Activision Announce More Details For Guitar Hero 5

Activision were very busy yesterday announcing lots of new details about the upcoming Guitar Hero 5 game. There has already been a great deal of news regarding the new controllers that are being released, as well as some of the awesome new features. For example, the ability to play the game with more than 1 of the same instrument, which is a particular favourite of mine, no more fighting for who gets to go guitar!

Well, yesterday the publisher announced 2 things. The first was the last remaining 15 songs out of the massive 85 song track list. The second thing is for Xbox 360 players and I’ll talk about that further down.

Staying with the setlist, here are the 15 new songs that were announced yesterday:

• 3 Doors Down – “Kryptonite”
• Arctic Monkeys – “Brianstorm”
• Blink 182 – “The Rock Show”
• Dire Straits – “Sultans Of Swing”
• Jimmy Eat World – “Bleed American”
• Johnny Cash – “Ring of Fire”
• Megadeth – “Sweating Bullets”
• Motley Crue – “Looks That Kill”
• Muse – “Plug In Baby”
• Nirvana – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
• Queen & David Bowie – “Under Pressure”
• Stevie Wonder – “Superstition”
• The Killers – “All The Pretty Faces”
• The Raconteurs – “Steady As She Goes”
• TV On The Radio – “Wolf Like Me”

Those are all the newly announced ones, as for the other 70, here they are:

• A Perfect Circle – “Judith”
• AFI – “Medicate”
• Attack! Attack! UK – “You And Me”
• Band Of Horses – “Cigarettes, Wedding Bands”
• Beastie Boys – “Gratitude”
• Beck – “Gamma Ray”
• Billy Idol – “Dancing With Myself”
• Billy Squier – “Lonely Is The Night”
• Blur – “Song 2″
• Bob Dylan – “All Along The Watchtower”
• Bon Jovi – “You Give Love A Bad Name”
• Brand New – “Sowing Season”
• The Bronx – “Six Days A Week”
• Bush – “Comedown”
• Children Of Bodom – “Done With Everything, Die For Nothing”
• Coldplay – “In My Place”
• Darker My Love – “Blue Day”
• David Bowie – “Fame”
• Deep Purple – “Woman From Tokyo”
• The Derek Trucks Band – “Young Funk”
• The Duke Spirit – “Send A Little Love Token”
• Duran Duran – “Hungry Like The Wolf”
• Eagles Of Death Metal – “Wannabe In LA”
• Elliott Smith – “L.A.”
• Elton John – “Saturday Night’s Alright”
• Face to Face – “Disconnected”
• Garbage – “Only Happy When It Rains”
• Gorillaz – “Feel Good Inc.”
• Gov’t Mule – “Streamline Woman”
• Grand Funk Railroad – “We’re An American Band”
• Iggy Pop – “Lust For Life”
• Iron Maiden – “2 Minutes To Midnight”
• Jeff Beck – “Scatterbrain”
• John Mellencamp – “Hurts So Good”
• Kaiser Chiefs – “Never Miss A Beat”
• King Crimson – “21st Century Schizoid Man”
• Kings of Leon – “Sex On Fire”
• Kiss – “Shout It Out Loud”
• Loves And Rockets – “Mirror People”
• My Morning Jack – “One Big Holiday”
• Nirvana – “Lithium”
• No Doubt – “Ex-Girlfriend”
• Peter Frampton – “Do You Feel Like We Do?”
• The Police – “So Lonely”
• Public Enemy & Zakk Wylde – “Bring The Noise 20XX”
• Queens Of The Stone Age – “Make It Wit Chu”
• Rammstein – “Du Hast”
• The Rolling Stones – “Sympathy For The Devil”
• Rose Hill Drive – “Sneak Out”
• Rush – “The Spirit Of Radio”
• Santana – “No One To Depend On”
• Scars On Broadway – “They Say”
• Screaming Trees – “Nearly Lost You”
• Smashing Pumpkins – “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”
• Sonic Youth – “Incinerate”
• Spacehog – “In The Meantime”
• Sublime – “What I Got”
• Sunny Day Real Estate – “Seven”
• T. Rex – “20th Century Boy”
• The Sword – “Maiden, Mother & Crone”
• Thin Lizzy – “Jailbreak”
• Thrice – “Deadbolt”
• Tom Petty – “Runnin’ Down A Dream”
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “American Girl”
• Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk”
• Weezer – “Why Bother”
• The White Stripes – “Blue Orchid”
• Wild Cherry – “Play That Funky Music”
• Wolfmother – “Back Round”

My initial comments about the awesome looking setlist would be: It really wouldn’t be a Guitar Hero game without Queens Of The Stone Age, Why oh why more Nirvana, but atleast they have one of their half decent songs, and finally, I am pretty pleased to see some Rammstein finally being included.

Now for the second announcement, like I said, this is an Xbox 360 only feature because it allows you to instead of creating a new in-game character, you can use your Xbox 360 avatar to use in the game. I can only assume that if you choose to use your Xbox 360 avatar within the game, it automatically changes the other characters as well. Otherwise it might look a little strange to see your Xbox avatar next to Axel Steel.

I simply can’t wait for this game to be released with all it’s new features and great new Guitar Hero instruments, this game might be the first Guitar Hero game that is better than Rock Band. Just as long as it’s not like Guitar Hero World Tour!