Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Announced

Though most of the juicy details already came out via Nintendo Power, it's now totally official: Guitar Hero 6 is coming--and it's in the form of Neversoft's Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. According to the press release blasted this morning, Warriors of Rock will boast a few fresh features that might separate it from the rest of the Guitar Hero herd, namely, the "all-new, story-driven Quest Mode," its Quick Play+ feature, and its redesigned "rock-inspired" guitar. The game will feature, as always, a tracklist of guitar-driven songs (more on that later), drop-in and out party play, and the usual set of instruments: drums, bass, microphone, and guitar.

Former KISS bassist and all-around disgusting dude, Gene Simmons, will be the narrator of the game's Quest Mode which has players stopping a mystical brute named "The Beast" from destroying rock and roll. The mode will have realistic venues, like the CBGB, but it will also have cartoon-inspired fantasy settings like "molten fields of lava." Quest Mode also has its own original song written by Megadeth's Dave Mustaine called "Sudden Death." 

• AFI -- “Dancing Through Sunday” 
• 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”
• DragonForce -- “Fury of the Storm”
• Drowning Pool -- “Bodies”
• FooFighters -- “No Way Back”
• Foreigner -- “Feels Like The First Time”
• Jane’s Addiction -- “Been Caught Stealing”
• KISS -- “Love Gun”
• Megadeth -- “Sudden Death”
• Metallica & Ozzy Osbourne -- “Paranoid (Live)”
• Muse -- “Uprising”
• My Chemical Romance -- “I'm Not Okay (I Promise)”
• Queen -- “Bohemian Rhapsody”
• Rammstein -- “Waidmanns Heil”
• TheRollingStones -- “Stray Cat Blues”
• SilversunPickups -- “There’s No Secrets This Year”
• Slayer -- “Chemical Warfare”
• ΖΖ Top -- “Sharp Dressed Man (Live)”    

cool?

seems like guitar hero

Bohemian Rhapsody!!!

No mas!

Activision may have not achieved at getting back Brutal Legend but that doesn't mean they won't be releasing their own version of it. I mean really? What an embarrassing rip-off.

Sabbath, Bodom, Megadeth, Slayer and Bohemian Rhapsody?  This might be the first Guitar Hero game I pick up since 3.  I'll wait to see the full track list, though.

That's a fail if I ever saw one.

Awesome! Can't wait to play it.

I see them making guitar hero till the end of time.
Why not spice it up and rip off other IPs like Brutal Legend? Oh shit they totally are!?
 
Maybe like an actual Guitar Hero story though, not literally ripping off the medi-evil scene. Like make a character, and progress by buying music lessons (give you more instruments to work with in the create music mode) or music books to unlock more songs? 
 
Instead of straight up giving us more songs to play, give us a choice as to what we want to play next. Having far more songs than are required to play through the story so we can miss the unfavorable tracks instead of making us play through all sorts of garbage to get to some good tracks would be stellar additions.

I thought they weren't making as many guitar heros lol

Not buying the concept. 

No

Just what I always wanted...more Guitar Hero.

You're supposed to stop the beast from destroying rock but then you put My Chemical Romance in your game.....

"former" KISS bassist? Since when?

If it hasn't already done so, I think this game is when we look back on the Guitar Hero franchise as when it jumped the shark.

Still don't know why anyone would ever want to play silversun pickups on a guitar hero

ANY WAY THE WIND BLOOOWS

Whooptie-fucking-doo, more Guitar Hero full retail games when all of these songs are probably already on RockBand Store

Spelled Megadeth wrong :D

" If it hasn't already done so, I think this game is when we look back on the Guitar Hero franchise as when it jumped the shark. "

brutal legend much?

Way too much metal for my liking. There are only two songs in that list that I'm actually interested in playing.

Stop. 
 
Please. Stop.

50 bucks would go a long way in the Rockband store song library...

Huzzah for metal... Which I don't like.

Great song selection. Too bad I'm done with GH. I hope Slayer and Dethklok put up music for Rock Band 3

Other than the Queen song, they seem to have selected the less good songs for some of the bands.  I mean they had to pick a crappy Bodom song off "Are You Dead Yet?" instead of a song off one of their earlier albums that have actual variety to them instead of boring drop C riffs and half singing that "If You Want Peace..." has.  Even something of Hate Crew Deathroll would be better.
 

@shadowthrone

" 50 bucks would go a long way in the Rockband store song library... "

Bloodlines, Bohemian Raphsody, Children of the Grave, and Uprising and I'm still not excited about another Guitar Hero.

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Gene Simmons alone practically kills it for me.  That guy is revolting, and I don't much want to support anything he might make money on.  Add this ridiculous Brutal Legend rip-off of a story, mix in Neversoft's usual crass aesthetic, and I'll pass.  I may rent it to check out their version of CBGB and try out the two or three songs on that list that interest me, but that's it.
 
And who wants to put money down that with harmonies and keyboards added to Rock Band 3, Bohemian Rhapsody turns up in that game in a much more robust form?  Heck, that would make a killer "debut tune" for the game at E3.

Megadeth, dude. 

so its Brutal Legend?

A Rock inspired guitar?  
 
Only thing that excites me from that list is Bohemian Rhapsody, but it'll be in Rock Band soon enough.

I thought I was done with Guitar Hero, I haven't bought one since the Metallica one, but I'm kind of interested in this now. I might come to my senses before it's released though.

For some reason, I think this is a better direction for Guitar Hero to go.  They obviously can't beat Rock Band straight up, so they should switch up the gameplan. 
I'll be keeping my eye on this.

another? srsly?

I love how their still releasing songs on disc that RB has had out on disc or download forever.

Bohemian Rhapsody \m/

Megadeth sucks.
 
Also, Warrior Powers huh? That could be cool if it turned into some sort of rhythm-puzzle game, like puzzle quest did with rpg.
 
But we know they aren't that smart.

Ehhhhhhhh. 
 
"  ΖΖ Top   -- “Sharp Dressed Man (Live)” 
 
...Maybe.

No Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Dio, Overkill, Sodom, but lots of shit false metal. Nice...ugh.

Pretty disappointing to see people still buy this crap.

On one hand, Fascination Street and (in an ironic, playing-it-once-and-never-again sort of way) Bodies. On the other, none of the added features seem interesting and we really don't need another rhythm game.
 
 @dancinginfernal said:

" Ehhhhhhhh. 
 
"  ΖΖ Top   -- “Sharp Dressed Man (Live)”  ...Maybe. "

" No Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Dio, Overkill, Sodom, but lots of shit false metal. Nice...ugh. "

only about 3/4 of those songs were complete garbage, getting better!