After a bandage put out a few albums, they generally adjudge to put out greatest hits album. This serves two purposes, aboriginal it gives bodies who never bought the beforehand albums a adventitious to bolt up with the bands best being and see what all the fizz is about. The additional affair is it makes bushels of money for not absolutely accepting to do any work. Aloof like a greatest hits album, Guitar Hero Smash Hits, does both of these things, with a twist.

If you accept never played the aboriginal bristles Guitar Hero amateur (Guitar Hero I-III Guitar Hero Encore: Rock the '80s, Guitar Hero Aerosmith) again Smash Hits is aloof the affair to get your anxiety wet with some of the songs that fabricated this alternation famous.

For those of you that do own the originals this bold gives you a adventitious to sing, drum, or comedy bass to some of the best advance from the aboriginal bristles games. If you already own the aboriginal four games, this bold is a hire at best - so you can get singing to RATT's "Round and Round" out of your arrangement and save yourself the cash.

On a ancillary agenda - I don't anticipate that Smash Hits should abide at all. I anticipate it should accept appear in some array of bottomward loadable content.

I accept why Activision put it out as a accomplished fresh bold but if you alone appetite to comedy the bass bandage on Warrent's "Cherry Pie" it's absolutely not account affairs the accomplished game.

Still there is a acceptable altercation to angle over the banknote for this bold the clue account is appealing tight. While anybody has a admired song that didn't accomplish the cut, (Clapton's Layla for one) you can now boom and sing forth to the advance that fabricated the Guitar Hero authorization acclaimed - including the abominable clue by DragonForce "Through the Blaze and Flames."

That's activity to be the accord breaker here. If arena as a bandage on these advance is article your activity to appetite to do - again Smash Hits is a abundant investment. If you are activity to comedy guitar alone - again aloof blaze up your old copies of this game.

The bold is laid out agnate to Guitar Hero Metallica area you alpha with bristles or six songs, and charge to aggregate abundant stars to alleviate the abutting bank of songs, and so on.

This lets you skip songs you can't master, or aloof don't like and still accomplishment the game.

There are additionally the aforementioned extra's that you had in Guitar Hero: World Tour, like the flat area you can accomplish your own music, and your customizable rocker. However if you bottomward loaded advance for World Tour you additionally can't comedy them here. This bold is a one ambush pony, you can alone comedy the songs on the disk.

There are 50 songs in the game, all from "master tracks."

The bold does affection some of the fresh developments aboriginal brought to us in World Tour. Solo's and continued guitar riffs now affection the bang on / bang off addendum and the amethyst accelerate notes. All of these accomplish it so you can aloof tap abroad on the newest guitar hero guitar after strumming.

This accomplish solo's abundant easier back it takes out strumming (for the best part), but on songs I knew I begin myself strumming anyhow out of habit. But for fresh players this makes some of the hardest songs a bit easier.

So actuality is the account of songs on Smash Hits -

Tracks from Guitar Hero:

Blue Öyster Cult - "Godzilla"

Boston - "More Than A Feeling"

Deep Amethyst - "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"

Tracks from 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 In A Paper Heart"

The Police - "Message In A Bottle"

The Sword - "Freya"

Warrant - "Cherry Pie"

Wolfmother - "Woman"

Tracks from Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s:

Anthrax - "Caught In A Mosh"

Extreme - "Play With Me"

Judas Priest - "Electric Eye"

Poison - "Nothin' But A Acceptable Time"

Ratt - "Round and Round"

Twisted Sister - "I Wanna Rock"

Tracks from Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock:

AFI - "Miss Murder"

DragonForce - "Through The Blaze 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"

Tracks from Guitar Hero: Aerosmith:

Aerosmith - "Back In The Saddle