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+.

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.

Headline anthems from Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock – Megadeth’s “Sudden Death” and Soundgarden’s “Black Rain” – have been nominated for Best Metal Performance and Best Hard Rock Performance, respectively, at the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards.Inspired by, composed exclusively for, and debuted in the game, “Sudden Death” marks the first time an original track created for a videogame has been nominated by The Recording Academy for the prestigious awards.

To commemorate these exciting nominations, Guitar Hero is offering a free MP3 of Soundgarden’s “Black Rain,” the previously recorded song that was finished for inclusion in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, exclusively to all of its over two million Facebook fans.  The free download will begin Friday, 14th January, 2011, at 05:01 am GMT and end Sunday, 16th January, 2011, at 16:59 pm GMT.  For more information on the free download, please visit facebook.com/guitarhero.  “Black Rain,” which debuted in a big way on both the band’s first new album in over ten years, Telephantasm, and in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock simultaneously, marked the first time an album has received RIAA platinum certification upon the day of its release. 

“From the first time I played Guitar Hero in Paris several years ago until recently getting my ass handed to me playing at an Activision event in San Francisco, this has been the most fun and most rewarding track I have ever written,” said Dave Mustaine of Megadeth.

“We congratulate and are honoured to have worked with the metal legends of Megadeth and rock icons Soundgarden on their GRAMMY nominated songs, which were both uniquely integrated with Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock,” said Tim Riley, Vice President of Music Affairs, Activision.  “From reuniting the Sex Pistols with their re-record of “Anarchy in the UK” to delivering Metallica’s smash-hit Death Magnetic as downloadable content day and date with the record’s release, Guitar Hero continues to be the preeminent interactive music platform, pioneering the music gaming space by bringing new, exclusive content to axe shredders, drummers and fearless frontmen around the world.”

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.