Guitar Hero in some ways, started the big push for Rhythm games. They were not the first of their kind, but they made the Genre huge. Before Guitar Hero there were Frets on Fire and other games based in Japan, being the same concept. Play as the guitarist and rock out. Enough said. These games have been fun and all have rocked, even Aerosmith got you moving and Rocking. So for the first time ever, I am severely angry with a Guitar Hero game,Smash Hits.

It is not that I don't expect it to be fun, but I feel this title is severely recycled, but that was the point. It is the "best" songs from all Guitar Heroes before GH: Aerosmith. Now all the songs are being redone to support all instruments that was in World Tour and Metallica. That's not really my problem, normally I would not care so much, because there is some changes and added features you could not do with these songs, on their respective title. Plus, there are some GREAT bands on there too. Pantera, Rage Against the Machine, Ozzy, andDragonforce. It's a killer line up, but i have most if not all these songs already and can go and rock out to them, just can't drum or sing.

So what bothers me, is in reality, this title does not offer much of an upgrade, to spend another 60 bucks. The reason, because this, like with Metallica, does not support Downloaded music, minus the HG tunes. Seriously, WTF Activision/Neversoft?!?! Have you not been paying attention, what have the GH fans been calling for....cross game Downloadable content. If I can't take GH Smash hits and not be able to play other GH music, then what's the point. People like me, want to do what we did with our Rock Band 1 copy and what RB DLC does...we want to stick 1 COPY of a game in and be able to play ALL if not MOST of our music. If you didn't do the Disc copy deal like RB 1 did for people who bought RB 2, for 5 bucks, that is not as big of a deal as not being able to take all this music I PAID to Download, and be able to use it on ALL the new GH releases. I am sorry, but I do not want to have to get up and switch discs...and being that, if I have to do that already, then screw it, I will pass on Smash hits and pop in GH2 or GH3 to rock out to some of the past song.

GH needs to start making it so we can play our DLC on other discs, rather than just the World Tour disc....only Metallica works on multiple discs (GH3, GHWT and Metallica) and that is just NOT ENOUGH. Rock Band makes it so I only have to have 1 DISC in and I have HUNDREDS upon HUNDREDS of songs that I can play, WITHOUT swapping discs. As much as I prefer GH over RB, this issue is starting to wear on me, make your DLC cross game compatible, it is not that tricky!