Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock

Overview

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock is a 2010 rhythm game developed by Neversoft and published by Activision. It is the sixth main installment, the eleventh overall installment in the Guitar Hero series and the final title in the Guitar Hero series to be developed by Neversoft. The game was released in September 2010 for PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360. Like the previous entries in the series, it is geared towards playing in a four-person band experience, including lead and bass guitar, drums, and vocals. The game is available as a standalone title, allowing players to use existing compatible instrument controllers, and as a bundle that provides these controllers.

Warriors of Rock shares core gameplay elements with its predecessors, but introduced a new story mode in which the player must recruit eight characters: each with a unique ability that modifies the mechanics of the game: to help defeat an antagonist known as "The Beast". The storyline also incorporated Rush's seven-part "2112", as well as "Sudden Death", a new song performed by Megadeth to serve as its culmination (the song would later be included in Megadeth's following album, TH1RT3EN). Warriors of Rock carried over core gameplay and multiplayer functionality introduced by Guitar Hero 5, including per-song bonus challenges and the ability to use power-ups from the story mode in standard gameplay.

Warriors of Rock received mixed to positive reviews from gaming journalists: while critics felt that Warriors of Rock would appeal best to long-time fans of the Guitar Hero franchise, some felt that the overall soundtrack was weaker than that of past installments due to its lack of focus and use of lesser-known songs and artists. The game's "Quest Mode" was met with a similarly mixed reaction, with some critics considering it a notable change over the career modes of previous Guitar Hero games and praising certain highlights, such as the "2112" segment, but criticizing the pacing of the storyline and how its songs were organized.

Official trailer

Trailer. Watch on YouTube

Screenshots

Game details

Genres

Music

Developer

Vicarious Visions, Neversoft Entertainment

Publisher

Activision

Series

Guitar Hero

Platforms

PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Age rating

ESRB T

Modes

Single player

Yes

Local multiplayer

Yes

Online multiplayer

Yes

Co op

Yes

Age ratings

PEGI

12

ESRB

T

Release dates

Trophies

Trophies51

Platinum possibleYes

Platinum

1

Gold

1

Silver

13

Bronze

36

Total

51

Points

1320

• Platinum Trophy
• Tracker of Deeds Follow any five Hero Feed items (Online only)
• Anthemic Archivist Expand your song library to at least 115 songs of any type. Be creative!
• Stellar Centurion Deploy Star Power a total of 100 times (Quest)
• Gem Collector Hit a cumulative total of 75,000 notes (Quest)
• Gem Hoarder
• Champion of Challenges Target another person's score on any Challenge and earn a higher grade than they did (Local Quickplay+)
• Self Improver Target your own score on a Challenge and earn a higher grade than you did previously (Local Quickplay+)
• Ultimate Answerer
• Scions of Excess Earn an 11x Band multiplier with any 4-player Band configuration (Quickplay+)
• Player of the Ear Worm Play any one non-GH(tm)Tracks song 10 or more times (Quickplay+, Quest, Competitive)
• Patron of the Arts 5-Star any GH(tm)Tracks song containing at least 200 notes (Quickplay+)
• Apostates of Orthodoxy 5-Star any song as a 4-player Non-Standard Band, with all players on Medium or higher (Quickplay+)
• Bearers of the Standard 5-Star any song as a 4-player Standard Band, with all players on Medium or higher (Quickplay+)
• Mythical Millionaire Earn 1,000,000 points or more in a single play of a song in a Power Challenge (Quickplay+)
• Altered Virtuoso Earn 40 Power Stars on a single song (Quest)
• Manager of Fate Create and play a custom playlist of at least 5 songs, and earn 5 Stars on 5 of the songs (Quickplay+)
• Mocker of Fate Create and play a 5-song random playlist, earning 5 Stars on each song (Quickplay+)
• Nauseous Numerologist Beat any song with a final score of 133,337 (Quickplay+, Competitive)
• Mathematic Sharpshooters Beat any song with a final score ending in 000 as a Band (Quickplay+)
• Lucifer's Accountant Beat any song with a final score which is evenly divisible by 6 (Quickplay+)
• Gold Master As a single player, earn Gold or higher on three or more Challenges on a single play of a song (Quickplay+)
• Diamond Master
• Quick Learner Full-Combo any tutorial exercise (no missed notes or overstrums)
• The Siren Recruit Warrior Judy (Quest)
• The Trickster Unleash Warrior Johnny (Quest)
• The Vigil Charm Warrior Casey (Quest)
• The Brute Release Warrior Lars (Quest)
• The Eternal Awaken Warrior Axel (Quest)
• The Exalted Summon Warrior Pandora (Quest)
• The Dynamo Liberate Warrior Echo (Quest)
• The Recluse Invoke Warrior Austin (Quest)
• Divine Liberator
• Axe Claimer
• Savior of Rock
• Amateur Astrologer Earn a total of 100 Stars (Quickplay+)
• Accomplished Astrologer Earn a total of 500 Stars (Quickplay+)
• Adept Astrologer
• Ace Astrologer
• Pseudo Perfectionist Dominate any 2 chapters of Quest (Earn all the Power Stars from any 2 chapters of Quest)
• Partial Perfectionist Dominate any 4 chapters of Quest (Earn all the Power Stars from any 4 chapters of Quest)
• Perfect Perfectionist
• Motivated Improviser Play 100 notes in a single GH(tm)Jam session
• String Twins
• Poor Boys Beat Bohemian Rhapsody as a band including at least two vocalists, with all on Medium or higher difficulty (Quickplay+)
• The Meek Beat 2112 Pt. 4 - Presentation as a Standard band with 3 or more members, all on Medium or higher difficulty (Quickplay+)
• Chosen One
• Hand Mutilator
• Giant Slayer
• Gold Standard As a Standard Band, earn Gold or higher on 2 Band Challenges in a single play of a song (Quickplay+)
• Seasoned Competitor

Playable today

Credits

Publisher

Activision

Developer

Vicarious Visions, Neversoft Entertainment

Released

2010-09-28

Age rating

ESRB T

Region

US

Time to beat

about 6.9 hours