The Best of Guitar Hero now for the Full Band! Turn down the lights, crank up the amps and prepare to command center stage with some of the most famous AND infamous tracks from Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. For newer Guitar Hero fans, this is a great chance to catch up and play the best of Guitar Hero, and older Guitar Hero fans have a new reason to expand to the full band. Step into the spotlight in the most epic, full band jam session to date – Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits.
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 48-song rockin’ setlist.
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“Expert+” difficulty on drums.
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Extensive multiplayer options.
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Create the ultimate rocker & music.
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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 controller’s 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 favorite 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.
Key Features:
- The ability to rock to your favorite Guitar Hero tracks from the original games through the drum kit and mic controllers.
- An epic 48-song setlist made up of the most memorable songs from Guitar Hero games including master recording from: Alice in Chains, Queen, Poison, Rage Against The Machine, Twisted Sister, Joan Jett, Heart, Dragonforce and many others.
- Online and offline gameplay modes allow up to 4 players can join together and rock locally, or battle other bands online with up to 8 players.
- In-game functionality including Rock Star Creator, first made famous in Guitar Hero World Tour, as well as Music Studio and GHTunes which allow players to create their own hits and share them online.
- Experience another dimension of difficulty with the drum kit controller’s double kick-pedal “Expert+” difficulty level first seen in Guitar Hero: Metallica.
The Set List:
Guitar Hero:
| Blue Öyster 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 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 |
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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” |
| Mötley Crüe- “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” |
| 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” |
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- 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 favorite 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 songs from Guitar Hero games including master recording from: Alice in Chains, Queen, Poison, Rage Against The Machine, Twisted Sister, Joan Jett, Heart, Dragonforce and more.
- Online and offline gameplay modes allow up to 4 players can join together and rock locally, or battle other bands online with up to 8 players.
- In-game functionality including Rock Star Creator, first made famous in Guitar Hero World Tour, as well as Music Studio and GHTunes which allow players to create their own hits and share them online.
List Price: $ 39.99
Price: $ 10.00
Old Songs with New Gameplay!,
For those who are skeptical because you have played these songs before need to know that the gameplay is new for all songs. In career, you only need to play a select number of songs to unlock the next section, so at first I was only playing songs from the older games that I haven’t played in a long time and skipping songs that are available on current games such as Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band 2. To my surprise when I did finally play those songs that the fingerings for guitar/bass are different. They didn’t just take the current guitar gameplay and plop it into this game. Instead, they have updated the gameplay to not only have different fingerings (that in my opinion are mostly a vast improvement over the previous versions of these songs) but they also incorporate the newest styles of gameplay, such as three string chords & the three string hammer-on chords that we saw with the latest versions of guitar rhythm games. It makes all of these previously released songs fresh, new, and fun to play. Also, all the original artists are here, so all the cover songs from past games now have the original artists.
Being able to play drums and sing was enough to make me want to get this previously released material, but having new guitar fingerings for all these songs was a bonus I didn’t expect. You also get all the online options from the currently released rhythm games.
I highly recommend this.
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|Great Game But Limited Use For GH Vets,
If you are like me and got in to the Guitar Hero franchise only recently, then this is a game you should definitely get. It gives you a chance to play some of the songs from the older games that you missed with the added bonus of being able to go at those with the whole band.
However, if you have played these songs before, there probably isn’t enough to justify buying this. The only truly new features is the aforemented full band play on these songs and the expert+ feature on drums that allows for double-bass pedal playing. This is really cool to be sure, but hardly enough to justify paying for a whole new game with songs that you have experienced before. It does seem that the songs MAY have been amped up a little in difficulty and any game that includes “Play With Me” by Extreme as a song to play with is certainly not ALL bad.
With all that being said, the song list is a little light on songs that I would consider to be truly “smash hits”. If you are a vet of the franchise and are considering this I would wait for a price drop. If you jumped in a little before World Tour, I would likewise wait for the price drop. Otherwise, if your first step in was for World Tour, this would make an excellent addition to your library…….especially if you sprung for the entire set. In the end, the question you have to ask yourself is “How much do I love Guitar Hero?” Chances are, if you are reading reviews to help you decide, then you should hold off.
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|Highly anticipated but fails with average song list,
Guitar hero world tour was a fantastic concept which incorporated the drums, microphone, guitar and bass together to make team play absolutely incredible. We enjoyed the initial song list and game play well enough but suffered through some songs just to move on in game play. I will have to echo the sentiment of some of the other reviewers by saying the song content could be better. I can not tell you how many times I would hear a song on the radio and would state how it would be nice to have that song on GHWT.
I eagerly anticipated the Smash Hits collection because we were burned out on the songs from GHWT. The list of songs on Smash Hits was supposed to be compiled from the best of the Guitar hero series and this is where Smash Hits fails. I am already tired of the song list and have moved back to the original.
To sum it up “Release some good music for this game platform or it will die” Or make the songs for the Wii compatible with the rock band songs and I would play them. Either way get a better song list for the Guitar Hero World Tour Band system.
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