Soundtrack
On May 23, 2007, Activision announced 11 songs that will appear in the game. IGN revealed two more tracks on May 31.[12] A trailer for the game revealed two more tracks on July 9.[24] The list includes both cover songs (indicated by the phrase "as made famous by") and master tracks, featuring performances by the song's original artist.[17]
bold denotes song performed by the original artist (all other songs are covers)
"Barracuda" Heart
"Cherub Rock" Smashing Pumpkins
"Cult of Personality" Living Colour
"Even Flow" Pearl Jam
"Knights of Cydonia" Muse
"Lay Down" Priestess
"The Metal" Tenacious D
"My Name Is Jonas" Weezer
"Paint It, Black" The Rolling Stones
"Rock and Roll All Nite" Kiss
"Rock You Like a Hurricane" Scorpions[24]
"Sabotage" Beastie Boys
"School's Out" Alice Cooper
"She Builds Quick Machines" Velvet Revolver[25]
"Slow Ride" Foghat
"Welcome to the Jungle" Guns N' Roses[26]
In addition, bands confirmed to be contributing to the game include:
Queens of the Stone Age[9][27]
Another song by Velvet Revolver from Libertad[10][25]
Concerning other bands, Huang also stated in an interview, "We've got a lot of songs and artists still that we would love to have. In particular, we've been trying to get Metallica, AC/DC, and Led Zeppelin. So hopefully sometime in the near future, my wish and everybody's wish will come true and we can get some of their music in the game."[28]
The Living Colour track, "Cult of Personality" was rerecorded (with a new guitar solo) by the band after the master track could not be located. According to IGN.com, this new guitar solo makes the song on expert "just plain ridiculous."[29]
Lead developer Alan Flores states in a GameSpot interview that there will be "over 70 songs", (over half of them master recordings) on the final soundtrack for the game.[30]
This past Monday, a group of ScoreHero members was flown out to visit Neversoft's Southern Calilfornia offices to play/test Guitar Hero III:
Legends Of Rock. Upon arriving, we were led to Neversoft's spacious mo-cap area, where we each had our own plasma screen and wireless Les Paul setup to demo as much of the x360 version as our hands could take over the span of about 5 hours. Now that we've returned to our respective homes, we're proud to bring back some exclusive info about the game, which is being announced on ScoreHero before anywhere else.
First up: the Grim Ripper will be returning as a playable character along with some old favorites from the Guitar Hero series, and a couple of new characters. The list of characters so far is:
Characters
Axel Steel
Casey Lynch
Grim Ripper
Izzy Sparks
Johnny Napalm
Judy Nails
Lars Umlaut
Xavier Stone
Midori (new)
Slash (legend)
Venues
We also have the list of all-new venues that will be appearing in the game over the 8 tiers, which are:
Backyard Bash
Mitch's Moose Lounge
Video Shoot
Ye Olde Royal Odeon
Shanker's Island
Desert Rock Tour
Kaiju Megadome
Lou's Inferno
Songs
Last, and certainly not least, we have FOUR brand new songs to announce, exclusively to ScoreHero:
- Suck My Kiss - Red Hot Chili Peppers (Master Track!)
- La Grange - ZZ Top
- Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden (Master Track!!) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Through The Fire And Flames - Dragonforce (Master Track!!!) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(which is in addition to the already-announced songs:)
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Beastie Boys - Sabotage (Master)
Foghat - Slowride
Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle (Master)
Heart - Barracuda
Kiss - Rock N Roll All Nite
Living Colour - Cult of Personality (Master)
Muse - Knights of Cydonia (Master)
Pearl Jam - Evenflow (Master)
Priestess - Lay Down (Master)
Rolling Stones - Paint it Black (Master)
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock (Master)
Tenacious D - The Metal (Master)
The Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Weezer - My Name is Jonas (Master)
It should also be noted that over 50% of the main-tier songs are master tracks, and over 70% including the bonus tracks!
Through this post, everyone who attended the session will add their own comments on their playtesting, but before then, some general information on the game:
- One of the biggest gameplay changes was with the system for hammer-ons and pull-offs. Rather than being based solely on the timing of the notes, Neversoft is able to program certain notes to be strummed or hammer-ons. The general guideline is, if a note is strummed on a real guitar, it will probably have to be strummed in-game. When a note is a hammer on for a real guitar, you'll probably be able to do a hammer-on for it in-game. This provides a much more realistic feeling to the charts.
- After our lengthy demo session, we sat down with some of the guys from Neversoft GH3 team in order to provide feedback on how the game was coming along, and what would be nice to see changed before release. We sat in for two hours and were able to discuss all parts of the game from top-to-bottom with the developers. It's an understatement to say that all of us who were out there are very eagerly awaiting the release of the latest game in the Guitar Hero franchise.
- "Through the Fire And Flames" is REALLY hard. We'll leave it to the individual posters to tell you how many times they failed it at 1-3%.
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