Pick your poison with Guitar Hero: Smash Hits pre-order bonuses

by David Hinkle { May 27th 2009 at 2:40PM }

Several big retailers are offering their own individual incentives to pre-order any console version of Activision's Guitar Hero: Smash Hits, which comes as no surprise to everyone on this big, blue spinning rock. The Guitar Hero franchise is big business, and when you cull the cream of the crop from each game and put that into a new game, well, then you have a recipe for success.

We've listed the pre-order incentives for GameStop, Best Buy, Amazon, and GameCrazy past the break, so click through to check them out.

Gallery: Guitar Hero: Smash Hits (360/PS3)

GameStop

Receive a pair of exclusive Guitar Hero Smash Hits branded drumsticks

Best Buy

Get a $10 coupon for any Guitar Hero World Tour product

Amazon.com (one of the two available options)

Receive $5 off when you enter this code "HEROHITS", when you pre-order online
Get a $5 gift card for MP3 downloads

Game Crazy

Receive an exclusive Guitar Hero Smash Hits cheat code

Tags: activision, guitar-hero, guitar-hero-smash-hits, music, preorder, rhythm

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

HazyCloud @ May 27th 2009 2:46PM

I think I'll go the Game Crazy route. Those darn codes never make it to the webs.

arrness @ May 27th 2009 2:48PM

is that sarcasm

Wewtaco @ May 27th 2009 3:28PM

*nods approvingly*

ftrunks2000_69 @ May 27th 2009 2:47PM

None of those pre-order goodies are appealing

DCBlack @ May 27th 2009 2:57PM

$5 off doesn't work for you? Would you prefer $5 more expensive?

Dr. Flex @ May 27th 2009 3:44PM

None are appealing enough to make me go out and buy the game, sure. But if you are in the market, 5 off is certainly the way to go.

ftrunks2000_69 @ May 27th 2009 6:51PM

no I'll end up buying it from gamestop (who I hate) only because I have a $10 gift card for complaining that they butt F*ed me in the GH:mettalica drum pedal dabocal

Skambu @ May 27th 2009 7:19PM

You obviously can't care that much if you can't spell debacle properly.

OMGOMG @ May 27th 2009 2:47PM

GUITAR HERO DRUMSTICKS! ALL THE GIRLS WILL WANT ME NOW!

lm-10 @ May 27th 2009 5:12PM

I have never laughed so much in a long time. Thank you for that.

Storm Eagle @ May 27th 2009 2:50PM

Wow. A whole lotta nothin. I've already got 5 pairs of drumsticks....Oohh, a whole $5? Where do I sign up?....Give me a break.....And a cheat code that does what? Turns no fail on or something else completely useless. Thanks, but no thanks. What a joke this game is anyway. They should've just made it DLC.

Conor @ May 27th 2009 2:50PM

lol @ game crazy

NekoDaimyo @ May 27th 2009 3:03PM

And yet, it's more interesting than GameStop's.

Captain Planet @ May 27th 2009 2:52PM

Holy bending fenders Batman...I wonder what other GH games will be announced today.

charlie b. @ May 27th 2009 3:02PM

Guitar Hero vs. DC Universe.
believe it.

megapenguinx @ May 27th 2009 4:01PM

Batman would rock the bass SO HARD

GewurztraminerX @ May 27th 2009 4:05PM

Lego Batman: Rock Band?

Deezul @ May 27th 2009 3:07PM

Good job Best Buy! Because NO ONE who pre-orders Smash Hits bought a WT game at all. I picked up the guitar kit last month only when Toys R Us had it for $50, so that $10 off still wouldn't make any WT kit a deal. And if you read the find print on BB coupons, they usually say they don't apply to sale prices.

Wewtaco @ May 27th 2009 3:29PM

That's the strategy. They figure nobody will use it.

Brian Arnold @ May 27th 2009 7:47PM

Actually, I didn't buy any GH:WT stuff, but plan on buying GH:SH. That $10 off might make it worth getting GH:WT. :D

GewurztraminerX @ May 27th 2009 3:07PM

ugh... they all come with Guitar Hero: Smash Hits. I thought these were incentives?

Mischa @ May 27th 2009 6:13PM

hahahahahahaha

bca360 @ May 27th 2009 3:09PM

go with the amazon deal. they'll ship for free for over $25, so you're saving more than just the $5 off MSRP.

Sal Moriarty @ May 27th 2009 7:54PM

not to mention, depending on where you live, you won't have to pay tax

rodjoh @ May 27th 2009 3:11PM

A cheat code? seriously? wow...

Tom Boucher @ May 27th 2009 3:11PM

herohits doesn't work at amazon for me

Roofie @ May 27th 2009 3:15PM

I'm getting the best deal by just not buying this re-hash, and instead putting that same money into Rock Band track packs. Some would say that's hands-down the best bonus.

bca360 @ May 27th 2009 4:01PM

something both RB and GH desperately need is more incubus. and unfortunately GHSH is the only way to get any kind of plastic instrument incubus action, so I'm pretty much obligated to get this game.

gs942002 @ May 27th 2009 4:24PM

hahahaha gamecrazy, what a stupid incentive to pre-order it...

juangrande386 @ May 27th 2009 4:28PM

i love when people say they have to buy a $60 disk because it has 1 song they really like. It would cost you just $2 if the song came to Rockband. Oh well I guess some people will never understand.

GewurztraminerX @ May 27th 2009 4:53PM

Yeah but, it goes both ways. I was originally only interested in Rock Band 2 because of one song that wasn't on GH:WT.

Matthew Perry @ May 27th 2009 6:31PM

"It would cost you just $2 if the song came to Rockband."

That "if" pretty much fucks your argument in the ass.

overkill619 @ May 27th 2009 7:32PM

ROFL!!1 Matthew Perry, u sir have just made my day!!

Dante G @ May 27th 2009 4:40PM

I'd rather buy it after it drops to below the $20 price point... so, maybe by Christmas if I decide to buy it at all.

False @ May 27th 2009 4:55PM

You know, I like the idea of the old GH songs, but...with all the hype going behind Guitar Hero 5, I can only see this game crashing and burning. I mean, shouldn't THIS game be hyped first?

Martin @ May 27th 2009 5:07PM

This is going to be a day one purchase for me. They hit on nearly every song that I wanted included from those past games (the Guitar Virtuoso pack from GHIII being the primary void).

Saneless @ May 27th 2009 5:16PM

I think I'm going to use my "late order" bonus of $40. You know, since just about every guitar hero game drops to $20 after not too long a period of time. I can wait, since I guess technically I already have these songs.

If they were smart and did DLC I'd probably have paid the $60 they want.

Mischa @ May 27th 2009 6:13PM

Agreed 100%

overkill619 @ May 27th 2009 7:43PM

well with the apoxomite $2 per song, lets see $2x48 songs= a whopping $96. hmmm.... $96......or $60.........96.......60......hmmm.....thats a real hard choice....

Scooter @ May 28th 2009 12:59AM

@Overkill

I only want 23 of those songs though so its actually only $46. And 2 of those songs are in RB2. Plus the fact that I bought I bought 5 of those songs as part of a discounted pack. So its even less than you say. Plus I don't have crap like Caught in a Mosh polluting my harddrive.

juangrande386 @ May 27th 2009 9:31PM

Well "if" it didnt come to Rockband2 I still wouldnt waist $60 for one song. overkill619 proves that people still dont get that you only have to buy the songs you want with DLC and not a whole disc.

Danny @ May 27th 2009 11:26PM

There is only one reason I would question why this isn't DLC:
If the members of Aerosmith AND Ozzy's motion captured characters do not make appearances in this game I will need to start bitching like all the rest of you "I have too many periherals but because I won't sell them I am going I complain they are making too many games" crying noobz.