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Video: DragonForce will own you in GHIII

Not too long ago, it was revealed that DragonForce would finally be gracing Guitar Hero for it's third outing. The song chose for the game: the incredibly difficult "Through the Fire and Flames." But hey, don't take our word for it, just check out the video above. The amount of skill and practice required to nail this song borders on lunacy. Wherever the song isn't a maelstrom of hammer-ons and pull-offs, it is filled with machine gun strumming on multiple frets. It is both a nightmare and a beauty to behold, and we bet your little brother will master it in a week.

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21. Mommy!

Posted at 5:24PM on Sep 4th 2007 by tpancoast

22. Yes, it is old news but that is still a rocking song, plus the video doesn't even show the facemelting guitar solos.

And as far as Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero, they are both going to be good, there's no need to be a fanboy for one or the other.

Posted at 5:28PM on Sep 4th 2007 by BlackBeltJones

23. the original developers of GH are making Rock Band. That, and the track list for Rock Band is leaps and bounds better than GHIII.

Plus, Slash as a boss battle? gtfo

Posted at 5:32PM on Sep 4th 2007 by violenceinhd

24. Um, Jordan is so much harder. When I watched that video I thought to myself, "If I get some star power, I could beat this song my first try." And I'm not that great at expert, still haven't come close to beating Jordan. A lot of you people are scared by the "fast strumming" that is shown. When you see notes coming that fast, you have to pick up and down at half the speed and if you get the rhythm right, it's actually really easy.

Posted at 5:32PM on Sep 4th 2007 by zackiyp

25. Yeah like some other people I saw this video a while back. But Im still excited.

Posted at 5:45PM on Sep 4th 2007 by The Oggmonster

26. This video is about a month old. I'm disappointed X3F

Posted at 6:08PM on Sep 4th 2007 by gundamxzero

27. old video, but i have been asking for dragonforce on guitar hero forever!(being a fan of the band)
i love it...

Posted at 6:28PM on Sep 4th 2007 by quesadia

28. HOLY MOTHER OF GOD.

and @16 - i agree. i don't see why there's so much fighting over rock band vs. gh3. why can't we all just get along and enjoy both? i know i plan on buying both.

Posted at 6:35PM on Sep 4th 2007 by Kelly

29. Hey buy the GHIII bundle with the wireless guitar and buy Rock band by itself after... quite simple.

Posted at 6:46PM on Sep 4th 2007 by EMaster

30. This song made me pee a little when I first saw it. Hell I just beat Misirlou on Hard...

Posted at 7:29PM on Sep 4th 2007 by IodineX

31. @17

You gotta bug Sega for DragonForce in the arcade. Email them and keep asking itll come.
From there who knows, maybe well get Dragonforce2 in English!

Posted at 8:28PM on Sep 4th 2007 by ccc

32. thats even harder than playing it on a real guitar

Posted at 9:21PM on Sep 4th 2007 by anotherjeff

33. wtf?

jordan on expert was very hard but kinda fair.
this is just ridiculous.
fu activision for this. archivements need to be archiveable:

Star Mania 15 g
Activate Star Power 3 times on Through the Fire and Flames on Expert

The Inhuman Achievement 15 g
Complete Through the Fire and Flames on Expert

this definitely sucks more than the Tournament Qualifier in pgr3

booooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
shame on you (and your children(and their children))!

Posted at 9:40PM on Sep 4th 2007 by root

34. there are developers who create sweet games like bioshock.
and there are developers who should be clubbed to death with their plastic guitars...

Posted at 10:06PM on Sep 4th 2007 by root

35. If you are going to bring up Rock Band, I wonder if they have UBER MEGA OHMYGODMYFINGERZRBLEEDEENG type songs, like this, or is it more like Guitar Hero's final songs on the campaign kinda difficuilty. We'll see. Imagine a song like that for the drum player!

Posted at 10:45PM on Sep 4th 2007 by Metacore

36. This video missed out the Slammin 4-5 minute solo in this song.

Having allready played a damn decent custom version of this song on my PS2 version of GH2, i could be MORE excited...but i'll be damned if that didn't put a massive fudging grin on my face.

Awesome band, awesome note chart. I cant wait.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV0qM6-HLuk

Theres the custom song on the PS2 version of GH2.

Oh and so far, this isn't nearly as hard as jordan. I could FC this pretty easily after a few hours. Lots of sweeps and trills. Nothing nearly as hard as jordan.

Still...cant wait.

*picks up his axe and starts playing more GH2 since he's in the mood now*

Posted at 11:46PM on Sep 4th 2007 by Sam

37. @19 - You cried... I think I may have just peed a little. I'm so bloody scared.

Posted at 12:42AM on Sep 5th 2007 by pkwifi

38. Friggin' Dragon Force. Put some real metal in GH3. Not liemetal.

Posted at 1:37AM on Sep 5th 2007 by Otis Whitaker

39. great job posting a month old video.

Posted at 4:52AM on Sep 5th 2007 by BrettDeath

40. holy crap. i cant wait to try that.

Posted at 8:17AM on Sep 5th 2007 by peeweejd

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