[Spidey987]

Activision's Guitar Hero 5, set to release this fall on the Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, and Wii, has been hiding out in the back, watching what everyone else is doing. And now, with a plan of attack in mind, it comes at you with a whole bunch of cool new features and tracks.

Game Hunters reveals that a new Fest mode lets players battle each other at home or online for top scores. Four can play at home and eight can play online in this competitive mode that uses momentum points. Miss a note in competition and lose momentum. You must correctly hit the next 20 notes to regain it. I can see myself losing this mode every time!

As you may have heard, Party Play lets people join in songs mid-game as well as switch instruments and difficulty levels. And there will be plenty of songs to party to, says project director Brian Bright. “We have a lot of new indie artists as well and Iron Maiden as more classic rock or heavy metal.”

Here's some track highlights:

* Tom Petty (Runnin Down a Dream)
* White Stripes (Blue Orchid)
* Bob Dylan (All Along The Watchtower)
* The Rolling Stones (Sympathy for the Devil)
* Santana (No One To Depend On)
* Johnny Cash (Ring of Fire)
* Kings of Leon (Sex on Fire)

Destructoid - Guitar Hero 5: new modes and tracks revealed

Those are some great songs, hope they translate well to the game.

[chewyx]

some good songs there. I've heard a rumour of A-Punk by Vampire Weekend being in it too. Ive always thought that would be fun to play although i'd prefer it in rock band.

How's the white stripes gonna work though. There's only 2 of em.

any one want to take bets on the maiden track being run to the hills

[Spidey987]

Taken from the Eurogamer article on the game...

All of the downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour will be compatible, and Activision will even upgrade the old game to support the upgrades and enhancements in Guitar Hero 5.

[drskhaled]

obviously i'll be buying this but i am not excited by this at all. as for dlc compatibilty, too little too late IMO. since the bulk of the top tunes in this series are reserved for disc based games i would prefer to be able to tranfer ghwt tracks to gh5. In fact what would be most exciting is if GH5 enable transfer of not just GHWT on disc songs but also the upcoming GH greates hits and the metallica disc. I'd pay a nominal license fee if needed similar to the RB1 transfer fee. This would give what most people want which is a unified platform for the gh games without the need fro constant disc swapping. Anyway its very unlikley.

[Greasychipbutty]

Originally Posted by chewyx

I've heard a rumour of A-Punk by Vampire Weekend being in it too.

OMG! Please please please but i agree....Rock Band Only!!!!

[Spidey987]

World Tour on-disc songs will be exportable too according to this article...

Kotaku - Guitar Hero 5 Brings New Look, New Features, And New Bands - guitar hero 5

[oasismark]

Originally Posted by Spidey987

Kings of Leon (Sex on Fire)

Originally Posted by Spidey987

All of the downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour will be compatible

Originally Posted by Spidey987

World Tour on-disc songs will be exportable too according to this article...

All good

[chewyx]

This is actually shaping up to look pretty good.

We only have 12 songs confirmed but there are about 50 artists confirmed including plenty of bands making their music game debut.

Taken from the GH forums

Confirmed Songs:
1.)Johnny Cash - "Ring of Fire"
2.)Santana - "No One To Depend On (Live)"
3.)Bob Dylan - "All Along the Watchtower"
4.)Tom Petty - "Runnin' Down a Dream"
5.)Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk"
6.)The White Stripes - "Blue Orchid"
7.)The Rolling Stones - "Sympathy for the Devil"
8.)Kings of Leon - "*** on Fire"
9.)Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"
10.)Attack! Attack! - "You And Me"
11.)Face To Face - "Disconnected"
12.)Wolfmother - "Back Round"

Rumored Songs:
M.I.A. - "Jimmy"
Shiny Toy Guns - “Ghost Town”
Eve 6 - “Inside Out”
Muse - "Plug In Baby"
MossiMovies - "The Loser Song (Another Guy)"
King Crimson - "21st Century Schizoid Man"

Confirmed Artists:
3 Doors Down
A Perfect Circle
AFI
Alter Bridge
Band Of Horses
Beastie Boys
Beck
Billy Idol
Billy Squier
Blink 182
Blur
Bon Jovi
Brand New
The Bronx
Bush
Cold Play
Darkest Hour
David Bowie
The Derek Trucks Band
Dire Straits
Duran Duran
Elliot Smith
Garbage
Gorillaz
Iron Maiden
Jimmy Eat World
Kaiser Chiefs
Kiss
Motley Crue
Muse
My Morning Jacket
Nirvana
Public Enemy Feat. Zakk Wylde
Queen Feat. David Bowie
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Raconteurs
Rammstein
Rush
The Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
The Sword
Sublime
Weezer
Wild Cherry

NEW BANDS 23/30 Debut to Guitar Hero
1.)Johnny Cash - "Ring of Fire"
2.)Tom Petty - "Runnin' Down a Dream"
3.)Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk"
4.)The White Stripes - "Blue Orchid"
5.)Kings of Leon - "*** on Fire"
6.)Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"
7.)Attack! Attack! - "You And Me"
8.)Alter Bridge
9.)Gorillaz
10.)Band Of Horses
11.)Bush
12.)Darkest Hour
13.)Wild Cherry
14.)Face To Face - "Disconnected"
15.)Public Enemy
16.)Dire Straits
17.)The Derek Trucks Band
18.)A Perfect Circle
19.)Elliot Smith
20.)The Bronx
21.)Rammstein
22.)My Morning Jacket
23.)Brand New

[oasismark]

Queen Feat. David Bowie

Hmm wonder what song that is?

Not much point keeping that a secret

I really wish they'd do a GH:Queen.


Happy to see some Kings of Leon, would love their latest album in full

[Azzin]

Lips wireless mic compatibility please.

I'm wishing for the following (in no particular order!) :

• GH: KISS.
• GH: Guns 'n' Roses.

I'm sure there are more that I want too!

[PlexShaw]

Originally Posted by Azzin

Lips wireless mic compatibility please.

Of course they'll be compatible, since GH:Metallica already is.

[Azzin]

Originally Posted by PlexShaw

Of course they'll be compatible, since GH:Metallica already is.

You say that, but as GH: M is compatible you would have thought that a patch to make the rest compatible was easy and forthcoming...

Apparently not though....

Guitar Hero World Tour won't receive Lips mic support

lips microphone guitar hero - Google Search

[PlexShaw]

Originally Posted by Azzin

You say that, but as GH: M is compatible you would have thought that a patch to make the rest compatible was easy and forthcoming...

Apparently not though....

Guitar Hero World Tour won't receive Lips mic support

lips microphone guitar hero - Google Search

But this is going forward, not backwards, so of course GH5 will work with the Lips mics (just as I would expect GH:GH and GH:VH to do so).

That GH:WT doesn't work with them is down to laziness on Neversoft's part.

[Azzin]

Originally Posted by PlexShaw

But this is going forward, not backwards, so of course GH5 will work with the Lips mics (just as I would expect GH:GH and GH:VH to do so).

That GH:WT doesn't work with them is down to laziness on Neversoft's part.

Agreed, but it's still poor that there's no backwards compatibliity patch for the rest of the GH series.

[SeedyR]

NME have just announced more bands for GH5, so here's the list now up to date (there's 84 bands so this could be all of them):

A Perfect Circle
AFI
Arctic Monkeys
Attack! Attack!
Band Of Horses
Beastie Boys
Beck
Billy Idol
Billy Squier
Blink-182
Blur
Bob Dylan
Bon Jovi
Brand New
Bush
Children of Bodom
Coldplay
Darker My Love
Darkest Hour
David Bowie
Deep Purple
Dire Straits
Doors Down
Duran Duran
Eagles Of Death Metal
Elliott Smith
Elton John
Face to Face
Garbage
Gorillaz
Gov’t Mule
Grand Funk Railroad
Iggy Pop
Iron Maiden
Jeff Beck
Jimmy Eat World
John Mellencamp
Johnny Cash
Kaiser Chiefs
King Crimson
Kings Of Leon
Kiss
Love and Rockets
Megadeth
Mötley Crüe
Muse
My Morning Jacket
Nirvana
No Doubt
Peter Frampton
Public Enemy Featuring Zakk Wylde
Queen & David Bowie
Queens Of The Stone Age
Rammstein
Rose Hill Drive
Rush
Santana
Scars On Broadway
Screaming Trees
Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
Spacehog
Stevie Wonder
Sublime
Sunny Day Real Estate
T. Rex
The Bronx
The Derek Trucks Band
The Duke Spirit
The Killers
The Police
The Raconteurs
The Rolling Stones
The Sword
The White Stripes
Thin Lizzy
Thrice
Tom Petty
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
TV On The Radio
Vampire Weekend
Weezer
Wild Cherry
Wolfmother

Some really good bands there!

Originally Posted by oasismark

Hmm wonder what song that is?

Not much point keeping that a secret

I really wish they'd do a GH:Queen...

Rumours going about we'll see GH:Queen next year as well as GH:Rolling Stones, however take with a pinch of salt.

[Azzin]

Good list of bands/artists, they just need to make sure that the songs they put on the disk are equally as impressive.

Re GH: Queen-let's hope so!

[Brigggers]

about time someone put dire straits in these games, shame it wasnt rockband though

[ukbootlegs]

Arctic Monkeys, Nirvana, Blur for 'Guitar Hero 5' | News | NME.COM

[PlexShaw]

Originally Posted by ukbootlegs

Arctic Monkeys, Nirvana, Blur for 'Guitar Hero 5' | News | NME.COM

Er... you were about 8 hours too late with the link.

[oasismark]

Originally Posted by SeedyR

Arctic Monkeys

Kings Of Leon


Rumours going about we'll see GH:Queen next year

Even before E3 has started, i'm already exited about the above info!!

[chewyx]

Arctic Monkeys.

I was begining to worry they wont let their songs be used. There not in singstar or lips or anything so this can only be good news.

Hopefuly RB has managed to licence them too.

The list of bands looks pretty good. Lets just hope they pick the right songs.

[King Tones]

Originally Posted by SeedyR

A Perfect Circle
Rammstein

Some really good bands there!

DAMN IT !!!

Guess i'm going to have to buy this now

Deftones

[oasismark]

Out of interest, where has the rumer of GH:Queen come from?

I'm all over this till its denied or confirmed.

[Spidey987]

I really don't think we'd be having Queen songs included in so many different GH titles if they were planning on a full release, there was a rumour for a Jimi Hendrix game a little while back but there obviously wasn't enough material to warrant a full game, so they just went the DLC route.

[oasismark]

Originally Posted by Spidey987

I really don't think we'd be having Queen songs included in so many different GH titles if they were planning on a full release, there was a rumour for a Jimi Hendrix game a little while back but there obviously wasn't enough material to warrant a full game, so they just went the DLC route.

What other titles are Queen included in?

GH:WT DLC - We Are The Champions & Fat Bottom Girls

GH5 - Queen & David Bowie

GH:Hits - Killer Queen

GH:M - Stone Cold Crazy


Its hardly alot considering they had 20 albums released, also Metallica had a full album as DLC before GH:M was announced.

I'm just hoping its true.

Any links to the actual roumers?

[spanna]

Muse

shame no bloc party though.. esp since helicopter was in gh3 or 2... cant remember which.

[PlexShaw]

IGN: Guitar Hero 5 Preview

Arctic Monkeys song is confirmed as Brianstorm.

[chewyx]

hell yeah You've just made my night thanks mate.

That will be awesome on drums although its gonna be tough. The intro sounds pretty insane followed by 16th(?) notes on the hi-hat most of the way through (yes I have just listened to it!) argh! I just wish it was in RB

Better get practising my 16th notes in time for september. I will actually cry if i cant pass it.

[lentini]

Guitar Hero 5 Stage Demo - GameSpot E3 2009 Live Demo

[oasismark]

Originally Posted by PlexShaw

IGN: Guitar Hero 5 Preview

Arctic Monkeys song is confirmed as Brianstorm.

Would have preferred, 'A View From The Afternoon' but that will do, happy its a great drumming track.