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MercyfulFate.LedZeppelin.Def Leppard. MötleyCrüe. It’stotally metalto purposely misspell your band’s name, right? So in a way, we can’treallyfault Activision for misspelling Lynyrd Skynyrd on the box art forGuitar Hero: Metallica(as you can see in the image above, they omitted the second “y” in “Skynyrd”). Amazingly, no Dtoiders — usually an eagle-eyed bunch — picked up on that when weposted the cover artworklast week! Lynyrd Skynyrd is just one ofover 20 artiststhat aren’t Metallica to have their music in the game.
However, in every other imaginable way, we most definitelycanfault Activision for this inexcusable screw-up. Sure, it may be(pronounced ‘lĕh-‘nérd ‘skin-‘nérd), but it’s not spelled that way. Really, how difficult or time-consuming would it have been to Google “Lynyrd Skynrd” when putting together the cover art?Not very, of course — and the person responsible for this guffaw-inducing gaffe would have instantly realized that he or she hadmade a huge mistake.
Activision hasn’t yet commented on this blunder, so we don’t know if they’ll be offering a corrected cover for download — which is what EA Sports did with thecover ofMadden NFL 09when Brett Favre left the Green Bay Packers for the New York Jets last summer — or if they’ll be able to fix the error in time for the game’sMarch 29th releaseon PS3 and 360 in North America. But for now, people who are sticklers for spelling — like me — are going to continue having a field day with this one.
