GH Metallica demo on XBLM, nothing else matters

by Richard Mitchell on Mar 20th 2009 11:54AM

Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys, get your plastic instruments ready: A demo for Guitar Hero: Metallica is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace. The demo allows you to rock out on bass, drums, guitar and vocals.

Undoubtedly the most exciting Guitar Hero release since the last Guitar Hero release -- but not nearly as exciting as the next Guitar Hero release -- Guitar Hero: Metallica is one seriously heavy metal game. It seems pretty heavy anyway, considering the demo weighs in at over one gig. Queue it up for download by clicking here.

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Tags: activision, guitar-hero, guitar-hero-metallica, Microsoft, neversoft, xblm, Xbox-360, xbox-live

Reader Comments (58)

The game looks a little less cheerful and colorful from what I've seen on the trailers, which is a good think... I'm still not convinced whether to get it or not. I own every single game in the series... I thought GH3 was ok... GHWT was... well... a little bit worse. But GH: Aerosmith was ABYSMAL. If GH:M is anything like it, NO SALE.

Yeah, GH:A blew something fierce. I only paid $25 for the disc and guitar and still felt screwed.

Just out of curiousity, did you find Guitar Hero: Aerosmith abysmal because of the track listing or what? Were you an Aerosmith fan going into that game?

No. I am not an Aerosmith fan. I don't despise the band, though and find their music enjoyable in that 80s-90s sense.

What I hated about the game is... The lack of actual content. For the price of a full game, what I got was a (only partially!) re-skinned Guitar Hero 3 menu, not enough songs to make me happy, not enough iconic Aerosmith songs (they left the obvious ones out!). The "Story Mode" was not engaging, cover songs were cover and there was no replay value to the whole thing.

It was one of the most horrible attempts at a cash-in I've ever seen. They didn't even try, to be completely honest. I was quite mad because I paid the full price and the reviews were quite ok. And I wasted money on what WAS Guitar Hero 3, with less songs and less content for the price of Guitar Hero 3.

Well, it's not so much that they didn't even try as much as it is that they just really have no clue what people actually care about. Red Octane always puts SO much time and effort into the stuff that goes on behind the note track. All the character models, stages, backgrounds, etc.

But when people are playing they really don't care about that stuff. They should focus their efforts elsewhere.

boorah! available for gold members only. with the word 'Metallica' in the title, why am I not surprised?

Disadvantages? In your silver account? It's more likely than you think. It's a Microsoft thing, not a Metallica thing. Give it a week.

I had no idea silver members were allowed to get -anything- cool.

Joystiq, many other things matter, like to those who don't have gold AND who wouldn't download this demo anyway. Since when are the editors FOR another GH sellout?

Jesus Christ! Only a few comments in and people are already complaining about the GH series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour

tl;dr

Aww, poor baby. :'(

"Nothing Else Matters" is also the name of a Metallica song.

O RLY?

Sarcasm is part of my name. YS RLY.

What is this..."sarcasm"...that you speak of?

Is "Nothing Else Matters" actually ON the demo?

if so, that's wicked - that's the only song I really cared about!

Won't have to buy the game now!

never mind, sad face, should have read down further

thanks for getting my hopes up mitchell

you win this time . . .

Anyone DL this yet? What's the track listing?

I just wanna know if there's any songs to make it worth the download (I only get 20 gigs per month :( )

sad but true, stone cold crazy & seek & destroy

HUZZAH!

No Excuses
Sad But True
Seek And Destroy
Stone Cold Crazy

Not exactly the cream of the crop.

Those are ok songs for a demo. Obviously they can't put the best in there otherwise why buy the game?

I'll d/l it for "No Excuses." The others I could take or leave.

Stone Cold Crazy? From Queen?

haha, basically the only song I really wanted from the game came in the demo, that's awesome!

I wonder how much money the company would have made if they released all these songs as DLC...

I'm in the same boat as The Alex with this one, except with an extra song, Seek and Destroy

Young Nastyman, is that Freddie Mercury wearing a Luigi hat for your pic? If so, that's awesome!

How big is the download? I'm down to only 600mb left on my hard drive. =(

Nevermind clicked the marketplace link and it says 1GB.

Well it says over a gig in the post so... probably like 300 megs..

It is over 1 gig? How did you find that out? It is not in the article! Oh, wait...it is!

*facepalm*

Yeah I didn't read the "one gig" part as 1 gb when I skimmed the article.

2K Games just confirmed that Bioshock 2 won't have cooperative multiplayer mode.

Normally I'd make some snide sarcastic remark about posting in the wrong article, but that is such good news that I don't care that you did that.

THANK YOU 2K!!

where? I must wikify this news

Where's my Guitar Hero Minus the Bear

We just throw the cans out.

Let's hear it for the least innovative group in console games today! Seriously, guys, I like Metallica as much as the next metalhead, but try changing up the formula just a little and give us a reason to care.

they HAVE changed the format a little - it's more story mode than the other games, and there seems to have been more put into it in general, which is cool.

I'm a Metallica nut though, and would buy it anyway but think it's a pretty cool package - moreso than the aerosmith one

This'll hold me over till I can get it at a bargain bin $10-15 price. Love Metallica, but I'm never paying full price again for another rhythm game, specially GH.

Yeah! And where's my GH: Peter, Paul and Mary? Or GH: Raffi? Wheels On The Bus FTW!

GH: Raffi? Count me in!
Ring-ring-ring-ring-ring-ring-ring BANANAPHONE!

ALMOST LIKE YOUR LIFE...

I think I might pick this up since I'm a big fan of Metallica... but will this allow me to buy DLC from Guitar Hero : WT since I wouldn't mind getting the Hendrix and Queen stuff.

Nope. Only DLC compatible with it is Metallica stuff. Hence, only Death Magnetic for you. Yay Activision.

Haha, nice hairdo on that bassist. Is that the guy from Suicidal Tendencies?

Yes'm. And Black Label Society, and Ozzy for a while...among others.

Yeah, he played in that group for a while.

Also, his full name is Roberto Agustín Miguel Santiago Samuel Trujillo Veracruz. How annoying.

hm, something no one has asked... Can I use my Rock Band guitar?

probably because it's based on the GH:WT engine and you can use the rock band guitar for that

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