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‘Guitar Hero: Van Halen’ official trailer

August 7, 2009 62 Comments

The official trailer for ‘Guitar Hero: Van Halen’ (release date Dec. 22nd, 2009):

Filed Under: Merchandise, Van Halen

Chicken Joe

This is Eddie’s way of sticking it right up Sam and Mike’s ass, he’s got so much great material that he can discard half of his own career and still make an entire awesome video game! Eddie rules!
Jor-L5150

i think we have overlooked the truely WORST element about this new game :

NOW- whenever you want to look up van halen on youtube , it’ll be page after page of douchebags posting clips of them playing guitar hero ….when what you’re looking for is the ACTUAL van halen ….. OY!
phil

what about passing a certain level and unlocking groupies in the dressing room?
Nat

I’m looking forward to playing this game, and I don’t have a problem with Mikey not being in it since he’s not in VH now but I really don’t think they should have time-traveled the band back to the 80′s with Wolfgang.

If they wanted the game to play as VH in the 80′s, it should have MA in it. If they want it to play as VH today, it should have Wolfgang.

Having some sort of weird time-warp version of the band that exists today just somehow seems wrong.

This strikes me as being awfully similar to the stupid stunt they pulled when they changed the original album covers on the official VH website and replaced MA’s pictures with Wolfgang’s.

Eddie can’t rewrite the band’s history, no matter how much he might wish he could. I can understand wanting to forget the past – I wish I could forget some ex-girlfriends. But I’ve never photoshopped a current girlfriend into pictures from fun stuff I did with the old (and crazy) ones.

I read something recently about EVH’s wedding that said “When It’s Love” played while the bride walked down the aisle. I wonder if it was the original Sammy version or they did some weird hybrid with Dave or someone else singing just for the wedding?
Jeff

Let’s face it, VanHalen is what it is right now, and that includes Wolfie and NO Sammy Or Mike. I was upset at first about Mikey not being in it, but then I got to thinkin’. Maybe,just maybe, this really does mean that there is new music coming, and they didn’t want any of the current members of the band to feel slighted at the fact of including Mike and Sam.If that is in fact the case, then they must be serious about moving on with Wolfie and Dave, which means they are absolutely going to put out new music soon. If I look at it that way, I AM STOKED!!
I don’t believe it is about erasing ones history. I believe it is a way of bringing the new VanHalen into peoples minds in order to introduce the new band and prime us up for the new material. It seems to be all about promotion for them right now, Eddie has all of a sudden been in the news more than he has in the last 10 years!! They are making themselves visible to the public, and the game is just one form of promotion. Think about it,kids will be playin’ this, come December, and come summer, they will be ferociously hounding their parents for the new album and tickets to the follow up tour, which with a new young audience, will surely sell out in seconds.
I guess I just wanna see the VH glass half full for a change!!
Matt from Australia

Was there this much fan uproar about who appeared in GH:Metallica? Can anyone tell me?
Seriously…its just a game! When VH put out some new music it’s gonna be the same response…people r either gonna love it or hate it.
Atta girl Kimberly – put em in their place!
Chad

This trailer was running at E3 back in June. Activision needs to step up and update that with the tracklist, etc. Pretty lazy of them to just toss that out there at this point.
http://none Ducky / Dirty Duck

JOHN YUHAS:

The same was done to dave from 1985-2005
It was like CLASSIC VH never exsisted.
If i could deal with it for 20 years of NO CLASSIC VH
you can wait another 20 for sammy again.

If he’s alive.
Mark

It is my understanding that you are not actually going back in time and playing the clubs with Wolfie. They are alternate costumes and apperance that you can unlock.
Karl

Exactly Nat, when it’s today’s VH playing have the Wolf giant in there, and when it’s the long hair and striped pants version have MA. Inserting Wolf into the old band just looks plain silly.
Russ

I was thinking that there is an up side to having Wolf in the band. Wasn’t he the one who got Eddie listening to the old stuff again? An hmmmmm…maybe he could influence him into writing new music with that brown sound and older style we all miss: “Dad, that old sound was killer, you should bring it back.” Just a thought.
Karl

If it wasn’t for the prospect of getting Wolf up on stage we probably wouldn’t have had the last tour. And I suspect the one glimmer of hope for a new album will be Eddie gagging for a chance to cut a record with Wolf. If it wasn’t for that we could probably close the book on VH.