#Guitar hero metallica xbox 360 rgh mega full#

What I don't like about the game is that some of the earlier Metallica hits, like No Remorse, The Call of Ktulu, Harvester of Sorrow, To Live is to Die, Holier Than Thou, and so on, are not in here. For GH fans, and especially Metallica fans this is a MUST BUY. There is definitely enough here to warrant the price tag. Save for some songs I wish HAD been there, the set list is an even sampling of their entire career. Unlike previous 'expansions' this one stands on its own. This is not another GH:Aerosmith by any means, it is so much more. The note charts are FUN to play, albeit brutal at times (its Metallica afterall). The Metallifacts videos are reminiscent of Pop-up video that give more insight about each song, even the non-Metallica tracks. That is something I have felt music games have been lacking for some time. Every song has the lyric sheets available after they are unlocked to be read as the song plays in the background. The note charts are FUN to The level of detail in this game is AMAZING.

#Guitar hero metallica xbox 360 rgh mega full#

For competent players who routinely earn a five-star rating during a single song, this makes the job of unlocking the full set-list swift and easy, and is a good decision on the part of Neversoft (a full list of the songs included on the disc can be found on Wikipedia).The level of detail in this game is AMAZING. From here, rather than just continuing on through a live show, the game introduces a story, casting you as a member of the crowd who's so inspired by the performance that they decide to start a Metallica tribute band.Ĭareer progression is handled in the traditional list format, although now you only need to collect a certain number of stars to unlock the next venue (and its attached new songs) rather than completing all of the songs in a grouping. It's a stylish opening, benefitting greatly from aping the Metallica live show visuals, which, despite the music's bombast, are generally far more tasteful and impactful in terms of lighting and stage design than Guitar Hero's traditional cod-rock aesthetic. When you've completed a song in Career you can watch an in-game performance of it while various 'Metallifacts' about its creation flash up on screen.Ĭareer Mode, as ever the heart of the Guitar Hero experience, starts with a recreation of a contemporary Metallica live show, showing the band's dramatic entrance with 'The God, The Bad and The Ugly', going straight into the sucker-punch that is 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', and then segueing into 'The Unforgiven', the band's film-tribute inverse ballad. Songs are drawn evenly from across the group's career, catering as much to fans who prefer their thrash beginnings as those who first fell for their most commercially successful record, 1991's Black album (all of whose singles are present and correct).

The set-list collects material from across the band's history, from their first recorded song, 'Hit the Lights', right up to 'All Nightmare Long' from 2008's critically divisive Death Magnetic. Whatever the reason, the worm has turned and the Thing That Should Not Be has become a reality: a special edition release of Guitar Hero featuring 28 of Metallica's songs alongside another 20-odd guest acts 'hand-picked' as influences by the band. A generous royalty offer perhaps, or maybe just the sight of their bank manager stabbing his finger furiously into some imbalanced books.

We don't know what it took to change the band's tinnitus-addled minds. They blocked offers from all of the music-game makers, denying teenagers across the globe the chance to spandex up and role-play Lars Ulrich. Everyone wanted a stake in this brave new interactive musical world where profits went up, not down, and where piracy was virtually impossible.Īnd yet despite the meteoric rise of rhythm-action, Metallica - those Luddite, Napster-killing metal-heads - remained not only disinterested, but positively hostile to the idea of their music being cheapened by a videogame. Record industry types would seek clarification: 'So, the kids play along with our artist's music on a Fisher Price plastic guitar?' Then they'd politely decline the offer, toddling off to snort the last of their terminally ill industry's profits.īut by the time Rock Band rolled around, every band, manager, song publisher and industry-head was smashing down Harmonix's gates for the opportunity to be in the game. There was a time when almost no one cared about appearing in Guitar Hero.