Guitar Hero : Greatest Hits

Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits

I was going to write a really smart ass intro about how many Guitar Hero games are being released, but it's easier to simply relay the facts: by the end of 2009, 14 individual GH games will have been released since the beginning of 2008. That's more than one every two months. It's an insane figure, but it goes to show just how popular the one-time niche game has become. Guitar Hero Greatest Hits is essentially World Tour with different tracks, so if that's what you wanted you can probably skip the rest of this review, safe in the knowledge that you're going to get more of the same. Greatest Hits, as the title suggests, is a collection of some of the best tracks featured in Guitar Hero games over the last few years (Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Guitar Hero: Aerosmith). The difference here is that they're now all master recordings (not cover versions), they've been re-worked to support full band play (assuming you've got the drum kit, an extra guitar and a microphone) and there's a loose story that sees you playing set lists at venues based on the wonders of the world.