Guitar Hero Van Halen
March 23, 2010 by admin
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- Live out the excitement of playing as the legendary band Van Halen
- Perform an incredible arena rock set list that includes 25 Van Halen songs, three Eddie Van Halen signature solos and 19 songs from guest acts
- Includes the Van Halen songs And the Cradle Will Rock, Atomic Punk, Beautiful Girls, Cathedral, Eruption, Everybody Wants Some!!, Feel Your Love Tonight and Hang ‘Em High
- Includes the Van Halen songs Hear About It Later, I’m the One, Ice Cream Man, Jamie’s Cryin’, Little Guitars, Loss of Control, Mean Street, Panama and Pretty Woman
- Includes the Van Halen songs Runnin’ with the Devil, So This Is Love?, Somebody Get Me a Doctor, Spanish Fly, Unchained and You Really Got Me
Product Description
Guitar Hero is back and you get to rock with the ultimate party band, Van Halen! Experience the hot licks and scissor kicks that made Van Halen the legends they are today. 25 epic Van Halen tracks, three scorching Eddie Van Halen signature solos, and 19 guest acts give fans the most comprehensive arena rock set list to date. With over 80 million albums sold worldwide, Van Halen is one of the most influential rock bands of all time. Led by Eddie Van Halen’s revolutio… More >>
Whall the graphics are weak the game play is rocken, including the new features. It is a must buy.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is by far the best Guitar hero installment yet! Guitar hero is all about the guitar and this is what real guitar playing sounds like. Eddie’s licks are extremely fun to play and they simply blow away all those “filler” songs they put on all the other guitar hero titles (most of which don’t have any creative guitar in them at all.) The only Van Halen I consider to be the real deal is the original Van Halen from the 70’s and 80’s, so I didn’t really care whether the “van hagar” songs were included or not. This game is extremely fun and addictive without them and well worth the money!…Hoping for a “Rush” guitar hero soon.
Rating: 5 / 5
We like the game. We received it in time for Christmas but we really wish it had more of Van Halen’s songs that we recognize. It is a fun game though.
Rating: 3 / 5
I grew up loving Van Halen for all they were, so naturally, I should be ecstatic about a Guitar Hero Van Halen game, but alas, the end result is a big disappointment. Boasting generic looking venues and simply not enough material, Guitar Hero Van Halen features a decent enough helping of David Lee Roth-era tracks to play, as well as some of Eddie Van Halen’s most memorable guitar solo work. That in itself is reason for celebration, but the total package of the game just feels like a rushed cash-in. Though I was never a big fan of the Sammy Hagar era, his time with Van Halen was prolific enough to warrant some consideration. Whether his lack of inclusion was Eddie’s call or Activision is unknown to me (where as thanks to the previous reviewer the absence of Michael Anthony has been cleared up, thank you), he regardless deserved to have at least a few tracks from his time with the band featured here. The extra bonus act tracks however just feel like they were slapped in here just because, and have little to nothing to do with Van Halen or what they meant to generation after generation of rockers and rock fans. Where as the bonus acts on Guitar Hero Metallica made sense, something just doesn’t seem right about having Blink 182 featured as a bonus with Van Halen. All in all, for Guitar Hero junkies and Van Halen fans alike, Guitar Hero Van Halen is worth checking out at the very least, but other than that, there isn’t anything here to hold your interest for long.
Rating: 2 / 5
I ended up getting this game free with the Guitar Hero 5 deal as many others did. I understand the acrimony between the group and Sammy Hagar but the sad reality is that the newest VH song on the game is from 1984 (the year and album). This really cuts short the amount of songs that COULD have been represented. It would have been nice to see both lineups of the band get equal representation – especially since I have been dying to play “Humans Being” on GH. Once again, the pettiness and drama between current and former VH members screws the fans and we don’t get the best product that we could have. They could have at least given us some live songs, demos, or new tracks to spice the game up a little bit. The extra acts are a little confusing, albeit some of the songs, particularly Judas Priest’s “Painkiller” and Queen’s “I Want It All” are very enjoyable but there’s not much from VH’s contemporaries. The presentation is lacking – the group doesn’t show much life on the game except for when they go ‘retro’. I wish the whole game was playable as retro Halen but alas this is not so. Also, the charting on medium mode is terrible. I am usually a strict medium player but I have to play Hard on this game to even get a challenge – the songs were too easy to play and betray the intricacy and skill of Eddie’s playing. The only real songs that were enjoyable and difficult on medium were “Little Guitars” and the EVH solo songs. There also is NO storyline to speak of – in GH Aerosmith you worked your way up and got little anecdotes from band members as you progressed. This would have been much appreciated but no effort was put on that end. If not for the enjoyment of playing classic VH songs, I would’ve ranked this at the lower end of GH games.
Rating: 3 / 5