GH: Greatest Hits renamed Smash Hits?

By Robert Purchese Published 6 April, 2009

Activision won't tell us.

Activision has declined to comment on "rumour and speculation" that Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits will be renamed Guitar Hero: Smash Hits.

A big picture of the box art on Kotaku suggests this will be the case.

Greatest/Smash Hits - for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and PS2 - compiles all the best tracks from the Guitar Hero series: that means songs from I, II, Rocks the 80s and III.

There are other improvements packed in: the Music Studio, GHTunes and Rock Star Creator from Guitar Hero World Tour, plus the Expert+ difficulty from the upcoming Metallica instalment, and of course support for World Tour's drums and microphone.

There will be no new peripherals, however, and we only have a partial track list to show you.

Greatest/Smash Hits will be out some time this summer. Before then, we'll be offered Guitar Hero: Metallica, which Activision told us this morning would be out in "late May". An exact date will be nailed down soon.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Toothball #1 3 years ago

    A chance to play tracks from Guitar Hero 1 & 2 with the band is quite tempting, but I'll be sticking on the other side of the fence and continuing to hope for any older tracks to be released as downloads for Rock Band. Swapping discs around mid-session is rubbish.

  • andywilkie35 #2 3 years ago

    Considering its Activision and its Guitar Hero, its more likely a completely separate game to "Greatest Hits", in order to further milk the franchise.

  • Widge #3 3 years ago

    Track export ala Rock Band is the only thing that would make me consider this.

  • jeebthegreat #4 3 years ago

    The GH series has always had a great list of songs to choose from, just wish Rock Bands track export would be implemented into the series, disc swapping is a pain

  • Blackthorned #5 3 years ago

    Aye you're right about the disk swapping.

  • MBar #6 3 years ago

    'Greatests Hits' is too obvious a name for a cash-in re-release? 'Smash Hits' implies new content.

    So they're being asshats as usual, basically.

    Edit: Or maybe they didn't like the abreviation GH:GH. Guitar Hero: Guitar Hero? What what?
    Edited by 2 at 06/04/09 @ 14:40

  • Xedoss #7 3 years ago

    Got GH2 ,3 and WT already, so i won't be getting this.
    I just don't play with my "band" often enough to buy these songs again.

  • DUFFKING #8 3 years ago

    If it's all old songs then I presume it'll be master tracks this time, which means crappy Neversoft charts.

  • jeebthegreat #9 3 years ago

    Hopefully they'll keep the Harmonix charts, though I don't think the Neversoft ones are too bad. Granted songs like Stricken are just stupid on expert considering it's the same as hard, only every note is doubled. What's the deal with that?!

  • paul_haine #10 3 years ago

    As long as this results in a Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, I'm sold.

  • aphexstwin #11 3 years ago

    gh:smash shits tbh

    still peeved coz both the drums and guitar have broken down, and the cunts at game wont offera repair or replace because of 'some email from activision stating that all warranty claims have to be made through them directly' which apparantly counts as game seeking a second opinion on whether the products are faulty. and i cant send them to activision coz ive had the drums apart to sort out the balloon under the red pad which was causing slapback and the guitar neck apart to get rid of the sticky red key syndrome. and i really cannot be arsed to undo my hard work

  • daz_john_smith #12 3 years ago

    I don't think the Neversoft charts have been too bad, however I don't think this game is being developed by Neversoft