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Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Announced

I never pegged Gene Simmons as the narrator type.

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." 

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Quick Play+, the other new feature, is a single and cooperative set of challenges that has the potential to provide "literally hundreds of hours of replayability," according to the press release. In a nutshell, it's a series of 13 challenges that that will be supported in all the songs on the disc, as well as "most" DLC songs from Guitar Hero World Tour and beyond. The names and details of all the challenges weren't revealed today, however, three of the thirteen were announced: Band Streak, High Score, Power Challenge. The latter challenge, as explained, is a "get the highest score" deal with the twist of being able to use unlockable "warrior powers." 
== TEASER ==
In addition to all of that information, Activision busted out a partial track listing for Warriors of Rock which includes artists KISS, The Cure, Rammstein, and Muse. Here's that. 

  • 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”
  • Foo Fighters -- “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”
  • The Rolling Stones -- “Stray Cat Blues”
  • Silversun Pickups -- “There’s No Secrets This Year”
  • Slayer -- “Chemical Warfare”
  • ΖΖ Top -- “Sharp Dressed Man (Live)”    
 
If you're still wondering about the guitar, so am I. No assets for it were released, but it's described as a "show-stopper" by Activision. I wonder if it can accidentally eat bats... 
 
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock is slated for release on the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii.

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Edited By ecksbawksUser

Apart from some old classics , this is another 'idiots guide to rock music' playlist

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I'm thinking that Bohemian Rhapsody is gonna be in RB3, and it won't need to be cut since it'll have the keyboard of some kind.

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@c1337us said:
" A Guitar Hero sequel? Get the fuck out of here. "
I know right
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As much as I disdain what Guitar Hero has become, this is exactly the right way for the franchise to go. Let Rock Band deal with the serious stuff, GH has always been more over-the-top and this is the logical next step.

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A Guitar Hero sequel? Get the fuck out of here.

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OMG New Guitar Hero!!! Oh man, I'm so glad it's still 2007 and I give a damn! 
 
Oh wait, it's 2010 and I don't. I'll bet cash monopoly money now that this will suck. Flat out, it will be bad. It'll have some neat stuff that'll be done poorly, and the graphics will continue to be Guitar Hero weird, and Activision will continue missing the point: That what made Guitar Hero 1 and 2 cool wasn't real rockstars like Simmons playing some part, and it wasn't this stupid commercial fake rock junk their trying to push as "Rock and Roll!" It was the fact that the developers were given enough time to develop a solid game with a high level of polish that showed a compassion for Rock. And until they get that, which I bet they won't, then this brand will continue drilling toward the center of mediocrity.  
 
You wanna join the Fight to Save Rock? Stop buying these games.

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So...no AC/DC...?
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Wait. ...Wasn't Bohemian Rhapsody already released on Guitar Hero through DLC? So does this mean that past DLC won't be forward-compati-- Aw, I don't care anymore.

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Edited By 234r2we232

Oh, Guitar Hero. You haven't been interesting since your second outing which was like 4 years ago. They effed up a Metallica game. I'm not sure how you do that. I'm gonna save my money for RB DLC and get some good charts, thanks :D
 

@Xeiphyer

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" Megadeth sucks. "

 Your parents suck at raising children.
 
  @jakob187 said:

Given how goddamn incredible Endgame was as an album, I can only IMAGINE!!! "

EndGame was generic, absolutely nothing distinguishes that from the other metal albums out there. Which is sad, considering how good Dave was. Sigh. I could live without the b-sides from it too.
 

@Red

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" 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'd hardly call Rhapsody a must have for a game featuring multiple instruments. Unless you take just a 3 minute chunk of it - which would be pointless since it would ruin the song. Some songs, no matter how classic, just don't belong in these types of games, outside of maybe a karaoke type thing.
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You'd think they would wait until, oh I don't know, people actually wanted another one?

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

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@Metal_Mills said:
" No Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Dio, Overkill, Sodom, but lots of shit false metal. Nice...ugh. "
You mean NOT YET! 
 
Personally, I like the tracklist so far.  Yeah, there's stuff like The Cure that makes me scratch my head, but hey, whatever.  It's not Kings of Leon, and THAT is what's important. 
 
Also, "Children of the Grave"!!!!!!!!!!!!  Master of Reality is the album that got me into heavy metal!  FUCKING...SOLD!!! 
 
And of course, more Megadeth is ALWAYS welcome.  The song is original and only available on Warriors of Rock, which is even SWEETER!!!  Given how goddamn incredible Endgame was as an album, I can only IMAGINE!!!
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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. "

  
Dude, that's not even the first time that song was in a Guitar Hero game. I think it was in GH 1 or 2.
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Queen -- “Bohemian Rhapsody”  
 
GOD DAMN IT!! 
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Pretty disappointing to see people still buy this crap.

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

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

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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.

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Bohemian Rhapsody \m/

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Dude. I'm actually kinda excited. Fury of the Storm?! Woo! But will I buy? We'll see. I am probably one of the few who aren't totally finished with Guitar Hero, no? I still see hope.
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I love how their still releasing songs on disc that RB has had out on disc or download forever.

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another? srsly?

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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.

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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.

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

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so its Brutal Legend?

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Megadeth, dude. 

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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.

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

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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

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

Also, this.  I'll take my bajillion songs without having to switch disks thank you.
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Great song selection. Too bad I'm done with GH. I hope Slayer and Dethklok put up music for Rock Band 3

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

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

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Stop. 
 
Please. Stop.

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

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brutal legend much?

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@fuzzy510 said:
" 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. "
Yeap.
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Spelled Megadeth wrong :D

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

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ANY WAY THE WIND BLOOOWS

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

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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.

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"former" KISS bassist? Since when?

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

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

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Not buying the concept. 

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