Guitar Hero Metallica

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This Guitar Hero game is by far my favorite, great game play, every song has its own unique style and flare from the digital band themselves. You do not have to play through the entire career mode to quickplay any song you want. However customizing your rocker is not as fun considering 80% of the songs that are fun to play are Metallica and you always have to play as the band. I rarely see my rocker at all.

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Firstly, this has to be the hardest version of Guitar Hero. It's not Dragonforce hard, but still has lots of solos and strumming. I played on Expert only.

This version is pretty much setup exactly like Guitar Hero: World Tour. Same interface etc. The quickplay song list is set up in one big list ala World Tour & Rockband. Career mode is useless, all the songs are already unlocked in quickplay so why bother. 28 Metallica Songs, and 21 other artists. If you play a song in Career mode, that high score won't transfer down to the quickplay, like Guitar Hero: Aerosmith did.

I like Metallica, but not die-hard fan. Some of the songs are rather long. Mercyful fate takes awhile, I didn't have a stopwatch but it is listed as a 11 minutes 12 seconds long off that respective album, that seems about right.

The rest of the "Other Artist" songs, 21 in all, are listed below:

ALICE IN CHAINS No Excuses

BOB SEGER Turn The Page

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Albatross

DIAMOND HEAD Am I Evil?

FOO FIGHTERS Stacked Actors

JUDAS PRIEST Hell Bent For Leather

KYUSS Demon Cleaner

LYNYRD SKYNYRD Tuesdays Gone

MACHINE HEAD Beautiful Mourning

MASTODON Blood And Thunder

MERCYFUL FATE Evil

MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP Armed and Ready

MOTÖRHEAD Ace of Spades

QUEEN Stone Cold Crazy

SAMHAIN Mother of Mercy

SLAYER War Ensemble

SOCIAL DISTORTION Mommy's Little Monster

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES War Inside My Head

SYSTEM OF A DOWN Toxicity

THE SWORD Black River

THIN LIZZY The Boys Are Back in Town

Aside from System of A Down & perhaps Alice in Chains, these songs were subpar to play.

I liked Guitar Hero III & Aerosmith. But I'd advise renting this game, especially if you are not a die-hard Metallica fan or weren't too fond of Guitar Hero: World Tour. However, if you're really good and want more of a challenge on Expert, this may prove of some value.

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Pretty good game overall. The reason why I got into Guitar Hero to start with, back in January 2009, was because I found out Metallica Guitar Hero would be coming out in March of that year. Metallica happens to be my favorite band of all time, I have been to their concerts, etc, so this game is probably one of the best and most enjoyable, FOR ME anyway, games I have ever played. Set up like any other Guitar Hero games, if you are really into it, then the difficulty level here is greater and a good challenge. If you are one of those people that will play, at most, at Medium Level in other guitar Hero games, then this may not be the best choice for you. In Guitar Hero World Tour I play every song in Advanced Level, and only a few in Expert. Guitar Hero Metallica is harder (and it makes sense because if any of you know the band at all, they have probably some of the best guitarrist and drummer in the world). The songs will require for you to go into Training Mode to be able to play them at Hard Level. Expert Level is for those people that have the time to spend several hours a day playing the game. You will find the Medium Level is HARD in many of the songs. Again, if you love Metallica like me, you will trully feel you are one of them, at least for a few seconds... if you only know a few Metallica songs, then think about it twice because this is ALL Metallica. One guy said some of the songs were too long, like Mercyful Fate or Orion, but really, to me is actually the opposite, I like they are long because I know their songs and they mean something to me.

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I love Guitar Hero Metallica the band rocks there music rocks not to mention the 20 guest acts like Evil, and Judiest Priest if your a fan of awesome rock and Guitar Hero then this is your game. Oh by the way the models for the Metallica band and some of the guest like King Diamond and Lemmy of Moterhead look freakin amazing good job Activision

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Disclaimer 1: I prefer Rock Band over Guitar Hero World Tour, so part of my subjectivity will creep into this review, but hey, it's my opinion, so there!

Disclaimer 2: I own GH 1, 2, Rock the 80's, 3, Aerosmith, World Tour, and now Metallica. I own RB 1 and 2. I own Karaoke Revolution 1, 2, 3, 4, Country, Idol 1, and Idol 2. I own Sing It 1 and 2. So yeah, I've seen a number of these types of games.

This game is fully compatible with the GH:WT system, so all you need is to buy the game, and use existing peripherals. In fact, this game is also compatible with the RB guitar and RB mic (not sure if it's compatible with the RB2 guitar or drumset, since I don't have either, and I doubt it's compatible with either the RB1 or 2 drumset, since the RB drumsets have one less cymbal pad [basically, RB has a 4 +foot configuration, whereas GH:WT has the 3 +2cymbal +foot]).

The game plays exactly like GH:WT. Well, actually, it plays more like GH:Aerosmith, but with mic and drumset, in that you play as your own band, but during encores and such, you become Metallica (like how you turned into Aerosmith for GH:A). I love Metallica, so having all the songs available together (as opposed to spread throughout the GH and RB sets) is great. For about a buck a song, this collection is worth it.

So, why not 5 stars? I don't like the way GH throws big banners onto the screen when you reach certain streaks or point streaks, just let me know that at the end of a song! With 4 instruments on at the time, the characters moving in the background, and the individual streak counters and scoring and overall band performance meter, I have enough information to see the stupid streak info. I wished there was a way to turn it off. I also think the RB series does a better job tracking your tone as you sing (in fact, RB's tracking is more like KR's tracking). RB also shows via a moving piechart the fraction of each portion of your vocals fills the meter, something you don't get in GH. Without the better tracking and the moving piechart, it's hard to figure out why you didn't get perfect scores in vocals.

Again, though, still highly recommended.