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Janie's got a gun...and a Guitar Hero

by Rob Peters | February 15, 2008 at 03:52 pm

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A new Aerosmith-only version of Guitar Hero was announced today, expected to be released in June.

I'd have preferred New Order, or maybe the Smiths, but somehow I doubt those versions will be following suit. Not everyone can sing like they have a potato in their throat.

CHUD reports that a new version of Guitar Hero, featuring Aerosmith songs exclusively (or at least almost exclusively - a couple of songs by other bands may or may not be included) will hit stores later this year. The game will start with Aerosmith’s fist ever gig and take you all the way through their career to today… which means you’ll be able to stop playing around the time you get to the Get a Grip-era (a.k.a. the time most people realized the band had lost all their talent, if they had not already realized that earlier).

As a promotional tool for the game, those of you who already own GHIII will be able to download “Dream On” for free from February 16-18. Actually, that really might be the only song you need, thereby negating any desire to fork over sixty bucks for the whole game.

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Jarrett Martineau

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at 16:38 on February 15th, 2008

The New Order version might be kind of boring considering most of their songs are in the same key and have barely any chord changes. 'Love in An Elevator' all the way, baby.

photogems

at 16:56 on February 15th, 2008

stephen tyler and kid rock are the best

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TheStreetRat

at 21:22 on February 15th, 2008

To Jarret:

Hold on for a second. Don't you think that not being a suitable band for Guitar Hero is actually in all likelihood something to be admired? Personally, most of my favorite bands would probably really suck on guitar hero.

In conclusion: New Order is a really really good band, so nice try

Jarrett Martineau

at 23:54 on February 15th, 2008

You are so right. And I realize that I was inadvertently bigging up Steven Tyler & co while failing to give props to a band that deserves far better than a video game strum along. New Order is a really good band. Do I get my indie cred back?