The Guitar Hero Encore: Rock the 80s updates keep coming every week, and Activision just sent over a few more details. On top of announcing that Rock the 80s has gone gold and will be available in stores on July 24, they're also revealing the last nine tracks that will come with the game:
· Caught in a Mosh (as made famous by Anthrax)
· Balls to the Wall (as made famous by Accept)
· Electric Eye (by Judas Priest)
· Los Angeles (as made famous by X)
· Police Truck (as made famous by Dead Kennedys)
· We Got the Beat (as made famous by The Go Go's)
· (I Think I'm) Turning Japanese (as made famous by Vapors)
· Seventeen (as made famous by Winger)
· Because, it's Midnite (by Limozeen)
In less than a month we'll finally have our blistered fingers on their new characters, guitars, and game play modes, so that gives us a few weeks to find some gamer groupies. For the full press and previously announced songs, hit the jump for the complete list.
Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced that Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s has gone gold and will be available on July 24 exclusively for the Playstation2 computer entertainment system. The company also announced nine additional songs to be included in the latest installment of the critically acclaimed franchise.
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s will feature visually stunning retro rock venues and hipster characters, unlockable guitars, intense game play modes, and 30 awesome new songs to experience the ultimate rock star fantasy. The final nine tracks added to the initial list include:
· Caught in a Mosh (as made famous by Anthrax)
· Balls to the Wall (as made famous by Accept)
· Electric Eye (by Judas Priest)
· Los Angeles (as made famous by X)
· Police Truck (as made famous by Dead Kennedys)
· We Got the Beat (as made famous by The Go Go's)
· (I Think I'm) Turning Japanese (as made famous by Vapors)
· Seventeen (as made famous by Winger)
· Because, it's Midnite (by Limozeen)
Previously announced tracks include:
· Hold On Loosely (as made famous by .38 Special)
· No One Like You (as made famous by Scorpions)
· Only a Lad (as made famous by Oingo Boingo)
· Ballroom Blitz (as made famous by Krokus)
· The Warrior (by Scandal)
· What I Like About You (as made famous by The Romantics)
· Wrath Child (as made famous by Iron Maiden)
· I Wanna Rock (by Twisted Sister)
· I Ran (by Flock of Seagulls)
· Round and Round (as made famous by Ratt)
· Metal Health (as made famous by Quiet Riot)
· Holy Diver (as made famous by Dio)
· Heat Of The Moment (as made famous by Asia)
· Radar Love (as made famous by White Lion)
· 18 and Life (as made famous by Skid Row)
· Bathroom Wall (as made famous by Faster Pussycat)
· Lonely is the Night (as made famous by Billy Squier)
· Nothing But a Good Time (as made famous by Poison)
· Play With Me (as made famous by Extreme)
· Shaken (as made famous by Eddie Money)
· Synchronicity II (as made famous by The Police)
Contest:
3:04 PM on 06.28.2007
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Limozeen FTW!
i gotcha picture.
i like to look at it when i'm by myself.
i wanna docta.
to take yo picture
so i can look at you from inside as well.[/i]
i love turning japanese! not too big on the song tho ;p
this will be okay, but the fact that they released this without the final countdown will always sting a little bit.
Maybe this won't be total crap.
I'm getting it just for that. Ok, not REALLY, but you get the picture.
'nuf said.
That hobo must've been a fuckin' prophet! Irony!
"Balls to the Walls" can't compete with 80s-era Metallica, but it beats the hell out of anything off their last 4 albums!
I was happy to see METAL get some mainstream exposure in the first 2 games (Yes, videogames are MAINSTREAM compared to metal). But this travesty only furthers the same problems that have existed for the last 20 years. Poser hair-and-makeup bands are NOT metal. Motley Crue is not metal. Ratt is not metal. Fucking Flock of Seagulls is NOT METAL!!!
I know this game isn't Metal Hero. I know there are other genres of music besides metal. But to go from Hanger 18 as the final boss to this limp-wristed shit...it's just depressing. All these poser bands rode the coat-tails of real,. hardworking metal bands in the 80s. I hate to see it happening again.
Hopefully GHIII will correct that.
lipstick and hairspray metal are what 80's music is made of, dog.
I'm pretty sure songs that focus more on how big the singer's hair is fits right in with a game that makes the user play on a plastic toy guitar.
True, IF YOU WERE A POSER!!!
It just pisses me off that, yet again, real metal bands are overshadowed by bullshit poser music like Winger and Poison.
I guess it could be worse. At least they didn't license any Tesla!!!
This isn't "dirtball in the corner Hero". It's guitar hero.
They tried to have some bands/songs normal people have heard of.
I'm not fan of hairspray metal, but they have to tunes that are recognizable by the masses, and that means, winger and poison.
I can think of a very appropriate lyric when it comes to Guitar Hero featuring your evil poser metal bands, "Every Rose has it's thorn" HAHAHAHahhahah
How is CC DeVille a poser? Anybody who can beat Slash in a band audition should be considered a rock god.(<--that's a period)
to hear a snippet of taranchula rocken it.
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail172.html
click on mercenary's.
Also the circle jerks would kick ass.
Better than most of those bands on the list.
I mean The police, COME ON!!
They suck.
Too Drunk To Fuck would have been good. As would have been Kill the Poor and Holiday in Cambodia.
And speaking of TDTF, I saw the Philadelphia School of Rock All Stars open for Bouncing Souls, and this 14 year old kid ended their set with that song. So awesome.
also
mattboy_slim, metallica decided on Jason Newsted instead of Les Claypool. Just bc someone didn't get into a certain band isn't a display of their tuffnuss. It's a display of Bret Michaels lack of it, I mean come on he wears a zebra striped cowboy hat. I'm not even a Poison hater, I just know he's not that tuff. He does get some points tho for making another porn tape of Pam And and letting it "secretly" get put on the net.
also, I never knew that Slash tried out for Poison???
Shut the fuck up. I'm looking forward to getting this edition as soon as it comes out. I'd like to see you actually play a Winger song with a real guitar and see how well you do. I'd guess not very well.
I'd like to see WINGER actually play a Winger song with a real guitar and see how well they do.