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.

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 favourites 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 i

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1709 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2009-05-29
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .53 pounds

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

Guitar Hero Metallica
Right, I'm not reviewing the demo, I have Guitar Hero Metallica, I bought it on ebay from the U.S, because I simply could not wait until May. I can't really review the gameplay, because it's just good old guitar hero, hit the green, red, yellow, blue, and orange notes, as they cross the targets at the bottom of the screen. GH:M is alot better than world tour, which don't get me wrong was also a great game, but GH:M has gone back to the previous GH style, where you have a setlist of songs to beat, instead of playing tours, and I personally prefer the setlist. But with GH:M Activision has added a new insentive to the career mode, to get to the most difficult tier of songs on the setlist, you have to have accumulated above a certain number of stars, I can't remember exactly, so when you've earned enough stars, you can go straight to the last tier and I had earned enough stars about halfway through my hard lead guitar career, so i went straight to the last tier, and got to play the more challenging songs like "One" "Fight Fire With Fire" And "War Ensemble". Another good point is the ability to gain trophies, and there's a nice sense of accomplishment when you get a trophy. I think that the only downside to GH:M is that there is a song on it that is 11 minutes long, I almost fell asleep while I was playing it. So to summarise GH:M is better than GHWT, but i would only recommend this game to Metallica fans, I'm not a huge fan of Aerosmith so I didn't buy GH:Aerosmith, so only buy this if you are a Metallica fan and have fun with it if you do buy it.

I'm Luke I'm 14, And I'm Using My Dad's Amazon Account To Write This Review, It's My First Review So Don't Be To Harsh On Me Please.

A must buy for Metallica fans...
I bought the game when it was released in the US and have been playing more than a month now. We, as a family, are great fans of Rock Band 1/2 and also enjoy GHWT a lot given the variety of songs and groups. We have GHWT instrument set but also a standalone wireless RB2 guitar (from US again) which perfectly works with this game as well.

In comparison, and naturally, GH-Metallica is focused on the legendary group and you dont want to miss this game if you are a fan and do enjoy (or did enjoy) listening Metallica and alike. There are multiple other songs from various other Hard Rock groups, which you will enjoy playing, but still will be looking forward to play another Metallica every time. Unless you play only on easy, songs are distinctively faster and harder in comparison to the other games (for guitar, bass as well the drums). This is a real rock game and Metallica songs are much harder and far longer than standard 4-5mins. The game presents a good mix of Metallica's songs from various albums, both oldies as well as goldies. As an old time Metallica fan, it is a different feeling playing their songs, travelling in time noticing how their style has differed although slightly, but, rediscover again that the guitar riffs have always been the same! (try Sad but True, you wont regret missing any other note but the riffs! what can I say, it makes you feel happy as you play along...)

As you progress in the career mode collecting stars, new and generally harder songs are unlocked in new venues. Trophies is a new feature of the game (like RB2), and earning them makes you grin as you know every one of them is well deserved. There are some small perks like some production videos and Metallifacts giving interesting background info on the songs/the groups (not only Metallica but others like Motorhead etc which have songs in the game), as well as how Metallica has worked with the GH team while developing the game (some of them are pretty funny indeed). Also you can change how Metallica members look while playing one of their songs, either long hairs from `90s or their recent style, or play the bass as Lenny in Ace of Spades...

Bottom-line, solid GH game with some new features that you will enjoy. Nothing really exciting in terms of a new innovation or a big difference compared to previous games but a real must buy for Metallica fans...

Better than expected and more to come!
Having played this yesterday for a fair few hours I had to write a review and express my amazement at how well this product is put together. The game itself, the graphics and the song list is just amazing.

First off, I played this on the PS3 and was blown away by the graphics. Finally the Guitar Hero games have gone into overdrive on the background animations. The whole band is there, instantly recogniseable as themselves (with only Kirk being somewhat flawed in appearance but still very convincing). But what makes it stand out so much is the rendering and quality has finally begun to catch up with the hardware available and it looks breathtaking.

The game play itself is superb, and if you have played and enjoyed previous Guitar Hero or Rock Band games then this will not disappoint. The difficulty seems to be a little harder, although this could be just as easily due to the songs themselves being more complex than say Blondie - One Way Or Another, rather than being a deliberate attempt at upping the difficulty (which personally I think it needed from World Tour which seemed a touch too easy).

On to the Set List! If you like Metal, Metallica and generally rocking out with a plastic axe in your hand then this is a must own game. The majority of songs are there along with some very good songs by other artists chosen by the band themselves (from Slayer to SOAD and even the original version of Turn the Page which Metallica covered). The songs really are great and I was in heaven playing through Master of Puppets to The Memory Remains and everything in between.

One quick note about the song list though, there are some noteable ommissions. Two big songs that stand out as being noteably absent are Blackened and Call of Ktulu, two of my favourite songs byt he band, so look for an expansion in the near future to further cash in on what is one of the best Metal bands ever to have deadened my ear-drums.

Top game and a must own for any fan of both the Guitar Hero series and Metallica themselves. Certainly the whole band only sets now are a very good idea and while there is a Beatles one comign shortly for Rock Band, I can't help but think while the beatles songs are great, Metallica lends itself to losing yourself in Guitar God status much more...do you envisage strumming along to yesterday and Can't buy Me Love or thrashing out to One, Enter Sandman or Welcome Home (Sanitarium).

Rock on!