Alright, I searched around the forum here and saw nothing about this upcoming highly anticipated game from Harmonix, so I decided to start a thread.

For those people who are already into the Guitar hero games, I'm sure most of you are already aware of this upcoming branch of the genre. Not only can you play guitar and bass, like guitar hero, but this adds in the elements of Drums and singing. The list of songs is growing rapidly, and the announcement has been made that a lot of the songs from the metallica "catalogue" will be making their way onto the system.

As a big fan of the guitar hero games, I can't wait.... given the instrument I played all that long ago was the drums...I feel its a little more realistic to me lol. The fact you can join up with your friends online and play as a band is an outstanding feature, one of which I am sure to use a lot.

So what are others thoughts on this addition to the music game genre?

i myself am addicted to guitar hero 2, adn i think that rok band will be a big success, but the price wil be a problem. you get the guitar, mike, drums, and bas guitar , there most likely sold seperatly but there will be a problem with the price. other then that i cant wait

The soundtrack so far sounds great! Paranoid by Black Sabbath would be great to play! I've imagined something like this for a while since Guitar Hero 1 was released, but never thought it would ever exist! (I think it would be great if Paranoid appeared in GH3 too )

I will get this, but after Guitar Hero 3. So far the GH3 soundtrack looks alot better, plus I wouldn't sing, or play the drums that much as I would the guitar.

yea, but there will be new downloadable content for rock band every week . but guiter hero 3 has a boss battle with slash

And So, the world becomes a cooler place to live in

Really? I feel I would rather play the music on rock band myself..... plus as stated above the fact they will offer you downloadable content, including whole albums of bands... is an excellent bonus.... given the only downloadable content guitar hero 2 have had is songs from the first game.

And they are horribly over priced. Anyways, GH3 will have Paint It Black, the best song in the world. Not not mention, many others I like. And once again, I will really only play the guitar. Though, I guess I have to wait and see how each song lineup ends out, we know few at this point.

I still an unsure whether they are overpriced or not.... Depends on how many peopl actually download them lol. Considering they have to pay for the liscensing of the song to the 360, then record the song and "program"... They need to get something to make sure they spend less then they are making, or else they will just decide never to make download packs in the future...

Paint it black is an awesome song... Don't get me wrong, I'll probably end up with both.... lol

I never knew you could download songs from Guitar hero 1 to no 2. I'd love that! I'd be able to do the 'Bark at the Moon' solo with much better success with the improved hammer-ons and pull-offs.



Love that song too. Soundtrack for Rock Band sounds good but with Tenacious D and Muse with GH3, I'll definitley be going for GH3. Then Rock Band when I have the money!

Tenacious D and Muse are two of my favourite bands..... and considering GH3 comes out at least one or two months before rock band I will be getting it as soon as its out also... THough I wish they used a different tenacious D song, like beezleboss or something...

Pricing is probobly going to be a problem...I mean to get the game and all four of the add ons isn't going to be cheap.

Well I am guessing they will sell packs with individual items as well.... And since I have 2 guitars from guitar hero 2, I don't need them as such.... Pricing will be an issue, but on the other hand I'm sure when I spend the money i will actually enjoy what I got with it for once lol

I considered Beezleboss aswell but I can't imagine it happening becasue of the multiple singing as if it's a battle and the language. But Tribute might have been great if they could just blurt out the one F word.

Sorry, we can't have a link to material with offensive language like that. if people want to see it, they will need to search Youtube, which isn't hard.

...yeah I agree, tribute with the profanity taken out would have been great.... but, I guess i won't judge it till I've played it.

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about that, very very sorry .
Anyway, just thinking about all the equipment that will be needed for Rock Band, I probably won't have enough space in my room because it's tiny. Now there's a chance that I may not be able to get it unless I spend a lot of time moving large presses and whatelse to make space. Even though |I'm not sure how big the pieces will be each, I can't imagine the drum set being too small.

is this available fo the 360? and if so ill play online with all of you. when does it come out?my gamertag is crispy9

*I just edited the title, so we can save time and discuss both the new "music" games coming shortly...*

Yes Fox, it does, though not for a while.....

I thought it was also important to note that Guitar hero 3 has just announced Metallica's "one" as one of the master tracks.... And Rockband has announced nirvana's nevermind as a downloadalbe album it will be making....

daaaaaang metallicas one and nirvanas nevermind, thatll do by itself

Ok... guitar hero 3's track lists are by far in front at the moment..... I am interested to see what other tracks are going to show up...

Guitar hero 3's tracks so far...

3's and 7's" – Queens of the Stone Age
"Barracuda" – Heart
"Cherub Rock" – Smashing Pumpkins
"Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll" – Blue Öyster Cult
"Cult of Personality" – Living Colour
"Even Flow" – Pearl Jam
"Go That Far" – Bret Michaels Band
"Knights of Cydonia" – Muse
"La Grange" – ZZ Top
"Lay Down" – Priestess
"The Metal" – Tenacious D
"Miss Murder" – AFI
"Mississippi Queen" – Mountain
"My Name Is Jonas" – Weezer
"The Number of the Beast" – Iron Maiden
"One" – Metallic
"Paint It, Black" – The Rolling Stones
"Paranoid" – Black Sabbath
"Raining Blood" – Slayer
"Reptilia" – The Strokes
"Rock and Roll All Nite" – Kiss
"Rock You Like a Hurricane" – Scorpions
"Sabotage" – Beastie Boys
"School's Out" – Alice Cooper
"She Bangs the Drums" – The Stone Roses
"She Builds Quick Machines" – Velvet Revolver
"Slow Ride" – Foghat
"Suck My Kiss" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Talk Dirty to Me" - Poison
"Through the Fire and Flames" – DragonForce
"Welcome to the Jungle" – Guns N' Roses

Well, noone else might care.. but Im going to post the new updated songlist for both.

Guitar Hero 3
"3's and 7's" – Queens of the Stone Age
"Avalancha" - Héroes del Silencio
"Barracuda" – Heart
"Black Magic Woman" – Artist Unknown
"Bulls on Parade" – Rage Against the Machine
"Cherub Rock" – The Smashing Pumpkins
"Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll" – Blue Öyster Cult
"Closer" - Lacuna Coil
"Cult of Personality" – Living Colour
"Even Flow" – Pearl Jam
"Generation Rock" – revolverheld
"Go That Far" – Bret Michaels Band
"Helicopter" – Bloc Party
"Hier Kommt Alex" - Die Toten Hosen
"Hit Me with Your Best Shot" – Pat Benatar
"I'm in the Band" - The Hellacopters
"In the Belly of a Shark" - Gallows
"Knights of Cydonia" – Muse
"La Grange" – ZZ Top
"Lay Down" – Priestess
"Mauvais Garçon" - NAAST
"The Metal" – Tenacious D
"Minus Celsius" - Backyard Babies
"Miss Murder" – AFI
"Mississippi Queen" – Mountain
"My Name Is Jonas" – Weezer
"The Number of the Beast" – Iron Maiden
"One" – Metallica
"Paint It, Black" – The Rolling Stones
"Paranoid" – Black Sabbath
"Radio Song" - Superbus
"Raining Blood" – Slayer
"Reptilia" – The Strokes
"Rock and Roll All Nite" – Kiss
"Rock You Like a Hurricane" – Scorpions
"Ruby" - Kaiser Chiefs
"Sabotage" – Beastie Boys
"School's Out" – Alice Cooper
"She Bangs the Drums" – The Stone Roses
"She Builds Quick Machines" – Velvet Revolver
"Slow Ride" – Foghat
"Suck My Kiss" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Take This Life" - In Flames
"Talk Dirty to Me" - Poison
"Through the Fire and Flames" – DragonForce
"Welcome to the Jungle" – Guns N' Roses
"When You Were Young" – The Killers

Rock Band
"Are You Gonna Be My Girl" – Jet
"Black Hole Sun" - Soundgarden
"Blitzkrieg Bop" – Ramones
"Brain Power" – Freezepop
"Celebrity Skin" – Hole
"Cherub Rock" – Smashing Pumpkins
"Creep" – Radiohead
"Dani California" - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" – Blue Öyster Cult
"Enter Sandman" – Metallica
"Epic" – Faith No More
"Gimme Shelter" – Rolling Stones
"Go with the Flow" – Queens of the Stone Age
"The Hand That Feeds" – Nine Inch Nails
"Here It Goes Again" – OK Go
"Highway Star" – Deep Purple
"I Think I'm Paranoid" – Garbage
"In Bloom" – Nirvana
"Learn To Fly" – Foo Fighters
"Main Offender" – The Hives
"Maps" – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Mississippi Queen" – Mountain
"Paranoid" – Black Sabbath
"Reptilia" – The Strokes
"Sabotage" – Beastie Boys
"Say It Ain't So" – Weezer
"Should I Stay Or Should I Go" – The Clash
"Suffragette City" – David Bowie
"Tom Sawyer" – Rush
"Vasoline" – Stone Temple Pilots
"Wanted Dead or Alive" – Bon Jovi
"Wave of Mutilation" – The Pixies
"Won't Get Fooled Again" – The Who

This is only an artists impression of the the potential Guitar Hero III peripheral for the DS, but I would be sticking to the console versions if I had any interest in the series. Then again it may be nothing like that or be exactly like that and play superbly.



What are peoples thoughts? Will the DS version be a unique and alternative Guitar Hero III experience or will it have nothing on the 360, PS2, PS3 and Wii editions?

I dont think it could compare...... There so many advantages a system has over a handheld. Whilst it could still be fun, I doubt it would be anywhere near as good in fair comparison.

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Well if you guys were wondering which game will have the biggest list of songs look no further then Guitar Hero which now have free access to Universal Music Group. Sucks for Rock Band if they had planned to use some tracks from UMG. They might not get any licenses from UMG and any current licenses form UMG once expire they probably will not be allowed to use them anymore so for example they may have to release a different version of Rock Band if they can't secure a license with the current UMG songs they have.

Since UMG would earn money from Rockband having the tracks, and for every person who purchases a song (if downloadble content) they earn a percentage from it... I can't see the business logic in not letting them have liscenses for songs. Sure, perhaps not let them have a few of the big songs and leave them for guitar hero to try and drive up sales... but usually starving the competition isn't going to do anything more then lose them money.

Your probably right but UMG have done questionable business decisions before they threatened to to pull there songs from Itunes. I believe currently they have a short term contract with Itunes until they can deliver there own Itune like service.

Guitar Hero 3 has higher priority for me then Rock Band. Honestly, to me RockBand seems a bit extensive. If you have to pay for each "instrument", then is it really worth it?

I would just want the vide game because of the song list.

Well I have guitar hero 3 on xbox, just awaiting Europes version of rockband to come out....(in march probably)

I love the GH3 soundtrack. Tenacious D and Muse are some of my favorites bands too!
This has to have been posted by now but just in case, anybody see the Harmonica Hero vid?

HOT VID!