Activision's Guitar Hero 5, set to release this fall on the Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, and Wii, has been hiding out in the back, watching what everyone else is doing. And now, with a plan of attack in mind, it comes at you with a whole bunch of cool new features and tracks.
Game Hunters reveals that a new Fest mode lets players battle each other at home or online for top scores. Four can play at home and eight can play online in this competitive mode that uses momentum points. Miss a note in competition and lose momentum. You must correctly hit the next 20 notes to regain it. I can see myself losing this mode every time!
As you may have heard, Party Play lets people join in songs mid-game as well as switch instruments and difficulty levels. And there will be plenty of songs to party to, says project director Brian Bright. “We have a lot of new indie artists as well and Iron Maiden as more classic rock or heavy metal.”
Here's some track highlights:
- Tom Petty (Runnin Down a Dream)
- White Stripes (Blue Orchid)
- Bob Dylan (All Along The Watchtower)
- The Rolling Stones (Sympathy for the Devil)
- Santana (No One To Depend On)
- Johnny Cash (Ring of Fire)
- Kings of Leon (Sex on Fire)
I'm pumped about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition," which actually features Wonder’s electronic clavinet keyboard in the song.
[Thanks, Power-Glove]
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10:20 AM on 05.15.2009
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woooooooo woooooooooooooo!
woooooooo woooooooooooooo!
Just when I've decided that Rock Band is my one and only, Guitar Hero gets Ring of Fire, Blue Orchid, Sympathy for the Devil, and most importantly, Dylan's All Along the Watchtower! I hate you so much, Activision! The only thing that could make me feel better about this is seeing all these songs confirmed for Rock Band DLC NOW, since there won't be any Rock Band 3 later this year.
Good song, but not good for guitar hero
good songs, but the game I'm sure will still be awful and the rest of the setlist will be full of ass. I'd like to be proven wrong but I doubt that'll happen
@galagabug
I love you man...
Personally, I have no interest in playign rhythym games in a directly competative fashion. Leaderboards and the 'battle of the bands' stuff in RB is fun, but direct competition sounds like a good way to soak the fun out of it.
Superstition, f*ck yeah. If they announce a keyboard periph, I will start caring about the game then. At the moment, what they've announced could be handled with DLC and a title update. I'm sure they have something up their sleeve... Then again, it is Activision, it could just be a greedy cash in...
I also don't have any idealistic hatred of Guitar Hero, but the layout gets to me. I don't really like the collective star power and the way it was shoved into one corner meant that oftentimes I would not be able to even see it if I was not the note chart right next to it. If they just make that easier to see, then I'll have no problems.
Now this is what I call "Milking-a-dead-cow-at-4am-cause-I-have-nothing-better-to-do-with-my-time-and-also-because-I-might-be-a-little-psychotic-at-least-that's-what-my-therapist-tells-me-OMG-what-was-that-noise-I-think-there-are-zombies-out-here-in-this-cow-pasture"
Zombie cowz!
People are perfectly entitled to their own musical preferences and you don't have to be a douche and insult people for their differing opinions. I do, however, agree with you that they're great additions to the track line up - though I also stand by my previous comment that I'm sure the game will be messed up in some way.
No need to poke the bear by calling them 'dying cats' though Kia ;-).
Last time I checked, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan sounded far from dying cats. I think you might want to get the stupid out of your ears.
If Harmonix ever incorporated these features they would only incorporate them into the quickplay game mode and not the World Tour since I feel they may want to keep that mode competitive by standardizing the gameplay options and experience across all players.
Anyway, I hope to God Activision improves the visuals and layout of the interface... and the menus...
Does this mean Guitar Hero: World Tour is going to become a platform much like Rock Band? Probably not since the scores you're getting in songs in GH:WT will be meaningless considering Activision is changing the scoring system a bit in GH5 with the whole notion of "momentum." Also, I wonder if currnt GH:WT players will be able to export the songs off the disc for play in GH5 much like Rock Band players could with their Rock Band 1 discs.
I will agree however that Dylan isn't a great singer, but he's an excellent songwriter. I think they avoided Hendrix's version since it's a cover. You know how we are about those lately.
These are excellent tracks, but I'll bet theres only a few more good ones left and filler tracks to go. Activision will kill this genre if they think they can maintain churning out $150 game packages each year.
I've ben waiting for Kings of Leon to show up in Rock Band for ages, and the song "Sex on Fire" has been my number one dream song to show up in Rock Band.
Now GH Hero gets it, crushing my dreams for lyrics based on VD. Now I have to get GH5.
And then when rockband 3 hits hopefully gets a lot of these things and also fixes a bit the way it handles quitters on online world tour. It drives me nuts that it's only band leaders who get screwed when someone quits.
One can like and dislike musicians by personal taste, but that doesn't mean one is completely insulated from criticism. If one's reaction to two of the giants of 20th century music is "ugh, UGH", one is going to be on the recieving end of some douchey snobbery.
As a douchey elitist parting shot, I will suggest that an appreceation of the classics will come with time, and that if you grew up listening to Linkin Park and Maroon 5, it might take a while to 'get' what Dylan is doing.
//sticks his nose in the air, twirls on his heel, and marches off as King Douche
As far as the track list, yeah I'd prefer the Hendrix version of All Along The Watchtower, but other then that good grabs for now. Wonder how big it'll be in the end? And the new mode doesn't really entice me much, but the Momentum thing sounds intriguing. Doesn't really matter if it sucks or not though...since I already have all the Guitar Heroes, and every released download for Rock Band 2, I kinda have to get it just for completion's sake.
RB DLC, FTW!
Screw the milked guitar hero franchise
NEEDS MOAR METAL
I'm sure there's a bit of timed exclusivity in there to prevent this, but considering how heavily aped the two games soundtracks were, it wouldn't surprise me if most of these songs popped up in some form or another as Rock Band DLC.
I'd like to point out though, that there is still no song export function for this game, meaning that Activision STILL doesn't care about supporting the series as a platform instead of a bunch of single releases.
I can say that I think that has been Rock Band's biggest benefit. Activision made some pretty damn poor choices on Guitar Hero outside of lack of song export anyway, but I haven't regretted not buying GH:WT or GH:Aerosmith. I still may pick up Metallica later on down the road when it hits $20. Like at Christmas time... Metallica is always better when it's cold outside.
FTA: "Guitar Hero 5’s songlist has a fresh feel, with one-fourth of the music having come out in the last 18 months and more than half from this decade. “We have a lot of new indie artists as well and Iron Maiden as more classic rock or heavy metal,” Bright says. “We’ve been trying to get the White Stripes and they have finally come around.”
Yeah, over half the tracks are from the last decade? Uh, no thanks. I know what's been considered "popular music" the last 9 years and I don't want more than a half dozen songs to survive the giant end of decade fire I have planned.
@Stahlbrand - I grew up listening to the Beatles, actually, along with a lot of 80s music. I don't see how you can equate being 24 with "growing up with maroon 5 and Linkin Park" but, y'know. Whatever.
as far as the rest. NEEDS MOAR BLUZ!!!
except for possibly Metallica.
and after that possibly Smash Hits.
...
:(