AHAHAHAHAHAHA *pauses, clutches sides, catches breath* AHAHAHAHA ...
Mercyful Fate. Led Zeppelin. Def Leppard. Mötley Crüe. It’s totally metal to purposely misspell your band’s name, right? So in a way, we can’t really fault Activision for misspelling Lynyrd Skynyrd on the box art for Guitar Hero: Metallica (as you can see in the image above, they omitted the second “y” in “Skynyrd”). Amazingly, no Dtoiders -- usually an eagle-eyed bunch -- picked up on that when we posted the cover artwork last week! Lynyrd Skynyrd is just one of over 20 artists that aren’t Metallica to have their music in the game.
However, in every other imaginable way, we most definitely can fault Activision for this inexcusable screw-up. Sure, it may be (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd), but it’s not spelled that way. Really, how difficult or time-consuming would it have been to Google “Lynyrd Skynrd” when putting together the cover art? Not very, of course -- and the person responsible for this guffaw-inducing gaffe would have instantly realized that he or she had made a huge mistake.
Activision hasn’t yet commented on this blunder, so we don’t know if they’ll be offering a corrected cover for download -- which is what EA Sports did with the cover of Madden NFL 09 when Brett Favre left the Green Bay Packers for the New York Jets last summer -- or if they’ll be able to fix the error in time for the game’s March 29th release on PS3 and 360 in North America. But for now, people who are sticklers for spelling -- like me -- are going to continue having a field day with this one.
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7:30 PM on 02.17.2009
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In some countries this is considered blasphemy.
I wrote mostly the same thing, and for some reason went back to check the comments again, and found yours. Oh well.
Guitar Hero V this year you say? £180 for the whole bundle?
;)
Someone at activision needs a spellchecker
He lived with it, and that guy was totally metal.
So I'll let this slide.
SkyNNNYYYYYYYYYYYYYrrddd!!
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*googles* OMFG, it has Corrosion Of Conformity's "Albatross"? I'm so buying this game. (sorry if I was late, I wasn't even paying attention to this game)
What's the first thing you see on the page, even before the search results, in red text?
I rest my case. :)
Now...Activision really should have checked the spelling before releasing the cover art. They are selling the product, they should make sure everything is cool with the art.
That said...I remember seeing the band's name for the first time back when I was 8. I won a Lynryd Skynyrd sticker (complete with a Confederate flag background) vat some local fair and thought "who the hell is Lie-nard Sky-nard?", and proceeded to stick it to the headboard of my bed. It wasn't until years later that I learned it was...well...pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd.
Aside from the inclusion of "The Killers", I couldn't find any mistakes on GHIII?