Guitar Hero: Van Halen just sort of appeared on store shelves and nobody seemed to really care. However, if the box art looked more like this perhaps it would have been worth talking about. A bored GameStop employee not only produced a drawing of Van Halen that's more accurate than any photograph, but also wrote a very accurate bit of blurb on the back.
Here's a small section of the rather brilliant summary:
Guitar Hero: Van Halen by ACTIVISION is the same as Guitar Hero: World Tour (an ACTIVISION game) and ACTIVISION Presents: Guitar Hero: Metallica, but this game is full of Van Halen songs! Well, mostly Van Halen, along with some of your other favorites like Blink 182 and alter bridge. You like those bands, right?
If Activision had packaged Van Halen with this cover instead of whatever it is they went with, I'd have bought two copies, easily.
Amazing custom ‘Guitar Hero: Van Halen’ game case spotted at Game Stop [Albotas]
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8:20 AM on 01.05.2010
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after this one it seems like they started messing with the mechanics and the songs dindt translate well musically. i know its not about what musically makes sense but the new ones just seem fucked up.
Serioisly though they made fucking Eruption not fun to play. It's a mad world.
And you left out the best part:
You like those bands, right? ACTIVISION knows you do because ACTIVISION says you do!
Huh? This is the last Guitar Hero to come out. Came out 2 weeks ago.
Your "UNBORN WOLFGANG VAN HALEN" line made me laugh out loud. So true. Kudos to you, good sir.
I just hate the face that it seemed lack luster on the content side of things. I play random song, and watch random facts about said song as the computer auto plays it. The only thing I heard that Eddie/Alex had a say in for this game was when they said they wanted Wolfgang to play bass.
I DO COCAINE!!!!!
Also this is brilliant:
He now just needs to add a 'AS SEEN ON DESTRUCTOID. DESTRUCTOID!!!!!' sticker.
The MM Legends box is like a BILLION times better than the real one.
Also -- @Char -- if you stare at that too long, you go into a trance.
They look neater than these, but have absolutely none of their charm.