Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock unveiled with trailer

by JC Fletcher on Jun 4th 2010 10:34AM

Though alerting the general public of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock's existence has been taken care of, Activision provided new details about the upcoming music title in an official announcement today.

Warriors of Rock will include a newly-designed guitar controller inspired and born from the game's unique art style and specifically made for "shredding." With this controller (or presumably with one of your countless old plastic guitars), you'll play over 90 "guitar-shredding tracks" included on the disc -- which Activision notes is the largest on-disc collection for a music game yet. Apparently, it'll involve shredding.

The Gene Simmons-narrated Quest Mode will take players from the CBGB club in New York City to "the molten lava fields of rock treachery" to defeat "The Beast." In more gameplay-related news, developer Neversoft is adding a Quickplay+ mode, featuring 13 challenges for every song on the disc -- and every DLC song released since Guitar Hero World Tour. Challenges include Band Streak, High Score and Power Challenge, in which players choose any two previously unlocked "warrior powers" to attempt "ridiculously high scores."

The first set of announced tracks is posted after the break.
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock partial set list:

AFI – "Dancing Through Sunday"
Anthrax – "Indians"
Avenged Sevenfold – "Bat Country"
Black Sabbath – "Children Of The Grave"
Buzzcocks – "What Do I Get?"
Children Of Bodom – "If You Want Peace... Prepare For War"
The Cure – "Fascination Street"
Def Leppard – "Pour Some Sugar On Me (Live)"
Dethklok – "Bloodlines"
Dire Straits – "Money For Nothing"
DragonForce – "Fury of the Storm"
Drowning Pool – "Bodies"
Fall Out Boy – "Dance, Dance"
Foo Fighters – "No Way Back"
Foreigner – "Feels Like The First Time"
The Hives – "Tick Tick Boom"
Jane's Addiction – "Been Caught Stealing"
Jethro Tull – "Aqualung"
KISS – "Love Gun"
Linkin Park – "Bleed It Out"
Megadeth – "Sudden Death"
Metallica & Ozzy Osbourne – "Paranoid (Live)"
Muse – "Uprising"
My Chemical Romance – "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)"
Night Ranger – " (You Can Still) Rock In America"
Nine Inch Nails – "Wish"
The Offspring – "Self Esteem"
Queen – "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Rammstein – "Waidmanns Heil"
The Rolling Stones – "Stray Cat Blues"
Silversun Pickups – "There's No Secrets This Year"
Slayer – "Chemical Warfare"
Slipknot – "Psychosocial"
Stone Temple Pilots – "Interstate Love Song"
ZZ Top – "Sharp Dressed Man (Live)"

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Tags: Activision, Guitar-Hero, Guitar-Hero-Warriors-of-Rock, microsoft, Music, nintendo, playstation, ps3, wii, xbox, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (130)

So the new gimmick is player characters that... turn into monsters...? Guitar Hero: Altered Beast! F yeah!

...

Seriously Acitivison, you're just not even trying anymore now.

Oh God, this is probably going to start a trend.

Please, Activision, I beg of you, whatever you do with DJ Hero 2, do not, I repeat, DO NOT make its "hook" some shameful ripoff of another classic game like this crap. I do not want to play "Boom Boom Pow vs. Satisfaction" while simultaneously swinging on a vine above a giant hole in the ground.

Literally on his knees right now,

Tre

hey, altered beast was AWESOME

RWISE FWOM YOUR GWRAVE

I think this looks more like Guitar Hero of Warcraft. I saw at least a tauren and an undead...

worst partis... I will be getting this....eventually

Wait a minute, I thought the Guitar Hero meets WoW was only an April Fool's joke. Axel Steel and Eddie Riggs already look nearly identical, and the description makes it sound like brutal legend. It is...WoW, with a little Transformers thrown into Guitar Hero... WTF? *head explodes*

Just a stepping stone to "Guitar Hero: Guitar Warfare"

Hay will also work

"The Beast", eh?

So this is the sequel to Infamous and Guitar Hero 5?

Are they even allowed to DO that?

Nope, they can't. [Prototype] on the other hand...

Lovely selection of tracks of songs that are already available for Rock Band, with a few exceptions that I'm sure we'll see when Rock Band 3's setlist is announced at E3.

And good job on using one of the songs from Brutal Legend for the trailer... which oddly doesn't seem to be in the tracklist at all unless I'm remembering the song's title wrong!

Children of the Grave, by Black Sabbath

It is on the list. What it isn't, however, is enough for me to buy this one. Can't stand playing with those toy guitars anymore...

Looking forward to seeing that other guitar game (powergig, I think that's the name) in action - the first and only trailer was really, really lame, and it looks like a new definition of fail, so far. But I'd rather try a 'guitar tutorial' than another plastic guitar thing with weird and ugly characters.

Please provide evidence for this. I'm looking at the list and see that the vast majority of songs are not available for Rock Band.

@gnidliub

No evidence, but I think a lot of people will be surprised if Bohemian Rhapsody isn't in RB3. I'm actually kind of surprised it's in this, given that "guitar" focus they're pushing for this (although I guess its popularity probably shouldn't make it too surprising)

Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country (DLC)
Drowning Pool - Bodies (RBN)
Foreginer - Feels Like The First Time (DLC)
The Hives - Tick Tick Boom (Lego: RB)
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (RB2)
Night Ranger - (You Can Still) Rock in America (DLC)
The Offspring - Self Esteem (DLC)
Slipknot - Psychosocial (DLC)
Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song (DLC)

The cow they are milking must sure be dead by now

If by 'dead' you mean 'a lifeless, zombified shell of its former self created by an evil man named Bobby Kotick' then I guess you're right.

'cow makes some dumb trailers too.

Not too happy about some of these songs that Activision considers to be "Warriors of Rock."

Agreed. Fall Out Boy and AFI are like the kids that real warriors of rock would beat up and take their lunch money.

I'd rather just have "Fury of the Storm" be DLC b/c I'm not playing any of these other songs. I mean, doesn't "Aqualung" feature more flute than guitar?

I know what you mean....but....but...they have NIN's "Wish". Must...resist...

*fingers twitch*

HOW DID THEY KNOW MY WEAKNESS

this series is starting to look like the hot chick thats gotten old but is still trying to hold onto what she had just by wearing more makeup.

If this is so, then Rock Band = Meryl Streep (at least, for now).

Maryl Streep can do whatever she pleases, says I.

You leave Meryl Streep out of this!

SHE'S A NICE LADY!

It was supposed to be a compliment.

And yes, she is a nice lady.

the cure, fallout boy, stray cat blues, interstate love song...

they took this "shredding" motif super-seriously...

/sarcasm

We have Fury of The Storm.

That makes this list for me.

And a dull, slow Cure song to boot.

Almost anything off of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, would have been better to play.

Not a terrible list. Still, as a party gamer when it comes to GH/RB, I'm not sure what new mechanics they have to offer me - they already pretty much nailed it in GH5, and RB3 will no doubt combine said party features with Harmonix's innate grasp of music (something Neversoft has never quite duplicated; GH always feels to me like it was designed by people who love video games, whereas RB feels like its designers love music).

You really hit it on the head

EXACTLY right! rock band is made by music lovers FOR music lovers. guitar hero is just a video game gimmick

How is Rock Band "for music lovers" more than Guitar Hero?! This is just common music snobbery hidden behind game snobbery.

The Guitar Hero drum mappings are infinitely closer to what the drummer is playing than in Rock Band (where they don't even have the sticking patterns right half the time), and neither even come close to simulating playing a guitar or singing in register. And don't get me started on the terrible fill system in Rock Band.

So how is it so significantly different as a game? The graphics? The menus? All the DLC you can buy and never play online because no one else has it? The number of released titles? As far as I can tell, they're essentially the same game with equal parts fun, with Guitar Hero having major improvements in the drums department.

I love the drum fill system. Just wish they would use the songs drum sound instead of a default one.

I mean, I guess so. Rock Band does get better playlists and can do a single-band game with a lot more care, but Neversoft kicks absolute ass at making note patterns. So, do you want your game to be more fun to listen to or play?

Honestly, I have Beatles Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5, and I'm never going to need another guitar game.

Chilly P@ Wow, I actually feel the reverse about Neversoft's note patterns, if we're talking about guitar charting. It's probably the only reason why I soured on the GH games in the first place (although WT was quite questionable overall).

I suppose it depends on your take. I could imagine Neversoft's charting being more awesome if you're all about the challenge. But as a guy who never goes above hard nowadays (back in the day I could get to psychobilly freakout on expert for what its worth) I prefer RBs charts.. not necessarily because they're easier - although that could be it partially - but moreso because I (as a non-guitarist) actually feel more like I'm playing the music, whereas GH is more like I'm playing a game.

Totally dependant on a persons interpretation of the immersion though.

@jsx Obviously, you're not a real drummer. There's no good way to replicate even a simple 5-piece set on to a group of 4 drum pads with or without cymbals. I'm left scratching my head on either game during a lot of drum parts, especially when I know I can play the entire song on my real drums at my jam house.

@Ryan: I'm a fine drummer, there's no song I can't play in these games with ease on my Roland kit (GH MIDI in FTW) and I can play them fine without the game. But my friend blows me away 1000x over, is a drum teacher, went to Berklee for drums, and agrees with all of my sentiments on the matter. But way to try to insult me.

Some cool songs there, but this looks far too gimmicky. Kids will eat it up, but I'll just stick with Rock Band 3.

Nothing's more bad-ass than a boar-man rocking out to Dance, Dance by Fallout Boy. Really, Activision?

maybe Man-Bear-Pig.
http://www.zombiewatch.us/pics/mbp.jpg

this looks like guitar hero 3 legends of ROCK

famous celebrity or two as the face of the game (just like slash and whatever the other guitar man was)
punk and metal sluts barely clothed and giant beefy men who turn into pigs literally (yes so was 3, you just didn't transform into a "warrior")
songs that aren't really legendary or rock and roll??? CHECK CHECK
muse, offspring, FALL OUT BOY, dragon force, AFI, avenged sevenfold, my chemical romance, ect. (most of these bands were in guitar hero 3)

battle to defeat "the beast"??
this ISN'T the devil, satan? oh yes, ANOTHER charlie daniel's band cover *shudder* better not be the surprise finale.

Guitar Hero 3 Legends of Rock
Guitar Hero 6 Warriors of Rock

Glad to see the series has come so FAR!

I don't care; Guitar Hero III was my favorite entry of the series, and this looks like one I would enjoy as well after the blandy bland fests that were World Tour and 5.

Really? People are already 'choosing' Rock Band 3 over Warriors of Rock, when they know almost nothing about the former? Before you downvote me (which I'm sure is going to happen regardless because I didn't instantly say something bad about Activision, or Kottick, or Neversoft, or whatever), I'm not even a fan of the music game genre anymore, so I'm not a 'fanboy' of either series, though I've played plenty of both. I used to be a Day 1 purchaser of anything Guitar Hero until they started making endless broken peripherals, and Rock Band still comes out a fair amount of parties. I'm just saying, why not wait and see (and better yet - wait and play!) before making your choice?

It's a music game, and it was supposed to be about "Shred", if you think the choice of music is poor, then you're not going to like it regardless of the gameplay, because if you don;t like the music you're not going to play it, I mean there are some good ones in there but y'know...

probably because rock band did what guitar hero took 4 games to do, then did it better with a sequel. Then guitar hero did it all again, but was more about image and commercial success, rather than music, and people are wondering what could possibly be left for a third rockband, when six guitar hero games now have achieved just what rock band 2 has had this whole time.

For a few reasons. One, I hate how Guitar Hero is handled by Activision. Two, the Rock Band store. I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain that every song form Rock Band 1, 2, and all of the DLC will work with 3. Guitar Hero has been very unreliable when it comes to that, and though I give Activision props for trying, it's too late. I used to be a huge Guitar Hero fan, and if you were to actually look over my posts on here you can watch the change unfold.

Rock Band hooked me with their backward compatibility as well. GH is just not worth it anymore to me. I will probably get this a few months later when GH7 comes out and this is twenty bucks.

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