Activision Empowers Fans to Reveal Guitar Hero Smash Hits Set List

April 9, 2009

Activision Empowers Fans to
Reveal Guitar Hero Smash Hits Set List

Online voting at

SmashHits.GuitarHero.com
Begins Today

Guitar Hero fans can now cast their
votes online at
SmashHits.GuitarHero.com
to determine the order in which songs will be
revealed for Activision Publishing, Inc.’s Guitar Hero Smash Hits. Guitar Hero
Smash Hits takes the most exciting, recognizable and fun to play music from
genre-defining titles Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the
80s and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, which were previously available for
guitar-only in-game play, and delivers them as a compelling and dynamic full
band experience.

Starting today, music and video game
fans alike can visit
SmashHits.GuitarHero.com
to cast their votes for which previous Guitar Hero
game they would like the set list unveiled from first. Each week, a portion of
the Guitar Hero Smash Hits set list will be revealed based on which prior game
captures the most votes.

Guitar Hero Smash Hits feature the
most memorable songs from Guitar Hero games together in one epic set list,
including these tracks:

Guitar Hero

  • “Killer Queen” – Queen

  • “I Love Rock N Roll” – Joan Jett
    and The Blackhearts

  • “Bark At The Moon” – Ozzy Osbourne

Guitar Hero II

  • “Them Bones” – Alice in Chains

  • “Killing in the Name” – Rage
    Against The Machine

  • "Message In A Bottle” – The Police

  • “Carry On Wayward Son” – Kansas

  • “Free Bird” – Lynyrd Skynyrd

Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s

  • “I Wanna Rock” – Twisted Sister

  • “Nothin But A Good Time” – Poison

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

  • “Barracuda” – Heart

  • “Through the Fire and Flames” –
    DragonForce

Turn down the lights, crank up the
amps and prepare to command center stage as some of the most famous AND infamous
tracks from Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s and
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock step into the spotlight in the most epic, full
band jam session to-date – Guitar Hero Smash Hits. The #1 best-selling video
game franchise of 2008 presents the best of the best to music video game
aficionados so they can join together for guitar, bass, drums and vocals in-game
and rock to master tracks of their favorite Guitar Hero music.

Featuring 48 master recordings,
Guitar Hero Smash Hits delivers exciting online and offline gameplay modes
including Band Career and 8-player “Battle of the Bands,” which allows two full
bands to compete head-to-head online. Players’ rock n’ roll fantasies turn to
realities as they create their rocker, compose original music and share it with
the world through the innovative Music Studio, GHTunesSM and robust Rock Star
Creator gameplay modes first introduced in Guitar Hero World Tour.

Developed by Beenox Studios, Guitar
Hero Smash Hits for the Xbox 360, Wii, and PLAYSTATION 3 and PlayStation 2 are
scheduled for release in June. For more information about the game, visit
www.GuitarHero.com.