Aerosmith gets own Guitar Hero game

By Robert Purchese Published 15 February, 2008

Band seeking new audience.

Activision has revealed plans to base an entire instalment in the Guitar Hero series around popular American beat combo Aerosmith.

It's pencilled in for June and will be available on PS3, 360, Wii and PS2.

To celebrate, the publisher will offering 'Dream On' by Aerosmith on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network this weekend.

"It's cool for us to be pioneers helping to rebuild the music industry through a format like video games," said Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry. "It's great for rock since the record companies are struggling to make sense of how things are changing.

"Fans want to get and experience music in new formats - and there are going to be some of them who will play the game, then pick up the guitar for real and start bands. It's what's happening now, and it's only going to build more momentum in the future. It's a massive change for the music business."

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith will have you playing as guitarists Joe Perry, Brad Whitford and bassist Tom Hamilton. Just like all the other instalments you will go from unknown to rock legend, but this time follow the story of the band and their memories of some stand out venues.

It won't just be Aerosmith music in the game, either, with Activision promising songs from other artists that inspired the ageing US rock band.

Aerosmith has been around for 38 years. The band found mainstream fame with its 1975 album Toys in the Attic. Then there were drugs. Then two members left. Then they came back again. And in 1987 things started to pick up to where we are now: four Grammy awards and ten Video Music Awards.

"Any band that can go from 'Don't Want to Miss A Thing' to the ass-kicking 'Sweet Emotion' to the cheekiness of 'Love in an Elevator' to the classic ballad 'Dream On' shows why Activision chose us to headline this game based on the diversity of the Aerosmith catalogue," said rubber-lipped singer Steve Tyler, living it up whilst going down.

"Not only is songwriting a bitch, but then it goes and has puppies."

Thrash your way to our Guitar Hero: Aerosmith gallery for the first and rather lonely screenshot.

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Fab4 #1 4 years ago

    oh gawd!

  • Triggerhappytel #2 4 years ago

    So, there's gonna be two GH games every year from now on? A 'proper' sequel and a cash-in filler like this? For fuck's sake, you're worse than EA, ActiBlizz.

  • orac1971 #3 4 years ago

    i am so wowed by Guitar Hero that this is good news.... but make sure the Wii version is in stereo this time!

  • MightyMouse #4 4 years ago

    So instead of just selling one cd's worth of songs and a couple of extra models, you'll need to effectively buy the same game again?

    /cynical

  • darc #5 4 years ago

    I hate Aerosmith as much as I love Guitar Hero. (Or loved Guitar Hero before the 360 version arrived with that crappy wireless Les Paul whose tilt mechanism doesn't work and whose frets feel like marshmallows. And which won't work with my Rock Band controller and is thusly a total &*^$#@# loss...)

    Got off point there. I hate Aerosmith. Finally morphing into video game characters is a fitting end for them, though.

  • daz_john_smith #6 4 years ago

    I'm not a big Aerosmith fan either and don't really understand why they couldn't have just released a bunch of Aerosmith songs as DLC. It's sounds like another cheap cash in like Rock the 80's, which turned to be fairly poor. I'm a huge Guitar Hero fan, but hopefully I'll be able to avoid this one unless some of the non-Aerosmith tracks included are ones I can't resist.

  • darc #7 4 years ago

    "...don't really understand why they couldn't have just released a bunch of Aerosmith songs as DLC. It's sounds like another cheap cash in..."

    That's the right question, and the right answer in one tidy post. Man, I sung the praises of GH high and low last year, but my recent experiences have been really off-putting. At this point, I'm just going to download the best of the Rock Band content, and Activision can pound sand. The only way they'll get another dollar out of me, ever, is if they start supporting the Rock Band guitar (and I'm not holding my breath.) Even if I didn't prefer their competitor's guitar, the principle of it irks me.

  • Strawp #8 4 years ago

    It's not like they haven't done this game already. No one else remembers "Quest for fame" with the V-pick?

    http://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Fame

  • convercide #9 4 years ago

    Aerosmith - Dream On has been released today for XBL and it is free.

  • neuroniky #10 4 years ago

    I want Guitar Hero - Slayer now...

  • indotoonster #11 4 years ago

    "...American beat combo Aerosmith."

    Excuse me for not knowing the lingo of them krayzee kids, but WTF is a "beat combo"? Would "band" not suffice? Or rather, "over-the-hill, living-in-the-past, jaded-substance-abusers"?

  • space_ace #12 4 years ago

    dream on, dead or alive (3? 2?) opening, nice