Band Hero

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Band Hero is an expansion game to the Guitar Hero series of music video games, due to be published by Activision in November 2009 for the PlayStation 2 and 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS consoles. The game is structurally similar to Guitar Hero 5, and will support full band play (lead and bass guitar, drums, and vocals) including the drop-in/drop-out and in-song instrument and difficulty change menus, and additional multiplayer modes as Guitar Hero 5. Unlike the main Guitar Hero games, where the focus is on the lead guitar portions of the songs, Band Hero provides a soundtrack more oriented towards pop rock to challenge the whole band.

Contents 1 Gameplay 1.1 Band Hero DS 2 Soundtrack 2.1 Nintendo DS soundtrack 2.2 References

[edit] Gameplay

According to Jeff Gerstmann of Giant Bomb, the game, from its first trailer, appears to be functionally similar to the feature set for Guitar Hero 5, including bands comprised of any combination of four instruments, drop-in/drop-out play, in-song menus to change difficulty and instrument, and additional multiplayer modes compared to Guitar Hero 5's "Rockfest".

[edit] Band Hero DS

Band Hero for the Nintendo DS will feature the ability to play the same instruments as the console-based versions. Though the game is compatible with the DS, DS Lite, and DSi, only players on the DS Lite will receive the "full band" experience due to the nature of the hardware extensions for the unit. Guitar and bass parts will be played with the same "Guitar Grip" previously created for the Guitar Hero On Tour series, though this unit will not work on the Nintendo DSi due to lack of a GBA slot. The gameplay for guitar and bass is considered to be the fourth iteration of the Guitar Hero On Tour design by developers Vicarious Vision, and have further improvements to meet with different strumming styles.

A new "drum skin" that fits over the bottom half of the DS unit will provide four "pads" for drumming that map to the unit's directional pad and face buttons; this design was selected over use of the touch screen due to the inability of the touch screen to recognize near-simultaneous taps, a factor that would have interfered with the drumming experience. The drum skin is limited to the Nintendo DS Lite due to the skin's form factor. The decision to design towards the DS Lite rather than the newer DSi was due to the much larger volume of DS Lite units that have been sold relative to the DSi.

The DS microphone will be used for vocal parts. The DS will have 30 of the songs from console versions. The game also supports up to four player multiplayer in a similar manner as Guitar Hero 5 using the DS's local wireless connections, allowing any combination of instruments. However, there is no support for the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection nor plans for additional downloadable content for the DS game.

[edit] Soundtrack

Band Hero will feature more than 65 songs from "mainstream acts", according to MSNBC. In addition to the tracks below, songs from Avril Lavigne, Blink-182, Jesse McCartney, Pink, The Go-Gos and The Killers will also be on the disc. The game will also allow downloadable content from Guitar Hero World Tour to be used within Band Hero, and is expected to also use similar content for Guitar Hero 5. In addition, some on-disc songs from both Guitar Hero World Tour and Guitar Hero: Smash Hits will be importable into Band Hero and Guitar Hero 5 for a small fee, with music licensing limiting those that cannot be transferred. Box Art for the "Band in a Box" version of Band Hero shows that Duffy, Duran Duran, Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue and the Spice Girls will all feature in the game as well.

Year	Song Title	Artist	Exportable
2005	"A Million Ways"	OK Go	Template:Yes
1970	"ABC"	The Jackson 5	Template:Yes
1971	"American Pie"	Don McLean	Template:Yes
1996	"Angels of the Silences"	Counting Crows	Template:Yes
1981	"Bad Reputation"	Joan Jett	Template:Yes
2009	"Back Again"	Parachute	Template:Yes
2004	"Beautiful Soul"	Jesse McCartney	Template:No
2007	"Believe"	The Bravery	Template:Yes
1990	"Black Cat"	Janet Jackson	Template:Yes
2005	"Black Horse and the Cherry Tree"	KT Tunstall	Template:Yes
2003	"Bring Me to Life"	Evanescence	Template:Yes
2005	"Dirty Little Secret"	The All-American Rejects	Template:Yes
1982	"Do You Really Want To Hurt Me"	Culture Club	Template:Yes
1995	"Don't Speak"	No Doubt	Template:Yes
1988	"Every Rose Has Its Thorn"	Poison	Template:Yes
2006	"Fascination"	Alphabeat	Template:Yes
2008	"Gasoline"	The Airborne Toxic Event	Template:Yes
2003	"Hands Down"	Dashboard Confessional	Template:Yes
2007	"Hang Me Up to Dry"	Cold War Kids	Template:Yes
1967	"Happy Together"	The Turtles	Template:Yes
1969	"Honky Tonk Women"	The Rolling Stones	Template:Yes
1968	"I Heard It Through the Grapevine"	Marvin Gaye	Template:Yes
1979	"I Want You to Want Me" (Live)	Cheap Trick	Template:Yes
1996	"If You Could Only See"	Tonic	Template:Yes
1983	"In a Big Country"	Big Country	Template:Yes
1995	"Just a Girl"	No Doubt	Template:Yes
2000	"Kids"	Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue	Template:Yes
1974	"Kung Fu Fighting"	Carl Douglas	Template:Yes
2008	"L.E.S. Artistes"	Santigold	Template:Yes
1983	"Let's Dance"	David Bowie	Template:Yes
2009	"Lifeline"	Papa Roach	Template:Yes
2007	"Like Whoa"	Aly & AJ	Template:No
2006	"Lips of an Angel"	Hinder	Template:Yes
1983	"Love is a Battlefield"	Pat Benatar	Template:Yes
2008	"Love Story"	Taylor Swift	Template:Yes
1983	"Mr. Roboto"	Styx	Template:No
2006	"Naïve"	The Kooks	Template:Yes
2003	"Ocean Avenue"	Yellowcard	Template:Yes
1964	"Oh, Pretty Woman"	Roy Orbison	Template:Yes
1981	"Our Lips Are Sealed"	The Go-Go's	Template:Yes
2007	"Paralyzer"	Finger Eleven	Template:Yes
2006	"Picture to Burn"	Taylor Swift	Template:Yes
2007	"Pictures of You"	The Last Goodnight	Template:Yes
2006	"Put Your Records On"	Corinne Bailey Rae	Template:Yes
1982	"Rio"	Duran Duran	Template:Yes
2002	"Rock Star"	N.E.R.D.	Template:Yes
1995	"Santa Monica (Watch the World Die)"	Everclear	Template:Yes
2004	"She Will Be Loved"	Maroon 5	Template:Yes
2003	"So Yesterday"	Hilary Duff	Template:No
2000	"Steal My Kisses"	Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals	Template:Yes
2005	"Sugar, We're Goin Down"	Fall Out Boy	Template:Yes
1999	"Take a Picture"	Filter	Template:Yes
2008	"Take Back the City"	Snow Patrol	Template:Yes
2006	"Take What You Take"	Lily Allen	Template:Yes
2006	"The Adventure"	Angels & Airwaves	Template:Yes
1997	"The Impression That I Get"	The Mighty Mighty Bosstones	Template:Yes
2001	"Turn Off the Light"	Nelly Furtado	Template:Yes
1985	"Walking on Sunshine"	Katrina and the Waves	Template:Yes
1996	"Wannabe"	Spice Girls	Template:Yes
2008	"Warwick Avenue"	Duffy	Template:Yes
2002	"When I'm Gone"	3 Doors Down	Template:Yes
1980	"Whip It"	Devo	Template:Yes
1978	"Y.M.C.A."	Village People	Template:Yes
2008	"You Belong With Me"	Taylor Swift	Template:Yes
2004	"You Had Me"	Joss Stone	Template:Yes

[edit] Nintendo DS soundtrack

The Nintendo DS version of Band Hero will feature thirty songs of the same genre as the console-based soundtrack.^[1][2]

Song Title	Artist	North American version	European version
"All You Need"	Sublime	Template:Yes	Template:No
"A-Punk"	Vampire Weekend	Template:Yes	Template:No
"Believe"	The All-American Rejects	Template:Yes	Template:No
"Boots of Chinese Plastic"	The Pretenders	Template:Yes	Template:No
"Call Me When You're Sober"	Evanescence	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
"Club Foot"	Kasabian	Template:No	Template:Yes
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love"	Queen	Template:Yes	Template:No
"Everything About You"	Ugly Kid Joe	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
"Excuse Me Mr."	No Doubt	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
"Fascination"	Alphabeat	Template:No	Template:Yes
"Feel Good Inc."	Gorillaz	Template:No	Template:Yes
"First Date"	Blink-182	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
"Fly Away"	Lenny Kravitz	Template:No	Template:Yes
"Get Free"	The Vines	Template:Yes	Template:No
"Girlfriend"	Avril Lavigne	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
"Golden Touch"	Razorlight	Template:No	Template:Yes
"Grace Kelly"	Mika	Template:No	Template:Yes
"Hungry Like the Wolf"	Duran Duran	Template:Yes	Template:No
"I Predict a Riot"	Kaiser Chiefs	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
"In Too Deep"	Sum 41	Template:Yes	Template:No
"Let's Get It Started"	The Black Eyed Peas	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
"Lump"	The Presidents of the United States of America	Template:Yes	Template:No
"Manhattan"	Kings of Leon	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
"Monkey Wrench"	Foo Fighters	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
"Munich"	Editors	Template:No	Template:Yes
"My Favourite Game"	The Cardigans	Template:No	Template:Yes
"No One Knows"	Queens of the Stone Age	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
"Our Truth"	Lacuna Coil	Template:Yes	Template:No
"She Will Be Loved"	Maroon 5	Template:No	Template:Yes
"So What"	Pink	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
"Song 2"	Blur	Template:No	Template:Yes
"Spaceman"	The Killers	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
"Suddenly I See"	KT Tunstall	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
"Take What You Take"	Lily Allen	Template:No	Template:Yes
" The Age of the Understatement"	The Last Shadow Puppets	Template:No	Template:Yes
"The Great Escape"	Boys Like Girls	Template:Yes	Template:No
"Thnks fr th Mmrs"	Fall Out Boy	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
" Tripping"	Robbie Williams	Template:No	Template:Yes
"Troublemaker"	Weezer	Template:Yes	Template:No
"Two Princes"	Spin Doctors	Template:Yes	Template:No
"Under My Thumb" (Live)	The Rolling Stones	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
"Wannabe in L.A."	Eagles of Death Metal	Template:Yes	Template:No
"Windows"	N.E.R.D.	Template:No	Template:Yes
"Yellow"	Coldplay	Template:No	Template:Yes
"You Better Pray"	The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus	Template:Yes	Template:No

[edit] References

1. ↑ "Template:Link". Worth Playing. 2009-09-28. http://worthplaying.com/article/2009/9/28/news/68847/. Retrieved on 2009-09-28. 
2. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named full_setlist

Games of Guitar Hero

Main Series

Guitar Hero - Guitar Hero II - Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock - Guitar Hero World Tour - Guitar Hero 5

Bands

Aerosmith - Metallica - Van Halen

Spinoffs

Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s - Guitar Hero: Smash Hits

On Tour

Guitar Hero: On Tour - Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades - Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits

Other Games

DJ Hero - Band Hero