Guitar Hero 5

Overview

Guitar Hero 5 is the sequel to Guitar Hero World Tour with an improved engine, new songs, characters and features. Like its predecessor, Guitar Hero 5 also features full-band game play and is compatible with all instrument controllers from previous Guitar Hero and Rock Band games with the inclusion of the secondary foot-pedal for the drum-set introduced in Guitar Hero: Metallica, which are only available in the "Expert Plus" drum-exclusive difficulty. The game follows the classic Guitar Hero gameplay with the new addition of "band moments" which are small passages in a song that provides bonus points if no band member misses a note.

New Features

• The most recognizable new feature, is the ability to play which ever instrument you want. Own two drum-sets and want to use both? That is now possible, and nobody is forced to sing.
• The game has a new "party mode" where the game plays the entire setlist of songs, and players are able to drop in and out as they please.
• It is now also possible to change difficulty level on the fly without having to restart the song.

All these new features combined, arguably makes Guitar hero 5 into the most party-friendly Guitar Hero game.

The Controller

Guitar Hero 5 is sold separately, with a guitar and in a full-band package containing one guitar, a drum set and a microphone. The microphone and drum set are the same as those who launched with Guitar Hero World Tour, nothing was improved with this guitar but there was a improved guitar controller has been slightly improved which was a Guitar Hero 5 Pro-Order exclusive and was only sold in bundles for the game the improvements made are:

• The strum button has been made quieter.
• Digital slider touch-pad has been completely revamped.
• New faceplate and textured strumbar.

Pre-Order Offer

To boost sales of Guitar Hero 5 before its release, Activision offered a free copy of the then-yet-to-be-released Guitar Hero: Van Halen as a pre-order bonus to US customers. UK gamers also got a pre-order bonus, but could only receive a copy of the older Guitar Hero World Tour, not the newer Van Halen game.

Celebrity Characters

Following the footsteps of Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock and Guitar Hero World Tour, Guitar Hero 5 features celebrity musicians joining the default cast of characters for players to choose from. The new characters are:

• Carlos Santana
• Johnny Cash
• Kurt Cobain from Nirvana.
• Shirley Manson from Garbage.
• Matthew Bellamy from Muse.

Guitar Hero 5 Setlist

Guitar Hero 5 contains 85 songs from 83 artists, as Nirvana and Tom Petty each have two songs in the game. The setlist is as follows:

• 3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite"
• AFI - "Medicate"
• Arctic Monkeys - "Brianstorm"
• Attack! Attack! - "You and Me"
• Band of Horses - "Cigarettes, Wedding Bands"
• Beastie Boys - "Gratitude"
• Beck - "Gamma Ray"
• Jeff Beck - "Scatterbrain (Live)"
• Blink 182 - "The Rock Show"
• Blur - "Song 2"
• Bon Jovi - "You Give Love A Bad Name"
• David Bowie - "Fame"
• Brand New - "Sowing Season (Yeah)"
• Bush - "Comedown"
• The Bronx - "Six Days a Week"
• Johnny Cash – "Ring of Fire"
• Children of Bodom - "Done With Everything, Die for Nothing"
• Coldplay - "In My Place"
• Darker My Love - "Blue Day"
• Darkest Hour - "Demon(s)"
• Deep Purple - "Woman From Tokyo ('99 Remix)"
• The Derek Trucks Band - "Young Funk"
• Dire Straits - "Sultans of Swing"
• The Duke Spirit - Send a Little Love Token
• Duran Duran - "Hungry Like The Wolf"
• Bob Dylan – "All Along the Watchtower"
• Eagles of Death Metal - "Wannabe in L.A."
• Face to Face - " Disconnected"
• Peter Frampton - "Do You Feel Like We Do? (Live)"
• Garbage - "Only Happy When It Rains"
• Gorillaz - "Feel Good Inc."
• Gov't Mule - "Streamline Woman"
• Grand Funk Railroad - "We're An American Band"
• Billy Idol - "Dancing With Myself"
• Iron Maiden - "2 Minutes to Midnight"
• Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American"
• Elton John - "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting"
• Kaiser Chiefs - "Never Miss A Beat"
• The Killers - "All the Pretty Faces"
• King Crimson - "21st Century Schizoid Man"
• Kings of Leon – "Sex on Fire"
• Kiss - "Shout It Out Loud"
• Love and Rockets - "Mirror People"
• Megadeth - "Sweating Bullets"
• John Mellencamp - "Hurts So Good"
• Motley Crue - "Looks That Kill"
• Muse - "Plug In Baby"
• My Morning Jacket - "One Big Holiday"
• Nirvana - "Lithium (Live)", "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
• No Doubt - "Ex-Girlfriend"
• A Perfect Circle - Judith
• Tom Petty - "Runnin' Down a Dream"
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "American Girl"
• The Police - "So Lonely"
• Iggy Pop - "Lust For Life (Live)"
• Public Enemy feat. Zakk Wylde - "Bring The Noise 20XX"
• Queen and David Bowie - "Under Pressure"
• Queens of the Stone Age - "Make It Wit Chu"
• Rammstein - "Du Hast"
• The Ranconteurs - "Steady As She Goes"
• The Rolling Stones – "Sympathy for the Devil"
• Rose Hill Drive - "Sneak Out"
• Rush - "Spirit of Radio (Live)"
• Santana – "No One to Depend On (Live)"
• Scars on Broadway - "They Say"
• Screaming Trees - "Nearly Lost You"
• Smashing Pumpkins - "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
• Elliott Smith - "L.A."
• Sonic Youth - "Incinerate"
• Spacehog - "In The Meantime"
• Sublime - "What I Got"
• Billy Squier - "Lonely Is The Night"
• Sunny Day Real Estate - "Seven"
• The Sword - "Maiden, Mother & Crone"
• T. Rex - "20th Century Boy"
• Thin Lizzy - "Jailbreak"
• Thrice - "Deadbolt"
• TV on the Radio - "Wolf Like Me"
• Vampire Weekend – "A-Punk"
• Weezer - "Why Bother?"
• The White Stripes – "Blue Orchid"
• Wild Cherry - "Play That Funky Music"
• Wolfmother - "Back Round"
• Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"

Song Importing and Pricing

• One of the new feature of Guitar Hero 5 is the ability to import songs from other Guitar Hero games for play with Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero (with licensing issues restricting those song not being able to import) 61 tracks from Band Hero can be imported into Guitar Hero 5 for 420 Microsoft Points / $4.99 on the PS3.
• All of the previously announced forward-compatible tracks from Guitar Hero World Tour and Guitar Hero: Smash Hits.

All but 4 tracks from Band Hero are exportable to Guitar Hero 5; those tracks that are not exportable are "Beautiful Soul," "Like Whoa," "Mr. Roboto" and "So Yesterday".

Importable Tracks from Guitar Hero World Tour

• "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" bt The Beastie Boys
• "Dammit" by blink-182
• "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi
• "Sweet Home Alabama (Live)" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
• "L'Via L'Viaquez" by The Mars Volta
• "About a Girl (Unplugged)" by Nirvana
• "Spiderwebs" by No Doubt
• "Re-Education (Through Labor)" by Rise Against
• "Do It Again" by Steely Dan
• "Demolition Man" by Sting
• "Love Spreads" by The Stone Roses
• "Santeria" by Sublime
• "Are You Gonna Go My Way" by Lenny Kravitz
• "Band On The Run" by Wings
• "Heartbreaker" by Pat Benatar
• "Hollywood Nights" by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
• "Lazy Eye" by Silversun Pickups
• "Never Too Late" by The Answer
• "Obstacle 1" by Interpol
• "One Armed Scissor" by At the Drive-In
• "One Way or Another" by Blondie
• "Our Truth" by Lacuna Coil
• "Overkill" by Motörhead
• "Shiver" by Coldplay
• "Soul Doubt" by NOFX
• "Stranglehold" by Ted Nugent
• "The Joker" by The Steve Miller Band
• "The Kill" – 30 Seconds To Mars
• "Up Around The Bend" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
• "Everlong" by The Foo Fighters
• "The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World
• "Today" by The Smashing Pumpkins
• "Toy Boy" by Stuck in the Sound
• "You're Gonna Say Yeah!" by Hushpuppies
• "Stillborn" by Black Label Society

Importable Tracks from Guitar Hero: Smash Hits/Greatest Hits

• "Caught In A Mosh" by Anthrax
• "Cult Of Personality" by Living Colour
• "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
• "Freya" by The Sword
• "Heart-Shaped Box" by Nirvana
• "Hey You" by The Exies
• "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" by Pat Benatar
• "I Love Rock 'N Roll" by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
• "I Wanna Rock" by Twisted Sister
• "Message In A Bottle" by The Police
• "Miss Murder" by AFI
• "Monkey Wrench" by The Foo Fighters
• "No One Knows" by Queens Of The Stone Age
• "Nothin' But A Good Time" by Poison
• "Play With Me" by Extreme
• "Psychobilly Freakout" by The Reverend Horton Heat
• "Rock And Roll All Nite" by Kiss
• "Shout At The Devil" by The Mötley Crüe
• "The Trooper" by Iron Maiden
• "Woman" by Wolfmother
• "YYZ" by Rush