Guitar Hero III Gets Death Magnetic

Plus: New first-person action game and Transformers sequel announced

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Guitar Hero III Gets Death Magnetic
Metallica is bringing its next album, Death Magnetic, to Guitar Hero III in glorious simultaneity with its retail release.

So... that'll be nice. If you like Dad-Metal. Still, we shouldn't chunter. This is the first time an album has been simultaneously released in a game and in stores.

Activision also says it "announced five new titles in development". Treat it more like confirmation, however, since information on three of the titles has emerged in one form or another already and Activision isn't saying a whole lot more about the titles than the fact that they exist.

Here's the list as presented by Activision - "Wolfenstein, the highly anticipated title from id Software; Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2: Fusion by Vicarious Visions, the sequel to one of the best-selling action RPGs; Singularity (Working Title), a first person action game, based on an all-new wholly owned intellectual property, from Raven Software; a Luxoflux game based on “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, in association with Hasbro, the follow-up to one of 2007’s biggest blockbuster movies and games; and a title based on Twentieth Century Fox/Marvel’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine in development at Raven Software."

Singularity and the Transformers games are the only ones that can really be counted as "new".

It was confirmed by Activision that a new Wolfenstein game was coming as far back as 2005. Back then it was slated for the Xbox 360 and the PC, but the PS3 has now been thrown into the works.

An Ultimate Alliance sequel, meanwhile, was confirmed back in February by an Activision conference call.

As for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, comics and TV writer Marc Guggenheim has reportedly already said he was working on a script for the game.

Comments

PreciousRoi 16 Jul 2008 21:53
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Metallica's new album? who cares...when is their old, pre-Black album stuff gonna be availible for Rock Band?

Thats what I wanna know...
PreciousRoi 17 Jul 2008 11:33
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BTW, Rock Band 2's setlist was announced and its massive. Including Battery by Metallica, Peace Sells by Megadeth (I couldn't have picked a better Megadeth song, I'm going to have so much fun with that one) and Man in the Box by Alice in Chains (hopefully they'll have more Chains on DLC.

Also announced was that all previous Rock Band DLC will carry over into RB2 and you will be able to export songs from the original RB disc into RB2.

The instruments are beefed up as well, with a metal reinforced bass pedal and improvements all around.
tyrion 17 Jul 2008 12:40
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PreciousRoi wrote:
BTW, Rock Band 2's setlist was announced and its massive.

It certainly is.
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