Guitar Hero 3 Details Announced

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The upcoming Guitar Hero 3 is sure to be another hit in the franchise with all sorts of new features, ‘face-melting’ tracks, and controllers. The first time I played Guitar Hero I embarrassed myself and almost ran out of Best Buy crying. Anyways, the latest and greatest will be released on all major platforms with the addition of some downloadable content. A few of the key new features are multi-player battle mode, punishing boss modes and authentic rock venues. You can even go head-to-head with other ‘guitarists’ online and see who shreds better, nerds.

Instead of the crappy controllers of yesteryear you can rock out with Gibson Les Paul and Kramer guitars that will have interchangeable faceplates and new button colors. The Les Paul will be available for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. The Kramer will be an exclusive for the PS2. Rock on! Now here are the real goodies. The first 11 tracks are hot, hot, hot and I know that’s what you want so hit the jump.

* Paint It Black (by The Rolling Stones)
* Cherub Rock (by Smashing Pumpkins)
* Sabotage (by Beastie Boys)
* The Metal (by Tenacious D)
* My Name is Jonas (by Weezer)
* Knights of Cydonia (by Muse)
* Rock And Roll All Nite (as made famous by Kiss)
* School’s Out (as made famous by Alice Cooper)
* Slow Ride (as made famous by Fog Hat)
* Cult of Personality (by Living Colour)
* Barracuda (as made famous by Heart)

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223 Comments so far

 
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Michael (Who am I?)

I played GH2 with a friend who plays real guitar at some gigs in the area, and completely kicked his ass. Of course, I probably couldn’t play Mary Had a Little Lamb on the real thing, given 5 hours and an instruction manual.

It must be good to have real skills…

Glad to see you rolled with the flow. Anthrax rocks!

 
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muzzy (Who am I?)

i havnt played on gh3 yet but it luks cool so i cud be gettin it for da holidays so…

 
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Andy (Who am I?)

i have GH1 and my bro in law has GH2. both games are incredible! i love them…

to see these songs on GH3 is just amazing. especially slow ride! ive got memories for that game…i feel old =( im only 18. but anyways…id really like to see something ACDC or zeppelin on it but i guess zeppelin is hard to get a copyright for and ACDC i dont even know. so yeah…

these 11 tracks are awesome though. i cant wait at all now!!!

 
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Peter Ha (Who am I?)

Andy-
You feel old at 18. I must be ancient then. Excuse me while I become just another dust in the wind.

 
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Joey (Who am I?)

I’m the lead guitarist for the band SMOTHER and let me tell you real guitar seems easier than guitar hero.

 
Alex

I agree with joey…Jessica by the Allman Brothers is waay easier on the real thing.

I love GH, and i’m crying myself to sleep everyday ’till 3rd comes out. Kai Huang is THE MAN!!

 
Luke Burrows

K, i have played guitar hero 2 for a while now and i need to do 4 more songs on expert.
I love this game its genius plz put Welcome to the black parade on the 360 one!
I am amazing

 
Yurich

Andy,
RedOctane has to first get permission to use the songs on the game. They didn’t ask Guns ‘n Roses for Sweet Child of Mine. They got tired of waiting. It was supposed to be on Guitar Hero 1

 
Anthony AKA Aj

GH1 has more classic songs dan GH2. but i think der both awesome.

Few Songs i would like to be on GH3 is
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Trivium - Anthem (we are the fire)
Children of Bodom - Are You Dead yet?

i dnt think they will do another song for bands dey alredy done on GH1 and GH2. so ye jst my opinion.

Oh lol if dey put a MCR song on GH3 im gona cry. dat wud be stupid. lol or a green day song.

 
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Ryan (Who am I?)

i got gh 2 on 360 n it is harder than real guitar and i can play real guitar really well !
carry on my wayward son is easier on real guitar, even Freebird is !
but its still an awsome game and i cant wait for gh 3.
they should get some acdc or led zepplin on it
also, how can you not lyk MCR - the black parade is a gr8 album

 
Matt-Man

i cant wait till gh3 its gunna kick ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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needrock101 (Who am I?)

i have GH1 and GH2 for ps2 and i love it…..i love the TD on it……..any way love the game and cant wait for GH3 for ps2

i want to see some:

hand of blood - bullet for my valentine
B.Y.O.B - system of a down
what i got - sublime
animals - nickelback
live wire - motley crue
or….. rockstar - nickelback

plz consider i wanted these songs on since GH1!

 
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DC (Who am I?)

Its funny how guitar hero is like a bike. i didnt play for like 2 months and when i picked up the guitar i played bark at the moon on expert and finished it with 92%, and before i stopped i couldnt even play it on hard.
guitar hero three is gonna rock hard and i cant wait to shred some new songs… And I cant believe tenacious D is on that mofo.

 
Taylor

I mostly excited about the wireless Kramer Vanguard for the PS2! That’s gonna be awesome. I hope there is more classic rock on GH3, like Metallica, ACDC, Pantera…Can’t wait. Hope its not too expensive…

 
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Frank (Who am I?)

i own both of them, they are awsome. im in iraq and its the only distraction i have….the only thing is that i wish they put some Godsmack on GH3. specially moon baby or i stand alone.

 
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Adrienne Rene' (Who am I?)

Ohhhhh my gosh this might seem a lil weird but my hands are very lil cuz imma lil girl 15 persue but anyways my exboyfriends lil bor got me to play gh1 my mom got me n my sisters gh2 welllllllll instead of using the guitar(the whole point of the game) i use the controller and i still kick ass cant wait untill gh3 comes out……….. woooooooHoooooooo!!!!!!!!
blue_princess_cutter@yahoo.com

 
Alex

My god they need some better songs. Some more like:

Skin - Breaking Benjamin
Here With You - 3 Doors Down
She - Taproot
Anthem - Zebrahead
At Your Funeral For A Friend - Legion Of Doom
Last Night - Skillet
I Dare You - Shinedown
Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace
Home - Daughtry

…and so on.

 
yet another alex

what they REALLY need is a scorpions or about 10 more boston songs…they have pretty unexpectedly awesome solos, even if some are easier than others.

im not talking about send me an angel, im talking about Rock you like a Hurricane scorpions song! their fast stuff is the shiz nit…so are some of mr bigs’

 
shep

yeah, they definitely need some godsmack on the next one, maybe trippin, and they should also get welcome to the jungle by guns n roses. some more Rush will do good, too, like limelight, that song would be awesome. also, maybe some disturbed.
thats all i can think of right now. GH rocks!

 
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Makr (Who am I?)

All of u guys that r saying that the real guitar is easier than guitar hero are idiots cuz guitar hero is hand/eye cordination. U can’t even compare it to the real guitar at all…..And yes for those who are wondering i do play the real guitar and i kick ass at this game so u can’t even compare them to each other

 
RoxxStar

I absolutely love GH. my friend has GH1 and my bro has GH2. i cant wait til GH3 comes. being as that i am a girl, i think it’s pretty awesome that i can actually go up against some of the boys. i just really wish that they would put some more hard rock/metal on there.

 
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Nate From Cali. (Who am I?)

HOW THE HELL can they leave out songs like “Welcome to the Jungle”. or “Enter Sandman” or “VooDoo Chile”. they keep putting these brand new” to the radio i might add” bands who really havent done much like Rush or Metallica or even The Eagles. Put some damn Godsmack on it for christ sake. these songs suck… but i will buy it anyways.

 
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Nate From Cali. (Who am I?)

Recomended songs.

1: Enter Sandman-Metallica
2: Keep Away- Godsmack
3: Hotel California- The Eagles
4: Anything from Rush
5: Change Of Seasons- Dream Thearter
6: Basket Case- Green Day
7: Awake- Godsmack
8: Back in Black- ACDC
9: In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth- Coheed And Cambria
10: anything worth listening to… Motely Crue- Van Halen- Stevie Vai- Blue oyster cult- Krocus…..Its not hard to find good music..

 
Emerson

i rly think the song 99 reeb baloons should b on there cuz it is not 2 easy not 2 hard i also think that dannie Califaronia should b on there i saw a video of it play on GH@ on youtube anyways :p

 
dan n

I would love to see

One or Master of puppets-Metallica
Eruption-Van Halen
anything by Dethklok
Paridise City-Guns N Roses
Stairway to Heaven or Achilles last stand-Led Zepplin
Thunderstruck or Hells Bells-ACDC
Holy Wars-Megadeth
Yankee Rose or Goin’Crazy-David Lee Roth
anything by Pearl Jam

 
dan n

I saw a picture of a guy holdin a white les paul that will be used 4 gh3

MORE METAL! I will be pissed if there is any emo bands…….I’ll get it anyways

 
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dustin r (Who am I?)

does anyone else think its a bad idea to change the colors of the buttons on the new gh3??? …its kinda like we have to re-learn how to play again with different colors….just wondering………and yes i do agree there should be some metallica..acdc…zepplin…and how about this one…only the greatest guitar player of all time…hendrix…anyone give him a thought?

 
J

i have been playing gh2 and gh1 ever since december and i play every day for like an hour. iv’e mastered every song on expert but have played it so much that i get worse sometimes. Hope gh3 comes out as soon as possible. GH ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
dan n

I also found out that the Kramer will be for the PS2 version (the les paul only for the PS3,360,and the Wii :( ). Dustin is right about Jimi but I think they might screw it up because my friend said “Spanish Castle Magic”(on the first gh) was supposed to have vocals and it didn’t!

 
Hate

I went to a website a while back that said”the top 5 songs NEVER to be played on guitar hero” and it said
NOTHING by Cannibal Corpse ( death metal in case nobody knows)
November Rain by Guns n’ Roses
and something by System of a down but i 4got the name.

C U guys later, I’ll try and get any thing new 4 u guys

 
Shotgun Suicide

they should have Slayer or more Dethklok instead of punk songs!

 
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ben (Who am I?)

i would like to see some bands like:

korn
metallica
slipknot
killswitch engage
anything that rocks, i wasnt too impressed with guitar hero 2s tracks, 1 was good but id like to see more metal on the new one

 
john

why don’t they just make a thing like dance factory where you can play to what ever CD you put in. That would be awesome!

 
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LINDZY ROGUE (Who am I?)

I think GH3 iz gonna rokk A$$ just cuz the first two do. . . . . they need to represent genres like blues and hair metal more tho to even it out . .. if they would throw in some skid row, l.a. guns, poison, ratt, more motley crue or anything by any blues artist like gary moore i would be very, VERY happy

regardless, i will be getting GH3 as soon as it comes out

 
big d

they should definatley put some of these songs on there

iron butterfly-the garden of eden
system of a down-chop suey
slipknot-duality
disturbed-down with the sickness
10 years-wasteland
avenged sevenfold-desecrating through the reverence
trivium-a gunshot to the head of trebedation
kiss-detroit rock city
queen-bohemian rhapsody
kiss-love gun
kansas-dust in the wind
styx-renegade

if they get some of these its gonna be a great game especially the first one

 
JJ

HEY BIG D IT’S IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA NOT GARDEN OF EDEN! BUT I SO AGREE WITH YOU

AND I ALSO WANT TO SEE PURPLE HAZE BY JIMI HINDRIX

 
Hate

more songs that I found on the internet as the “voted highest list”:

Back in black-ACDC
Stairway to heaven-Led Zeppelin
Black Betty-Ramjam
Renegade-Styx
The Joker-Steve Miller band
Rock and roll part 2-Gary glitter
House of the rising sun-The animals
Taking care of business-Bachman Turner Overdrive

Most talked about/rumored:

What i got-Sublime
Sweet home Alabama
Wild Thing-ZZ Top
Walk this way-Aerosmith
Rock you like a hurricane-Scorpions
You shook me all night long-ACDC
Rock of Ages-Def Leppard
Enter Sandman-Metallica.

I found more songs, but they’re already posted at the beginning.

 
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JOEL (Who am I?)

I CAN’T WAIT TILL GH3 COMES OUT. I AGREE THAT THEY SHOULDN’T CHANGE THE FRETS COLORS. AND THEY NEED BETTER SONGS. WHAT SUCKS IS THAT TODAY VOTING WAS FINISHED FOR SOME OF THE SONGZ ON GH3.

 
Dan n

I know the guys that are making guitar hero 3 might not care or read this but the only thing i REALLY want is more songs than #2 on the 360, and PLEASE put Dethklok on the bonus list. Put “Awaken Mustakrakish”, “Go into the water”or”Duncan hills coffee jingle”. I do not know ONE PERSON that does not like Thunderhorse. This will definetly be a game to remember

 
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RILEY (Who am I?)

top 10 songs id like to see:

1.one-metallica
2.cemetary gates-pantera
3.good god-korn
4.wish you were here-pink floyd
5.south to heaven-slayer
6.back in black-ac/dc
7.what i got-sublime
8.epic-faith no more
9.purple haze-jimi hendrix
10.holy wars….. the punishment due-megadeth

i know u guys are all going why KORN,well i love korn and hate when people say they ruined metal, NO they didnt ruin imetal they created a new genre of metal they didnt even meen to create!!! so dont diss my band!!!

 
SEAN

is that the only songs!!! i want to see bat country by avenged sevenfold

 
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slush puppy (Who am I?)

god people who keep saying green day or some crappy new band are frickin retarded.there needs to be more classical stuff like:

quite riot:bang your head
ozzy osbourne:crazy train
mettalica:one or master of puppets
scorpions:no one like you
more rush
more megadeth
more avenged sevenfold
ac/dc
led zepplin
and if they are going to put newer songs they need stuff like
DIsturbed:down with the sickness,stuplify,or land of confusion
more dethklok(i love that show)

but if they put mcr or green day i will crap fire and pee ice.
and anyone who thinks different is a frickin idiot

 
Anonymous

Metallica- Master of Puppets
Megadeth- Holy Wars or take no prisoners
Led Zeppelin- Immigrant Song
Slayer- Raining Blood
Sepultura- Arise
Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe
Trivium- The Storm
Metallica- Fade To Black
Anthrax- Indians
Iron Maiden- Hallowed Be Thy Name
Ozzy- Crazy Train

 
Murc

Metallica- Master of Puppets
Megadeth- Holy Wars or take no prisoners
Led Zeppelin- Immigrant Song
Slayer- Raining Blood
Sepultura- Arise
Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe
Trivium- The Storm
Metallica- Fade To Black
Anthrax- Indians
Iron Maiden- Hallowed Be Thy Name
Ozzy- Crazy Train
Pantera - Cemetary Gates or Shattered
AC/DC - Thunderstruck

c’mon man…

 
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RILEY (Who am I?)

HAHAHA i just learned crazy train on real guitar(well the intro), and i think it was on the first game right??? or was that bark at the moon, im not sure!

 
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someone (Who am I?)

i think “hand of blood” by Bullet for my valentine, and “the river” by Good Charlotte should be an upcoming Guitar Hero 3

 
milo

dude i cant wait for gh3 i play 2 every day and finally beat expert :)
they should put more songs by metallica, led zepplin, acdc, bullet for my vallentine, ozzy, and definetly hendrix
some songs i would like to see would be

tears dont fall - bullet for my vallentine
master of puppets - metallica
hand of blood - bullet for my vallentine
crazy train - ozzy
back in black - acdc
starless - crossfade
show me how to live - audioslave
voodoo child - hendrix
fly from the inside - shinedown
black hole sun - soundgarden
welcome home (sanitarium) - bullet for my vallentine

 
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jimjimjim (Who am I?)

i think a blend of all different types of rock is what guitar hero should do.
they’ve been doing it, but people keep saying more metal, less emo, or whatever. put a bunch of everything in.

 
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jimjimjim (Who am I?)

i’d like to see some bands that were already on guitar hero too.
boston, rush, kansas, the ramones, motley crue, dick dale, sum 41, guns and roses, and bad religion all have good songs that would be great for guitar hero (because they have good guitar parts)
the one song i would love to see is Devil Game, by kansas. but i doubt that will happen. its got 2 great parts

 
vince

i agree with the songs but what about new features like create your own character, create your own song, or create your own guitar. i heard that they will have a battle mode for multiplayer where you can aquire power-ups and shoot them at the other player.

 
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songs-
black dog-zeppelin
joker and the theif-wolfmother
rock and roll all nite-kiss
back in black-ac/dc
side of a bullet- nickelback
communication breakdown-zeppelin
whispers-skillet

 
big wes

there should be some yngwie malmsteen on guitar hero at least one song would be good

 
joe

i have heard that the reason there is no ac/dc is that they won’t give up the rights to that song

 
matt

eric clapton-layla. ’nuff said.

 
Anonymous

i want some metallica man!!!!! metallica is the bomb

 
shaun

Some Suggestions!

Metallica - Orion, Master of Puppets, One, Enter Sandman, Fade to Black, Ride the Lightning
Iron Maiden - Hallowed by the Name, Aces High, Dance of death, Fear of the Dark, The Trooper
Van Halen - Eruption
Eric Clapton - Layla
Dragonforce - Through the Fire and the Flames
Led Zep - Stairway, Black Dog, Rock n Roll
Gn’R - Civil War, Dont Cry, Paradise City
AC/DC - Hells Bells
MORE METAL!!! trying to think of more songs but gone blank
Love the GH series and i believe GH3 could push as best game of all time!

 
Dmac

Dude…here would be my picks if i had to put some song in on my own

1. Stairway to Heaven- Zeppelin
2. Clapton - layla
3. Metalica - Enter Sandman
4. Nobody’s fool - Cinderella

Thats all i can think of cuz they have most of the ones i want on this blog neway

 
pat010203

NEED METAL LIKE METALLICA!!!!!!!

Enter sandman
master pf puppets
one

 
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gabr (Who am I?)

hey put some
sublime-date rape,wrong way,santria
anything of system of a down
and METALLICA-fuel,master of puppets,for whom the bells toll,one

 
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a.s. (Who am I?)

metallica-master of puppets
system of a down-B.Y.O.B.
van halen-eruption
van halen-eruption
VAN HALEN-ERUPTION
queen-bicycle race
eric clapton-layla

AND PLEEAASSE GIMME SOME FLOYD!!!!!!!!!!!

spankular@aim.net

 
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guitar god (Who am I?)

stairway to heaven and back in black will be on GH3 go on youtube and look up GH3

P.S. dont forget about GH encore rock the 80’s pre-order it at red octane.com

 
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guitar god (Who am I?)

and i want to c some blink-182 (damnit, josie, or dynestary gary).

 
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blob (Who am I?)

you need death metal who cares if not a lot of people like it i would like to see some cannibal corpse or arch enemy or amon amarth or dimmu borgir and stuff like that you can still have other songs just one song by at least three of these bands would be good

 
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blob (Who am I?)

do not end the game with stairway to heaven

 
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blob (Who am I?)

Atreyu- Bleeding Mascera i dont care if its spelled wrong you know what im getting at