You probably haven’t been paying attention, but Activision has been slowly releasing details of the Guitar Hero: Smash Hits setlist over the last few weeks, game by game. It was an obvious attempt to drum up interest in a game that’s merely a collection of songs we’ve all already paid for, and it worked I suppose, as a lot of people reported on it.
Now the final set list’s out, and surprise surprise, it’s actually fairly decent. Here’s the full list (of all master tracks), including which songs came from which previous game.
Guitar Hero 1
* Blue Öyster Cult – “Godzilla”
* Boston – “More Than A Feeling”
* Deep Purple – “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”
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”
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s
* Anthrax – “Caught In A Mosh”
* Extreme – “Play With Me”
* Judas Priest – “Electric Eye”
* Poison – “Nothin’ But A Good Time”
* Ratt – “Round and Round”
* Twisted Sister – “I Wanna Rock”
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
* AFI – “Miss Murder”
* DragonForce – “Through The Fire 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”
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
* Aerosmith – “Back In The Saddle
Not too shabby, although there’s a bit of filler, and some songs are already out and have been played to death on Rock Band.
Of course, everyone should be annoyed that this game even exists in the first place. Guitar Hero World Tour has DLC built in, and if they wanted to even attempt to seriously compete with the amazing job Rock Band‘s been doing they should have simply released it for that. They could have even released a few packs from each game and people would have been happier.
But no, it’s much easier to have us pay for a brand new 60 buck game, and pick up songs that we would have otherwise ignored. Don’t let us download it to the hard drive and save us the trouble of swapping out discs, either!
Guitar Hero: Smash Hits hits June.