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Between baiting the assembled crowd, Lydon did talk about having to re-record the two songs, Anarchy in the UK and Pretty Vacant, after record company Virgin famously lost the original master tapes. Sadly he didn't reveal his Xbox Live Gamertag, but we can only hope to find him on Battle Mode, which let's two players compete either locally or online, and includes temporary attacks, or which three can be stored at any one time. You're able to launch at attack by tilting your guitar upwards and the options include a broken string (one fret button will not work until it's fixed with rapid tapping), amp overload (the fretboard will shake and the notes will blink), or left/right flip (the fret board will be mirrored). And if you and your opponent both survive the song, you'll then enter a sudden death mode, where the Grim Reaper drains your rock meter.
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There are now 13 characters, plus three unlockable bosses, Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave), Slash (Guns N Roses/Velvet Revolver) and Lou The Devil. Poison's Bret Michaels also appears in the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions, but as a singer you don't get to control him.
Having played enough to ensure Red Octane have kept the simple and effective game play of previous versions, and glimpsing the addition of a career storyline (which can be played in two player cooperative mode), bands Funeral for a Friend and Maximo Park were hitting the Hoxton Bar stage. Meanwhile the Guitar Hero 3 set list includes 71 playable songs, with 25 as bonus tracks. Classics justifying the Legends tag include The Rolling Stones “Paint it Black”, The Smashing Pumpkins “Cherub Rock”, Metallica “One”, Alice Cooper “Schools Out”
And you'll feel a little cooler when you're playing in front of an audience with the new Gibson Les Paul shaped controller, which has a detachable neck for storage.
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The Xbox 360 version is available now as downloadable content on Xbox Live. The only shame is that you don't get to feel the fear of a room of gaming journalists as 51-year-old father of punk rants out at them. But the Sex Pistols are playing a five date tour of the UK if you need any inspiration.
