“ Guitar Hero: Metallica is the second game in the Guitar Hero series to focus on specific band, following the release of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith.

This title largely borrows from the novelties introduced in Guitar Hero: World Tour, with band career modes for single or multiple players with a storyline drawn as a cartoon, competitive modes online, and the possibility to play with different instruments such as a regular guitar, a bass guitar, drums, and doing the vocals. The storyline describes how a band wants to follow in the footsteps of the Metallica and become a leading act on their tour. This edition adds an Expert+ difficulty mode where players need to drum using a second bass pedal to mimic the playing style of Lars Ulrich, the drummer of the band. The members also did motion capture sessions for the avatars in the game.

The music selection consists of 28 master recordings and 21 additional songs by others selected by the band. Bonus features include various videos and trivia about the songs. Progress is made by completing sets of songs, rather than a series of gigs as in Guitar Hero: World Tour, set in venues that were in important in the band's career. Performances are rated with stars and a certain amount is needed to progress and unlock a new set.

The game also includes the GHTunes from World Tour where new songs can be created and shared. A new Drum Mode offers the possibility to play the drums without an existing drum track to create new rhythms, and the Battle mode (from Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock), has been updated with Metallica influences for the power-ups, with names like Fade To Black, Under The Ice and Ride The Lightning.

Although released in Europe packaged with a guitar controller and Metallica faceplate, other regions were not so fortunate and only received a solus edition. Custom drumsticks and a second bass pedal were offered as pre-order bonuses in certain stores.

The Metallica tracklist includes:

All Nightmare Long
Battery
Broken, Beat & Scarred
Creeping Death
Cyanide
Disposable Heroes
Dyers Eve
Enter Sandman
Fade to Black
Fight Fire with Fire
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Frantic
Fuel
Hit the Lights
King Nothing
Master of Puppets
The Memory Remains
Mercyful Fate (Medley)
My Apocalypse
No Leaf Clover (Live)
Nothing Else Matters
One
Orion
Sad But True
Seek & Destroy
The Shortest Straw
The Thing That Should Not Be
The Unforgiven
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Wherever I May Roam
Whiplash

The guest tracklist includes:

Alice in Chains - No Excuses
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - Turn the Page (Live)
Corrosion of Conformity - Albatross
Diamond Head - Am I Evil?
Foo Fighters - Stacked Actors
Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather
Kyuss - Demon Cleaner
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone
Machine Head - Beautiful Mourning
Mastodon - Blood and Thunder
Mercyful Fate - Evil
Michael Schenker Group - Armed and Ready
Motörhead - Ace of Spades
Queen - Stone Cold Crazy
Samhain - Mother of Mercy
Slayer - War Ensemble
Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster (Live)
Suicidal Tendencies - War Inside My Head
System of a Down - Toxicity
The Sword - The Black River
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town

Metallica songs of the Death Magnetic album bought for previous versions are incorporated into the game. ”

Information

GameID	BLUS30257	Region	NTSC-U
Release Date	29/03-2009	Language	EN
Developer	Neversoft Entertainment Inc.	Genre	Music Simulation
Publisher	Activision Publishing Inc.	Info from	Moby Games
Rating		Contents

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