Product Description

In Guitar Hero: Smash Hits players get the best of previous Guitar Hero games, now in a full band gameplay scenario. Turn down the lights, crank up the amps and prepare to command center stage as you rock out to the most fun tracks from Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. And for the first time you can join together as a band and jam to master tracks from the greatest Guitar Hero music on your controllers for guitar, drums and vocals.

A Compelling List of Game Features
More than just an outstanding and comprehensive 48-song setlist, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits is chock full of crowd-pleasing game features. It allows up to four players to join together and rock locally, or battle other bands online with up to 8 players. It features Rock Star Creator, first made famous in Guitar Hero World Tour, as well as Music Studio and GHTunes which together allow players to create their own hits and share them online. The game also adds another dimension of difficulty with the drum kit controllers double kick-pedal "Expert+" difficulty level first seen in Guitar Hero: Metallica.

Play as a Band
For the first time players can take the stage and rock on their favourite Guitar Hero tracks from early games in the series using the drum kit and mic controllers. For newer Guitar Hero fans, this is a great chance to catch up and play the best of Guitar Hero, while more experienced Guitar Hero fans now have a new reason to expand to the full band.

• Experience another dimension of difficulty with the drum kit controller's double kick-pedal "Expert" difficulty level first seen in Guitar Hero Metallica.
• For the first time, players can rock on their favourite Guitar Hero tracks through the drum kit and mic controllers individually or as a band.
• An epic 48-song setlist made up of the most memorable so

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1995 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2009-06-26
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .28 pounds

Customer Reviews

Awesome
I found this whole game just so awesome, it was short, but the songs were superb! The main criticism is that people say the guitar hero makers at Neversoft created it to make more money, but the reason they made it was requests from fans, and I think it is awesome that the Neversoft team responded to the fans in this way, The Locations are awesome, te set list is awesome, every thing is just awesome! well done Neversoft

Track listing
Guitar Hero

Blue ?yster Cult - "Godzilla"
Boston - "More Than A Feeling"
Deep Purple - "Smoke On The Water"
Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out"
Helmet - "Unsung (Live)"
Incubus - "Stellar"
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - "I Love Rock N' Roll"
Ozzy Osbourne - "Bark At The Moon"
Pantera - "Cowboys From Hell (Live)"
Queen - "Killer Queen"
Queens Of The Stone Age - "No One Knows"
The Donnas - "Take It Off"
The Exies - "Hey You"
White Zombie - "Thunder Kiss '65"

Guitar Hero II
Alice In Chains - "Them Bones"
Avenged Sevenfold - "Beast And The Harlot"
Danzig - "Mother"
Foo Fighters - "Monkey Wrench"
Iron Maiden - "The Trooper"
Jane's Addiction - "Stop!"
Kansas - "Carry On Wayward Son"
Lamb Of God - "Laid To Rest"
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Free Bird"
M?tley Cr?e- "Shout At The Devil"
Nirvana - "Heart-Shaped Box"
Rage Against The Machine - "Killing In The Name"
Reverend Horton Heat - "Psychobilly Freakout"
Rush - "YYZ"
Stone Temple Pilots - "Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart"
The Police - "Message In A Bottle"
The Sword - "Freya"
Warrant - "Cherry Pie"
Wolfmother - "Woman"
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s
Anthrax - "Caught In A Mosh"
Extreme - "Play With Me"
Judas Priest - "Electric Eye"
Poison - "Nothin' But A Good Time"
Ratt - "Round and Round"
Twisted Sister - "I Wanna Rock"

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
AFI - "Miss Murder"
DragonForce - "Through The Fire And Flames"
Heart - "Barracuda"
Kiss - "Rock And Roll All Nite"
Living Colour - "Cult Of Personality"
Pat Benatar - "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"
Priestess - "Lay Down"
Slayer - "Raining Blood"

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
Aerosmith - "Back In The Saddle

Laziness
This greatest hits just smacks of pure laziness, and looks like the guys at Guitar Hero are clutching at straws to squeeze every penny out of the punters.

The setlist is tiny... it 'boasts' 48 songs; but Rock Band 2 had 84 songs plus 20 more that you could download for free, making altogether 104 songs. That's more than twice the number you get in GH Greatest Hits, all of which have been played/listened to for far too long.

I was tempted to buy this, but they've not taken nearly enough songs from GH3 (which many argue has the best setlist of the entire GH series).

Give us something a bit more substantial than just a re-hash of previous songs. And if this game keeps that annoying 'open string' for bass, it's definitely not making my shopping list.

~ squodge ~