It's like 2008 all over again at the moment - music games are back from the dead, and Guitar Hero and Rock Band are set to face off against each other this autumn once more, vying for our hard earned cash and console play time. After all, what better way to spend an evening than jamming along to a series of well-known rock songs on a gamut of plastic instruments, fighting over who gets to be lead guitar? And much like back in their heyday, each game has been slowly drip feeding us with a list of tracks we can expect to rock out to once the games finally land in roughly six months time, trying to one up each other as they go. Today it's the turn of Guitar Hero Live, bringing us ten new tracks to add to the list:
- Royal Blood - Little Monster
- Marilyn Manson - Disposable Teens
- Killswitch Engage - In Due Time
- Marmozets - Move, Shake, Hide
- Of Mice and Men - Bones Exposed
- Deftones - Diamond Eyes
- Vista Chino - Sweet Remain
- Bring Me The Horizon - Shadow Moses
- Mastadon - High Road
- Trivium - Strife
And, well, we'd be lying if we said we weren't a little bit disappointed with this latest batch. Of the list, we've heard of approximately half of the bands, but only really know one of the songs - Marilyn Manson's Disposable Teens, which was big back when we were secondary school social outcasts, stomping round in Dr. Martens, fishnet tights and industrial amounts of black eyeliner. Outside of that, Killswitch Engage and Trivium are the sort of thing we expect, as is probably Bring Me The Horizon, even if we don't recognise the specific songs by name, but the rest of them seem to be heading down the traditional Guitar Hero route of obscure artists we've never heard of. Who the chuff are Vista Chino for example, seeing as they sound like the love child of a Windows operating system and a particularly swish pair of trousers? And Of Mice and Men conjures up more memories of GCSE English than we'd like too - tell us about the rabbits again, Activision...
We're still reserving judgement about the new, more realistic look, too...
All in all, the song lists for both Guitar Hero Live and Rock Band 4 seem to have some way to go before they're must buys - but, then again, perhaps it's simply a case of saving the best until last. Maybe we're just getting harder to please in our old age, or perhaps we're a little out of touch with the yoof now we're into the latter half of our twenties. Still - we expect there'll be more songs to come, especially as we creep closer and closer to E3, the games industry's reveal-all event in June. In the meantime - make sure you keep checking back every Tuesday, to catch up on the latest batch of announcements!
