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Guitar Hero

Developer(s) Harmonix
Publisher(s) Red Octane
Release date November 1, 2005 (US)
December 5, 2005 (Canada)
Genre Music
Mode(s) Single player, Two players
Age rating(s) ESRB: T
Platform(s) PlayStation 2
Media DVD-Rom
System requirements Guitar Hero Guitar
Credits | Soundtrack | Codes | Walkthrough

Guitar Hero is a music rhythm game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane for the Sony PlayStation 2. The game package comes with a guitar-shaped peripheral as the primary method of control. Harmonix Music Systems, the creators of cult favorites Amplitude and Frequency, modeled the game after Konami's Guitar Freaks. While Guitar Hero shares many of its traits with Konami's popular series, it is drastically different than Konami's music game. Notabely, the five fret buttons on Guitar Hero's controller gives the game a much more realistic feel than Guitar Freaks's three button setup. Guitar Hero was released on November 8, 2005 in North America, April 7, 2006 in Europe and June 15, 2006 in Australia. After receiving numerous awards from game review publications, a follow-up sequel, Guitar Hero II was developed and released in November 2006.


Contents

[edit] The Guitar

The Guitar controller is an approximately 3/4 scale model of a Gibson SG. It features five fret buttons, a whammy bar, and a strumming bar.

[edit] Track List

Guitar Hero features 30 Cover tracks and 17 original tracks. The tracks are divided into 6 sections, whereas the original tracks are bonus unlockables.

[edit] Main setlist

1. Opening Licks
  • "I Love Rock & Roll" - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
  • "I Wanna Be Sedated" - The Ramones
  • "Thunder Kiss '65" - White Zombie
  • "Smoke on the Water" - Deep Purple
  • "Infected" - Bad Religion
2. Axe-Grinders
  • "Iron Man" - Black Sabbath
  • "More Than a Feeling" - Boston
  • "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" - Judas Priest
  • "Take Me Out" - Franz Ferdinand
  • "Sharp Dressed Man" - ZZ Top
3. Thrash And Burn
  • "Killer Queen" - Queen
  • "Hey You" - The Exies
  • "Stellar" - Incubus
  • "Heart Full of Black" - Burning Brides
  • "Symphony of Destruction" - Megadeth
4. Return of the Shred
  • "Ziggy Stardust" - David Bowie
  • "Fat Lip" - Sum 41
  • "Cochise" - Audioslave
  • "Take It Off" - The Donnas
  • "Unsung" - Helmet
5. Fret-Burners
  • "Spanish Castle Magic" - Jimi Hendrix
  • "Higher Ground" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • "No One Knows" - Queens of the Stone Age
  • "Ace Of Spades" - Motörhead
  • "Crossroads" - Cream
6. Face-Melters
  • "Godzilla" - Blue Öyster Cult
  • "Texas Flood" - Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • "Frankenstein" - The Edgar Winter Group
  • "Cowboys from Hell" - Pantera
  • "Bark at the Moon" - Ozzy Osbourne

[edit] Bonus Tracks

  • "Fire It Up" - Black Label Society
  • "Cheat on the Church" - Graveyard BBQ (Winner of the "Be a Guitar Hero" Contest)
  • "Caveman Rejoice" - The Bags
  • "Eureka, I've Found Love" - The Upper Crust
  • "All of This" - Shaimus
  • "Behind The Mask" - Anarchy Club
  • "The Breaking Wheel" - Artillery
  • "Callout" - The Acro-brats
  • "Decontrol" - Drist
  • "Even Rats" - The Slip
  • "Farewell Myth" - Made in Mexico
  • "Fly on the Wall" - Din
  • "Get Ready 2 Rokk" - Freezepop
  • "Guitar Hero" - Monkey Steals The Peach
  • "Hey" - Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives
  • "Sail Your Ship By" - Count Zero
  • "Story of My Love" - The Model Sons

[edit] Characters

Main article: Guitar Hero characters

[edit] Gameplay

[edit] Controls

In order to play a note, the player must hold down the correct fret button
Players must play a note by holding down the corresponding fret button while moving the strum bar up or down. Other notes, however, are called hammer ons and pull offs. A hammer on requires the player to press the next fret button without using the strum bar. The player also has to keep his or her finger on the previous fret as well. Alternatively, a pull off requires the player to have their fingers on both the current note and the next note. The player then "pulls off" the first note, which causes the second note to be automatically played.

[edit] Scoring

A single note in Guitar Hero is worth 50 points. After a player correctly plays 10 notes correctly in a row, the score is multiplied by 2. This continues until a 4x multiplier is achieved. Star Power can then double the score, bringing the multiplier to its highest possible 8x. A single note would then be worth 400 and a chord worth 800.

[edit] Play modes

[edit] Career

Career mode is the primary mode of play on Guitar Hero. Players progress through the game by beating every song in a tier. After all of the songs in a tier are successfully played, the next tier is unlocked. Once the player has played every song in all six tiers, they have completed career mode.

[edit] Quickplay

Another mode of play is Quickplay, in which players simply choose which song they wish to play, which difficulty they wish to play it on, and immediately play it.

[edit] Multiplayer

The only multiplayer mode available in Guitar Hero is Face-Off. In this mode, players take turns playing sections of the song. Both players must be on the same difficulty. The player with the highest score at the end of the song is the winner. There is a meter in the middle of the screen that points to the fretboard of the winning player.

[edit] Reception and awards

Guitar Hero was widely praised by critics. Guitar Hero currently holds a 91 out of 100 on Metacritic.[1]

[edit] Impact and legacy

The Guitar Hero series as a whole has had a profound impact on culture. It has inspired several clones, including Frets on Fire and Guitar Zero. It has also inspired many to learn to play a real guitar.[2]

[edit] Related Games

[edit] Easter Eggs

  • While waiting for a song to load, a loading screen is presented with an image of an amplifier. The amp has three volume knobs, each of which turn to 11. This is a reference to the 1984 "rockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap, in which an amplifier is discussed for its apparent ability to go to 11 rather than simply 10. Furthermore, one of the random loading screens displays the reference 'Eleven IS louder than ten'. Subsequently, the song "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight" by Spinal Tap was featured in Guitar Hero II.
  • Though many of the loading screens give the player brief playing tips and hints, many of them are also jokes about rock'n'roll culture. One of the screens reads: "They don't really want you to play Freebird, they're just heckling you." This is a reference to the Lynyrd Skynyrd song "Free Bird" and its frequent request at concerts. Ironically, "Free Bird" became a playable song in Guitar Hero II, with a rather self-referencing response: "Fine. They're not just heckling you this time. Sigh."
  • Watching the credits in their entirety rewards the viewer with a number of messages, one of them asking the player if they've started playing a real guitar yet. A similar suggestion can be found for attaining Guitar God status on any of the difficulty settings in career mode.
  • After completing all songs on the expert difficulty, the player receives the "Battle Axe" guitar. At the Guitar Select Screen, the info box next to the Battle Axe states "Judge this race not by its remains". This is very similar to one of the lines in Genesis' "Watcher of the Skies" which states "Judge not this race by empty remains".

[edit] References

  1. ↑ http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps2/guitarhero?q=Guitar%20Hero
  2. ↑ http://machinist.salon.com/feature/2007/08/15/guitar_hero/

[edit] External links


Guitar Hero series - Guitar Hero characters
Main Series
Guitar Hero · Guitar Hero II · Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock · Guitar Hero World Tour · Guitar Hero 5
Console spinoffs
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s · Guitar Hero: Aerosmith · Guitar Hero: Metallica . Guitar Hero: Smash Hits
Portable games
Guitar Hero III Mobile · Guitar Hero III: Backstage Pass · Guitar Hero Carabiner · Guitar Hero: On Tour · Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades
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