Running on the powerful Guitar Hero engine that has been expanded and refined, coupled with the return of the critically acclaimed and fan favourite features like Party Play’s jump in/jump out gameplay, a host of Competitive modes and the ability to play any combination of guitar, bass, drums and vocals, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock offers the complete interactive and connected experience bringing friends and foes to the stage in the ultimate rock music adventure.

In Quest Mode, using any combination of instruments, players will embark on a larger-than-life, epic rock journey from the stage of CBGBs, the infamous punk-rock club in New York City, to the molten lava fields of rock treachery as eight Guitar Hero characters transform into rock warriors that must join together to use their unique, game-changing powers to help the Demi-God of Rock take down “The Beast” and save rock n’ roll.

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock breathes new life into gamers’ current Guitar Hero music libraries providing literally hundreds of hours of replayability with the introduction of Quickplay+, which features 13 totally unique gameplay challenges for every on-disc track as well as most downloadable and importable songs from Guitar Hero World Tour forward. Gamers will complete challenges such as Band Streak, High Score and Power Challenge, which allows players to choose any two warrior powers they have unlocked to try and earn ridiculously high scores, to rank up and unlock more rewards and content than ever before. All-new Challenge Leaderboards have been created in order to capture the outrageous scores that are capable with Quickplay+.

Metallica are returning for an encore this fall by bringing their skill, intensity and passion to the Guitar Hero music library. In conjunction with the launch of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, fans who own Guitar Hero Metallica will be able to import 39 of the game's on-disc tracks directly into their Guitar Hero music library beginning September 28. Additionally, head-banging, guitar-shredding rockers who buy Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock between September 28 and October 5 will be able to import these tracks from their copy of Guitar Hero Metallica for free (only be available to US).

The disc import will feature the following tracks:

• Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - "Turn The Page (Live)"
• Diamond Head - "Am I Evil?"
• Kyuss - "Demon Cleaner"
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Tuesday's Gone"
• Machine Head - "Beautiful Mourning"
• Mastodon - "Blood & Thunder"
• Mercyful Fate - "Evil"
• Metallica - "Battery"
• Metallica - "Creeping Death"
• Metallica - "Disposable Heroes"
• Metallica - "Dyers Eve"
• Metallica - "Enter Sandman"
• Metallica - "Fade To Black"
• Metallica - "Fight Fire With Fire"
• Metallica - "For Whom The Bell Tolls"
• Metallica - "Frantic"
• Metallica - "Fuel"
• Metallica - "Hit The Lights"
• Metallica - "King Nothing"
• Metallica - "Master Of Puppets"
• Metallica - "Mercyful Fate"
• Metallica - "No Leaf Clover"
• Metallica - "Nothing Else Matters"
• Metallica - "One"
• Metallica - "Orion"
• Metallica - "Sad But True"
• Metallica - "Seek And Destroy"
• Metallica - "The Memory Remains"
• Metallica - "The Shortest Straw"
• Metallica - "The Thing That Should Not Be"
• Metallica - "The Unforgiven"
• Metallica - "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"
• Metallica - "Wherever I May Roam"
• Metallica - "Whiplash"
• Motorhead - "Ace Of Spades"
• Samhain - "Mother Of Mercy"
• Social Distortion - "Mommy's Little Monster (Live)"
• The Sword - "The Black River"
• Thin Lizzy - "The Boys Are Back In Town"

Featuring importable tracks from Guitar Hero World Tour, Guitar Hero Smash Hits, Guitar Hero 5,Band Hero and Guitar Hero Metallicalater this month, the Guitar Hero music library will contain over 550 songs by the launch of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock; allowing gamers to experience hundreds of hours of intense rifts, blistering solos, slamming drum fills, killer bass riffs and intense vocal ranges all while they create their own ultimate playlist tailored to their unique tastes.

The Guitar Hero Metallica disc import will be available on Xbox Live for 480 Microsoft Points, on the PlayStation Store for $5.99 and for Wii for 600 Wii Points. In addition to the in-game music store and Xbox Live Marketplace, Xbox 360 owners can expand their Guitar Hero music library using the Guitar Hero VIP Pass Music Store, available exclusively on Xbox Live online entertainment network.

Delivering the largest on-disc rock music set list to-date, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock features more than 90 tracks that include guitar shredding hits from bands such as Black Sabbath, Megadeth and Slipknot and larger than life anthems from Queen, Muse and KISS. Additionally, Dave Mustaine of Megadeth wrote and recorded “Sudden Death,” an original track for the game, which was inspired by Quest Mode’s storyline. Along with original songs, the set list also includes special re-records by famous artists and tracks from bands that are making their music video game debut.

Complete Tracklist

1. A Perfect Circle - The Outsider
2. Aerosmith - Cryin'
3. AFI - Dancing Through Sunday
4. Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy
5. Alter Bridge - Ties That Bind
6. Anberlin - Feel Good Drag
7. Anthrax - Indians
8. Arch Enemy - Nemesis
9. Atreyu - Ravenous
10. Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country
11. Bad Brains - Re-Ignition (Live)
12. Band Of Skulls - I Know What I Am
13. Black Sabbath - Children Of The Grave
14. Blind Melon - Tones Of Home
15. Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' For You
16. Bush - Machinehead
17. Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?
18. Children Of Bodom - If You Want Peace... Prepare For War
19. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
20. Deep Purple - Burn
21. Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me (Live)
22. Dethklok - Bloodlines
23. Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
24. Dragonforce - Fury Of The Storm
25. Drowning Pool - Bodies
26. Fall Out Boy - Dance, Dance
27. Five Finger Death Punch - Hard To See
28. Flyleaf - Again
29. Foo Fighters - No Way Back
30. Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time
31. George Thorogood And The Destroyers - Move It On Over (Live)
32. Interpol - Slow Hands
33. Jane's Addicton - Been Caught Stealing
34. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
35. John 5 Feat. Jim Root - Black Widow Of La Porte
36. Kiss - Love Gun
37. Linkin Park - Bleed It Out
38. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me The Breeze (Live)
39. Megadeth - Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
40. Megadeth - Sudden Death
41. Megadeth - The Day We Fight!
42. Metallica Feat. Ozzy Osbourne - Paranoid (Live)
43. Muse - Uprising
44. My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
45. Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World
46. Nickelback - How You Remind Me
47. Night Ranger - (You Can Still) Rock In America
48. Nine Inch Nails - Wish
49. Orianthi - Suffocated
50. Pantera - I'm Broken
51. Phoenix - Lasso
52. Poison - Unskinny Bop
53. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
54. Queensrÿche - Jet City Woman
55. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
56. RX Bandits - It's Only Another Parsec...
57. Rammstein - Waidmanns Heil
58. Rise Against - Savior
59. Rush - 2112 Pt. 1 - Overture
60. Rush - 2112 Pt. 2 - The Temples Of Syrinx
61. Rush - 2112 Pt. 3 - Discovery
62. Rush - 2112 Pt. 4 - Presentation
63. Rush - 2112 Pt. 5 - Oracle: The Dream
64. Rush - 2112 Pt. 6 - Soliloquy
65. Rush - 2112 Pt. 7 - Grand Finale
66. Silversun Pickups - There's No Secrets This Year
67. Slash Feat. Iggy Pop - We're All Gonna Die
68. Slash Feat. Ian Astbury And Izzy Stradlin - Ghost
69. Slayer - Chemical Warfare
70. Slipknot - Psychosocial
71. Snot - Deadfall
72. Soundgarden - Black Rain
73. Steve Vai - Speeding
74. Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
75. Strung Out - Calling
76. Styx - Renegade
77. Sum 41 - Motivation
78. Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
79. Third Eye Blind - Graduate
80. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Listen To Her Heart
81. The Cure - Fascination Street
82. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants
83. The Edgar Winter Group - Free Ride
84. The Hives - Tick Tick Boom
85. The Offspring - Self Esteem
86. The Ramones - Theme From Spiderman
87. The Rolling Stones - Stray Cat Blues
88. The Runaways - Cherry Bomb
89. The Vines - Get Free
90. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
91. Them Crooked Vultures - Scumbag Blues
92. Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
93. ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man (Live)

To maximize players’ shredability, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock delivers the next evolution in finger-fretting with an all-new, show-stopping guitar controller that was inspired and born from the game’s unique art style and specifically made for shredding.