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| genre = Music, Rhythm | modes = Single-player, multiplayer }} ''Guitar Hero: Van Halen'' is the third and final band-specific music rhythm game in the ''Guitar Hero'' series. As with the previous games ''Guitar Hero: Aerosmith'' and ''Guitar Hero: Metallica'', the game features 25 songs from Van Halen along with 19 additional songs from selected artists that have been inspired by the group. The game was released in retail for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii systems on December 22, 2009, in North America, and in February 2010 for PAL regions. However, as part of a promotion with ''Guitar Hero 5'', the game was shipped to ''Guitar Hero 5'' purchasers in North America prior to its retail release. The game was developed by Neversoft with Underground Development assisting Neversoft on developing the Xbox 360 port and published by Activision. The game has received mostly negative reviews from critics, most of which consider the game's quality to be greatly inferior to its predecessor, ''Guitar Hero: Metallica'' and other games of the series. The reviewers criticized the lack of former Van Halen members, Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony and Gary Cherone, the limited tracks selected from Van Halen's discography, the selection of other tracks included in the game, and the general lack of features introduced in the previous band-centric games and ''Guitar Hero 5''. ==Gameplay== ''Guitar Hero: Van Halen'' is similar to the preceding band-centric game, ''Guitar Hero: Metallica'', featuring support for four players in a single band on lead and bass guitar, drums, and vocals. The game is based off the engine originating from ''Guitar Hero World Tour'', and thus does not feature the additions that are present in ''Guitar Hero 5'', such as drop-in/drop-out play.〔 Only the current members of the band—Eddie Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Alex Van Halen and Wolfgang Van Halen—are playable avatars in the game for the Van Halen songs; former band members Sammy Hagar, Gary Cherone and Michael Anthony are not included.〔〔 The band appear as they did in 2009 but, by completing challenges in the game, players can unlock their older appearances from the "spandex era () with the big hair and tight pants".〔〔 Despite not being alive during this period of the band's history, Wolfgang Van Halen's avatar has a retro outfit copied from the dice-shirt-and-patchwork-jeans getup worn by his father in the video for "Panama". A demo of the game was released to Xbox Live on December 9, 2009, featuring two Van Halen songs, "Eruption" and "Panama", along with Weezer's "Dope Nose" and Killswitch Engage's "The End of Heartache". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guitar Hero: Van Halen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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