{"id":318,"date":"2009-03-22T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/guitar-hero-metallica-demo-impressions\/"},"modified":"2009-11-16T17:43:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T00:43:01","slug":"guitar-hero-metallica-demo-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/guitar-hero-metallica-demo-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Hero: Metallica Demo Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fakeplasticrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/guitar-hero-metallica-screenshot.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 440px; height: 247px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fakeplasticrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/guitar-hero-metallica-screenshot.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I played the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001Q4HLFQ?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jighcsranrev-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B001Q4HLFQ\">Guitar Hero: Metallica<\/a> demo this weekend and I was not overly impressed. If it pretty much like Guitar Hero: World Tour, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andymerrill.com\/rantreview\/2008\/12\/guitar-hero-world-tour-impressions.html\">which I was not really fond of<\/a>, but with a Metallica skin on it.  It plays pretty much like World Tour in terms of most chart structure.  The one thing I noticed that was a nice addition is now in GH Metallica there is an indicator of how many stars you&#8217;ve up to as you play.  They use a little bar below the number to show how close you are to the next start which takes works ok, but is a little harder to judge than the circles that Rock Band 2 uses.  Still, it is nice they added that the star level indicator at all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not a fan of the Guitar Hero graphical style or note chart structures when compared to Rock Band&#8217;s, but I&#8217;ll probably rent Guitar Hero: Metallica to play through all the songs a time or two and to check out the Expert + Drum Mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played the Guitar Hero: Metallica demo this weekend and I was not overly impressed. If it pretty much like Guitar Hero: World Tour, which I was not really fond of, but with a Metallica skin on it. It plays pretty much like World Tour in terms of most chart structure. The one thing I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[97,4,7,5],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-demo","tag-rant","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}