Guitar Hero: Metallica

In stark contrast, I have not been a fan of Metallica ever. I liked their radio singles and that's about it.

I grew to love One in Guitar Hero III and the Death Magnetic DLC Album contained the greatest fun to challenge ratio of any Drum track in World Tour.

While the drums never get any better than Death Magnetic's did, the guitar shines throughout this game. Just about every song has been chosen for it. This is the sequel to Guitar Hero III that expert players have waited for. The solos never approach the so fast i can't see wtf is happening Devil went down to Georgia/Through the Fire and Flames speed. They go at a humanly capable blistering pace. And that is why they are awesome. If you couldn't pass Slayer in GH3, you may be able to do it in this game after getting awesome playing all the ones the lead to it.

Drums is where the difficulty is at it's greatest. I considered myself to be a better drummer than guitarist, but i can't pass any of the songs on the final tier (On guitar I got some 5 stars). Double Bass is almost a novelty until your brain has learnt how to use your feet interchangeably at great speeds, and this is what is required to pass any challenging song in this game. I don't mean a sequence where you flail on both during the chorus a la Fuel, I mean when you need to do bass drum triplets and single then double hit loops. How on earth does lars do it?

Vocals have always been Guitar Hero's weak point and yet again you have to sing in an expressionless lifeless choirboy drone to get marks. (In tony stark contrast to Rock Band, where you can imitate them and have an awesome time and get judged fairly) At least the UI has improved dramatically, except the ridiculously thicker than they really are pitch lines. The songs are picked for the instruments, there's next to no love here.

If you play on expert difficulty on guitar, you owe it to yourself to get this off EB (pricematched to JB Hi Fi) with the intention of giving it back in a week, but you'll find you won't want to give it back. Also, Mercyful Fate's Evil is unequivocally the best plastic guitar song ever. I have no band prejudice here, i'd never heard of them before this game.

I have been Metallica through and through since the One Music Video was debuted.

Finally with Death Magnetic - Metallica are back to what they do best play metal and rule at it.

The song selection of Metallica songs is vast and very enjoyable, sure there is some songs that many would want included in replace for the sub-standard "Songs that inspired Metallica"

Why would i want to pay for half a track list that isn't Metallica on a Metallica game. they should've been optional downloads.

the two songs that crossed over from previous Guitar Heroe's One and All Nightmare Long have had there charts rearranged to cater for another guitar, in the case of One personally i don't like the new arrangement it was better the way it was in GH3

Overall though it's well worth the money, and if you add the Death Magnetic download content on top you have hours and hours of fun.