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Guitar Hero Metallica arrived!

Magnus Lindgren — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:28:03 +0000

Last friday Guitar Hero Metallica (GH:M) was finally released! I even managed to get it fairly cheap thanks to some trade in of useless old PS3-games that I bought cheap on the second hand market anyway. I had previously only played Guitar Hero on Wii so this was the first time I got one for the PS3 including a guitar. I don’t know if the guitar that came with GH:M was better than the usual PS3 or not but it was definetly an improvement over the Wii guitars. It felt alot more solid and especially strumming felt alot better.

I’ve only played the game a few hours in total since I had other things to do this weekend as well. From the little I’ve played the game feels alot like an improvement from the previous games. It is technically more difficult but manages to be so in a fun way.

My only problem is that now I have to try and get the old Guitar Hero games for the PS3 so I can retire my old Wii guitars! Either that or I just pick up the coming greatest hits version coming soon.

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Lack of imagination: Lego Rock Band

Magnus Lindgren — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:03:04 +0000

Is it just me or doesn’t this smell of total lack of imagination? Nowdays you can find just about any “classic” super hero in a Lego format. The Rock Band and Guitar Hero series at the same time competes to bring you all the songs of yore. The logic combination for those with no sense of imagination is of course Lego Rock Band (source: IGN). This is as logical as “World of Guitar Hero the MMO”. We can comfort ourselves with one small fact, at least it could be worse. It could be “Lego Smurfs Rock Band”.

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Guitar Hero for C-64!

Magnus Lindgren — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:47:44 +0000

I’ve always wondered why Guitar Hero wasn’t invented earlier, but pushing it back to the early 80′s might be to optimistic? Toni Westbrook made an effort and we now have “Shredz64“, a Guitar Hero clone for the good old Commodore 64.

I admire people who can do hacks like these and would love to be able to do them myself!

Accordion Hero

Magnus Lindgren — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:06:53 +0000

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith

Magnus Lindgren — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:35:38 +0000

I just bought the latest installment of Guitar Hero. After playing Legends of Rock, which in my view was the highpoint so far, this feels like kind of a step backwards. If you’re totally in to Aerosmith it’s awesome I guess but if you just like their major hits some of the songs feel a bit boring. The idea of supporting bands who play the first two songs is a good one that I hope they keep if they do other band-specific expansions (give Metallica!!). Overall a good game, nothing special though.

For those who never played Guitar Hero, you must try it! I thought it looked very silly when I first watched someone play and I thought I could never like it. Once I tried it (along at home!) it really changed my mind. It’s like singstar only cool, you can play an air guitar and be a hero!