Guitar Hero: Metallica for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

The game is solid overall. It's very much like World Tour, which is in essence a ripoff of Rock Band 2. However, that's not a bad thing, as both of the games are fairly similar.

Pros:

The amount of material from Metallica is varied, sounds good, and the parts on expert are challenging.

You can match your multiplayer experience up by difficulty level. So you don't go out and play with others that are playing on expert when you want to play on medium, or vice versa, and then have them get upset.

The bass parts are significantly more interesting than they have been in other iterations of both of the music game franchises. Being the bass player is actually quite entertaining. Although this may have to do with the more technical approach to music that metal musicians have, and partly with the developers intent.

If you haven't played one of the World Tour iterations, things like the countdown to get back into the song from pausing are a nice touch that shows some attention to detail.

Cons:

You can't play the Metallica songs on single player, unless you play as the characters of the band.

All the characters still fall into that "Uncanny Valley". Where they look human, but not human enough so they all look really creepy. Whether they are the pre-made ones or the ones you make yourself.

Same highways and buttons, which I personally have felt are harder to use than the Rock Band ones, but if you prefer the World Tour highways, this isn't an issue for you.

They still haven't done anything about making the user interface or the menus simpler to navigate. It still feels clunky.

Multiplayer is still very competitive; you don't get the feeling of a co-operative band all attempting to reach a goal.

Comic book-esque cut scenes feel fairly out of place.

The downloadable content is clunky to get to, both the free stuff and the pay to play stuff.

If you're a fan of rhythm games, you've already put this on your queue. If not, you should if you like metal.