Rumor: Ratings board confirms Guitar Hero: Van Halen
- Posted April 20th, 2009 at 10:07 EDT by Mike Harradence
- 9 Comments
American hard rock act Van Halen look set to become the next band to receive the Guitar Hero treatment.
While publisher Activision has yet to formally announce anything, Kotaku has sniffed out a listing for 'Guitar Hero headlining Van Halen' (PS3/Xbox 360) via the German ratings board, the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK).
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to keen followers of the series, given that Activision boss Bobby Kotick previously hinted at the possibility of a Guitar Hero based on Van Halen’s music back in March.
"If we're [...] creating a whole new group of consumers, six to eleven year old consumers, who are being exposed to Aerosmith for the first time or Van Halen for the first time, whatever that might be we need to capture much more of that upside opportunity,” said Kotick.
Van Halen rose to fame in the late 1970s fronted by flamboyant vocalist David Lee Roth, before going on to score numerous hits throughout the 80s with curly-haired frontman Sammy Hager. The band reunited with Roth for a North American tour in late 2007, culminating with a gig at the Van Andel Arena, MI on June 2, 2008.
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tkmdk843
- 6:21am EDT - April 20th, 2009
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now i was never a big van halen fan but its great to see sum great bands goin to gh. the one band i wouldnt mind seeing bein on gh is iron maiden, great song plus who wouldnt like seeing eddie on the cover of the game right? o well. and i see there just goin for the older rock groups but wat about the newer ones too? i would love to see a disturbed gh, haha. it might not happen but maybe in the near future. that would be my first gh game id buy right there. peace.
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area51employee
- 7:14am EDT - April 20th, 2009
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how about some cannibal corpse? that would truly push the limits of the experts out there. blazing fast and brutal songs. hah!! i bet you would see "fail" left and right with that one!!
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sympozium_666- 10:48am EDT - April 20th, 2009
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It's tooo much of an risk to do Earache & Roadrunner Guitar hero its a shame because it would've sold fast BUT MORE WITH NUCLEAR BLAST & SPINEFARM!!
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Sonan
- 1:20pm EDT - April 20th, 2009
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Activision is really pushing out the Guitar Hero games now, aren't they? Instead of having bands as download packs, fans have to pay full price for what amounts to DLC. I miss when Guitar Hero was good. Ah well, back to Rock Band. Come to think of it, the Beatles game looks like it's going the same way.
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