PS3 Review – Guitar Hero: Metallica
Metalheads rejoice, place your devil horns in the air, and get ready to mosh to Metallica. Unlike Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, this isn’t a story of the band’s career from beginning until now. Instead, it’s something much more fan oriented and fits with the features that were added to the series with Guitar Hero: World Tour. However, are Activision pulling your strings, or does the game succeed in being some kind of (ROCK) monster?
The game opens straight away to you playing as the band. Once you’ve got enough stars to continue, the story truly begins with you walking away, inspired by Metallica. And from there, you go on to create a band which later becomes Metallica’s support band. It’s as simple as that. Now this is where the gameplay gets interesting, but also becomes a bit of a letdown.
When playing Metallica songs you play as the actual band, Metallica. But when you play other bands’ songs i.e Foo Fighters, System of a Down, Motorhead and so on, you play as your custom band. But the fact that there is a switchoff between the two groups means it doesn’t feel like a genuine Metallica game. Tthe game looses its appeal until you’re playing as Metallica again. And once you do, it’ll bring a massive smile to your face.
It’s nice to see what other bands that the group likes, or what they were inspired by. But when you’re playing every last Metallica song ever, then nothing else matters (sorry, had to do that). If you purchased the DLC album: Death Magnetic, which can be used with Guitar Hero 3 and Guitar Hero: World Tour, then you can play that exact DLC content within Guitar Hero: Metallica. Obviously, this is only possible on PS3 and 360, not the PS2 or the Wii.
Every instrument makes you feel like you’re playing as the band, especially the drums. And yes, ladies and gentlemen, World Tour’s band feature is included in the game. And to top things off, you can even use your existing Rock Band gear to play the game. Although for drums, we recommend you get the World Tour kit for an even better experience, which the game constantly reminds you to do at the beginning of every song.
For any massive Metallica fan, Metallica Hero is worth getting. However, the casual Guitar Hero audience may miss some of the features and trivia that only Metallica fans are going to catch onto. That said, it is a fun game that hits its high notes when the player is put in control of the band, and is a worthy purchase any who loves Guitar Hero.
PlayStation LifeStyle’s Final Score
Support for Rock Band instruments is a plus, and even the band feature from World Tour makes a return. No words can describe how awesome it is to take control of this legendary group. |  |
15 Responses to “PS3 Review – Guitar Hero: Metallica”
This game rocks, plain and simple. Being a Metallica fan for 27 years..(good GOD almighty I sound old) I was excited when I heard that this game was coming out. When the initial trailer hit the ‘net, I got fikken amped up, and the trailer is one of the better ones to come along for ANY game.That being said, I agree that the game truly shines when you play AS the band.
As for being the “opening act”? There are some good songs you get to play, but there should be much more here then what is given. Only 1 song from Anthrax? These guys were roomates sharing the same apartment back when Metallica 1st hit NY when they lived in Queens. So there should be more then 1 Antrhax, as there should be more the one Judas priest and Iron Maiden. And this becomes even more prevalant since the ONLY DLC for the game is Death Magnetic. That is it. Nothing more, and nothing coming soon as Activision even stated there will be NO aka “ZERO” DLC for GH Metallica. And that SUCKS..
The game also shines when you watch a friend play as Metallica, because then you can watch them on stage in concert, which I must say, is pretty friggan cool to see. The “extras” they have with the Metallica Trivia questions, and also the ‘Behind the scenes” footage of the band in the “motion caption suits” and also the live concert footage is pretty sweet. I wish they had MORE of those extras and longer then 5-8 minutes in length.
Finally, as the instruments go, it is challenging playing their songs..lol. and that is a understatement if I ever made one lol, I do recommend that IF you are a die hard, get all trophies for each instrument gamer, you MUST go online to EBAY and pick up the “bonus pedal”, which you got from pre-ordering the game. Now you can finish SUPER EXPERT mode, or whatever it is called while playing drums.
And last but not least, if you are a fan of the Guitar Hero series, this IS a MUST BUY, period! IIf you are a Metallica fan, andf you are a “once in a blue moon”, or “you only play it at a friends house” player, go rent it from Blockbuster and get your gamE on..OR Headbang, because as soon as the 1st song is half over, you will be sayIng I GOTTA GET THIS SH!T..
The Rock Band 2 drums with Cymbal expansion or the Ion drum kit give you the most realistic drum feeling.
The guitar hero world tour drum set closely resembles a jazz set than a rock set.
i’ve never seen the appeal of Metallica. Just can’t get into them. I’d rather listen to Apocalyptica (man am I going to get hate comments for that)
I’m sticking with Rock Band for no other reason than the fact I have over 200 songs available to me every time I put in 1 single disk and that the library will keep growing unlike guitar hero where you just keep swapping disks, games, features, games modes, and other BS.
Plus I don’t like how Guitar Hero is just trying to be hard for hardness sake. I couldn’t beat a lot of songs on Guitar Hero 3 cause I couldn’t get the rythm. A song would start off with a ton of back to back notes and I’d try to get the proper pacing but I’d be dead in 3-5 missed notes when they’re throwing 5 per second at me.
The open string bass stuff is just gay and it throws off the rythm.
If they do like a Progressive Metal Hero game or a Guitar Hero Iced Earth or I find the full bundle sub 80 dollars in store then… maybe…
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this is really fun game. the only issue is that i wish they would be more creative with every new release
The only problem with this game is that there is not enough Metallica Songs. Where’s Damage, Remorse, Horsemen, Jump, Militia, Phantom, Motorbreath, RTL, Messiah, Blackened, Harvester….. I could go on and on… lol