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Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits' smashing new title

by JC Fletcher on Apr 3rd 2009 5:05PM

Activision must have been under tremendous pressure to develop an empirical method of determining the greatest songs in the Guitar Hero series for Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits. It would be difficult to pick the determining factors: fan votes? Number of notes? Length? Sales as DLC? Sales of the original record? Some kind of measure of volunteers' brain activity while playing? It's a big question. And what if songs came out after the release of the collection that were even greater than the Greatest Hits? Then the title would be a lie!

Activision's solution: change the title to Guitar Hero: Smash Hits. That's safe from potential inaccuracy, because it doesn't really mean anything!

That "The best of Guitar Hero music" line at the bottom kind of ruins our theory about the name change. Ignore that part.

Guitar Hero: Smash Hits (360/PS3)

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Tags: activision, boxart, guitar-hero, guitar-hero-greatest-hits, guitar-hero-smash-hits, music, neversoft, rhythm, vicarious-visions

Reader Comments (20)

I can't even say my usual "mooo" that I do on new guitar hero posts because I actually liked Metallica...hmph...

As did I, but it only left me wanting an entire game devoted to a bands I love. The overall game was much better then World Tour though.

Somebody once told me the world was gonna roll me, i ain't the sharpest tool in the shed............

Actually, the name was changed so it doesn't mix up with the Sony Greatest Hits label. The earlier press releases stated the Sony versions of the game were pending with a working title.

Hey, this is perfect for us Rock band folks, that have say... Rockband 2 Wii and can't play any of the old guitar hero games on our set up. Hopefully This game will be compatible and i can get in on some of the tracks Guitar hero holds that rockband doesn't.

Guitar Hero: Rama Lama Ding Dong Tour

I just don't want any of the songs from GH3 on this. I want to pick this up to be able to play all the other songs from the 3 versions that aren't available on the PS3.

dont forget, the aim of this release is to make whole band versions of songs. dont be surprised because there will be songs from GH3 on this.

This is not an attempt to cash in. This is not an attempt to cash in. This is not an attempt to cash in.

Good, this removes the need to buy earlier versions if I ever pick up a PS2 (unless the setlist sucks more than tornado in a trailer park)

I like the new title better.. greatest hits sounds like the end of the series.

and we all know that won't happen for a while

So everybody supporting this is a Wii or PS2 owner right because I see no reason why a PS3 or 360 owner who can get the real version of Rockband2 with its constant DLC would support all this GuitarHero milkage.

World Tour and Aerosmith have been the only two Guitar Hero games I have disliked. Taken for what they are, they are good games.

That being said, they need to decide on a game, create a platform like Harmonix has, and let us players put all the songs on the HDD and play from one disc.

Because I like how Guitar Hero plays better. They're more lenient with hammer-ons/pull-offs which allows them to have much more difficult note patterns. Plus, I find reading the circles much easier than the bars, and I want to use all five pads on the far superior GH drum kit. Yeah, I'm getting milked, but so is paying $2 per song and not getting any additional Achievements out of it (I may have just sounded like a tool with last sentence).

Honestly, since Neversoft took over GH, it's been better than Rock Band in every way...except track list...which is kind of a biggie. So, if they do this right this could be the last rhythm game I'll need to buy.

If this game has Freebird, you can call it whatever the hell you want to.

The setlist will ultimately determine whether I buy this, name change or not. They have A LOT to choose from.

Wish List:

Free Bird
La Grange
Possum Kingdom
Hotel California
City on Flame with Rock and Roll
Carry on Wayward Son
More than a Feeling
Cult of Personality
Sweet Child of Mine
Crazy on You (ef Barracuda)
Escuela de Calor
Love Removal Machine
Re-Education (Through Labor)
Even Flow
Thunderhorse
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Spiderwebs

Seeing a wish list like this makes me hate humanity. Why would anyone buy this game!? Yes, the songs are masters but ... seriously, am I missing something!? I suppose you get the vocal/drums capability... but, once again, seriously.

What really pisses me off is asking for songs that are already available in GH:WT.

When you do so, you have to realize that you are essentially wishing for the same version of the same song with the same functionality... but on a different disk. >X(

Because I want to be able to sell my copies of GHII and GH:WT and just have this one disc. But, if the track list isn't good enough and it doesn't let me play songs I already downloaded for WT, then I won't buy it. Honestly, knowing Activision, it probably won't, so then I probably won't buy it. Just b/c I have a wish list doesn't mean my $60 check is already in the mail. Based on the track list so far, there's no way I'm getting this game.

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