Guitar Hero Smash Hits And Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits Rock Store Shelves

June 16, 2009

GUITAR HERO SMASH HITS AND
GUITAR HERO ON TOUR: MODERN HITS ROCK STORE SHELVES NATIONWIDE

Activision brings rock’s hottest
hits to all major retailers with the launches of their latest pair of Guitar
Hero titles, Guitar Hero® Smash Hits and Guitar Hero® On Tour: Modern Hits.
Hitting store shelves today, Guitar Hero Smash Hits expands the experience of
previous guitar-only games to the full band so gamers can join together and rock
to 48 of the most fun and celebrated tracks from Guitar Hero®, Guitar Hero® II,
Guitar Hero® Encore: Rocks the 80s and Guitar Hero® III: Legends of Rock.
Featuring all master recordings, Guitar Hero Smash Hits delivers a robust
feature set and epic on-disc song list including music from fan-favorite artists
such as Alice In Chains, Queen, Poison, Rage Against The Machine, Twisted
Sister, Heart and DragonForce.

Also available in stores now, Guitar
Hero On Tour: Modern Hits features a varied selection of today’s hottest bands
and some of their most popular songs in a set list comprised of 28 face-melting
modern rock master recordings from influential artists such as Coldplay, Fall
Out Boy, Tenacious D, The Strokes and Weezer. Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits
provides players with brand new gameplay experiences, including non-linear
career progression, a new Fan Requests system and competitive multiplayer modes
that allow song-sharing of more than 75 songs between the other games in the
Guitar Hero On Tour series.

Developed by Beenox Studios and
rated T for Teen by the ESRB, Guitar Hero Smash Hits is now available for Xbox
360, Wii, PLAYSTATION 3 and PlayStation 2. Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits is
developed by Vicarious Visions exclusively for the Nintendo DS and is rated E10+
for everyone 10 and older by the ESRB.

For more information about these
games, please visit

www.smashhits.guitarhero.com
  or

www.guitarheroontour.com
.