14 DAY TRIAL // Guitar Hero: World Tour launched last year, taking the franchise from guitars to covering all the instruments of a typical band and adding a new feature that allows players to create their own songs and share them online. Now, what the franchise needs is some star power to attract attention to the innovations and bring in some heavy revenue for publisher Activision. What better way than to associate the franchise with the biggest metal band in the world, Metallica?
Guitar Hero: Metallica is set to arrive in the United States on March 29, if the listing belonging to GameStop is to be trusted, while it seems that, through French site LiveWii, an internal schedule from Activision became public, revealing that the game would also arrive in Europe sometime in May. Eurogamer confirmed the story with Activision.
The game will chart the rise of Metallica from the 80's until now and will allow players to rock out on songs made by the band but also on tracks that had a big influence on their music and personality. In order to celebrate band co founder and drummer Lars Ulrich Guitar Hero: Metallica will introduce a new Expert Plus difficulty level for the drummer and will also feature a freestyle mode for playing them.
Fans are also likely to find a lot of video and photo material related to the band, in addition to set lists and their music. So far, we know that the following songs will be part of the tracklist: Enter Sandman, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Fuel, Hit The Lights, King Nothing, Master of Puppets, No Leaf Clover, Nothing Else Matters, Sad But True, The Unforgiven, Where I May Roam, No Excuses from Alice in Chains, Turn The Page from Bob Seger, Hell Bent For Leather from Judas Priest, Demon Cleaner by Kyuss, Tuesdays Gone by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blood and Thunder created by Mastodon, Armed and Ready from the Michael Schenker Group, Mother of Mercy by Samhain and Black River from The Sword.