Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #149 in Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Model: 95787
• Published on: 2009-06
• Released on: 2009-06-16
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .57" h x 5.46" w x 7.55" l, .36 pounds

Features

• 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.

Customer Reviews

Not much fun, but quite challenging
I've been trying for a while to figure out how they call this "Smash Hits", since there really aren't many hits in the game. My kids (pre-teen) and I (41) have decided that the folks who bring us Guitar Hero took some kind of poll for tunes that were pretty challenging, and decided to call those smash hits. Somehow they forgot to ask people to rank the music that was fun to play, good music to hear, or that were actually "smash hits".

So what you get are a handful of hit songs, another handful of tunes that weren't hits but are fun to play, and 2/3 or so tunes that weren't hits, and aren't much fun to play, but are more difficult than usual.

We find ourselves saying "Yuck", "Geez, that was hard" (on a setting of easy!), and "lousy tune" quite a bit. I think if you're a teenager who wants to improve your GH technique and doesn't care that you're playing a lot of music that no one ever listened to, this is probably a great game.

Compilation of songs from previous GH games
If you own all the other GH games that have been on the market, don't waste your time buying this one. It is pretty much a compilation of all the songs on those games into one. The difference is that this game you can play the full-band on the songs that you can not before. If you have purchased Guitar Hero Metallica then you have it made for using the dual bass pedal function on the drums.

None of the songs have to be unlocked in Quickplay and some of the songs have been remastered. Since there is no compatibility downloadable content, this game is good for is the songs in the package.

To sum it up, if you have the original GHI and II, Rock the 80's, Legends of Rock and Aerosmith - don't waste your time buying this game.

Here is a breakdown of the songs and which game they came from.

Guitar Hero:
Bark At The Moon, Cowboys From Hell, Godzilla, Hey You, I Love Rock N' Roll, Killer Queen, More Than A Feeling, No One Knows, Smoke On The Water, Stellar, Take It Off, Take Me Out, Thunder Kiss 65, Unsung

Guitar Hero II:
Beast And The Harlot, Carry On Wayward Son, Cherry Pie, Free Bird, Freya, Heart Shaped Box, Killing In The Name, Laid To Rest, Message In A Bottle, Monkey Wrench, Mother, Psychobilly Freakout, Shout At The Devil, Stop!, The Trooper, Them Bones, Trippin On A Hole In A Paper Heart, Woman, YYZ

Guitar Hero III - Legends of Rock:
Barracuda, Cult Of Personality, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Lay Down, Miss Murder, Raining Blood, Rock And Roll All Nite, Through The Fire And Flames

Guitar Hero - Aerosmith:
Back In The Saddle

Guitar Hero Encore - Rocks the 80s:
Caught In A Mosh, Electric Eye, I Wanna Rock, Nothin' But A Good Time, Play With Me, Round and Round

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.