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Review: Guitar Hero: Van Halen
Tell you what - go read my review of Guitar Hero 5. Now pretend that I said all that stuff about a game that featured a lot of Van Halen songs, and skip the parts about DLC and the DS. Yay! Review done! Because this is basically a Van Halen-heavy track pack. So what do we have to talk about? The songs and their lyrics! Okay, there are a few extra things to talk about. The character customization is pretty good. You play as Van Halen on their songs, and as your band for anything done by anyone else. HOWEVER: Van Halen's members do not change over the course of the game. Rather, you play as the band as it is currently constituted, and as they currently dress. That means David Lee Roth (vocals), Eddie Van Halen (guitar), Wolfgang Van Halen (bass), and Alex Van Halen (drums). Everyone's pretty much in shirts and jeans until the final venue, when they take everyone back to the eighties with the giant hair and the (joy?) spandex.
Below is a list of all the songs in this release, and a rating on their lyrics. Note: the lyrics in the actual game are edited, so you can run the kids through Master Exploder by Tenacious D without adding to their vocabulary. However, if your kids are anything like mine, they've recently discovered that you can find these songs on YouTube and other sites. And those aren't edited. So, as with the Great Guitar Hero 5 Lyrics Review, understand that this is highly subjective, that what I find offensive and what you find offensive may be very different, etc. (For instance, I'm open to an argument that puts the lyrics to Judas Priest's Painkiller at a 1) Songs are rated 1-5, with a 1 meaning I could play it around my mother-in-law, and a 5 meaning I'm wincing as I'm reaching for the fast forward button. But if you have any questions about any of these, look up the lyrics yourself. A search for the band name, song name, and "lyrics" will pull up anything with lyrics. Here they are: And there you go. Enjoy!
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What can I say about Guitar Hero: Van Halen? Hmmmm... Well, we didn't know we'd gotten a copy until we'd come back from visiting family over the holidays? Ummmm... it's Guitar Hero?
Also, there are NO songs on the game from the Sammy Hagar period. So if you're a fan of, say, "Why Can't This Be Love", "Dreams", or "Runaround", then sorry, pals. You're out of luck. On the plus side, however, you get Everybody Wants Some, and Unchained, so it's not like I was going to break the disc in a fit of rage at the lack of the Red Rocker.
