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Well its been a long time for us here in the UK. We all know you lot in America have had the GH metallica experience since march. And eventually a couple of weeks ago We got our hands on our copy and i gotta say it was worth the wait!

As with all guitar hero games you have the chance to play songs with a plastic guitar with 5 colour buttons. Since world tour there have been the other band instruments introduced and metallica had the nice introduction of the 2nd kick pedal.  Making Lars’s drumming even more authentic.This coupled with Expert + mode you defiantly have the metallica drummer down to a tee. If you can keep up of corse.

Now GH metallica has all the things that world tur had. The band play, band Vs band, option to play solo careers on each instrument. Also character creation and the recording studio. So metallica doesn’t really bring anything new, except a couple of little things that really adds to the experience.

Star Meter – We all know Rock band had this since day one but now GH metallica has introduced it to Neversoft’s musical baby. The star meter will go up as you play the song as long as you hit a good majority of the notes. This is a great way pf showing ho you are progressing through the song and personally something that neversoft should of added sooner.

The Gigs system from world tour has gone which i think is good because the song system GH 3 had worked well, and if its not broken don’t fix it! So th song lists are back, but instead of completing songs to unlock new songs and arenas you have to get the right amount of stars. Meaning if you have to get a certain amount of stars from each song to progress, which i think is a really good idea because it gives the replay value of songs a bit more of a purpose. Buts if your a metallica fan such as me then there is no problem when it comes to re playing songs.

The track list is really good for a band based game. Of course they have the true metallica gems are in there such as one, for whom the bell tolls, master of puppets, battery etc. But they also have a great list of songs fr other bands too. Such as ace of spade by motor head, the boys are back in town by tin lizzy and stone cold crazy by queen. Amongst a whole host of others.

The graphics in this game are up t world tour standard and the band themselves look awesome. Neversoft have really caught the whole feel an atmosphere of the band. The motion capture of the band is awesome and they really have got this game down to a tee aesthetically. One thing i have got to say though is the lead singer James hetfeild looks a little bit like a disgruntled turtle. Oh and with two specail guests appearing in th game they look up to scratch too.

So all in all GH metallica definatly hits the mark with ans such as myself. For non metallica fans i think the expert + mode and the new game format will give you enough variety to enjoy this game.

Garv!