Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock dated

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 6 August, 2010

Activision has high hopes.

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock will be released in the UK on 24th September, Activision has confirmed to Eurogamer.

The game will be released in North America four days later on the 28th.

"Year-to-date, the music category has been relatively quiet due in part to lack of new releases," said Activision CFO Thomas Tippl during last night's investor call.

"Warriors of Rock will be our only Guitar Hero release this year, and given its game quality and our full line-up of marketing activities, should generate consumer and retail excitement.

"This year's game will introduce for the first time a deep story mode with more challenges than ever before, rock-inspired new hardware, the ability to use your existing Guitar Hero music library and an authentic set list featuring 95 songs.

"The first million units of Warriors of Rock will be bundled and simultaneously launched with the first new Soundgarden album released in over 10 years."

Not in the UK it won't, Thomas.

"As we count down to the September 28th release, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Microsoft for the right leadership they've been providing for the franchise, selling nearly 40 million units to date, and maintaining an incredibly high level of quality over the past few years despite a one-year development cycle, something rarely accomplished in this industry."

Christian Donlan went hands-on for Eurogamer in June.

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Comments (25) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • SilverInfinity #1 2 years ago

    Sorry Activision ... I'll be too busy playing Halo Reach ... maybe when I see it in the bargain bin I'll pick it up as I have done with all GH games

  • Haloboy #2 2 years ago

    UK. Down with no Upside.

  • Dr.Mott #3 2 years ago

    Rock Band 3 will be better.

  • wizlon #4 2 years ago

    Love these games so it's a YES from me, although with both Reach and Move out in September may have to wait until October to pick up GH6.

  • lucky_jim #5 2 years ago

    Not keen on buying anything from Activision, but damn the track list for this is good.

  • geeza2020 #6 2 years ago

    Please..... no more......... /gurgles....... guitar heroes!

    /dies of over exposure to raaawk

  • thewool #7 2 years ago

    Not purchasing - whehay!!

  • andywilkie35 #8 2 years ago

    I enjoy a bit of the ol' Guitar Hero so will be getting this (although Rock Band 3 is clearly going to be game of the year), but can someone tell this cunt that they should bundle the Soundgarden album over here as well

    kthxbai

  • Zomoniac #9 2 years ago

    Worst achievements ever.

  • Goodfella #10 2 years ago

    I can not stand the GH games, there's something really naff about them. Rock Band 3 for me, far superior.

  • linksdad #11 2 years ago

    Yeah its going to generate a load of buzz in its 5th (7th, 8th?) iteration. Noone has ever seen anything like this before have they?

    Come on EA, dont be greedy on the price for RB 3 and make sure there is availability.

  • Toothball #12 2 years ago

    I'm getting prepped for Rock Band 3 myself. All this weird rock warrior stuff seems to be missing the point.

  • PlugMonkey #13 2 years ago

    @InsertMoreCredits:

    No, what inspires them is this:

    "Warriors of Rock will be our only Guitar Hero release this year, and given its game quality and our full line-up of marketing activities, should generate consumer and retail excitement. "

    Christ. Have you ever heard a more soulless and depressing line of corporate speak? That's what all Acti press releases sound like. At least EA pretend to be excited about the game itself, rather than the 'retail excitement' it might generate.

    For me, Guitar Hero lost the war on DLC support. Rock Band got there sooner and better. Now I have such a massive, massive library of songs in Rock Band, that's the one that always ends up in the disc tray. Guitar Hero never really gets a look in.

    When it comes to choosing between GH:WoR and RB3, I'm pretty much only going to be interested in the one that's going to support my massive, massive library of songs.

  • TmB #14 2 years ago

    "Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock dated" - never has a double entendre been so apt.

  • ignatiusjreilly #15 2 years ago

    @PlugMonkey

    This was an investor call, not a press release. Investors aren't excited about the game, just how much money it will make, so Acvtivision talk about that instead.

  • PlugMonkey #16 2 years ago

    @ignatious

    Fair enough, I suppose. If I was an investor, I wouldn't be overly enthused by such a bland load of bollcoks.

    Shareholders are basically the bane of this industry.

  • Eraysor #17 2 years ago

    "I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Microsoft for the right leadership they've been providing for the franchise"

    Since when have Microsoft produced Guitar Hero? I think it's supposed to be Neversoft.
    Edited by Eraysor at 06/08/10 @ 12:57

  • Rack #18 2 years ago

    Well, it will be released on the 28th, but it won't be dated for another 4 weeks when Rock Band 3 is released.

  • metalangel #19 2 years ago

    Does this memo go on to mention the Plastic Graveyard? Or do their precious investors not need to know about that?

  • makeamazing #20 2 years ago

    I love how it sounds like "we are only releasing this one this year and we thought we had better make a bit more of an effort".

    Having only just got into this whole RB/GH stuff, i have to say GH was poor, and RB was pretty good. With the added benefit of a keyboard/guitar improvements from RB, i cannot see how GH will even make a dent in sales (and its not releasing at the best of times either).

  • ignatiusjreilly #21 2 years ago

    I know it's not really the case anymore, but just from the title and marketing alone, Guitar Hero seems like more of a single player guitar-based game while Rock Band seems like more of a party based game with singing and keyboards and stuff.

    Lots of people don't like drunken karaoke style parties (I am one) so I think Guitar Hero still has a niche to fill.

    (Also, the guitar parts on Rock Band are ridiculously easy on medium. As a casual player that never progressed to the 5-button difficulty, this put me off RB too.)

  • Lee_Morris #22 2 years ago

    And an F U to Sony for not providing leadership?

    Actisoft and Eaony it seems as of late.

  • PlugMonkey #23 2 years ago

    All I want from my next GH or RB game is a difficulty curve as perfect as GH1.

    RB lost that altogether. I don't care about keyboards or real instruments or a 'deep' story mode. Just fix the difficulty curve.

  • Jonny5Alive7 #24 2 years ago

    Despite RB3 likely being better I would put money on Guitar Hero selling more. I hope RB3 gets marketed a lot better than RB2 did.

  • Martin #25 2 years ago

    Hey Eurogamer - any info when it'll be out in the rest of Europe? ;)