Product Description

Guitar Hero 5 Game Only - Guitar Controller Required To Play

The game that started the modern music phenomenon is back, with more songs, more bands and more party game action. Just like Guitar Hero: World Tour you can play as a whole band with your friends, with lead guitar, bass, drums and vocals all working together in the same song.

What's new for Guitar Hero 5 though is that anyone can play any combination of instruments, so you can have four lead guitars if you want or even swap roles mid song. As a result each individual has their own Star Power meter and it's up to the best players to save others if things go wrong.

To encourage even more co-operation there's also the new Band Moments bonus, which doles out big rewards if every member of the team can complete a section together. With the RockFest feature adding tons of new game modes as well this is the best value Guitar Hero yet.

• Monster of rock: The biggest Guitar Hero yet with new ways to play, new rewards and the biggest line-up of master recordings ever seen.
• Jam with the band: Party Play option lets players join or leave a song whenever they want, or even change instruments or difficultly level mid-song.
• Rock festival: New game modes including Momentum, which changes the difficultly as you play, and Elimination, where the weakest link player is dropped if they mess up.
• Special moments: New "Band Moments" offer big rewards if everyone can co-operate for a set stretch of rock perfection.
• Hall of fame: A record-breaking 85 songs by 83 different artists, including The White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty and more.
• 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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #305 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2009-09-11
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Format: Unknown format
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
The game that started the modern music phenomenon is back, with more songs, more bands and more party game action. Just like Guitar Hero: World Tour you can play as a whole band with your friends, with lead guitar, bass, drums and vocals all working together in the same song.

The game that changed the way the world interacts with music is back

New RockFest modes bring lots of new ways to play

Now you can play any combination of instruments you want, whenever you want

Being a rock god is more of a team effort than ever

What's new for Guitar Hero 5 though is that anyone can play any combination of instruments, so you can have four lead guitars if you want or even swap roles mid song. As a result each individual has their own Star Power meter and it's up to the best players to save others if things go wrong.

To encourage even more co-operation there's also the new Band Moments bonus, which doles out big rewards if every member of the team can complete a section together. With the RockFest feature adding tons of new game modes as well this is the best value Guitar Hero yet.

• Monster of rock: The biggest Guitar Hero yet with new ways to play, new rewards and the biggest line-up of master recordings ever seen.
• Jam with the band: Party Play option lets players join or leave a song whenever they want, or even change instruments or difficultly level mid-song.
• Rock festival: New game modes including Momentum, which changes the difficultly as you play, and Elimination, where the weakest link player is dropped if they mess up.
• Special moments: New "Band Moments" offer big rewards if everyone can co-operate for a set stretch of rock perfection.
• Hall of fame: A record-breaking 85 songs by 83 different artists, including The White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty and more.

Guitar Hero 5 Track List
3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite" A Perfect Circle - "Judith" AFI - "Medicate" Arctic Monkeys - "Brianstorm" 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" Blink-182 - "The Rock Show" Blur - "Song 2" Bob Dylan - "All Along The Watchtower" Bon Jovi - "You Give Love A Bad Name" Brand New - "Sowing Season (Yeah)" 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)" Dire Straits - "Sultans Of Swing" Duran Duran - "Hungry Like The Wolf" Eagles Of Death Metal - "Wannabe In L.A." Elliott Smith - "L.A." 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)" Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American" John Mellencamp - "Hurts So Good" Johnny Cash - "Ring Of Fire" 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" Megadeth - "Sweating Bullets" Mötley Crüe - "Looks That Kill" Muse - "Plug In Baby" My Morning Jacket - "One Big Holiday" Nirvana - "Lithium (Live)" Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" No Doubt - "Ex-Girlfriend" Peter Frampton - "Do You Feel Like We Do? (Live)" Public Enemy Featuring Zakk Wylde - "Bring the Noise 20XX" Queen & David Bowie - "Under Pressure" Queens Of The Stone Age - "Make It Wit Chu" Rammstein – "Du Hast" 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"	Stevie Wonder - "Superstition" Sublime - "What I Got" Sunny Day Real Estate - "Seven" T. Rex - "20th Century Boy" The Bronx - "Six Days A Week" The Derek Trucks Band - "Younk Funk" The Duke Spirit - "Send A Little Love Token" The Killers - "All The Pretty Faces" The Police - "So Lonely" The Raconteurs - "Steady As She Goes" The Rolling Stones - "Sympathy For The Devil" The Sword - "Maiden, Mother & Crone" The White Stripes - "Blue Orchid" Thin Lizzy - "Jailbreak" Thrice - "Deadbolt" Tom Petty - "Runnin' Down A Dream" Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "American Girl" TV On The Radio - "Wolf Like Me" Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk" Weezer - "Why Bother?" Wild Cherry - "Play That Funky Music" Wolfmother - "Back Round"

About the Developer: Neversoft
One of Activision's key internal studio, Neversoft earned their reputation creating the Tony Hawk's Skateboaring series. Their 1999 Spider-Man game is still used as the template for the modern movie tie-ins and they recently took over development of the Guitar Hero series.

Customer Reviews

Rock On....er for the fifth time!
I wanna rock............I wanna rock!

Im totally incapable of ever learning an instrument, tried loads when I was a kid and through a combination of stubby fingers and a complete lack of music rhythm I failed.....miserably, my dreams of being a rock god dashed before they had even begun.

Many years past........

Then a light, cast down by the Rock gods, Guitar Hero (and to a lesser extent Rock Band which is nearly as good as the guitar hero games) Armed with the various incarnations of plastic axes (Axe = Guitar for those not in the know about Rock) I have been able to live out my Rock dreams from the comfort of my own home, I've jammed with Slash, rocked out with the Rolling Stones and head banged with Metallica.

This newest edition of Guitar Hero has a more diverse selection of tracks then the previous games there are bound to be a few not to your taste. However you should be able to find a few favourites and may be introduced to some new music you might enjoy.

The game has loads to do for the single player but really comes into its own with a group of friends allowing you to create your own digital band and take on the rest of the world in the various competitive and fun online modes.

Highly recommended

Rock On Future Guitar Heroes......Rock On!

Very good game, not so good song line up
Well, first of all, I'm not new to the Guitar Hero franchise. I have every Guitar Hero title that came out for the PS3, and I was looking forward to this particular one because of all the upgrades it would have to the game's mechanics. The ability to join in or drop out of a song in progress, or to pick whichever instrument you want to play for any song - no longer fighting over who's going to be the lead guitarist of the song - are only a few of the new things that make Guitar Hero 5 indeed a better game and a better product than say, Guitar Hero World Tour.

The problem is, the latter had memorable songs and lots of hits in its lineup, whereas GH5 doesn't seem to. It could be that the songs are coming from genres I'm not very familiar with or I'm getting too old and the songs are recent, but to me it seems as though - with the exception of say, 10 songs or so - the other 75 songs in the game are just mediocre and not great choices for a party game. It leaves me with an awkward feeling of wishing I had the game upgrades/mechanics of GH5 with the GHWT lineup of songs.

So overall, buy it if you have every Guitar Hero game out there and you already have squeezed everything out of the previous titles. If however you're new to the franchise, ignore this for now and start with Guitar Hero 3 or Guitar Hero World Tour.

Moneymaker
Obviously the game industry is very aware of the succes of Guitar Hero. Yes, there are some good songs in this game but indeed is it worth nearly £40? I think not!
It seems that that the developers put a few tracks on there that appeal to a lot of players but the majority of tracks do not make the grade. Of course this way they can bring out Guitar Hero 6 in a few months.

Why don't they split it up in Rock, Hard-Rock, Heavy Metal ect per game. That way the consumer would get a lot more worth for it's hard earned money. I will pass on this game until it goes below £20.