Up next on #BackCatalog is Guitar Hero: World Tour and Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits (or is it Smash Hits?) The physical box says “Greatest Hits”, the game’s name in the console and on TA/Xbox’s website is “Smash Hits”

I’m confused

Anyway! This is one of those non-back-compat titles (presumably due to music licensing?), so my shiny new 360 is coming in handy here! (It’s not shiny or new, but it works!)

Remember back when I was playing Uno: Rush, I thought I might have to use a guitar controller to get to 4 players?

Of course you do!

Well turns out I don’t own that guitar I thought I owned anymore. All of my instruments are PS3 instruments (cuz that’s where I have Rock Band).

So again with the used hardware! I have purchased another guitar! (Hilariously it was slightly more expensive than the 360 console.)

I’m missing… a lot of achievements in these games. But many of these achievements are crazy difficult, so I’ll probably leave those ones behind.

But I can certainly get “play as a vocalist” in World Tour and “complete career” in Smash Hits!

I’ve always loved all these plastic instrument games. Endless nights spent trying to get Expert high scores in a band with friends is great fun

I’m rusty now, but it comes back gradually. Apparently I haven’t completed the Guitar Hero 3 career on hard? But I have a vague memory of there being one extremely difficult song.

Several achievements require multiple instruments, which I don’t have (second guitar, drums). One achievement is locked behind having the actual GH4 drums (Rock Band drums don’t count!) so I never could have gotten that one. Hilariously it’s for finishing the drums tutorial.

Between GH3, 4, Smash Hits, and 5, there are a fair few achievements for me to pick up!

And revisit being a rock god while I’m at it!

Guitar Hero: World Tour

By Neversoft

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Reference links: How my scoring system works