Rock Band 2 entire tracklist revealed?

Apparently there are two unconfirmed and differing leaks out there regarding the track list for the recently announced Rock Band 2. I have to say the one I saw over at Kotaku looked FECKIN’ AWESOME, with highlights for me including Judas Priest - Painkiller, ACDC - Let There Be Rock, Journey - Anyway You Want It, Megadeth - Peace Sells, Metallica - Battery and The Who - Pinball Wizard!

Details can be found here and here’s the lists:

1 AC/DC Let There Be Rock
2 AFI Girl’s Gone Grey
3 Alanis Morissette You Oughta Know
4 Alice in Chains Man in the Box
5 Allman Brothers Ramblin’ Man
6 Avenged Sevenfold Almost Easy
7 Bad Company Shooting Star
8 Beastie Boys So Whatcha Want
9 Beck E-Pro
10 Bikini Kill Rebel Girl
11 Billy Idol White Wedding Pt I
12 Blondie One Way or Another
13 Bob Dylan Tangled Up in Blue
14 Bon Jovi Livin’ on a Prayer
15 Cheap Trick Hello There
16 Devo Uncontrollable Urge
17 Dinosaur Jr Feel the Pain
18 Disturbed Down with the Sickness
19 Donnas, The New Kid in School
20 Dream Theater Panic Attack
21 Duran Duran Hungry Like the Wolf
22 Elvis Costello Pump it Up
23 Fleetwood Mac Go Your Own Way
24 Foo Fighters Everlong
25 Go-Go’s, The We Got the Beat
26 Grateful Dead, The Alabama Getaway
27 Guess Who, The American Woman
28 Guns N’ Roses Shackler’s Revenge
29 Interpol PDA
30 Jane’s Addiction Mountain Song
31 Jethro Tull Aqualung
32 Jimmy Eat World The Middle
33 Joan Jett Bad Reputation
34 Journey Anyway You Want It
35 Judas Priest Painkiller
36 Kansas Carry On Wayward Son
37 L7 Pretend We’re Dead
38 Lacuna Coil Our Truth
39 Linkin Park One Step Closer
40 Lit My Own Worst Enemy
41 Lush De-Luxe
42 Mastodon Colony of Birchmen
43 Megadeth Peace Sells
44 Metallica Battery
45 Mighty Mighty Bosstones Where’d You Go
46 Modest Mouse Float On
47 Motorhead Ace of Spades
48 Muffs, The Kids in America
49 Nirvana Drain You
50 Norman Greenbaum Spirit in the Sky
51 Offspring, The Come Out & Play (Keep ‘em Seperated)
52 Panic at the Disco Nine in the Afternoon
53 Paramore That’s What You Get
54 Pearl Jam Alive
55 Presidents of the USA Lump
56 Rage Against the Machine Testify
57 Ratt Round & Round
58 Red Hot Chili Peppers Give it Away
59 Replacements, The Alex Chilton
60 Rise Against Give it All
61 Rush The Trees
62 Silversun Pickups Lazy Eye
63 Smashing Pumpkins Today
64 Social Distortion I Was Wrong
65 Sonic Youth Teenage Riot
66 Soundgarden Spoonman
67 Squeeze Cool for Cats
68 Steely Dan Bodhitsattva
69 Steve Miller Band Rock’n Me
70 Survivor Eye of the Tiger
71 System of a Down Chop Suey
72 Talking Heads Psycho Killer
73 Tenacious D Master Exploder
74 Testament Souls of Black
75 Who, The Pinball Wizard
BONUS SONGS (all HMX bands)
76 Abnormality Visions
77 Anarchy Club Get Clean
78 Bang Camaro Night Lies
79 Breaking Wheel Shoulder to the Plow
80 Libyans, The Neighborhood
81 Main Drag, The A Jagged Georgeous Winter.
82 Speck Conventional Lover
83 Sterns, The Supreme Girl
84 That Handsome Devil Rob the Prez-O-Dent

And then the second list. Some of the tracks are the same as the list above, just in a different order. “Keep in mind, some of these could easily be DLC that’s in the works,” the source says.

1) Tangled Up in Blue (Bob Dylan)
2) Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood)
3) We’ve Got the Beat (Go-Gos)
4) Bad Reputation (Joan Jett)
5) Pinball Wizard (The Who)
6) Dammit (Blink 182)
7) That’s What You Get (Paramore) The Trees (Rush)
9) Ace of Spades (Motorhead)
10) Chop Suey (System of a Down)
11) Testify (Rage Against the Machine)
12) Spirit In the Sky (Norman Greenbaum)
13) Ramblin’ Man (Allman Brothers)
14) Rebel Girl (Bikini Kill)
15) Eye of the Tiger (Survivor)
16) Panic Attack (Dream Theater)
17) Everlong (Foo Fighters)
1 One Step Closer (Linkin’ Park)
19) Lump (Presidents of the USA)
20) Come Out and Play (Offspring)
21) Drain You (Nirvana)
22) Carry On Wayward Son (Kansas)
23) Peace Sells (Megadeath)
24) Souls of Black (Testament)
25) Livin’ On a Prayer (Bon Jovi)
26) Round and Round (Ratt)
27) New Kid In School (The Donnas)
2 Alright Now (Free)
29) Today (Smashing Pumpkins)
30) Man In the Box (Alice In Chains)
31) Any Way You Want It (Journey)
32) Holiday In Cambodia (Dead Kennedys)
33) Give It Away (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
34) White Wedding (Billy Idol)
35) Hello There (Cheap Trick)
36) Cool for Cats (Squeeze)
37) Psycho Killer (Talking Heads)
3 ? (Devo)
39) One Way or Another (Blondie)
40) De-luxe (Lush) [dare to dream, shoegaze in Rock Band!]
41) Push It (Static-X)
42) Pump It Up (Elvis Costello)
43) Master Exploder (Tenacious D)
44) Bandages (Hot Hot Heat)
45) PDA (Interpol)
46) My Own Worst Enemy (Lit)
47) Float On (Modest Mouse)
4 Aqualung (Jethro Tull)
49) Spoonman (Soundgarden)
50) Bodhisattva (Steely Dan)
51) Suffer (Bad Religion)
52) I Was Wrong (Social Distortion)
53) American Woman (The Guess Who)
56) You Oughta Know (Alanis Morrissette)
57) Mountain Song (Jane’s Addiction)
5 Stop! (Against Me)
59) Hungry Like the Wolf (Duran Duran)
60) Alabama Getaway (Grateful Dead)

So there you have it. Could be real, could be bs, again that’s the fun of rumors!

Guitar Hero: On Tour unboxing

Living in the UK I knew I couldn’t wait to get hold of Guitar Hero on DS for the first time. So this is where having a friend in the USA pays off! So here it is in my hands and for me, 16 days early (European release date July 17th 2008)!

Rock Band 2 guitar controller revealed already, release date

Wow. That was quick off the mark! Seems like the type of thing you’d expect them to leave for E3 at least but here we go:

It’s a Fender strat (obviously) with a sunburnt faux-wood plastic finish. Looks like the same guitar from the promotion image too.

Rock Band 2 should be released on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii, Playstation 2 and looking to be on shelves in September 2008.

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith released, site sold

For those who wanna rock along to Joe Perry and gang, the first Guitar Hero band game, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith has now landed on the shelves for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 owners to pick up in North America and Europe. Australians you’ll have to wait til 6th August. Leave your opinions of the installment here, I’d like to know how “Walk This Way” turned out!

In other news, GuitarHero4.co.uk has now been sold. Which means this blog will probably keep on going (until I get bored or too wrapped up in the games!) but the GH4 domain won’t point here anymore.

And why won’t my GH:OT turn up in the mail? Well, there’s always tomorrow.

Guitar Hero World Tour playable rockers including Hendrix, Ozzy and Sting?

An online survey that may have spilled the beans on the artist line-up for Rock Band 2 may have also given us a peek at what’s coming to Guitar Hero World Tour.

Playable characters in the upcoming game may include Sting, Ozzy Osbourne, Ted Nugent, Billy Corgan, Jimi Hendrix, Travis Barker, Hayley Williams, and Zak Wylde.

Click here for more

For those about to Rock Band!

When Rock Band 2 is released it might according to details from an online survey include “songs from gods of rock like AC/DC and many, many others.”

The survey boasted of “120 of the biggest rock anthems from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s”

Click here for more

Guitar Hero: On Tour released today!

Just a reminder to all our US friends that you can proceed to shred the hell out of your DS’s today, 22nd June 2008!

Just 3 days later our Australian counterparts will be able to get there grip on a guitar grip with a release date of June 25, 2008. Whereas European rockers will have to wait until July 18, 2008!

Info on Guitar Hero On Tour can be found at our page for it here.

Like the game? Hate it? Leave your comments here!
On Tour is bound to stir up a lot of opinions. From
very awesome to very bad!
Europeans will definately be screwed with their release date!

But at least we get to know whether it will be worth a play or not!
Except those who already have it on preorder!
Come back after the July release and I’ll have a review up for you all to
comment on!
Anyway, the first GH game for 2008 is nearly on us! Exciting stuff!

New Guitar Hero World Tour guitar controller revealed! + more!

This is what the next guitar controller will look like for Guitar Hero World Tour! Activision and RedOctane have stepped up the guitar controller game, adding an all new set of hardware features to the plastic axe that ships with GHWT. No longer are you limited to just five colored buttons and a whammy bar, as the new Guitar Hero proprietary peripheral adds a new touch-sensitive slider on the neck, a new bridge button near the strum bar and a built-in accelerometer. Not only can they all be used during regular gameplay—oh, and your old Guitar Hero III guitar controllers will still work—but they all add a little something to Guitar Hero World Tour’s new music creation mode.

The Slider: The new guitar controller’s coolest feature lets players muck with sustained notes with finger slides up and down the slider strip area. It can also be used to tap out notes like a virtual Eddie Van Halen for those note heavy Dragonforce moments. In Guitar Hero World Tour’s music editor, the slider acts as an arpeggiator, playing rapid-fire notes with in the Music Studio mode’s various arpeggio styles.

The Knob: It’s a knob. And it’s definitely the least exciting new aspect of the updated guitar controller. Hey, it looks cool. Let’s talk about The Accelerometer instead. That little piece of hardware can be used to adjust the pitch of your notes in the game’s music editor, doing double duty as the device that sense you want to engage Star Power mode. But if you like to keep things level…

The Bridge: See that “Star Power” line of text on the new bridge button? Yeah, that’s how you’ll activate Star Power, should you not feel like erecting your axe with a quick thrust. In the game’s music editor, it’ll let you add palm-muted notes to your tracks for a little variety. Cool.

Source: Kotaku

And if all that ain’t enough! Guitar Hero 3 tracks you downloaded from either Xbox Live or the PlayStation Store won’t work on your copy of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith but will work on your Guitar Hero World Tour!

Kotaku also goes hands on with GH:WT and you can see the results here. And they also state for the record that the wireless Guitar Hero drum kit BEATS the Rock Band drum kit!

Phew! What a news post! Keep all eyes right here for more info, especially with the DS’s Guitar Hero On Tour being released on June 22nd in the US.

GuitarHero4.co.uk for sale!

The site is up for sale and at a VERY cheap offer at that! The guitarhero4.co.uk domain has a lot of potential to make a LOT of money take advantage of this quick sale now at:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110263652205

Guitar Hero: World Tour guitar controller + lots of details leaked!

Obviously you have to take these “leaks” with a pinch of salt before Activision gives official confirmation. But nevertheless here’s what is being reported by a NeoGaf forum thread:

Guitar Hero 4 to cost 179.99 with instruments.

New guitar sets you free: New touch-sensitive guitar Neck Slide opens up the entire guitar neck for unbound solos - shred how you want.

Some artists for GH4:

Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Korn, System of a Down, Ozzy Osbourne, Interpol, Muse “and dozens more”.

-Lips is a music and singing game that includes 30 songs, 2 wireless interactive microphones, the ability to use and sing your own music or downloaded songs from an online service. Designed to have fun with friends, Lips scores you on your singing (pitch, rhythm, and tune) and overall performance.

Wireless mics are interactive, with lights on the shaft of the microphone that pulse to the rhythm of your voice, and motion sensors that allow you to dance, move or swing to score points.

Take songs from a CD or your ipod, and upload them into the game. The game will reduce the vocals so you can sing along and be heard, and score on whether you’re in tune. Lyrics can also be added directly into the song to sing along.

It’s hard to know how much of this will be true. But you can bet that if half of these details become reality it’ll be very very cool!