Guitar Hero III gets more tracks

PALGN News | Seventeen new songs.

Guitar Hero has taken over the world, and the newest game in the series, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, set to be released in PAL regions next month on the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii, will no doubt prove to be just as popular.

Today Activision let slip on the names of seventeen new songs that we can expect to rock out to on release date. Of those new songs, seven of those will be the original recordings, rather than covers. Those seven are:

Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance
Bloc Party - Helicopter
Disturbed - Stricken
Matchbook Romance - Monsters
Slipknot - Before I Forget
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
The Killers - When You Were Young

The remaining ten will be covers, but in the usual Guitar Hero style of sounding just like the original. They are:

Charlie Daniels Band - Devil Went Down to Georgia
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Pat Benetar - Hit Me with Your Best Shot
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Social Distortion - Story of My Life
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Pride and Joy
The Who - The Seeker
White Zombie - Black Sunshine

This brings the total number of tracks up to 58, not including the 'boss battles' - insane, really. If you're not already up to speed, here's the other songs that Activision have confirmed will be in the game - these first 32 will be the original songs by the artists, plus the two confirmed boss battles.

AFI - Miss Murder
Backyard Babies - Minus Celsius
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Die Toten Hosen - Hier Kommt Alex
Dragonforce - Through Fire and Flames
Gallows - In the Belly of a Shark
Guns N' Roses - Welcome to The Jungle
Heroes Del Silencio - Avalancha
In Flames - Take This Life
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
Lacuna Coil - Closer
Living Colour - Cult of Personality
Metallica - One
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
NAAST - Mauvais Garcon
Pearl Jam - Even Flow
Preistess - Lay Down
Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade
Queens of the Stone Age - 3's and 7's
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss
Revolverheld - Generation Rock
Slayer - Raining Blood
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Superbus - Radio Song
Tenacious D - The Metal
The Hellacopters - I'm in the Band
The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.
The Strokes - Reptillia
The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
Weezer My Name is Jonas
Slash's Original Boss Battle Recording
Tom Morello's Original Boss Battle Recording

The remaining songs are all covers.

Alice Cooper - School's Out
Paranoid - Paranoid
Blue Oyster Cult - Cities on Flame
Foghat - Slow Ride
Heart - Barracuda
Kiss - Rock and Roll All Nite
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
The Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
ZZ Top - La Grange

Phew. That seems like a pretty complete list, but if there are any more additions, we will keep you informed.

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27 Comments

poweroffarts

4 years ago

If only they had custom soundtrack, I'd buy a GH.

diogenes92

4 years ago

Guitar Hero was so crap I thought, Guitar Hero II however was one of the funnest and most addictive games ever, well for me anyways, and then Rocks the 80's was crap again. But I have good feeling about GHIII, should be good, hopefully PS3 version wont be delayed...

moonhead

4 years ago

Did i miss the article about this being delayed? Last time i read it was late October, now its November 7th????

bucko_239

4 years ago

ahhh good ol' gh..it has not failed me in the past and by the looks of things it still wont... oh how i love it.

Cro

4 years ago

Awesome, I love Helicopter, this game just keeps looking better... Still undecided on 360 or PS2 version..

the doag

4 years ago

Oh my god. Tracks.

MrAndyPuppy

4 years ago

Interesting they got a The Who song in - Rock Band's first full album will be The Who (and I imagine original recording too).

Sunrider

4 years ago

Devil Went Down to Georgia is going to be H-A-R-D. Curious inclusion though because it doesn't have guitar in it, but rather a fiddle. Still, there has been covers involving guitars so I guess the GHIII version will be closer to those.

Eyce

4 years ago

poweroffarts wrote

If only they had custom soundtrack, I'd buy a GH.

Ok, get Frets On Fire, find a song that you have that you want in, import it and try to do it yourself. Hard eh?

Custom Soundtracks in Guitar Hero games are utterly pointless, and it'd take several weeks to get a somewhat decent creation.

matrix-cat

4 years ago

CLIFFS OF DOVER! I was going to get GHIII no matter what, but now I'm going to get it... even more.

Eyce

4 years ago

Oh and by the way, whoever thought it was a good idea to include Slipknot in Guitar Hero III should be completely shot. It's not music.

Fetidchimp

4 years ago

Still no Mastodon

While I don't support slipknot, i have a funny feeling they have sold many more albums than we ever will, hence it's inclusion on GHIII

poweroffarts

4 years ago

Eyce wrote

poweroffarts wrote

If only they had custom soundtrack, I'd buy a GH.

Frets on what?..

Sorry that doesnt make sense, and I dont know what you're getting at. I dont know where you're pulling answer from or how'd you assume that. And take several weeks? That sounds weird.

onggie

4 years ago

HAHAHA Before I Forget, I can just see me and my mates head banging to this song

. Bringing back the good old days when we listened to Slipknot/System of a Down and head banged!!!

Eyce

4 years ago

poweroffarts wrote

Eyce wrote

poweroffarts wrote

If only they had custom soundtrack, I'd buy a GH.

Frets on what?..

Sorry that doesnt make sense, and I dont know what you're getting at. I dont know where you're pulling answer from or how'd you assume that. And take several weeks? That sounds weird.

Fan-Based Game where you can add your own songs, but you need to make your own note-charts or download others ones have made.

You can't expect to make a game that has a built-in engine where it can split an mp3 File then magically create a screen of button presses for you to abide by.

poweroffarts

4 years ago

Eyce wrote

You can't expect to make a game that has a built-in engine where it can split an mp3 File then magically create a screen of button presses for you to abide by.

Umm...why not?

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/23/play-custom-songs-on-hacked-guitar-hero-ii/

So why cant official one do it?

bucko_239

4 years ago

i can understand the inclusion of slipknot, but i would have preffered Duality over Before I Forget

Chris

4 years ago

bucko_239 wrote

i can understand the inclusion of slipknot, but i would have preffered Duality over Before I Forget

Gotta disagree with that, Before I Forget is much more interesting to 'play'. Duality is probably a better song but the guitar just hangs around doing nothing in between the chorus parts.

Can't wait anyway, the soundtrack on paper has to be the stongest yet

ittekimasu

4 years ago

awesome, if only they had that banjo song on it, sure its not being done with guitar, but ever since hearing it i just wan't to at least pretend to play instead of having to actually 'learn' how todo it.

Sin Ogaris

4 years ago

Dueling Banjos would be wicked, Although Devil Went Down to Georgia is a great track. If they're going for craziness they should chuck in Malmsteen's cover of Beethoven's 5th.

Eyce

4 years ago

poweroffarts wrote

Eyce wrote

You can't expect to make a game that has a built-in engine where it can split an mp3 File then magically create a screen of button presses for you to abide by.

Umm...why not?

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/23/play-custom-songs-on-hacked-guitar-hero-ii/

So why cant official one do it?

...Hacked Guitar Hero songs aren't magic either, it uses the exact method I described: DIY.

Kogi Kaishakunin

4 years ago

matrix-cat wrote

CLIFFS OF DOVER! I was going to get GHIII no matter what, but now I'm going to get it... even more.

This I agree with. Now we need songs from other people who've done the G3 thing (Vai, Satriani, Malmsteen) in either GH3 or Rock Band.

I'm quite happy with GH3's tracklist so far. The only things left for me to worry about are notechart design, timing and responsiveness (remember, GH3 is by Neversoft, not Harmonix).

cosmoh

4 years ago

I want them to put Gangster of Love by Steve Miller Band in the game. It would be a fun song to play and it would be a beginner song as well. Sure it's not Rock n Roll guitar, but if they put in a song like Jessica on Guitar Hero 2 (which is a fun song to play and i like it) then they could put in Gangster of Love.

I would buy the game twice for that song.

Kogi Kaishakunin

4 years ago

I just checked youtube for Gangster of Love in response to your post. The Johnny Guitar Watson performance of it was incredibly cool. Good choice

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