Guitar Hero 5 backwards compatible with songs from Guitar Hero 4: World Tour and Smash Hits

Guitar Hero 5 box artwork
Activision have revealed that Guitar Hero 5 will allow you to import your favorite songs from Guitar Hero World Tour and Guitar Hero: Smash Hits.

Although Activision also revealed that it will NOT be free to import songs from previous Guitar Hero games into Guitar Hero 5. A major bummer. But hopefully it’ll be only $5 or so like it was to import songs into Rock Band 2 from Rock Band 1. But pricing details have yet to be revealed.

The final catch. Not all songs from World Tour will be available to be imported, but most of them will. 152 of the 158 tracks available in Guitar Hero: World Tour will be importable. The other 6 won’t. Start praying now that one of your favorites isn’t one that’s being excluded.

Guitar Hero 5 will be released on September 1st for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and PlayStation 2. Australia will get it on September 16th and Europe on September 18th.

Via Kotaku