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Mitchell M. Tse "mitchelltse" (Antioch, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Guitar Hero 5 Stand Alone Software (Video Game)

The fact that there's no real story to this game, and that all songs are unlocked from the beginning, basically makes this a massive track pack for GH-World Tour.

So, what do you get from this game?
- 80+ songs
- Ability to have multiple people playing vocals, guitars, bass, and/or drums (which is a first). In effect, you get the best of Karaoke Revolution and GH-World Tour.
- If you order before October 1, 2009, the free GH-Van Halen (via mail-in/internet offer, no shipping fees, so only thing you pay is that one first class postage for the form, sticker, and receipt that you have to send in), good for another 40+ songs.

What don't you get?
- Rock Band's great format of playing different venues in different cities around the world, with a better character design feature (but that's a bit subjective!!!)

So, if you consider this to be mostly a big track pack, and especially if you get to take advantage of the free GH-Van Halen offer, this is a great deal.

Now, with regard to the gameplay and the changes from previous versions of GH, the big plus for me is the immediate availability of all songs. I play GH mostly as a party game, so having all the songs from the outset is great. Also having the option to have multiple vocals and multiple guitars and bass is great (I have over 4 mics and over 4 guitar controllers from all the other GH and RB games I've bought over the years), because this means people get to play what they WANT to play, not what positions are left over. A shame we don't have multiple drum sets (we have one GH-WT and one RB drum set each), but that's okay, since that's the least favorite instrument, as well as the most tiring, so people tend to trade off the use of that instrument.

So, with all this, what would have made this a 5 star product in my opinion? Better characters and better modification of characters. For one thing, the characters all look white, all the girls are skinny. If you're not white, and you don't fit those modes, you can't change accordingly. If they had an easier medium difficulty (but using 4 frets) for the guitar/bass, that would be nice.

Overall, I strongly recommend this item, especially if you can take advantage of the free GH-Van Halen offer. In terms of fun, I'd give this 4 stars. In terms of value, definitely 5 stars.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good update, poor tracklist picking, September 5, 2009

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Concerned One "Thrashfan" (IA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Guitar Hero 5 Stand Alone Software (Video Game)

I am a huge fan of this franchise, so when this game came out, I had to have it. Prior to actually playing the game, I had only seen partial notes on what the setlist would be, and what I saw was fair, but now that I have played the game enough, I find most of the tracks unknown to me from bands that I don't know, or less than popular tracks from the bands I do know. I like the idea of giving fledgling bands a start on this format, and also for broadening the older bands audience by going into the deeper cuts, but part of my facination with this game was to be able to play popular songs and escape into the story of being on stage with band playing the songs we know. I do give the game folks kudos for tracks like "Du Hast" by Rammstein, and "Sweating Bullets" by Megadeth, as well as resonable selections by The Police, Screaming Trees, and Peter Frampton, but most of the other tracks just don't connect for me. The fun factor is here with the new "Party mode" where you can have 2 guitarists and 2 bassists if you wish, or 3 vocals and 1 drummer, and folks can jump in and out, but overall this game just doesn't stand out and almost feels stale. Overall, the setlist flow of GHIII, World Tour, and even Smash hits was better. I would recommend starting with the older games before graduating to this version.

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