Guitar Hero: Metallica
Posted by Jeremie Jordan on July 5, 2008
[phone rings]
“Jordan…it’s Jaques. I just read there’s going to be a Guitar Hero featuring Metallica.”
So there you have it. No matter how many St. Angers Metallica put out, two aging headbangers will still grab a case of Pepsi (probably laced something) and a couple of cheap Tombstone pizzas to play a video game until dawn. Wives will be passed out on the couch bored with watching Jeremie fail the song Battery for the tenth time. Secretly they will have gone to sleep early just so they don’t have to yet again hear the fading glory stories of neighborhood football triumphs. It probably doesn’t help that they can most likely recite the stories themselves now after 13 years of marriage.
Chances are good I will never buy Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. But chances are also good I will be at the midnight release for Guitar Hero: Metallica. I had heard the rumor of a Metallica inspired GH before. Put simply, in light of the new commericalized Metallica it just made too much sense with the release of Death Magnetic only months away. So with the game in full production, let me submit my wishlist. Feel free to add to my list:
- Cliff Burton as an unlockable character
- Dave Mustaine playing on Four Horsemen (and because ‘Lars is Dave’s little Danish buddy’)
- …And Justice For All stage show
- song: Master of Puppets
- song: Creeping Death
- song: Am I Evil
- song: Harvester of Sorrow (with drums please)
- hidden songs like: Last Caress/Green Hell, Helpless, and Breadfan
- additional bands that influenced Metallica like: The Misfits (Glen Danzig), Killing Joke, and Diamond Head
- special technique similar to Star Powers, but that works in reverse: for instance the worse you play St. Anger (and consequently the better it sounds) the more points you rack up.
- The ability to outfit your rocker in a denim jacket and purchase additional back patches to put on it.
- Former and current member previous bands: Flotsam and Jetsam, Exodus, Suicidal Tendencies, and Megadeth.
- And a $40K a month therapist to help me with my horrible Guitar Hero skills. That’s metal, baby.
Let me just say if it has the song Master of Puppets I will purchase this game. Period. Even if I have to play Sad But True, Until It Sleeps and Whiskey in the Jar to unlock it. I am just that dedicated.
July 7, 2008 at 8:25 am
Jordan, you covered most of my wish list as well, and might I add that some of your ideas, if implemented, would make the game unbelieveably rad… which means none of them will occur.
As for songs - I think “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “Fade to Black” are must haves from Ride the Lightning. I’d also like to see “Disposable Heroes” from Puppets and “Shortest Straw” from Justice.
My prediction is that the bulk of songs will come from the Black Album and later. Expect lots of Load, Re-Load, (and God help us all), Whiskey in the Jar-o.
July 7, 2008 at 9:47 am
Dude, I love Whiskey in the Jar. Take an Irish drinking song and turn it into a kick ass song! I am just a casual Metallica fan, not hardcore like you metal heads are…
July 7, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I’m not sure I qualify as a hardcore Metallica fan anymore. I literally hate the Black album - (I can tolerate Enter Sandman, but I pretty much HATE the rest). There are a few songs from Load and Re-Load that I like, but by and large I don’t really like much. No Leaf Clover? Not bad, but does James HAVE to sing something that sounds like “…and I’m constipated” like a hundred times? St. Anger? Yikes. I am reminded of a two-word review that Spinal Tap received for their album “Shark Sandwich” which read simply, “Shit sandwich.” Nigel responded, “they can’t print that, can they?” Oh they can, and I can too.
July 7, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Taking a pause from playing devil’s advocate with DumbAss Tanker and Jaques about guns, I’ll play devil’s advocate about Metallica…
I think Enter Sandman would be an all-time great concert starter, second maybe to Thunderstruck.
July 8, 2008 at 9:27 am
Actually, I agree with you on that. One of Des Moines’ two minor leauge hockey teams (The Buccaneers) used to take the ice to Enter Sandman, it was the best entry song I’ve ever heard for a sports team. It gets people fired up.