Guitar Hero: Aerosmith First Details + Free Aerosmith GH3 Download Revealed

[TeamOverload]

February 15, 2008 - Last summer aspiring rock stars received Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s to tide them over until GHIII was out. Today Activision announced the next evolution in its rock-simulation franchise -- Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. Focusing on the music of the iconic American band, players will pick up the picks of Joe Perry (guitar), Brad Whitford (guitar) and Tom Hamilton (bass). We'll also get a chance to play songs that influenced the band. The game will take heroes through Aerosmith's career, from their first gig to writing cheesy ballads for blockbuster movies (we kid).

"We've put a lot of ideas into the game so that fans can have fun interacting with our music, getting inside our body of work and learning about the band's history," says Perry. "On a larger scale, it's cool for us to be pioneers helping to rebuild the music industry through a format like videogames. It's great for rock since the record companies are struggling to make sense of how things are changing. Fans want to get and experience music in new formats -- and there are going to be some of them who will play the game, then pick up the guitar for real and start bands. It's what's happening now, and it's only going to build more momentum in the future. It's a massive change for the music business."

Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners of Guitar Hero III will get a taste of what's to come this weekend. The song "Dream On" will be available to download for free February 16-18 over Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.

"Not only is songwriting a *****, but then it goes and has puppies," added Steven Tyler.

IGN is awaiting an explanation as to what that is supposed to mean. Guitar Hero: Aerosmith will ship in June.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/852/852580p1.html

Kinda lame if you ask me. I don't want a whole game dedicated to one band. The free GH3 DLC is nice though

[J_C_103]

That does sound awfully dumb.

[GmDude66]

Lol, I want Guitar Hero 4, not this ****.

[J_C_103]

I would rather have Guitar Hero:Acoustic Country Music Version, Than this.

[FrozenIpaq]

Jeez, I'm actually excited about this and you guys are bashing it already, give it a chance..

[Trigun]

I Am Not Amused.

[Frenchb0ygenius]

i got bored of guitar hero after 3 days.

[Yongobongo]

Where's my GH4
That's boring, where's the variety in having a whole game dedicated to one band?

[androidkaita]

wow, cuz aerosmith is that awesome.

Freakin sucks, at least theres free DLC

[Trigun]

Originally Posted by androidkaita

wow, cuz aerosmith is that awesome.

Freakin sucks, at least theres free DLC

my grandfather is a member of aerosmith. joe perry

[androidkaita]

..sorry I guess..

[Synyster gates]

I like dream on >_>

But I wouldn't pay money for a game based on one band.

[TeamOverload]

Yeah Dream On will be nice, but that's a FREE download, so those are always nice. I think I'd get pretty bored of playing all Aerosmith songs, I can't picture this selling too too well..

[Trigun]

Originally Posted by androidkaita

..sorry I guess..

did i mention my father is steve perry from journey?
my father also wrote the star wars novel shadows of the empire.
j/k my grandfather and father have the same names as those people though. people always ask me if i'm related to them too.

i like aerosmith but a whole expansion dedicated to them?
don't know if i'm liking that.

[GmDude66]

I ain't.

[androidkaita]

Originally Posted by Trigun

did i mention my father is steve perry from journey?
my father also wrote the star wars novel shadows of the empire.
j/k my grandfather and father have the same names as those people though. people always ask me if i'm related to them too.

i like aerosmith but a whole expansion dedicated to them?
don't know if i'm liking that.

lol way to go, you made me feel bad for a sec there..

[whitehawk]

Where's my GH Beatles edition?
Actually **** that, I hope you never sell out Beatles.

[SpiderJames]

theyre worrying too much on bands and expert tracks, no one cares about the master tracks, as long as a decent cover is in it it sounds good.

[Riorio99]

I don't really care to be honest, i just want new tracks to play.

[TheMasterChef]

Some songs are good by Aerosmith. But I think this game will go down the drain like Rock the 80's.

[Greyone]

Originally Posted by TheMasterChef

Some songs are good by Aerosmith. But I think this game will go down the drain like Rock the 80's.

maybe idk

I think they should have just released a huge pack of their songs on xbl/psn for gh3.

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weird fact: My grandma loves Aerosmith, so she said she wants to learn how to play guitar hero b4 this comes out in june

[TheMysteriousThug]

Well it's not just Aerosmith. Bands that inspired Aerosmith will make an appearance. So I wonder what bands we'll see. Rock has roots that go back to jazz music..but...I really don't want Jazz music on GH. However. If they wanted a really cool thing to do. They could make an uncensored metal version of Guitar Hero....seriously. I want Funeral Hymn on my GUITARHEROZ NAO

[androidkaita]

Originally Posted by TheMysteriousThug

Well it's not just Aerosmith. Bands that inspired Aerosmith will make an appearance. So I wonder what bands we'll see. Rock has roots that go back to jazz music..but...I really don't want Jazz music on GH. However. If they wanted a really cool thing to do. They could make an uncensored metal version of Guitar Hero....seriously. I want Funeral Hymn on my GUITARHEROZ NAO

hells yeah.

I missed only 3 notes on hard on the free song on my first try (yawn)

[TheMysteriousThug]

This is how I'd want a Metal version of Guitar Hero to go..

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Lamb of God - Vigil
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train( as like the final Encore because it's mutha ****in' CRAZY TRAIN)
Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions( Not really metal..but a dope song)


Any of these 4 songs. Including Comfort Betrays from As I Lay Dying and of course. MOTHER ****ING FUNERAL HYMN then I'd be good and happy

[GmDude66]

lol, I want a Guitar Hero version with rock/metal/punk music newer than the year 2000 on it.

[androidkaita]

Originally Posted by TheMysteriousThug

This is how I'd want a Metal version of Guitar Hero to go..

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Lamb of God - Vigil
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train( as like the final Encore because it's mutha ****in' CRAZY TRAIN)
Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions( Not really metal..but a dope song)


Any of these 4 songs. Including Comfort Betrays from As I Lay Dying and of course. MOTHER ****ING FUNERAL HYMN then I'd be good and happy

I thought you meant like newer metal. I neer liked any of that Black Sabbath and all that.

I would go:
Between the Buried and me
Protest the Hero
The Human Abstract
August Burns Red
and osme other stuff I can tthink of atm

The final song in the game would have to be like... idk sequoia throne maybe

[TheMysteriousThug]

Sequoia Throne is awesome. But definitely nowhere near the caliber of a song Crazy Train. Though Luke is excellent on guitar. I gotta give it to Randy Rhoads. And Toni Iommi invented guitar playing that is seen in metal as seen in Black Sabbath. So I have my reasoning.

[androidkaita]

I honestly will be happy if they just release some PTH DLC for either GH3 or Rock Band (preferabky rock band)

I already have Bury the Hatchet for GH2.

[TheMysteriousThug]

I would like to see PTH in Guitar Hero VI. And honestly. I don't know if I'll bother with this or Guitar Hero IV if the HOPO's timing window isn't fixed back to the timing window on GH2.

[TheMasterChef]

Originally Posted by TheMysteriousThug

However. If they wanted a really cool thing to do. They could make an uncensored metal version of Guitar Hero....seriously.

Well, they can't basically. Because lots of children and pre-teens are hyped about this game. And they can't really put just one rock genre all into one game. Maybe a DLC pack but not a game.