Well, I’ve got one here if you’d like.
A bunch of readers saw this last night during Saturday Night Live, the sequel or – one hopes – the conclusion to the Guitar Hero “Risky Business” series of ads.
Microsoft’s nifty wireless microphones that were packed in with Lips just got a whole lot more useful, supporting Guitar Hero Metallica and soon Rock Band 2.
Activision’s marketing team looks to be suffering from a bout of March Madness, as the new Guitar Hero: Metallica television spot is ruefully lacking in Heidi Klum pantslessness in favour of Bobby Knight pantslessness.
Metallica frontman James Hetfield continues the payday publicity blitz in an interview with Rolling Stone that comes straight out of the celebrity endorsement playbook for music games.
We don’t expect celebrities to genuinely be good at the video games they appear in, but one would think that Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich could play his own band’s songs in Guitar Hero. But no…
Not sure why you’d really need this, what with the game’s title doing most of the selling (or turning away) on its own, but whatever. There’s a demo for Guitar Hero: Metallica on Xbox Live.
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett calls Guitar Hero: Metallica calls the game collaboration a “no brainer” and a “match made in heaven.” We know Hammett has played the real guitar, but Guitar Hero?
Yeah, you knew the members of Metallica did some motion-capture work for Guitar Hero: Metallica, but did you know they did it while performing every song from the game “live”?
Here’s two more Guitar Hero: Metallica trailers, featuring Motorhead and King Diamond, showing the headbanging action you won’t see because you’re concentrating on the note highways. Sweet mercyful crap, dig some of those sets.
