Product Description

Requires a compatible drum, microphone or guitar controller to play (sold separately)

Ride the Lightning with musical icons Metallica and over 20 other rocking acts in an all new Guitar Hero experience -- Guitar Hero Metallica. Enter the world of Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo and experience the intensity and skill of one of the greatest bands of all time. Shred on guitar, rip on drums and wail on the mic to a set list featuring over 45 explosive hits from Metallicas illustrious career and a wide variety of other legendary artists personally selected by the band, such as Alice In Chains, Foo Fighters and Queen. Fans will be able to rock as Metallica while performing in venues reminiscent of the bands epic album covers, themes from their music and real world locales.

Becoming the Band
For the first time ever, Guitar Hero Metallica will allow fans to come together and thrash as the explosive, world-renowned metal and rock band, Metallica, whose album sales have exceeded 100 million worldwide. Transform into metal legends Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo as full body scans and signature moves motion capture allow players to virtually experience the high intensity of a Metallica performance.

Live Like Metal Legends
Follow the path of the metal legends in either single instrument or band career game modes playing as the band to a soundtrack of their greatest hits while also rocking with more than 20 additional artists selected by the band. Featuring in-the-round stage designs and custom camera angles new to Guitar Hero, further highlighted by custom lightshows, special effects and encores, gamers and Metallica fans alike can fulfill their rock n roll fantasies in a variety of new and famous settings, ranging from Tushino Airfield to The Forum. All venues reflect Metallicas most memorab

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1074 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2009-05-29
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .28 pounds

Features

• Guitar Hero: Metallica - Game Only (Wii)
• Guitar Hero: Metallica
• gamextc
• Guitar Hero

Manufacturer's Description
“Ride the Lightning” with musical icons Metallica and over 20 other rocking acts in an all new Guitar Hero experience -- Guitar Hero Metallica.  Enter the world of Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo and experience the intensity and skill of one of the greatest bands of all time.  Shred on guitar, rip on drums and wail on the mic to a set list featuring over 45 explosive hits from Metallica’s illustrious career and a wide variety of other legendary artists personally selected by the band, such as Alice In Chains, Foo Fighters and Queen. Fans will be able to rock as Metallica while performing in venues reminiscent of the band’s epic album covers, themes from their music and real world locales.

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 favourite Metallica tracks. View larger.

Becoming the Band
For the first time ever, Guitar Hero Metallica will allow fans to come together and thrash as the explosive, world-renowned metal and rock band, Metallica, whose album sales have exceeded 100 million worldwide.  Transform into metal legends Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo as full body scans and signature moves motion capture allow players to virtually experience the high intensity of a Metallica performance.

Live Like Metal Legends
Follow the path of the metal legends in either single instrument or band career game modes playing as the band to a soundtrack of their greatest hits while also rocking with more than 20 additional artists selected by the band.  Featuring in-the-round stage designs and custom camera angles new to Guitar Hero, further highlighted by custom lightshows, special effects and encores, gamers and Metallica fans alike can fulfill their rock ‘n’ roll fantasies in a variety of new and famous settings, ranging from Tushino Airfield to The Forum.  All venues reflect Metallica’s most memorable tours including themes from their album artwork to offer the authentic Metallica atmosphere.

Drum Like Lars
In addition to using the redesigned, more responsive and advanced Guitar Hero World Tour guitar controller and microphone, Metallica fans will truly be able to pound like Lars on the drums with a second bass pedal compatible with the Guitar Hero World Tour drum kit controller (second bass pedal sold separately).  The all-new “Expert+” difficulty level gives gamers access to the double bass drum note track which offers the authentic Metallica experience with a note-for-note translation of many tracks appearing in-game and adds a new difficulty option to all gameplay modes.

Seek and Destroy
Immerse yourself in themed Battle Mode attacks, such as briefly blacking out your fellow rocker’s note track or modifying the amp overload to include the signature Metallica lightening.

Test Your Metal
After nailing a song, test your Metallica know-how by replaying the song with trivia pop-ups.  The on-screen displays give information about the song being played, and with guest artist songs, information about how the band is tied to Metallica will be displayed along with details such as band history and lyrics.

Off to Never Never Land
Guitar Hero Metallica is loaded with tons of bonuses throughout the game, such as unlockable venues, songs, commentary, videos and behind the scenes footage, giving all Metallica fans exclusive content to enjoy.

All that Remains
Guitar Hero Metallica cranks all the great features, gameplay and fun of Guitar Hero World Tour to a new level with updates to the Music Studio featuring samples from James Hetfield’s ESP Truckster guitar and of Slayer fame, Tom Araya’s signature ESP bass guitar, GHTunesSM, and the Rock Star Creator. Online game modes allow competing gamers to see who tops the charts in Face-Off, Pro Face-Off, eight-player “Battle of the Bands” and Battle Mode as well as the online Quickplay mode that allows up to four gamers to shred together regardless of physical location.

Guitar Hero: Metallica Track List: Metallica
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

Guitar Hero: Metallica Track List: Others
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 Motorhead - 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

Customer Reviews

Get those fingers limbered up!!!
This is easily the best of the Guitar Hero games yet. I admit I am slightly biased towards it; being a big Metallica fan, but it's still the best one anyway.

If you've played and conquered the other GH games, then this one is NOT just more of the same. It is a lot harder than the previous games; with more complicated solos, and with the songs being longer you need a bit of stamina in those fingers!!

For me, it was fantastic to get to play some of my favourite songs on Guitar Hero; not just Metallica songs, but 'Demon Cleaner' by Kyuss and 'Blood and Thunder' by Mastodon. It is also disheartening trying to do justice to classics like 'One' and 'Master of Puppets' when they have such hard bits to master... I've only had it three days though!!

Take my word for it; whether you are a Guitar Hero fan, a Metallica fan or even just a bit of a rock/metal fan, get this game and shred away until your fingers are locked up in pain!! It's the best of the Guitar Hero series so far and not just a limp attempt at a way to make money out of a global franchise like Metallica.

Very impressed... buy it!!

numb fingers!
Metallica GH
This game is a massive challenge. Long songs and soooooooo many notes.
OMG it rocks.
Good choice of songs and video extras too.
This is the most challenging game i played yet, had to go back to easy and still found some material hard going.
The younger kids got a bit fed up as they kept getting kicked off.
Note; A good physio might be needed to undo all your knotted muscles!

An add on pack at full price?
You probably dont need to be told what this product is - its quite simply a guitar playing game from a well established franchise.

You will approach the game from one of two angles
1. You have a lot of experience of previous games. In that case, this is an add on pack. And an expensive one at that. Although some of the tracks on here are long/and or fast, experienced Guitar Hero player will probably only play this on 'Hard' or above
2. You dont have a lot of experience with Guitar Hero. In that case, I would controversially recommend World Tour. It has a greater number of songs, that are more diverse. It is simply better value for money. You may also find a package in your shops that includes the drums necessary to play this game.

On the plus side, the guitar in the guitar bundle is good, the colour of the fretboards in the game are vastly improved, and I'm yet to come across a note chart that could be classified as 'bad'. However, be warned, some of the 'Hard' charts drop a lot of the notes, and, again, for the more experienced, this may not prove to be much of a challenge.

If anything, I was a bit disappointed with the track listing. As an old school thrasher, I wanted to be all over this game, but the 'special guests' are a bit uninspiring. I think Motorhead have made a great contribution to this franchise ( I certainly think they would make a great add on pack), but Ace of Spades? Again? There is also another Lynyrd Skynyrd song (You cant knock the band, btw), which seems out of place - plus a number of other seemingly out of place MOR rock/metal bands. Sad thing is, there is a lot of 80s thrash, that is unplayed nowadays, that would make good additions to this game. Sometimes, I do wonder just how much say Metallica had in the track listing.

There could have also been a bit better choice in their own tracks. The Black Album is certainly over played, maybe in a bid to add a few slower songs, and I thought And Justice For All and Ride The Lightning were underrepresented. You certainly have to include some of the more recent Metallica stuff, but it feels like too much.

In short, I enjoy the game but am often ashamed about how much I paid for it!