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I though I would start a thread for this, as it will be in all our hands really soon and we will need a place to vent our frustration and resentment for such a rushed, poorly executed expansion that we are all most likely going to buy and force ourselves to enjoy.  :|

Just in case you don't want to take the full hit to your wallet, Best Buy has this game for $40. Unfortunately the game should go for $30, and we should pay $25.... Anyway, have fun.

Schild: Everyone at scorehero.com is pissed off, apparently the game is easy as hell and if you are any good you can play the game through on first try within 2 hours.... I am actually getting sad. Oh, and I saw Ball Room Blitz. It looks about 7 times less fun than you and I imagined it...Poop on that. 

Well it's good news for people like me who are terrible at the game, but not for expert-freebird-beating people like you.

They really should just come out with a Guitar Hero 'Unsigned Edition', sure the songs would suck, but they would be free and you could get the bands to do their own tracks.

Anyway how do you know the 80s anyway, were you even in the country at the time?

Moved to game releases and added the release date to the title. Carry on.

I just got my grubby little hands on a copy and can't wait to get home and play it.  I fall into the drunken medium/hard category and expect many hours of fun!

Ooki: Of course I know the 80's jerky! I grew up in them...Playing games... Anyway, I just have a hard time understanding why they chose to do an expansion pack based on a time period in which main stream music was mostly synth and drum machines THEN they pick nothing but new wave and hair metal (not the best of either mind you) then the omit bonus songs then sell ti at a full price. I actually would write them a mean letter if I knew it would get to the right person. This is seriously lame. I really hope that the game surprises me and I am left eating my words cause so far I am almost thinking about not buying it till I play it and I like at least 20 of the 30 tracks AND those tracks are somewhat challenging. I am done rewarding companies for being lazy just so that I can play new shit.

This game SHOULD have been Guitar Hero Encore: Manic Shred Blitz 2007. Then I would be freaking drooling.

Shredding isn't so fun, I'd rather have 'Guitar Hero Encore: Acoustic Explosion'.

Oh and I forgot say I :heart: Ian.

I am completely okay with that too. I just want some sort of focus on building skill at the game and having actual great songs to play. This game has a poor track selection because they were lazy, not because there was a lack of music. There is plenty of 80's songs that would have fit the bill for both a classic metal shred fest and an awesome soulful acoustic bonanza. As it is, this seriously just looks like them milking a franchise before they even earned the right to do so.
Lame-sauce.
 :x 

If they had the Safety Dance on the disc, I'd've taken the day off from work. Oh well. :|

As for milking the franchise, yeah, they really are. GH3 looks to be the same way, unfortunately.

Have you guys even looked into GH3 yet?  Lookie this:

    * "Barracuda" – Heart
    * "Cherub Rock" – Smashing Pumpkins
    * "Even Flow" – Pearl Jam
    * "Knights of Cydonia" – Muse
    * "The Metal" – Tenacious D
    * "Paint It, Black" – The Rolling Stones
    * "Rock and Roll All Nite" – Kiss
    * "Sabotage" – Beastie Boys
    * "School's Out" – Alice Cooper
    * "Welcome to the Jungle" – Guns N' Roses

And of course the new guitars:

(http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/3/800pxguitarheroiii20070oo9.jpg)

Of course though, you have this:


I for one (even though I suck at the game) am somewhat excited.

It's tough to gay up a game in 7 steps. These guys successfully did it.

I think schild hit the nail on the head here.

I play guitar hero to rock out, not SHOOT BLUE SHELLS AT MY OPPONENT.

'Difficulty up'? No, seriously? Come on now.

I think at this point in time, everyone who was up to regularly playing on Expert mode in Guitar Hero/Guitar Hero 2 is just patiently waiting for Rock Band. I will confess, however, that with the majority of people, the Guitar Hero brand will still sell copies.

I will do whatever is in my power to convince all my Guitar Hero playing friends that they have a new god, and that god is good. And has drums.

Man, You said in 15 words what I was about to say in 5 paragraphs. I will play GHIII but I know that NS has to go through some growing pains before they are spitting out the calibur of GH that I am expecting. There really is no excuse, there is  a lot of good music to select from, they need to get the right songs and quit mucking up the design with their half ass attempts at injecting innovation to the franchise. Do the right thing for right now, more of what works and cautious additions of game play enhancing options. You guys did it with Tony Hawk, you can do it here. GH has a lot of room to grow and I really do believe that NS can easily add new stuff and modes and techniques that will make the game better and still seperate it from the guitar portion of Rock Band. I really believe that GH is in the hands of a competent developer right now, GHIII SHOULD kick lots of butt, but as it is going, it looks like it is not gonna be nearly as hot as it is supposed to be.

It should also be noted that nobody HAS to play that crazy face-off mode, beyond that it looks like the game is largely the same.

For that matter, the company is totally tight-lipped about information.  Try looking up ANYTHING about when new song packs for GHII will be available.  There's nothing.  I almost missed pack 4 completely.  They still haven't given me Godzilla, Even Rats or All Of This.  Fuck them.  Angry letters will do absolutely NOTHING, as evidenced by the amount of complaining about the cost of the downloadable song packs and the fact that it's still 500 points for three songs.  They haven't learned their lesson, and eventually the profiteering is going to bite them in the ass.

If this is an '80s expansion does it come with a key-tar?

Cause you can't hit the most popular 80s tunes without one imo.

Activision and Red Octane have really crapped the bed with the Guitar Hero series.  They're sitting on a huge pile of cash that they've barely managed to tap.  When I hear about the plans Harmonix has for Rock Band (full albums, weekly DLC, master tracks out the ass) I actually feel a little bit of pity for the guys who are stuck with Guitar Hero.  It's about to become a really dated looking series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjO4-TbW938

So has anyone picked the game up? Can we confirm whether or not it is crap?  :|

I picked it up and blew through the first three sets on medium. 100%ed two songs, 5-starred the rest, all on first tries. The first two sets are definitely on the "super easy" side, the third one starts to get interesting in a few places.

The amount of content, though, is completely not worth the $50 price tag. 30 songs total, 6 characters (1 unlockable), no unlockable songs or outfits. The stages are somewhat redone (so far - although I do like what they did with the Blackout Bar) to be Eighties-themed, mostly involving tweaked lighting and colors. The crowd and your bandmates are identical to GH2 in appearance.

If I could to set my own price, I'd say it's worth $30, tops. I do enjoy belting out some of my favorite Eighties tunes, but I doubt the privilege was worth the full price of admission.

I'm stuck on the last song, Play with Me (FUCK YOU PLAY WITH ME, EAT MY DICK), so I'll give my impressions here, all Expert mode.

- I Wanna Rock, done by Twisted Sister. What is this, some version he recorded when he was 42? His vocal range sounds terrible in this version. That's all I'm sayin'.

- Limozeen - What the fuck? I know, lets throw some insane solo into the middle of a song for NO FUCKING REASON.

- Welcome to Guitar Hero, three-button chord edition. Seriously, every single friggin' song is loaded with them.

- And I Ran is kind of cool.

- Wrathchild by Iron Maiden is much cooler.

- The general difficulty curve is kind of muddled, you'll see really easy songs in the batch of really hard songs for no apparent reason. Generally, though, I would say the later part of the game is so far harder then anything Guitar Hero 2 has to offer (Sets 5 and on).

Okay, I'm going back to win this stupid song.

That's kind of disappointing. I know from first hand experience that I'm nowhere near where you and schild are at GH but the fact you're that far through on the first day of owning it is pretty weak. I'll likely still buy it though because:

a) I'm older than all you chitlens and I actually partied to this shit in the 80's
b) I suck at GH enough that even a small expac will last me a long time

Okay, I beat Play with Me, so I beat GH 80s on Expert.

No unlockable content (aside from one character, the grim ripper... with 3d glasses. Yay) - songs, costumes, videos - none of that is there.

So.. yeah, I guess I 'beat' it. Fuck getting 5 stars on everything.

I even had enough money on one play through of Expert to buy everything except the unlockable guitars from the other difficulty levels, but even that isn't really worth it.

The amount of standout songs is really minimal. It's kind of depressing - there's only really the ones I mentioned, and then Play With Me is the hardest song, but it's nowhere near as epic of a final song as Freebird and Hangar 18 were.

I guess this really is goodbye to the Harmonix Guitar Heros, and it's kind of a poof instead of a bang.

BRING ON THE ROCK BAND.

To be fair, I can 95%+ most of the songs in GH2 on medium, but that's after a good bit of repetition and practice on the various interesting bits of the songs - that's what struck me as a problem: I shouldn't be 100%ing something, let alone two things, on the first try - I've only ever 100%ed a song in GH2 once (and that was at F13con, so I didn't even get to keep the gold stars).

Getting 50% of the way through the track list in an hour is also irksome - a lot of the songs I've gotten through are extraordinarily short.

I decided to try out the Sins of a Solar Empire beta (comes with your preorder :) ), and that was entertaining enough to distract me from finishing this title in one sitting.

Eh, I dunno.  I picked up Guitar Hero II played Surrender about 10 times in a row one night and then the next time I picked it up I beat the game on medium in a single 4 hour marathon session. I still haven't 5*'d everything on medium though and haven't really tried to make a stab at hard or expert.  I'm just saying that on medium, with almost my first experience at Guitar Hero, it wasn't that hard a game.  Also, I expect my, newly learned, skills with the game will carry over to new editions.  What I mean there is that I doubt if it will ever seem hard to play at medium difficulty to me.

I had my teens in the 80's and so I certainly disagree that none, or even only a few, of the tracks are interesting:

Seriously: Caught in a Mosh?  Yes please.  Hold On Loosely,  No One Like You,  Ballroom Blitz,  I Wanna Rock  Round and Round,  Metal Health,  Holy Diver (How can you not be excited about Holy Diver?)  Radar Love (Would rather have seen Golden Earings version but hey 80's)  18 and Life, Nothing But a Good Time,  Shaken, Synchronicity II?

That's some good shit there, I had almost all those albums.  There are very few on the list of tracks that I am not interested in, less than what was on Guitar Hero II anyway.

Shit, man. We called that rehearsal. You try drinking a bottle of Yukon Jack and make the fretboard stop blurring.
Hell, I was actually /playing/ some of that shit in the 80s. Where's the Master of Puppets, yo?

I hate the 80's

They could do a whole 80's thrash version.  Metallica (pre-black) could fill a whole 30+ track release by itself IMO.  Not to mention Slayer and Sepultura and Anthrax and Megadeth and et al.

Man all these responses kill me, cause it is both okay and poop all at the same time. I actually forced myself not to buy this game last night, as a last ditch effort to prove to myself that I don't HAVE to buy Guitar Hero merch just for the sake of it being GH. I sat down and played some more GH2 last night and was blown away at how damn awesome that set list is. It is just a whole lot of fun stuff to play. Anyway, I would like to hear what Schild thinks about this game, I wonder if he picked it up.

I didn't pick it up. And I had it half paid off from trading in some trash GBA stuff the other day.

At the end of the day, I'd only be buying it for Ballroom Blitz. And that bothers me. But I reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllly want Ballroom Blitz in Rock Band, but we know that won't happen now.

Some of the most interesting tracks to play in the game are the nonstandard New Wave and weird pop type ones, just because the guitar is usually so erratic.

If you're playing a metal song, you know what you're getting - three-button chords, shredding riffs, and insane guitar solos.

Schild: You know that monkey loves Ball Room Blitz just as much as Schild-bot does. Watch the You tube Video for it. It looks like crap. I wanted to cry.  :cry:

Is that the Extreme song from the mall scene in Bill & Ted?



Dude, that is a 80s metal parody done by the homestarrunner guys isn't it?

Yea, Limozeen is fake. That would be the OTHER song I'd want to play.

LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN.

I know it's fake, which is probably why they are fucking with us all, and putting that insane solo in the middle for no real reason.

It reminds me of that xkcd comic:

(http://www.thenonentity.com/guitar_hero.jpg)

And yes, Play with Me is the song by Extreme from Bill and Ted.

I beat medium and began working through hard last night; the game is certainly worth fifty bucks to me.  The handful of songs I was previously familiar with didn't dissapoint (Holy Diver and Synchronicity II being particularly awesome).  Quite a few others had surprisingly fun riffs.  Who know fucking Winger would be fun to play? 

From my perspective, a themed release like this will always appear at least somewhat lackluster compared to the regular ones simply because the variety of the songs in I and II is what made them so replayable and fun.  Like any genre, I have to take the '80s in doses and the same goes with this game.  It does make me hungry for more themed releases though.  If Rock Band does deliver on the weekly full album downloads it will be the killer app though.

Regarding GHIII, they would be idiots not to have a classic mode for traditional gameplay in addition to the new gimmicky stuff.  I see nothing wrong with having both options available.

I read something about GHIII having boss battles.  If they add these to the regular career mode, I think I'm gonna punch somebody at Red Octane.

Have fun beating SLASH.

Easier than Buckethead.

Thanks for adding nothing to the conversation.

If Activision doesn't add anything of value, neither do I.

You could have a GH MMO! 40-person concerts to unlock one song for one person, at random. It would add months of content as everyone unlocks random songs trying to get the one they want, and can't trade away the ones they don't.

I need to get into game management.

I actually would like the boss battles if they are staged like legitimate guitar battles. Honestly I think that would rule if there was some sort of guitar battle side story that they could make up, like a guitar world magazine gods of guitar battle and you get to play against these guitarist in a guitar battle song that they wrote. Here is a list of 100 guitarist they could pick from

1 Jimi Hendrix
2 Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band
3 B.B. King
4 Eric Clapton
5 Robert Johnson
6 Chuck Berry
7 Stevie Ray Vaughan
8 Ry Cooder
9 Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
10 Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones
11Kirk Hammett of Metallica
12 Kurt Cobain of Nirvana
13 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead
14 Jeff Beck
15 Carlos Santana
16 Johnny Ramone of the Ramones
17 Jack White of the White Stripes
18 John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
19 Richard Thompson
20 James Burton
21 George Harrison
22 Mike Bloomfield
23 Warren Haynes
24 The Edge of U2
25 Freddy King
26 Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave
27 Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits
28 Stephen Stills
29 Ron Asheton of the Stooges
30 Buddy Guy
31 Dick Dale
32 John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service
33 & 34 Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth
35 John Fahey
36 Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG's
37 Bo Diddley
38 Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac
39 Brian May of Queen
40 John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival
41 Clarence White of the Byrds
42 Robert Fripp of King Crimson
43 Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic
44 Scotty Moore
45 Frank Zappa
46 Les Paul
47 T-Bone Walker
48 Joe Perry of Aerosmith
49 John McLaughlin
50 Pete Townshend
51 Paul Kossoff of Free
52 Lou Reed
53 Mickey Baker
54 Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane
55 Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple
56 Tom Verlaine of Television
57 Roy Buchanan
58 Dickey Betts
59 & 60 Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien of Radiohead
61 Ike Turner
62 Zoot Horn Rollo of the Magic Band
63 Danny Gatton
64 Mick Ronson
65 Hubert Sumlin
66 Vernon Reid of Living Colour
67 Link Wray
68 Jerry Miller of Moby Grape
69 Steve Howe of Yes
70 Eddie Van Halen
71 Lightnin' Hopkins
72 Joni Mitchell
73 Trey Anastasio of Phish
74 Johnny Winter
75 Adam Jones of Tool
76 Ali Farka Toure
77 Henry Vestine of Canned Heat
78 Robbie Robertson of the Band
79 Cliff Gallup of the Blue Caps (1997)
80 Robert Quine of the Voidoids
81 Derek Trucks
82 David Gilmour of Pink Floyd
83 Neil Young
84 Eddie Cochran
85 Randy Rhoads
86 Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath
87 Joan Jett
88 Dave Davies of the Kinks
89 D. Boon of the Minutemen
90 Glen Buxton of Alice Cooper
91 Robby Krieger of the Doors
92 & 93 Fred "Sonic" Smith, Wayne Kramer of the MC5
94 Bert Jansch
95 Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine
96 Angus Young of AC/DC
97 Robert Randolph
98 Leigh Stephens of Blue Cheer
99 Greg Ginn of Black Flag
100 Kim Thayil of Soundgarden

and of course....

ralph macchio!

They can add to that list or just use like the 10 they like and then make a guitar battle section of the game sans their retarded rule set. If you win you get to win that song for multiplayer battle fun. There we go, I did the work for 'em.

BUT

Let's not bullshit each other here... We all know that Chong Li is the greatest guitar battler.

(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e359/ARTUNIT4/chongligh.jpg)

You're hired!

Me buying Guitar Hero 3 = Confirmed.

They just announced Dragonforce's "Through the Fire and Flames."

Damn.

That top 100 list is hilarious. Kurt Cobain dozens ahead of Les Paul? Really? People need to stop making top 100 lists. Johnny Muthafucka Winter in the 70s? Sheesh.

Being focused on blues these days, I have to say BB King is one of the most pedestrian and basic blues players out there. Robert Johnson is WAY better and he was just simplifying the older player's music. No Clarence Gatemouth Brown? No Mississippi Hurt? NO JOHN LEE HOOKER?

I guess we should be glad they put a couple black guys in there at all, while including almost every white guy who stole their moves? Jimi Hendrix? Yeah, Buddy Guy on acid. Clapton? Buddy Guy. SRV? Buddy Guy. They'll even tell you they're just ripping off Buddy. Fuckin' shame. And Buddy is at 30, 2 behind Stephen fuckin' Stills? 14 after RAMONE? WTF? Jeff Beck is a hack (at 14) who wishes he had half the chops or talent of Peter Green (38)...and of course, Santana who got famous on a Green song is right behind Beck at 15.

Bah. Utter garbage.

Sky.

This thread is now for talking about Dragonforce.  :inluv:

Sorry to rain on your e-parade.

I think this was one man's list of random guitar players. He missed a ton of people.

Dragonforce sucks balls. Lrn2rite n00bs.

I do not care about the quality of guitar in the song. I care about the possible fun arising out of it for guitar hero.

Lrn2havfun noob.

Yeah, I just read this earlier this morning and thought the exact same thing.

Fucking... fuck.

Well, here's how I look at it. I don't have two 360 Guitar Hero controllers, so here's my second controller for GH2 360 anyways.

I hope the guitar is better.

Well release date for GH plays the 80ies is december around here :(

fuckers

You're not missing anything, if you haven't noticed.

Schild: Yeah Dragon Force will be too fun, I just want more crazy guitar solos and chunky yet complicated riffs.

SKY: Shut up, that was a random list of 100 guitarist  in no particular order. Stop bitching and make your own if this doesn't sit right with you.  :x

Wow for one song, you go fanboy.


I googled it just to make sure HAMMER FRENZY didn't hand type it (he's the kind of guy who would, I just wanted to make sure he hasn't hit that level of insanity yet), it's 'Rolling Stone : The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time'.

Dude. Shredding.

I'd pay for Shredding.

But no, it's was the third song I needed to tip me over.

Knights of Cydonia + The Metal + Through the Fire and Flames = Purchase.

Paint it Black and Even Flow will be too easy to base a purchase on.

Also, the devs said that the best players in the world were failing at 3% on Dragonforce.

I _need_ that.

I know where the list came from.

Shredding? Bah. But that does remind me the Yngwie is not on that guitarist list, either. Goddamned kids.

I would still refer to all the other awesome songs in the game, saying those are the only three worth it would be shooting yourself in the foot.

You're also nowhere even close to those guys' level, I'm not sure why you would want to play a song significantly harder than songs you already can't beat.

You're not one to judge difficulty of Guitar Hero. Stop being a naysayer.

"Nay saying! Always nay saying! YOU make something beautiful like inward singing!"

Yeah I think that GHIII should be some fun. Looks like a pretty solid set list so far.

I failed to notice anyone from Wyld Stallyns on that list.  Go fuck yourself and die, Rolling Stone.

HA!

I bought it. I wanted to play Turning Japanese, which sucked. Limozeen, which sucked. And we havne't unlocked ballroom blitz yet - which will suck.

Mostly because this is the crappiest game ever, if you consider the rest of the series. It's so bad compared that it's like the ET of Rhythm games.

That playlist isn't so bad for one reason:

East Bay Ray

That's a freakin' Guitar Hero right there.

[EDIT] Too Drunk to Fuck would have been more fun for GH though.

Yeah, but they would have remade it "Too Drunk to Make Out" or something safe like that.  God forbid they drop an f-bomb in a guitar game.

I played this piece of crap this weekend. What a turd. I am really happy I didn't buy this game. The songs are all really easy and poorly executed. It just oozes poor production values. to its credit there are a few songs with some decent cord progressions that I found interesting but not enough to warrant a purchase or even continued casual play.  :x

The last couple tiers do some interesting things, and if anything the difficulty on them is good practice for GH3.

Thanks to you guys, I went in with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised that three or four of the songs were actually fun!  Still not buying it, but it's good to know they haven't lost it completely.

I agree the I Wanna Rock sounded really off. Like sped up and lousy vocals. Just put on the original track idiots. And for some reason the guy who sang No One Like You sounds exactly like the lead singer of Loudness. I'm also somewhat ashamed I can make that statement.

I liked Holy Diver but it just highlighted that no one can sing like Ronnie James.

I've 5 starred every song through the first 14 on Hard on the first try and I'm not that good.

With a pre-order promo I managed to pick it up for a net of $25 bucks (plus a free wristband that my kid likes), so I'm not all that disappointed.

While playing the game I thought to myself, "This is really really not fun, but I bet Phildo would enjoy it!", mainly because of all the crazy chord switches.

I know how you love the chord switches.

Yeah I still hate this game. I actually was playing Smash Brothers instead of this at the store I was visiting. I almost never play Smash...

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking - this is good practice for GH3 and Rock Band.

Other that that - I have to resist the urge to take my shirt off and rock out to Winger.

Fffffuck.

Hey now, don't pigeon-hole me!

So I'm trying to unloock the songs for quickplay so my co-workers can play after work tomorrow (I just got the game today). So far, either the cheat sites are wrong, or I'm not doing something right, but the "Unlock Everything" code doesn't seem to work. I hit green to pass the opening montage, then hit green to get by the splash screen. Once at the main menu, I try and hit all the buttons for the code as fast as I can, but no dice. I've been using the gamefaqs cheat. Does it work for anyone else?

What can I say about F13?  It's really my favorite website in the entire universe!  I love the irreverent banter and sly wit these keyboard jockeys produce.  And I especially love the staff, they're AWESOME.

Seriously, there's not that many songs, and most of them aren't that long. Blast through it on Easy.

I finished five-starring everything on Medium last night. Took no more than two play-throughs total on each song, for a grand total play time less than three hours overall.

It'll be a good alternative to pull out occasionally when everyone's tired of GH2, and there's some interesting bits in the later tracks that'll be good practice for GH3/RockBand - I think the Oingo Boingo song is the only one on Medium that I've ever seen with a Green-Blue chord. Good practice on chord switching throughout the whole thing, it's really forced me to nail GY/RB transitions.

Still not worth the full 50 bucks, but it wasn't completely flushed down the toilet.

The first two sets are also perfect for breaking into Hard mode, as they're so much easier than anything on GH2.

I just don't have the time... Wife and sleep and work and all that. I got to the third tier, and I'll just go with that. Maybe my coworkers and I can unlock some more tomorrow.

What can I say about F13?  It's really my favorite website in the entire universe!  I love the irreverent banter and sly wit these keyboard jockeys produce.  And I especially love the staff, they're AWESOME.

I can guarantee that the cheat works, but I'm not the one that input it, so I couldn't tell you how.

Foreign songs confirmed from Leipzig!

    *  "Minus Celsius," by Backyard Babies
    * "Hier Kommt Alex," by Die Toten Hosen
    * "In the Belly of a Shark," by Gallows
    * "I'm in the Band," by The Hellacopters
    * "Avalancha," by Heroes Del Silencio
    * "Take This Life," by In Flames
    * "Ruby," by Kaiser Chiefs
    * "Closer," by Lacuna Coil
    * "Generation Rock," by Revolverheld
    * "Mauvais Garcon," by NAAST
    * "Radio Song," by Superbus

Emphasis mine. That will be the bridge song between hard songs and Dragonforce.