First Guitar Hero III tracks revealed, Les Paul guitar licensed

by Christopher Grant { May 23rd 2007 at 9:45AM }

Remember when we decreed yesterday big hair day at Joystiq, to commemorate the announcement of seven new tracks for Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s? Lucky for us, we didn't shower and Activision has rewarded our sloth, and our big hair, with some new details regarding the upcoming Guitar Hero game ... the one hitting all new-gen systems (even Wii) and the PS2, being developed by Neversoft. So, what's the news? First, some songs:

"Paint It Black" (by The Rolling Stones)
"Cherub Rock" (by Smashing Pumpkins)
"Sabotage" (by Beastie Boys)
"The Metal" (by Tenacious D)
"My Name is Jonas" (by Weezer)
"Knights of Cydonia" (by Muse)
"Rock And Roll All Nite" (as made famous by Kiss)
"School's Out" (as made famous by Alice Cooper)
"Slow Ride" (as made famous by Foghat)
"Cult of Personality" (by Living Colour)
"Barracuda" (as made famous by Heart)

Next, they're making wireless guitars "available" for all platforms; no word on whether they'll be the default axes, or optional peripherals. Furthermore, they've gone all Rock Band licensing the legendary Gibson Les Paul guitar for all new-gen platforms. Those afraid of change get the decidedly less legendary Gibson Kramer, available for the PlayStation 2. There's also a "new button color design" to confuse anyone thinking about sticking to their old axe. We're still expecting Guitar Hero III (not its real name, yet) in the fall of 2007 ... just after Rocks the 80s rocks our summer barbecue parties. Our carpal tunnel is acting up just thinking about it.

Check out all the latest Guitar Hero III news!

Tags: Activision, guitar-hero-iii, GuitarHero3, guitarheroiii, GuiterHeroIII, Neversoft

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

ramiro @ Nov 20th 2008 3:05PM

he!!!

some of you now the guitar hero 3 (4 PC)license????
pleas say me that yes

JodyAnthony @ May 23rd 2007 9:52AM

Rock And Roll All Nite (as made famous by Kiss)
+
LES PAUL!
=
Day one purchase

Saneless @ May 23rd 2007 9:52AM

Knights of Cydonia? Sweet.

Bring on the Kasabian too.

Stan @ May 23rd 2007 9:53AM

As much as I hate Red Octane for the GH2 DLC debacle, I can't pass this one up.

Kevin @ May 23rd 2007 9:53AM

YES!!! Cult of Personality will ROCK!!!
Can't wait to break my fingers on that song on Expert!
There's some good stuff on that list already.
Let's hope they can manage to get some Zeppelin, Hendrix, and AC/DC in there!

Wickedneoq @ May 23rd 2007 9:57AM

Whoa whoa whoa, new button color design? Why?

Dave @ May 23rd 2007 9:57AM

So after plunking down $90 for a GHII bundle, I have to buy a new guitar peripheral to play GHIII?

Moe @ May 23rd 2007 9:56AM

omfg omfg BarracudaBarracuda

sheppy @ May 23rd 2007 9:58AM

Recurring bands FTL!

Seriously, we can't get some Gravity Kills up in this bitch (preferably Fifteen Minutes)? Or some Twiggy Ramirez licks thrown on? How about some Rasmus, She Wants Revenge, or even Offspring? Violent Femmes?

I mean... some of this looks good but they've barely scratched the surface on bands and they ALREADY have recurring bands? I call shenanigans.

ANt @ May 23rd 2007 9:58AM

F F F F F F F YEAH!!!

I'm the Cult of, I'm the Cult of, I'm the Cult of, PER-SOH-NAAL-LET-TEEE!!!

Adam Owen @ May 23rd 2007 11:03AM

Paint it Black, Knights Of Cydonia, Tenacious D, Weezer, School's Out, KISS...

This is a top notch list. Lets hope the best is still to come.

Ludwig Kietzmann @ May 23rd 2007 9:59AM

Knights of Cydonia? Day one purchase.

sheppy @ May 23rd 2007 10:00AM

Also... Joystiq... this would have been a much better video linkage for Paint It Black

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ApK0B_mSoJ8

God how I crave a new Twisted Metal...

megaStryke @ May 23rd 2007 10:01AM

The D is coming to rock your fucking socks off.

kostaki @ May 23rd 2007 10:03AM

@ # 6 Dave

you will not have to buy a new guitar for it...you can use the old one with it...but if they change the color scheme then we might have a problem...

C. Grant @ May 23rd 2007 10:01AM

Barracuda = day one purchase

DarthDavid @ May 23rd 2007 10:02AM

Yikes....this is scary...this looks like its going to be one HARD game!!! Paint it Black will be fun on Expert...Cult of Personality will be hard as balls, thinking of that solo is making me cry!! And....Fog Hat?!?! can't wait!....make the Flying V for the Wii!!!!

C. Grant @ May 23rd 2007 10:02AM

sheppy: changed, just cause we love David Jaffe. =)

JodyAnthony @ May 23rd 2007 10:03AM

I second the violent femmes suggestion. Would be going to see them in Chicago soon but I have to go to a wedding the day they are playing :( sucks.

I loves me some femmes though.

JodyAnthony @ May 23rd 2007 10:04AM

holy hell, I was so hooked on the thought of les paul that I missed that SABOTAGE is going to be in this game. This will be the first guitar hero I plunk down $90 for.

MosquitoControl @ May 23rd 2007 10:05AM

So there's no reason for me to buy GH2 then, right? Just wait for a new guitar this fall.

Saves me some serious money.

There are many better, more guitar-intensive Muse songs, but I'm happy to see Muse there.
Perfect SP song.
Gravity Kills? The band that didn't even have a bass? The one-hit wonders that got that hit from a soundtrack?

I'd like to see them wander more into non-major labels.
C'mon, who doesn't want to shred out some Converge?

kostaki @ May 23rd 2007 10:05AM

Please no red hot chillie peppers!!!!!!! they f...ing suck balls

chickflick @ Jul 17th 2007 8:18PM

gh3!!gh3!!muse!!muse!!smashingpumpkins!!smashing pumpkins!!foghat!!foghat!!......COFFEE!!!!!!!!

hokiewalrus @ May 23rd 2007 10:07AM

Say it ain't so!

I got 2 guitars for GH2 figuring of course I'd be able to reuse them for 3. I mean, they wouldn't be so greedy as to force people to rebuy the controllers, right? Right??

jason @ May 23rd 2007 10:07AM

@6

no you don't

BadVermin @ May 23rd 2007 10:07AM

"Cherub Rock"
"Sabotage"
"My Name is Jonas"
"Knights of Cydonia"
"Rock And Roll All Nite"
"Slow Ride"
"Barracuda"

I'm already sold.

Fernando Rocker @ May 23rd 2007 10:10AM

They should release a Guitar Hero: Heavy Metal edition, and stop releasing shitty songs (Weezer, WTF).

I mean... I Im not saying that this are bad songs, but, the game name is Guitar Hero... I dont think that Weezer guitar player is a guitar hero. Or like the other Guitar Hero games, like Sum 41, The Donnas, Nirvana... that doesnt contribute nothing musically speaking. I mean, I respect the music preferences of people, but those song should not be in Guitar Hero.

sheppy @ May 23rd 2007 10:12AM

"that doesnt contribute nothing musically speaking. I mean, I respect the music preferences of people,"

You should respect double negatives. And believe it or not, but a music game has to go with a popular preference while throwing in more obscure stuff. I mean, hell... even Amplitude had to add POD and Pink.

JodyAnthony @ May 23rd 2007 10:15AM

if it "doesnt contribute nothing" does that mean it contributes everything? ;)

Banana Kid @ May 23rd 2007 10:17AM

THE D IS FINALLY IN THE GAME

SURE IT'S NOT TRIBUTE, BUT IT'S DAMN CLOSE

Einhanderkiller @ May 23rd 2007 10:17AM

Knights of Cydonia!

Aaron Martin @ May 23rd 2007 10:18AM

Still no stairway, WTF. Come on that should have been the first choice for the first one. BTW has anybody heard stairway to heaven backwards? listen to it on youtube, every lyric forwards make a lyric backwards - every single one. weird.

Kizzle @ May 23rd 2007 12:42PM

"There's also a "new button color design" to confuse anyone thinking about sticking to their old axe."

ASSHOLES. How fucking lame is that? Kiss my ass.

Kind of a weak lineup so far, but at least it's a good variety and we're seeing more original tracks. Oh, and Tenacious D sucks.

AdamW @ May 23rd 2007 10:22AM

Wireless Guitar Hero on the Wii, and a Smashing Pumpkins track that's actually the real version of the song?

Sold.

Obi-Habby @ May 23rd 2007 10:33AM

Im so glad I've held out and not purchased a guitar hero yet, and all I have to say is SABOTAGE!!!! Time to get my Beastie Boys on.

It will be interesting to see if the guitars for the Wii will be thier own controller or if they will use the wiimote as a battery/input. I could see them making you plug the controller into a slot on the back of the guitar and having it click into place(there is already grooves on the side of the wiimote for that to be a possibility.

Magarnacle @ May 23rd 2007 10:28AM

More Muse would be sweet, Stockholm Syndrome would be insane.

Saneless @ May 23rd 2007 10:41AM

"you will not have to buy a new guitar for it...you can use the old one with it...but if they change the color scheme then we might have a problem..."

Well, if they change the color scheme, I think the millions of people with the game already would probably riot. All they'd have to do, of course, is just have an option in the game.. You know, OPTIONS you stupid developers out there? Just have an option for the "old color style" and everyone will be happy.

Tony Bowman @ May 23rd 2007 10:41AM

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHWWWWHHHH
I CAN'T STAND IT
I KNOW YA PLANNED IT

IT'S SABOTAGE

sold on that right there. "paint it black" is also a seller.

Crono @ May 23rd 2007 10:45AM

I'll go ahead and second the request for "Heavy Metal" addition.

And asking for zepplin is like asking for Metallica: It would be great, but it won't happen in a million years.

ThatFuzzyBastard @ May 23rd 2007 10:45AM

Wait, wait---are they saying you can't use your GH2 controller on the PS2? Or you can, but the colors will be all screwy? Oh man, if that's true, I'm going to be so pissed off beyond-all-pissed-offedness...

konajinx @ May 23rd 2007 10:47AM

C. Grant,

The boys in the band will be sad that you called them "Fog Hat" and not "Foghat," dammit.

Crono @ May 23rd 2007 10:48AM

About the Colors: I really could care less, I don't even look at the colors on the guitar. I figure all the notes as distance from center left or right.

I think I'll get this on the 360, just because multi-play will be better integrated, and I like the thought of DLC, just not at the current price.

ShortFuse @ May 23rd 2007 10:50AM

Awesome, I was just fantasizing about Cherub Rock in Guitar Hero the other day. The song is alright, but I listen to the song from time to time only for the guitar. :) Paint It Black!!! YAY!

Matt @ May 23rd 2007 10:54AM

Yeah who cares if they change colors, just as long and there is still only 5 notes. Who actually looks at their guitar while playing?

C. Grant @ May 23rd 2007 11:02AM

konajinx: Hey, talk to Activision's sloppy press release! I've corrected it for future posts.

a dirty bastard @ May 23rd 2007 11:03AM

http://threespeech.com/blog/?p=417

NNTPgrip @ May 23rd 2007 11:08AM

Never thought I would see Muse on anything video game related. Guitar Hero must be made outside the US then? I could play a whole game of Origin of Symmetry for sure. Knights of Cydonia is the new Microcuts though. I'd like to see Microcuts on Singstar as a super-impossible unlockable.

Rallion @ May 23rd 2007 11:10AM

I'll have to buy a new guitar anyway, because I think I'm gonna want to go for the Wii version. I have two PS2 guitars, but I just don't know how much longer that poor machine is going to last. I have to mess with the drive frequently to get it to work...

The 360 version would be fine too, if I have one by then. It's on my wish list! (Read: Buy me one.)

Tacoman @ May 23rd 2007 11:09AM

Smashing Pumpkins AND The D? Fuck yes!

DarthDavid @ May 23rd 2007 11:15AM

If Nintendo is smart their version will be cheaper...use the Wiimote as the power source and tilt sensor, (MAYBE SOME RUMBLE AS FEED BACK?) and the Guitar itself would be cheaper to make.....MAKE IT A FLYING V FOR THE WII!!!!!!

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