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Seven Guitar Hero 2 Tracks Revealed

FRIDAY MAY 5 2006 9:00 AM

Submitted by WilWheaton. Edited By WilWheaton.

Guitar Hero 2 may not be as widely anticipated as Halo 2 or Doom 3 was, but its fans are seriously hardcore, and this news will make many of them grab the nearest air guitar and wail off a celebratory riff: Seven songs from GH2 have been announced, and they'll all be playable at E3.

Drist - "Arterial Black"

The Reverend Horton Heat - "Psychobilly Freakout"

KISS - "Strutter"

Black Sabbath - "War Pigs"

The Butthole Surfers - "Who Was in My Room Last Night"

The Kinks (the Van Halen version) - "You Really Got Me"

And... RUSH - "YYZ"

DUDE! Fuckin' "War Pigs" and "Psychobilly Freakout"!

Ahem. Sorry. That wasn't very professional.

Guitar Hero 2 is slated for a Fall release, and players will be able to play lead, rhythm, and bass guitar in the game, which features 55 new songs. There are also rumors that there will be a new controller available, this time designed to look like the Gibson Flying V.

While this is all awesome news for Guitar Hero geeks like me, there is some cause for concern: with so many new songs being added, the chances increase ever so slightly that we may have to play a Creed or Linkin Park song to get 100% on the game.

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J24U

Danvers, MA

February 2006

MAY 05, 2006 09:01 AM

Oh my...must have....

Auto_maton

Dallas, TX

March 2004

MAY 05, 2006 09:06 AM

RUSH AND THE REV.!!!!!!!!!!!

thehighestpower

Minneapolis, MN

October 2003

MAY 05, 2006 09:15 AM

guitar hero is the lamest game ever

Ziltoid

Australia

April 2006

MAY 05, 2006 09:24 AM

dude. BADASS!

Guitarsnglasses

Fontana, CA

July 2005

MAY 05, 2006 09:25 AM

darthvader said:
guitar hero is the lamest game ever

Your the lamest game ever

Hooraydiation

Boston, MA

October 2005

MAY 05, 2006 09:26 AM

The best part about the Guitar Hero sequel is the fact that it'll offer a 2-player modes.

Bastardo

Boston, MA

January 2005

MAY 05, 2006 09:31 AM

guitarsnglasses said:

darthvader said:
guitar hero is the lamest game ever

Your the lamest game ever

no, you are

Anarchie

SUICIDEGIRL

Vatican City

MAY 05, 2006 09:35 AM

IT'S A PSYCHOBILLY FREEEAKOUT! Oh fuck I love the rev.
Will it be covers again? Or will they be using actual tracks?

Ziltoid

Australia

April 2006

MAY 05, 2006 09:37 AM

Anarchie said:
IT'S A PSYCHOBILLY FREEEAKOUT! Oh fuck I love the rev.
Will it be covers again? Or will they be using actual tracks?

Better be actual freakin tracks. Covers in these games annoy the hell out of me. The ones in Donkey Konga were pretty well done though I must say.

almostfamous

NEWSWIRE

United Kingdom

MAY 05, 2006 09:49 AM

Chaolin said:

Anarchie said:
IT'S A PSYCHOBILLY FREEEAKOUT! Oh fuck I love the rev.
Will it be covers again? Or will they be using actual tracks?

Better be actual freakin tracks. Covers in these games annoy the hell out of me. The ones in Donkey Konga were pretty well done though I must say.

with a bit of luck the success will make them want to spend a bit extra for the real tracks. or on the other hand maybe they'll just realise they can get cover versions cheaper and people will still play it because the game is awesome.

Margot_Dent

Los Angeles, CA

February 2004

MAY 05, 2006 09:55 AM

it will be glorious.

Locust_Abortion

Pomona, CA

December 2002

MAY 05, 2006 10:02 AM

There's virtually no way in hell they can make this game with the original tracks. In order to do that, they would have to obtain the original unmixed master recordings of the songs. Even if they could find the original masters, there is absolutely NO WAY any artist is going to agree to letting ANYONE get ahold of the raw tracks. Won't happen. Personally, I think they did an EXCELLENT job of covering 95% of the songs on GH1...

Oh yeah...., KISS and the BUTTHOLE SURFERS!!!!! Hell fuck yeah!!!

MC_Dove

Cincinnati, OH

November 2004

MAY 05, 2006 10:31 AM

Margot_Dent said:
it will be glorious.

quite.

Posh

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

MAY 05, 2006 10:39 AM

darthvader said:
guitar hero is the lamest game ever

please crawl back under your bridge.

DUDE YES!! I CAN'T WAIT!!

Scopitone

Fullerton, CA

OLD SKOOL

MAY 05, 2006 10:46 AM

Uuungh! Rush can go fuck an old man, but I can't wait to try out those other songs at E3. Hope to hell they have the lead/rhythm/bass features enabled.

Oh, and what?! New guitar. Fuck. I have the black/white and I grafted the discontinued red SG to my Posh SG already.

Now get me some fuckin' Zep and BRMC on there!

[Edited on May 05, 2006 by Scopitone]