The turning point arrives with Thin Lizzys legendary ‘The Boys are Back in Town'. Instead this starts out as a puny girlie slap. A game dedicated to the hard punching music of Metallica should feel like a punch to the face. Old man ballads like ‘Turn the Page' by ‘Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band' and Lynyrd Skynyrds ‘Tuesday's Gone' are one long and slow yawn. When I get to my first real set, it's like walking bang right into the aftermath of the '63 reunion aftermath. To my big surprise, I'm almost bored.Īnd things get progressively worse. It's getting predictable, and I spend as much time looking out the window as I do following events on my TV screen. I easily drum my way through the two tracks that seem unnecessarily stripped down and easy on this difficulty level. I had just finished Guitar Hero: World Tour on the hard setting and this felt like a step back in comparison. A couple of notes in and I feel it right away. I grab a hold of the drumsticks and move the setting to the hardest setting. It sets the electrifying mood before the show kicks off with ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls', followed by the beautiful ballad ‘The Unforgiven'. To the intro of "best of" album S&M we see James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich and Robert Trujillo mount the stage in slow-mo as they approach their respective instruments, camera closing up on their metal covered rockboots and their angry war faces. Guitar Hero: Metallica starts out pompously and dramatically. You just have to enjoy the occasional challenge. Thankfully, you don't need to be a fanatic merch collector to enjoy Neversoft's latest chapter in the Guitar Hero franchise Guitar Hero: Metallica. Of course, I have some of their celebrated records on the shelf, like The Black Album and Master of Puppets, but it has got to be at least ten years since they've seen the inside of my CD-player. I'm not a huge Metallica fan never have been.
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