Six new tracks have been announced for the third entry in the Guitar Hero franchise: "Miss Murder," by AFI, "3's and 7's," by Queens of the Stone Age, "Raining Blood," by Slayer, "Reptillia," by The Strokes, "Paranoid," as made famous by Black Sabbath, "Cities on Flame," as made famous by Blue Oyster Cult, and "Mississippi Queen," as made famous by Mountain.
A group of GH fans from the popular fansite scorehero visited Neversoft for an exclusive look at how the game was shaping up and return with an extremely glowing report on the game, as well as the exculsive announcement of four previously unknown tracks from the setlist, and a large number of detailed impressions of the game and their experiences with it.
(by the way, the game is absolutely fantastic by nearly any metric - i know this firsthand).
This is a pseudo-dupe, based on the same press release as the article I posted earlier. However, I'm not going to suggest bidding this down as it's a different angle on the release and we agreed a few days ago that that doesn't count.
Back to the article at hand, it's an impressive list of instruments. Though the Gibson deal isn't all that new, they've had the same arrangement since the first Guitar Hero.
I'm just basing my assumption off of what happened with GH for PS2, where it was possible to buy just the game, without the controller, starting right around the time that GH2 came out. I don't know for sure, because the first time I ever heard of the game was at Christmas when my roommate got it. :)
Personally, I have the Xbox 360 version, and I'll be buying the one with the guitar, for precisely the reason you mentioned, the 2 player mode.
Thats a good point, I'm not sure if they are anticipating that or not, people might have to either buy another guitar (which allows for 2 player anyways) if they GH3 first then decide they want GH2 or buy GH2 and GH3 at the same time and get GH3 without the Guitar.
The thing that I find the most interesting is that there's no PS2 or Xbox 360 GH2 game only listings on the site. I haven't dug around for when they're going to be released, but they have to. It would make sense for people to be able to go in and pick up GH2 and 3 for Xbox at the same time, and all three for PS2. So there also should be a rise in the GH2 we've got listed. These games don't die when the new one comes out.
With that in mind there are a couple things to consider here:
There are already several million people who own the Guitar on the PS2 and the 360, so I would say these two are more likely to sell in larger numbers than the other versions because it costs less, the PS2 in particular.
The Wii version is also 10 dollars cheaper than other versions with the Guitar, so it's more likely to pick up new customers, on top of the game appealing to the more casual audience on the Wii.
I would say the PS2 version will likely sell about 500k over what GH2 did on it, and the 360 will probably pick up another 250-350k over GH2 sales.
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