Artless Gamer

If you are only a little bit like me, you will make careful decisions on how you buy your games. I consider whether I need this title based on its genre, based on the content, the re-playability, the maximum amount of hours in the game, the depth or lack of multiplayer and many more.

On some occasions I have to prioritize and cut down my options. Guitar Hero Metallica would have been one of those cuts. I don’t see why I should pay $40 to $50 for a disc with a few Metallica songs on it.

I suppose this is the kind of conclusion you come to when you aren’t a Guitar Hero fan. Anyone with any real interest in the game would have probably gone and checked out the actual track list for the game. I can’t help but think, however, that a lot of people will pass on this game merely because they think that it’s not worth the money.

After all, it doesn’t state anywhere on the box that over half of the disc is filled with other awesome bands. On the back of the box it just says something along the lines of “Rock with Metallica blah blah blah and the bands that influenced them.” They list the Metallica tracks  but not the ones by the other artists. If I was in the store with no option to get more information on the game, I wouldn’t buy it. I want to know exactly what I’m getting – no surprises.

Metallica Songs

All Nightmare Long
Battery
Creeping Death
Disposable Heroes
Dyers Eve
Enter Sandman
Fade To Black
Fight Fire With Fire
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Frantic
Fuel
Hit The Lights
King Nothing
Master of Puppets
Mercyful Fate (Medley)
No Leaf Clover
Nothing Else Matters
One
Orion
Sad But True
Seek And Destroy
The Memory Remains
The Shortest Straw
The Thing That Should Not Be
The Unforgiven
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Wherever I May Roam
Whiplash

Other Artists

Alice In Chains – No Excuses
Bob Seger – Turn The Page
Corrosion of Conformity – Albatross
Diamond Head – Am I Evil?
Foo Fighters – Stacked Actors
Judas Priest – Hell Bent For Leather
Kyuss – Demon Cleaner
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tuesdays Gone
Machine Head – Beautiful Mourning
Mastodon – Blood And Thunder
Mercyful Fate – Evil
Michael Schenker Group – Armed and Ready
Motorhead – Ace of Spades
Queen – Stone Cold Crazy
Samhain – Mother of Mercy
Slayer – War Ensemble
Social Distortion – Mommy’s Little Monster
Suicidal Tendencies – War Inside My Head
System of a Down – Toxicity
The Sword – Black River
Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back in Town

Perhaps they should have just called it Guitar Hero Metallica and other bands that are better than Metallica.

So don’t skip this one just because its only Metallica – it’s not. There’s much more to this game than James Hetfield’s ugly mug and if you ask me, drummers should get a break on this one. If Lars Ulrich can’t keep a beat, then why should the player?

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