Guitar Hero III pre-order box promises Killers, Santana

by Justin McElroy on Aug 21st 2007 12:55PM

According to a pre-order box for Guitar Hero III, the Killers and Santana will be joining the roster of tracks that will help the game do battle with Rock Band this fall. The Killers will be supplying "When You Were Young" from their album Sam's Town. Santana volunteers one of his blessedly Rob Thomas-free songs: "Black Magic Woman." (At least, we're pretty sure that's what it says. Sorry about the image quality.)

While the Killers track seems like kind of an out-of-left-field selection, "Black Magic Woman" is a natural fit. We're curious though: Does this mean that we'll get to battle Santana as a Legend of Rock? We'd love to ~~punish~~ thank him personally for Supernatural. We've got a list of all the songs so far after the jump.

[Thanks, NX03]

"3's and 7's" – Queens of the Stone Age
"Barracuda" – Heart
"Black Magic Woman" – Santana
"Cherub Rock" – Smashing Pumpkins
"Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll" – Blue Öyster Cult
"Cult of Personality" – Living Colour
"Even Flow" – Pearl Jam
"Go That Far" – Bret Michaels Band
"Knights of Cydonia" – Muse
"La Grange" – ZZ Top
"Lay Down" – Priestess
"The Metal" – Tenacious D
"Miss Murder" – AFI
"Mississippi Queen" – Mountain
"My Name Is Jonas" – Weezer
"The Number of the Beast" – Iron Maiden
"One" – Metallica
"Paint It, Black" – The Rolling Stones
"Paranoid" – Black Sabbath
"Raining Blood" – Slayer
"Reptilia" – The Strokes
"Rock and Roll All Nite" – Kiss
"Rock You Like a Hurricane" – Scorpions
"Sabotage" – Beastie Boys
"School's Out" – Alice Cooper
"She Bangs the Drums" – The Stone Roses
"She Builds Quick Machines" – Velvet Revolver
"Slow Ride" – Foghat
"Suck My Kiss" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Talk Dirty to Me" - Poison
"Through the Fire and Flames" – DragonForce
"Welcome to the Jungle" – Guns N' Roses
"When You Were Young" – The Killers

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Tags: activision, guitarheroiii, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (49)

I think the best news out of this is that the 360 and PS3 guitars are black now. It matches my Elite!

I haven't been really keeping up with the whole GH3/RB thing, but can the GH3 guitar(s) be used playing RB and vice-versa? Also, which game/version of the guitar will have the 5 additional fret buttons?

Guitar Hero guitar works with Rock Band. Rock Band guitar has 5 extra buttons.

Guitar Hero guitars can be used with Rock Band. Rock Band guitars cannot be used with Guitar Hero.

This is really only useful if you have the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero, since the PS2 guitars don't work with PS3 without some special adapter. (Not just any PS2-PS3 adapter works.)

Personally, I would prefer to try the newer, larger guitars for Rock Band.

That doesn't make any sense. Why would the controller with extra buttons not work on the game that requires less? Where'd you read Rock Band guitars couldn't be used with Guitar Hero III? (Citation Needed! -_^)

"We do intend to support 3rd-party guitar peripherals, including the Guitar Hero controllers, because this kind of interoperability is exactly what gamers want and expect."
- Alex Rigopulos, co-founder and CEO of Harmonix

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/795/795310p2.html

Yes, the Rock Band controller has more buttons, but the five new fret buttons are optional. They will be used only during solos and won't require any strumming. The source for that is the Game Informer article from a few months ago.

@Dortamur

I guess I didn't really answer your actual question. There has been no official announcement from Activision about supporting the Rock Band controllers, but I think everyone assumes it's out of the question.

Harmonix knows how to use the Guitar Hero controllers, since they have experience with them. I doubt Harmonix has been kind enough to send over the code for using the Rock Band controllers.

So I guess there really isn't a source for this assumption, but it just seems like common sense to say that Guitar Hero won't support Rock Band guitars.

please have smooth by santana! i would die!!!

wait, just read the article, whats your problem with supernatural?, ill gut you joystiq! GUT YOU!!!!

I'd totally love it too. But its probably due to my top secret man crush on rob thomas :(

Also PS3 and 360 wireless guitars are the same price?

I'm still waiting on a more complete song list for Rock Band. So far GH3 is killing it.

GH3 seems to have the better list SO FAR.....doesn't matter, I plan on getting Rock Band for the drums and GH3 for the guitar. Only time will tell on which game will come out on top.

Santana's "Black Magic Woman" is actually a cover of the Fleetwood Mac song (and early Fleetwood Mac at that, well before Stevie Nicks). Of course, Santana's version is the better and more popular one, but it's surprising how few people know that it's a cover. GH3 will undoubtedly have "as made famous by Santana" since that was definitely the most famous version, although the original did chart in the UK.

The question is, if it was in there, would All Along the Watchtower be famous by Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix?

It depends on whose version they are attempting to mimic. Van Halen's cover of You Really Got Me said "as made famous by Van Halen," despite the original being very famous.

Speaking of which, when are they going to put The Kinks in there? They had a bunch of great songs.

I'm a fan of the version of All Along The Watchtower that they had on the season 2 finale of Battlestar Galactica. But I'd have to put my vote down for the Hendrix version

I want AC/DC
Or Dragonforce. LOLZ

Dragonforce is in.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_ZutgOyA9EY

dragonforce is right there in black and white broseph

Awesome... I'm buying this game now.

Future Joystiq headline:

"Frets on Fire: Dragonforce song causes mass GH3 guitar failures"

wait a minute the song is way longer than that

How do I create an avatar for myself?

Click on your name and look around.

Click on your name.

Heaven forbid someone would actually take a focused photograph once in a while.

Why all the hate on Supernatural? Just because it got overplayed on the radio doesn't mean it isn't good music.

No, the fact that it is bad music is the reason it is bad music. Just because people like a song doesn't give it any merit.

And I agree, The Killers? People still listen to that fad band? And they play guitars?

@IlyaG: The nail just broke from being hammered on the head too hard.

I'd prefer Europa for Santana, but Black Magic Woman is a great song.

>Only time will tell on which game will come out on top.

I think rock band will be the better game without a doubt, though that's all a matter of opinion. However, Guitar Hero II will EASILY outsell Rockband. For one, it has the name recognition, but more importantly it's on PS2 and Wii as well as the other two. It'll blow Rock Band out of the water.

im still waiting for mastodons name to pop up

Like the new list. Glad I preordered.

Anyone with eyes knows that says Black Vagina Mullet

That was by Rush, right?

Of course, Rush is known as the pussy band.

You people don't get it. It's not about which song is the best to listen to, but which is the best to PLAY, wit the most entertaining note charts.

For example: "Smoke on the Water" and "I Wanna Be Sedated" were in the first Guitar Hero. Are these cool song to listen to? Of course. Are they fun to play in the game? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

I'll tell you my problem with it, it sucks. Sounds like a song for a panty hose commercial.

@Patrick

Yes! The Killers! Shitty butt-rock for the win!

I'm hesitant to admit this, but I'm not overly impress with the set list for GH2 :-(

Hmm, I'm still pretty lukewarm to this soundtrack. Good additions tho, but this soundtrack definitely has a lot of songs I'll probably play once or twice and then leave alone. I guess I'll still be playing Ziggy Stardust. ;)

I LOVE THE KILLERS!

i had both their albums for a while and hadnt really listened to them until a few months ago and now they are one of my favorite bands.

The Killers does sound a bit random at first, but hey, I love that song, so I can't complain.

Another interesting tidbit on that boxart is that when it discusses online play, there's a note that says "Online play is only available on the PLAYSTATION 3, XBOX 360, and Wii platforms" or something like that. So online just might be in for the Wii version.

That's been confirmed for a while.

"He also confirmed that Guitar Hero III on Wii contains features included in other versions of the upcoming game - such as online play and downloadable music."

http://wii.ign.com/articles/780/780807p1.html

fuckin afi and the killers, this game is turning into emo hero 3, lucky its got metallica to save it.

@kmo-You should mention Slayer being on the set list before Metallica. Because, well, we all know what happened (that being, Metallica took the money and Slayer took the eternal glory). ;D

unless of course it's the original version by Fleetwood Mac...

Looks like Black Magic Wookie to me.

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