The Guitar Hero franchise is one of the most saturated and whored-out franchises there is, with a new main sequel each year and plenty of spin-offs in between. Fortunately, Activision made the deal a little sweeter by kindly offering to let players import songs from Guitar Hero: World Tour to the freshly released Guitar Hero 5. The bad news?

Dtoid reader “Joker’s Boner” discovered that the much-lauded import feature doesn’t even come close to supporting World Tour’s full tracklist. In fact, you can only import 35 of World Tour’s 85 songs to the new game. After all the bluster about not having to swap discs and being able to play your old favorites in a brand new game, this ridiculous compromise has fallen way short of expectations. The info’s now made its way to Wikipedia, but for some reason nobody else has noticed what utter horsecrap this all is.

Even worse, you are being expected to pay for this farce. Activision will take $3.50 (250 MS Points) for you to download a 1.27GB “GHWT Disc Import” file. Meanwhile, Rock Band 2 let you download all but a few tracks from the Rock Band 1 playlist for five bucks. I think we have the ability to all see what the superior deal here is.

Here it is, the much anticipated first moving look at the final downloadable episode for Grand Theft Auto IV (yes Rockstar says this is the last one), The Ballad of Gay Tony.