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Guitar Hero: Metallica Double-bass Preview

• By Andy Burt
• January 28, 2009 11:35 AM PST
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We get down and dirty with Guitar Hero: Metallica's awesome new add-on, and show you how balls to the wall metal drumming can be.

Guitar Hero: Metallica may seem at first like an easy cash-in for one of metal's most storied acts in history, but upon further inspection GH: Metallica is a feature-rich addition to the franchise. Most notably the addition of a second bass drum pedal adds a whole new level of difficulty for video game drumming aficionados, and we got a first-look at how this feature will rock the snot out of you as seen here in the Guitar Hero: Metallica video trailer.

Get ready to rock like Lars.

We sat down with lead designer Alan Flores of Neversoft to get a taste of Guitar Hero: Metallica, and it was immediately noticeable how passionate his team was about putting together the game. Flores brought up a story of how blown away he was the first time he saw Metallica as a teen and how they played a major factor in his burgeoning musical interest. Flores noted that when thinking about putting together a Guitar Hero game focusing on one of his favorite bands of all time, that he wanted to get every aspect of their persona down, and that couldn't be done without including Lars Ulrich's signature pounding double-bass blasts that are prominent in many Metallica favorites.

Standing on the drumset is completely acceptable.

Neversoft brought in their drumming master to help us get a better idea of how the double-bass feature works, and to say the least we were impressed. Playing through the new Expert+ difficulty mode, the drummer railed through "Fuel" and then without catching his breath jumped right into "Master of Puppets." Flores noted during the demo that the pedals designed for GH: Metallica are more responsive and "springier" than the pedals originally released for World Tour, and will feel closer to real electronic drumkit pedals. Also, while the second bass drum is entirely optional, it became apparent during the aforementioned tracks that there is no humanly possible way to get through the songs with only one pedal in the Expert+ mode.

Among other features we're excited about checking out in GH: Metallica, the double bass addition is integral for the distortion-filled noise-fest that's going to shred our faces off this spring when the game releases. Continue to check GamePro.com for more coverage on Guitar Hero: Metallica coming soon.

Here's the full list of playable songs in Guitar Hero: Metallica:

Metallica Tracks:
All Nightmare Long
Battery
Creeping Death
Disposable Heroes
Dyers Eve
Enter Sandman
Fade To Black
Fight Fire With Fire
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Frantic
Fuel
Hit The Lights
King Nothing
Master of Puppets
Mercyful Fate (Medley)
No Leaf Clover
Nothing Else Matters
One
Orion
Sad But True
Seek And Destroy
The Memory Remains
The Shortest Straw
The Thing That Should Not Be
The Unforgiven
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Wherever I May Roam
Whiplash

Songs by other artists:
Alice In Chains - No Excuses
Bob Seger - Turn The Page
Corrosion of Conformity - Albatross
Diamond Head - Am I Evil?
Foo Fighters - Stacked Actors
Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather
Kyuss - Demon Cleaner
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesdays Gone
Machine Head - Beautiful Mourning
Mastodon - Blood And Thunder
Mercyful Fate - Evil
Michael Schenker Group - Armed and Ready
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Queen - Stone Cold Crazy
Samhain - Mother of Mercy
Slayer - War Ensemble
Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster
Suicidal Tendencies - War Inside My Head
System of a Down - Toxicity
The Sword - Black River
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town

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