Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock - Sept 28

[cajmoyper]

Featuring an all-new story-driven "Quest Mode" narrated by the legend himself, KISS frontman Gene Simmons, Guitar Hero Looks to get back to it's roots featuring some of the most iconic songs in rock history. Songs from such rock gods as Queen, Megadeth, KISS, Def Leppard, and countless other artists spanning 5 decades of rock.

Included in the guitar/game bundle is a newly designed battle axe. Customizable down to the detachable wings, this new guitar was designed for comfort and performance. Get your own alternate "wings" by pre-ordering before the official release on September 28, 2010 in North America.

Confirmed 93-song setlist:

A Perfect Circle- The Outsider
Aerosmith- Cryin'
AFI- Dancing Through Sunday
Alice Cooper- No More Mr. Nice Guy
Alter Bridge- Ties that Bind
Anberlin- Feel Good Drag
Anthrax- Indians
Arch Enemy- Nemesis
Atreyu- Ravenous
Avenged Sevenfold- Bat Country
Bad Brains- Re-Ignition (Live)
Band of Skulls- I Know What I Am
Black Sabbath- Children of the Grave
Blind Melon- Tones of Home
Blue Oyster Cult- Burnin' for You
Bush- Machinehead
Buzzcocks- What Do I Get?
Children of Bodom- If You Want Peace, Prepare for War
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Fortunate Son
Deep Purple- Burn
Def Leppard- Pour Some Sugar on Me (Live)
Dethlok- Bloodlines
Dire Straits- Money for Nothing
Dragonforce- Fury of the Storm
Drowning Pool- Bodies
Edgar Winter Group- Free Ride
Fall Out Boy- Dance, Dance
Five Finger Death Punch- Hard to See
Flyleaf- Again
Foo Fighters- No Way Back
Foreigner- Feels Like the First Time
George Thorogood and the Destroyers- Move it on Over (Live)
Interpol- Slow Hands
Jane's Addiction- Been Caught Stealing
Jethro Tull- Aqualung
John 5 feat. Jim Root- Black Widow of La Porte
KISS- Love Gun
Linkin Park- Bleed it Out
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Call Me the Breeze (Live)
Megadeth- Sudden Death, Holy Wars...The Punishment Due, The Day We Fight
Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne- Paranoid (Live)
Muse- Uprising
My Chemical Romance- I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
Nickelback- How you Remind Me
Night Ranger- (You Can Still) Rock in America
Neil Young- Rockin' in the Free World
Nine Inch Nails- Wish
Orianthi- Suffocated
Pantera- I'm Broken
Phoenix- Lasso
Poison- Unskinny Bop
Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody
Queensryche- Jet City Woman
Rammstein- Waidmanns Heil
Red Rider- Lunatic Fringe
R.E.M.- Losing My Religion
Rise Against- Savior
Rush- 2112
-I. Overture
-II. The Temple of Syrinx
-III. Discovery
-IV. Presentation
-V. Oracle: The Dream
-VI. Soliloquy
-VII. Grand Finale
RX Bandits- It's Only Another Parsec...
Silversun Pickups- There's No Secrets This Year
Slash feat. Ian Astbury and Izzy Stradlin- Ghost
Slayer- Chemical Warfare
Slipknot- Psychosocial
Snot- Deadfall
Soundgarden- Black Rain
Steve Vai- Speeding
Stone Temple Pilots- Interstate Love Song
Strung Out- Calling
Styx- Calling
Sum 41- Motivation
Tesla- Modern Day Cowboy
The Cure- Fascination Street
The Dillinger Escape Plan- Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants
The Hives- Tick Tick Boom
The Offspring- Self Esteem
The Ramones- Theme from Spider-Man
The Rolling Stones- Stray Cat Blues
The Runaways- Cherry Bomb
The Vines- Get Free
The White Stripes- Seven Nation Army
Them Crooked Vultures- Scumbag Blues
Third Eye Blind- Graduate
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- Listen to Her Heart
Twisted Sister- We're Not Gonna Take It
ZZ Top- Sharp Dressed Man (Live)

[Trace17]

Great because the market isn't already saturated with music games. People would be stupid to get this at launch. I have 3 GH games and 2 RB games and I haven't paid more than $10 for any of them. This one won't be any different.

[Icemage]

The good: Fantastic setlist, it really fits the motif of the game very well.

The bad: Guitar-centric game. Though to be fair, this is the first Guitar Hero game since GH3 that actually lives at all up to its name. As my primary instrument of choice is vocals, I can't bring myself to approve of this move, but I certainly understand what they're doing.

The ugly: It's Activision. Boo. If Starcraft II couldn't get my money, this game certainly won't either.

[cajmoyper]

Pre-ordering gets you the entire new Soundgarden album, Telephantasm: A Retrospective. That's pretty cool. The setlist doesn't really have anything newer than even a few years old.

[MrFattBill]

Decent set list but it's the GH platform BTW seeing Dire Straits on there....if "Sultans of Swing" hits a GH game before RB I will scream.

Bill

[cajmoyper]

Sultans of Swing is in GH5. It's one of the funnest songs to play.

[Maximus]

Oh, another game with fake plastic 'instruments', pass. I am actually very happy that the rhythm genre has faltered...

[whitehawkmante]

Sounds like it should be good fun - a step back is exactly what GH required as like Clock-punk pointed out it has always been the more 'Fun' orientated and 'Arcadey' of the two franchises - I'm really looking forward to getting this.

[CaptainYoda]

Originally Posted by cajmoyper

Sultans of Swing is in GH5. It's one of the funnest songs to play.

Thats one of the songs I have been hoping goes to Rock Band. Come on Rock Band!! Hop to it!!!

[I.Flores]

The Cure, FINALLY on a GH game?
I'm sold

[Psx0005]

So with the music genre as a whole losing focus and oversaturating the market, this is Activision's answer? While Harmonix is aware of this and are attempting to bring interest back to the genre, first with harmonies in The Beatles, and with improved guitars (six-string guitar) and a 25-key MIDI keytar for RB3, GH seems to have gone back to the "comfortable" guitar-centric mode that has been there since the very first GH. This pretty much nips it in the bud for me, Activision has shown no innovation at all for every new GH that has sprung up, or has copied whatever Harmonix already has done and tweaked it up and sold enough based on the brand name alone. I'm done with GH. Only way I'll get this thing is if its in the clearance bin, and even then I'd have to debate with myself.

[Icemage]

Originally Posted by I.Flores

The Cure, FINALLY on a GH game?
I'm sold

The Cure is also in Rock Band 3 (Just Like Heaven).

[KamiAmaya]

Setlist looks decent. I'm not sure about the redesigned guitar, I just got used to the Band Hero guitar I'll buy it anyways, I always have fun playing GH games with my brothers.

Originally Posted by I.Flores

The Cure, FINALLY on a GH game?
I'm sold

If you switch out The Cure for Nine Inch Nails, that was my exact same reaction.

[Mouse]

I just found out they are making GH: Metallica importable into GH: Warriors of Rock! Well, not the whole disc but all of the Metallica songs are included (minus a few from Death Magnetic, you will need to buy the DLC if you have yet to do so.) Also, you can import Metallica for free for the first week of release only - Metallica Import