GH3 gets Halo theme

By Robert Purchese Published 22 November, 2007

Boosting music sales, too.

Activision has released a remix of the Halo theme for Guitar Hero III. It's now available on Live and it won't cost you a penny.

The release comes off the back of news that Guitar Hero III is helping bolster digital music sales for bands featured in the game.

According to a report on Ars Technica, starring acts The Strokes, Sleeping and Sonic Youth all enjoyed increased popularity after the game launched in the US at the end of October.

Persuading record companies to feature music in games has historically been a chore, but recently the shoe made its way to the other foot. EA claimed earlier this year that one song in Need for Speed could be heard as many as a billion times around the world, making our medium even more of an influence on its target demographic than radio.

Despite this, songs often have to be covered in Guitar Hero, and apparently Activision has gotten a little too good at it. Rockers The Romantics have reportedly filed a lawsuit against the publisher, claiming the song "What I Like About You" sounds far too much like them.

Their sound is supposedly unique and took them a long time to cultivate, and this mimicry is confusing people into thinking the Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s version is the real potato.

Guitar Hero III is out in Europe on Friday and is really rather good, pop over to our review if you don't believe me.

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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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  • moggsy #1 4 years ago

    It's going to be available for the DS? Interesting...

  • crazyhorse174 #2 4 years ago

    Their sound is supposedly unique and took them a long time to cultivate, and this mimicry is confusing people into thinking the Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s version is the real potato

    Not that unique is it then?

  • Erinan #3 4 years ago

    Rockers The Romantics have reportedly filed a lawsuit against the publisher, claiming the song "What I Like About You" sounds far too much like them.

    Anything to get some PR coverage, eh?

  • asphaltcowboy #4 4 years ago

    Halo theme would be better on Rock Band surely? :(
    Not sure I'm going to get GH3, but Rock Band looks fantastic!

  • TipTop #5 4 years ago

    See I love the idea of Rock Band but the main core of the idea doesn't work online. I think it'll be GH3 for me. That said the idea of becoming a drummer ...

  • Stu #6 4 years ago

    GHIII only got 6/10 in Edge compared to 9/10 from EG. My copy arrives tomorrow, and we shall see who is right!

  • Killerbee #7 4 years ago

    Anyone know if they sorted out the supposed problems with mono sound in the Wii version?

  • TwistidChimp #8 4 years ago

    Got my copy of GH3 yesterday, its excellent, Edges main problem with it was that it didn't really advance the series in any large way. But then.. so what, i'm new to Guitar Hero and this one's got a great track listing, and with lots of downloadable band packs on the way, I really cant complain.

  • asphaltcowboy #9 4 years ago

    I just don't like the idea of it being any harder than GH2...

  • Fyzzu #10 4 years ago

    It's better than a 6/10, but I still don't think it's a 9/10. The comments section for the review chronicles my complaining quite loudly though, and admittedly the 360 version does seem to be rather a lot better than the PS2 version.

    I do wonder whether lots of access to Rock Band tempered Edge's review at all though.

  • silver-jon #11 4 years ago

    "Their sound is supposedly unique and took them a long time to cultivate, and this mimicry is confusing people into thinking the Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s version is the real potato."

    Their sound is clearly of their heads popping out of their arses. How many people do they think had heard of that track before the game came out ?

    Shame it's such a bollock-low nadir in the game. I absolutely hated this song, and the difficulty spike it represented. It's one of the reasons "Rock the 80s" has not been out of its case since 2 days after I bought it, and it's going back to Game to give me the trade-in for . . . . well . . . GH3 actually.

    /is a sucker.

  • Stu #12 4 years ago

    @ Fyzzu

    Yeh, I think it did. That Rock Band preview sounded like a 10/10.

  • Fyzzu #13 4 years ago

    @ silver jon:

    Aw, I rather liked that song. Come to think of it I rather liked Rock the 80s in general. Ridiculously overpriced for what little there was in it, but a fair few of the songs were fun.

    Still silly to sue, though, if that repotr is in fact... well, fact.

  • Ignatius_Cheese #14 4 years ago

    Halo theme would be better on Rock Band surely? :(
    Aye, if the mic is used for humming along to the "hurdygurdy" rhythm. And then EVERYONE can have a good ol' Irish knees up! :oD

  • monkie_king #15 4 years ago

    i hope it's not the horrible Steve Vai fretwankery version from Halo2. That man is living proof that you can be too good at the guitar.

  • bushwod #16 4 years ago

    @Ignatius_Cheese

    diddly dee,
    diddly dee,
    diddly dee,
    diddly dee, diddly-diddly

    etc...

  • asphaltcowboy #17 4 years ago

    @Cheese, ah yes, the singing, kinda forgot about that - just thinking about how awesome the drum part would be! They could sing all the Ah Ah Ahs though!

  • MBar #18 4 years ago

    Erm ... Great! ... I think ...

  • Xerx3s #19 4 years ago

    I suppose the Halo 2 themes such as "Rock anthem for saving the world" would be ideal for games like GH.

  • Apologie #20 4 years ago

    Halo, with all due respect... is an overrated piece of shit

  • polymorph #21 4 years ago

    Jesus christ,
    All i want is the disc.
    Im expected to pay £40 for it without the guitar.
    I have the xbox guitar already, i just need the disc,
    I can buy it on ps2 with a guitar for less WTF??

  • DFawkes #22 4 years ago

    I was oing to go to the both of downloading free PC clone Frets on Fire, then ripping the track from the Halo 2 Soundtrack and making it myself, but just getting it off Live will be much easier.

  • MrMarbles #23 4 years ago

    Edge's review of GHIII is incredibly fair - their main gripe isn't that it doesn't advance the series, but that the note-charts are about as fun as a kick in the tubes.

    And the boss battles - which force the rubbish multiplayer "power-ups" on the player in career mode - are frankly rubbish.

  • HairyArse #24 4 years ago

    I wonder if this will be available for the PS3 version of Guitar Hero III?

  • lockload #25 4 years ago

    "I wonder if this will be available for the PS3 version of Guitar Hero III? "

    Oh look pig flying..

  • Arwin #26 4 years ago

    I just got the PS3 version, and I like it. Being the first game I'm playing (though I tried GH2) I must say it would be worth a 9/10 if the Boss Battles' difficulty had been tuned better. Other than that, the guitar is very good, essential that it is a) wireless but more importantly b) I can take it apart for storage (otherwise the wife would not approve ;) ), and I'm liking it so far.

    Though at times a feeling of am I playing a poor man's DDR creeps over me (GH3's engine seems so incredibly simplistic, I miss the good/great/perfects :p), the whammy bar does compensate a little. ;)

  • Razz #27 4 years ago

    Guitar Hero 3 is a very average game. :/

    Rock Band is where it's at. ^_^

  • Feanor #28 4 years ago

    Unless you're a johnny-no-mates.

  • Beano #29 4 years ago

    "Edge's review of GHIII is incredibly fair - their main gripe isn't that it doesn't advance the series, but that the note-charts are about as fun as a kick in the tubes. "

    I agree!

    I was playing GH3 this weekend and got the exact same feeling... the notes in GH3 are really poorly laid out and far as fun to play as the songs as in GH1+2. Some of the notes even sound like they are a bit off and playing them feels "disconnected" (not a lag problem).

    The game also is sticking to much to the formula without really trying to improve anything except introducing boss-battles which are a bit annoying. Why still no proper tutorial/practice for hammer-ons and pull-offs and why are the difficulty levels still broken?

    Edge's 6/10 score seems about right to me.

    At least the GH3 guitar seems to be of a better build-quality.