Guitar Hero III Announced 2007-05-24 by Otisbum | 44 Comments |
After warming their amps in the basement garage to rocking sold out shows at Stonehenge, fans of Activision, Inc.’s wildly popular Guitar Hero franchise will now be able to shred like never before with the next iteration of the game that will be available this fall. The new game will be released on the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system and Playstation 3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and Wii video game system from Nintendo.
Turning it up to 11, Guitar Hero fans will channel their inner rock god using Gibson Guitar’s Les Paul and Kramer models as the industry standard. In addition, players will experience an incredible number of newly added features and explosive content including a new multiplayer action-inspired battle mode, grueling boss battles, a bevy of exclusive unlockable content and authentic rock venues. Expanded online multiplayer game modes will also allow axe-shredders worldwide to compete head-to-head for true legendary rock status.
While continuing to retain all the key features from their prior legendary performances, fresh downloadable content will be offered on multiple platforms, and players can now shred to a killer set list from many of the gnarliest rock songs ever recorded. Delivering more master tracks than ever before, strategic partnerships have been secured with all the major and independent music record labels and publishers to allow unrivaled access to their deep history of music catalogs, along with supplying artists’ original recordings for even greater authenticity.
The initial list of face-melting awesomeness includes:
Paint It Black (by The Rolling Stones)
Cherub Rock (by Smashing Pumpkins)
Sabotage (by Beastie Boys)
The Metal (by Tenacious D)
My Name Is Jonas (by Weezer)
Knights Of Cydonia (by Muse)
Rock And Roll All Nite (as made famous by Kiss)
School’s Out (as made famous by Alice Cooper)
Slow Ride (as made famous by Fog Hat)
Cult Of Personality (by Living Colour)
Barracuda (as made famous by Heart)
For the first time ever, Guitar Hero fans will also be able to thrash and burn with new wireless guitar controllers available for each platform. The exclusive Gibson guitars will include innovative features such as removable faceplates that will allow fans to later personalize their guitars and make it their own, and a new button color design that will be integrated for an even greater authentic feel and rock experience. Gibson Guitar’s Les Paul model will be the battle axe of choice, and an industry standard for all rock gods on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 system, and Wii. After much anticipation, PlayStation 2 system fans will also be receiving a new exclusive shape as well, the classic Kramer guitar, also a Gibson brand, popularized by hard rockers and known for its body design, pickups, electronics, and construction for furious finger fretting.
From: Ultimate-Guitar and PortablePlanet.
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made my day. shows what a day i had
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Knights of Cydonia! Yay!
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The list isn't as good as II.
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Nice to see that they'll be moving away from the metal genre for this game, but hopefully they won't leave it completely.
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[quote="Thor"]The list isn't as good as II.[/quote] True, but maybe the rest of the songs will be better.
It's cool that they put the D on there.
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Like three good songs.
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I really don't care about how good they are, as long as they aren't a majority of cheesey metal songs.
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Sabotage rules.
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Looks like they're getting a lot more original recordings this time. Some of the covers were pretty terrible in the past games.
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isn't Knights of Cyodonia and Barracuda the same guitar line? (Ooohh I went there) BUt seriously, both of those songs rock as does Cherub Rock.
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I'd rock out to Knights of Cydonia.
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As long as 'Welcome Home', 'Battery', and some RAtM are on GHIII, I'll be satisfied.
Although I'd love to see the songs on my list used.
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This makes me excited, especially because I'm sure they're keeping the best tracks under wraps. Hopefully, this should be awesome.
Plus, in case anyone didn't know, they're also releasing Guitar Hero: Rock the 80's pretty soon. That will win hard.
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@PTSS: Yeah, I heard about that. Hopefully they'll have 'Crazy Train' and 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' on that.
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Why "Sabotage", when the majority of the song is power chords? It revolves more around bass and DJ work than guitar.
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Very little metal on that list! I liked how II had 'Laid to Rest', 'Hangar 18', and 'YYZ'.
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Fury Of The Storm by Dragonforce would be killllller.
But Knights of Cydonia and My Name Is Jonas would both be sweet as well.
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quiet you
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that quiet you was directed towards the wizard.
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what's the difference between guitar hero and electronic simon says?
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My Name Is Jonas (by Weezer)
Sick!
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Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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BARRACUDA!!!
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not as good as 2. i wouldve thought "no sleep til brooklyn" when i heard beastie boys were on it
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eh, the only song that I am really psyched to play is Slow Ride. and I guess Barracuda too.
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I'm exited
still no zeplin or AC/DC though
and i would love to see some post hardcore or some coheed
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yay for it coming to wii, I thought nintendo would get left out again ^_^
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Cult of Personality, Paint it Black, My Name is Jonas. Some good stuff on here. It was announced Queens of the Stone Age are gonna be on this game too, guess the song isn't out yet.
Too bad KISS are gonna be on it again, ugh and Muse.
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CHERUB ROCK.
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MY NAME IS JONAS! AMAZING! =D
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knights of cydonia!!!!
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Oh god these songs are awesome.
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i don't even have a PS. or a Xbox.
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good list of songs, I hope they get some pink floyd on there... money, comfortably numb or brick in the wall pt. 2 would be nice.
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Muse have to ruin everything...
II had much better songs on it.
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I wouldnt call that list "face-melting." But this is exciting, I've always been a hardcore Nintendo fan so I'm glad its coming out on the Wii. If it were up to me, I'd put some Metallica, Maiden, and old Avenged Sevenfold on here - the song Second Heartbeat would be perfect for guitarhero.
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They should definitely add some post hardcore tunes on it. Yeah I'm glad it's coming to the Wii as well. Iron Maiden needs to be on this game.
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I just know that I'm going to be jumping around my room in the future yelling "SCHOOL'S... OUT... FOR... SUMMER! SCHOOL'S... OUT... FOR... EVER!" in the not-too-distant future while mashing colored buttons on a fake guitar.
Oh, and I wonder if you get bonus points for going nuts with the whammy bar in the opening riffs of "Knights of Cydonia" like Matt does in the real song, or if it'll just come out that way. Either way, that song is killer. I too would like to see "Welcome Home" and "Fury of the Storm" Still, I'm a fan of the abridged list, and can't wait to see what else they add.
Also, being a Wii-dork, I'm pretty psyched that it's coming out for the Wii this time! Huzzah!
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I'm so glad it's coming out on wii. Now I won't have to go to Best Buy when I want to play it.
I would luurve to see some thrice on the list.
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the Guitar Hero series is just crying out to have a song by Slayer so that players will slam their guitars into walls while shouting expletives due to the speed at which the notes would be thrown at them.
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@soh: DragonForce would have the same effect, and the upside is that they don't suck. 
Kidding, of course.
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I can't imagine Slayer is actually that hard to play
DEP or someone would be much harder
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Hey they better have xavier as a main playable character agen thsi time, he was the coolest cos of his world music back story.
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Cult Of Personality! Woo!
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