Guitar Hero III "Virtuoso Pack" Coming this Week

[Rock Bandit]

Guitar Hero, meet the Guitar Gods: (http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=26502307&part=rss&tag=gs_all_games&subj=6194846)

Activision today announced the Virtuoso Pack of downloadable songs for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. Set for release July 24, the trio of songs includes... [Joe] Satriani's "Surfing with the Alien," [Steve] Vai's "For the Love of God," and Buckethead's "Soothsayer"

That's what I miss most in this move to full band rythym games, instrumentals. Insanely good song choices as well.

[Vandabo]

Indeed, the decline of instrumentals is a damn shame. Jessica and Cliffs of Dover were two of my favorite songs in all of Guitar Hero. Oh, and Frankenstein.

I will have to check these out.

[Flatpicker]

No Yngwie?

[MosBen]

I don't understand why they can't do instrumentals. With 500 songs by year's end Rock Band certainly has a robust library. It wouldn't kill them to have one weekly release be 3-5 instrumentals which would use three of the four instruments. I'd hope that they'd just make the songs cheaper to compensate for the lack of total functionality, but frankly I think anyone interested in instrumentals would probably happily pay full price despite this.

[Rock Bandit]

Preach on MosBen! Singers are self-absorbed pricks anyway, they need to step back every now and then and slap a tamborine while the real talent shines. :)

[MelbaToast]

Great songs. This is why I wish Guitar Hero was sticking to being just a guitar game, instead of going for the whole band.

[SBKidJamX]

Preach on MosBen! Singers are self-absorbed pricks anyway, they need to step back every now and then and slap a tamborine while the real talent shines. :)

Oh no you didn't.

[Harv]

Finally. How long did I have to wait to get some Satriani and some Vai in here.

[mister_slim]

I don't understand why they can't do instrumentals. With 500 songs by year's end Rock Band certainly has a robust library. It wouldn't kill them to have one weekly release be 3-5 instrumentals which would use three of the four instruments. I'd hope that they'd just make the songs cheaper to compensate for the lack of total functionality, but frankly I think anyone interested in instrumentals would probably happily pay full price despite this.

I just want more flexibility in the parts. Why not add rhythm guitar to the guitarist's choices, for songs that have rhythm parts. Why not let both guitarists play a lead part for bands like Slayer or Megadeth? Why not support two vocal parts for duets? Then for bands like the White Stripes, just put up a disclaimer about the limited number of parts.

[Sandman]

No Stevie Ray Vaughn and you call this a virtuoso pack?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v444/djsandman/shipment-of-fail.jpg

[11thfinger]

With a few of the Nine Inch Nails tracks, we usually have one band member sitting out a good deal for one of the guitar parts, so I think they are open to releasing tracks that don't necessarily cater to all band members. I hope they don't use that as an excuse to not give us White Stripes.

[MelbaToast]

With a few of the Nine Inch Nails tracks, we usually have one band member sitting out a good deal for one of the guitar parts, so I think they are open to releasing tracks that don't necessarily cater to all band members. I hope they don't use that as an excuse to not give us White Stripes.

I would kill for some White Stripes.

If Death Letter, Ball & Biscuit and Little Bird were released as a White Stripes blues pack, I'd knock my monitor over with orgasm.

[thesilentdeath]

With a few of the Nine Inch Nails tracks, we usually have one band member sitting out a good deal for one of the guitar parts, so I think they are open to releasing tracks that don't necessarily cater to all band members. I hope they don't use that as an excuse to not give us White Stripes.

Also look at Baba O'riley in the Who pack. The guitar has a very small part as does the vocals. But really the thing about seeing these songs in GHIII is that the charts are not going to be what they could be.