PSA: Guitar Hero: Metallica melting faces, store shelves today [update]

Guitar Hero: Metallica is on one disc. No need to swap.

I'm telling you like this.

I like Metallica from time to time. But Metallica does not have the musical diversity to fit a party type of setting from the group I usually play Rock Band with. Rock Band, meanwhile, because it does stack, has a huge tracklist on my copy with a wide variety of tracks. If I was going the Guitar Hero route on these kinds of games, we would constantly be switching between discs to get at a song someone likes. Trust me, I know this. Because this was a major problem in our Beatmania and Guitar Hero PS2 play sessions.

If Guitar Hero would allow players to create a master track list, then yeah. More focused releases like this would be an excellent addition. But as a stand alone, narrowing the focus of the musical diversity, we would constantly have to stop playing one version or another and have to reregister all the controllers, etc. For my money, I don't see any reason, aside from greed, that these releases don't mesh together. I understand why Activision is doing what they are doing. I'm not stupid. I just don't see a reason to support those efforts if I don't have to.

Also, yes.. I will be buying Beatles.
1. It's the beatles.
2. There music has a huge amount of diversity which most other bands can't even attempt, let alone match.
3. It's the beatles.

@HarDCoRe ManSTuFF tomato STyLE

Um...the AC/DC Tracks are transferable...You put them to your hard drive and you play em on RB1 or 2...you don't have to swap discs....

Transferrable or not, who cares? Rock Band:The Beatles is a 100% must have.

bad comment system told me my 1st reply was not there :(

No wait. Flip that...Money yes (selling out), sex no.

I'm a moron.

They sold out the moment they put their names on a record contract. Hell, even indie music is loaded with a bunch of sellouts. If they have a product you can buy, with money and/or sex, they have sold out.

I think record contract = sellout goes a little far. I'm just saying Metallica is much more on Kiss's side of the fence than they were in their golden years.

you could always pirate the game. Then you'll piss Lars off twice

Metallica may have sold out, like most great bands do in some way, but at least they didn't go this far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFS4Ml1NXII


WHY OZZIE??

What does "selling out" even mean anymore? It seems like every allegedly indie band is being promo'd by some store in the mall.

Determining a sell out is a tricky business. I generally take it as an artist substantially altering their art or message solely for commercial acceptance and success. Did Metallica need to change over the years to continue selling albums and concert tickets? They could have just kept rehashing the "Metallica sound" for several more albums through the late 80s and into the 90s and sold a tremendous amount of albums. However, the qualities and characteristics that made these guys entertaining in the first place are the same ones that drive them to find new ways to express themselves. And by the way, has anyone here been to a boring Metallica show? These guys have always given more than your money's worth for a show.

It is hard for me to take shots at a band like Metallica that has been generally active for around 25 years now. It is only natural that they and their music has changed over that time span. I don't think it is rational to expect any band to both:

1) not develop or evolve
and
2) stay creatively interesting

I can't really think of any bands that have anything approaching Metallica's longevity that haven't either made dramatic changes over the years (U2, Radiohead) or basically became a cover band of their own work (Rolling Stones, The Who, AC/DC and many more).

You don't have to be "all in" with everything a band does, but I don't think you should turn your back forever on a group you obviously enjoyed at one point because you didn't like an album or two along the way. A compilation like this is a great opportunity to revisit some great memories in a wholly unique way and maybe even share them with some friends. You might even end up liking some of the newer stuff if you give it a chance.

"Under what circumstances does a group sell out? What does that mean to you?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMD7uQRAyPY

@Sheppy

Money no, sex yes. Otherwise, what's the point of being an artist?

NAPSTER BAD!!! FIRE BAD!!!

Do you like that? I've been looking for a woman into that sort of thing.

Actually, if you do like being shit all over, I'm going to hide.

they are lying. It says it works with wii on the box

And by 9s, I mean 9s as in 9 out of 10 ratings.

I remember when GameSpot gave Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction a 75. Don't pay attention to the numbers; they're never reliable.

yes there's solo tour it's not rock band world tour

do you have the cymbal add-ons? those are incompatible with GH:Metallica and the double bass pedal won't work on the RockBand2 drumset (at least that's the way it is for the PS3 version). it'll keep on saying "connection to port 1 lost" or "connection to port 2 lost" disconnect the cymbals.

you CAN have the pedal hooked up (but you NEED to use the splitter--the plug-in opening below the first bass pedal plug is NOT for the 2nd drum pedal)--but it won't register hits on the 2nd drum pedal--at least, that's as far as we could tell when we played last night on my friend's PS3.

Oh... well I am using a spliter, but I'll try disconecting the cybles. Thanx.