84 Rock Band 2 tracks announced at E3, Guitar Hero to get new Metallica album |
Loading ...Rock Band 2 is coming this September and CNET shared the complete tracklist of 84 songs which, if you don’t want to completely spoil the surprise, don’t follow that link.
A few of my favorites include a track of the upcoming Guns N’ Roses Chinese Democracy album (when will this album be released?) and:
The Who "Pinball Wizard"
Judas Priest "Painkiller"
AC/DC "Let There Be Rock"
Bad Company "Shooting Star"
Fleetwood Mac "Go Your Own Way"
Ratt "Round and Round"
The Guess Who "American Woman"
Rock Band is also releasing a feature that will allow 4 on 4 battle of the bands over Xbox Live. Oh yeah, bring it.
One of my earlier requests was that artists would be releasing complete albums for play in Rock Band and/or Guitar Hero the same time their new albums came out. Motley Crue (Saints of Los Angeles review) and Judas Priest (Nostradamus review) both missed out with their new releases, but Metallica will answer the call and release the complete album of Death Magnetic, due out in the Fall on Guitar Hero. I keep writing this is a huge opportunity for bands and clearly some are seeing this with comments from Metallica like (emphasis mine):
We are so psyched that we’ll be the first out of the gate with this simultaneous release . . . who knows, maybe a few years from now this will be the norm when your favorite band’s new record comes out.
Amen. This is shaping up to be an awesome — and spendy — second half of the year for music video games with sequels for both Rock Band and Guitar Hero, not to mention drums and vocals being added to Guitar Hero. Guitar Hero is also going to have a way for gamers to create and share their own songs. Start saving those pennies now.
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There’s the chance that you might be able to play better than Lars does on the new album tracks.
I’m kidding. Kind of.
I’m not into the whole Guitar Hero / Rock Band thing. I’ve played Guitar Hero, and didn’t dig it. I had a friend of mine that heard me defend my non-interest in Guitar Hero this past weekend, and swears that I need to play Rock Band, and that I would dig it!
We’ll see!!
I do like the new avenues for releasing music - cool stuff, for sure!
Comment by Matt — July 15, 2008 @ 1:45 pm PST