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Added by Ryan Davis on April 20, 2009

Alternately, I think it would be hilarious if the game only featured Gary Cherone.
Alternately, I think it would be hilarious if the game only featured Gary Cherone.
Aerosmith, AC/DC, Metallica, and The Beatles have already done it, and it would seem that the trend of Guitar Hero and Rock Band games that focus specifically high-profile music acts isn't slowing down anytime soon. It's long since reached the point where it's about as popular to blindly speculate about which band should get Rock Banded next as it is to make jokey guesses about which movie franchise should receive the LEGO treatment (a parallel set of trends that made the announcement of LEGO Rock Band a particularly mind-blowing revelation.)


Aside from Led Zeppelin, Van Halen is probably the most obvious and oft-suggested band to focus a music game around. The big difference between the two, apparently, is that a Van Halen game might actually be happening. Kotaku has reported that the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle--the German rating board whose title, according to Babelfish, translates to “maintenance software self-check”--has published its rating for a game titled Guitar Hero headlining Van Halen for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Activision hasn't yet commented on this development, and at this point in the year I can't imagine they're going to say anything until around E3 time, but I won't let that stop me from wondering aloud about Guitar Hero headlining Van Halen. 


There are few bands in the world that have undergone as visible a personnel change as Van Halen when, arguably at the height of its considerable popularity, David Lee Roth left and was subsequently replaced by Sammy Hagar. Now I'm not much of a Van Hagar fan, but the Red Rocker was with the band for a long time, it would seem ridiculous to make a game that revolves around Van Halen and doesn't feature both singers. Guitar Hero: Metallica all but ignored the fact that Metallica had two different long-term bass players, so there's precedent, but that's a harder trick to pull with the lead singer. I can't imagine fans would be too pleased to see David Lee Roth's voice coming out of a polygonal Spitting Image version Sammy Hagar, or vice versa. 


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22 Comments

DannyJ
on April 20, 2009
I thought people already knew that Van Halen would be the next Guitar Hero?

mussbus999
on April 20, 2009
First

Does this actually surprise anyone?

Steve_C is online
on April 20, 2009
Spitting Image creeped me out when i was a kid.

sociald1077
on April 20, 2009
I liked GH:M a lot. But I can't say I'm as down with VH outside of their singles.

DOUBLESHOCK
on April 20, 2009
lol at failed "first" posts.

RHCPfan24
on April 20, 2009
I am not surprised about this one, but I could get behind this one, granted they put they entire debut and 1984 albums.

JJOR64
on April 20, 2009
Good news for Van Halen fans.

FlipperDesert
on April 20, 2009
Why pick on Gary Cherone? Pornografitti was a good album! :(

Everyones_A_Critic
on April 20, 2009
Not surprised in the least, but excited for this one.

VWGTI
on April 20, 2009
The only band I'd be interested in seeing is TOOL. Sadly, I don't think we'll ever see that.

Pass.

JonathanMoore
on April 20, 2009
That's a good point, how are they gonna pull off the Vocal complication there...

ReTarDedFisHy
on April 20, 2009
Haha, well ReTarDedFisHy certainly isn't surprised by this one.

FoolInjection
on April 20, 2009
LOL... Some half-wit on YouTube actually thinks "Land of Confusion" is a cover of the Disturbed version... Dude obviously wasn't brought up in the 80's with vinyl records and Phil Collins.

I'm guessing they might try to get both guys on board, both Dave Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar ?... its the only real way they would be able to do it. Unless the only real person in 3D on stage is Van Halen and they get some 3D Jobber to come in and do the other parts.

TheWolf619
on April 20, 2009
So hyped for this!!

TooWalrus is online
on April 20, 2009
No kidding, I fucking love Van Halen, and I'm glad their career didn't crash and burn like many rock bands.

BananaKid
on April 20, 2009
I'm only on board if they have Gary Cherone playable.

Media_Master
on April 20, 2009
We'll see.

ddensel
on April 20, 2009
What a fabulous alternative to Lego Rock Band!

Bring on Splitting Image: Guitar Hero- Van Halen (featuring 200% more Reagan and Thatcher!)

Warborn
on April 20, 2009
If they were to put only one of the Vocalists in, I'd (obviously) have to say David Lee Roth, the dude's got the moves.

Nasar7
on April 20, 2009
'Unterhaltungssoftware Selbskontrolle' means, literally,  'Entertainment Software Self-Control'. I didn't know people still used babelfish, lol.


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