{"id":3933,"date":"2009-05-27T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"guitar-hero-5-out-on-september-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/3933-guitar-hero-5-out-on-september-1","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Hero 5 out on September 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Activision has posted a release date on the official Guitar Hero 5 website<\/a> revealing that the next iteration of the armchair rock and roll simulator will be arriving on September 1, translating to a local release sometime in mid September.<\/p>\n

Eight days later Harmonix will be releasing its next iteration of the Rock Band series with The Beatles: Rock Band. 
Like World Tour, Guitar Hero 5 will allow players to play with up to four instruments simultaneously. The game will feature songs from 85 different bands.<\/p>\n

New features include the ability to play the game using any combination of up to four instruments. So players will be able to play with 3 vocalists and a drummer, or 2 drummers and two bassists for example.<\/p>\n

Songs confirmed for Guitar Hero 5 so far are<\/p>\n

– Johnny Cash – “Ring of Fire”
– Santana – “No One To Depend On (Live)”
– Bob Dylan – “All Along the Watchtower”
– Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Runnin’ Down a Dream”
– Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk”
– The White Stripes – “Blue Orchid”
– The Rolling Stones – “Sympathy for the Devil”
– Kings of Leon – “Sex on Fire”
– Stevie Wonder – “Superstition”<\/p>\n

Discuss Guitar Hero 5 <\/a>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Activision\u2019s rock sim gets dated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}