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Rock Band 2

Binding: Video Game
Published: 2008-12-18

$49.99

Features:

Tour Challenges - mini-campaigns focused on the best songs by instrument, decade, genre, etc
Quickplay - with prefab or customized characters that can play on any instrument. Make customizable set lists and organize your song lists in different categories
Customizable Set Lists keep the music rolling and your band rocking in Quickplay mode
Drum Trainer - gives you the fundamentals of different beats and fills, translating gameplay into real drumming skills

Rock Band 2

Editorial Review:

Rock Band 2 lets you and your friends take your band on an even more expansive and immersive world tour and continue your rock and roll fantasy. Jam out with some of the best guitarists, bassists, drummers and singers of all time. Featuring a track list with more than 80 on-disc tracks from some of the most hallowed bands of the rock pantheon, Rock Band 2 challenges rockers to master lead guitar, bass guitar, drums and vocals.
Classic, Developing and Emerging rock acts including Pearl Jam, Metallica, Allman Brothers, Motorhead, Devo, Jane's Addiction, Megadeth, Paramore, Modest Mouse Features AC/DC including Let There Be Rock Axl Rose debuts official new track, ?Shackler's Revenge from the album Chinese Democracy Includes Bob Dylan's ?Tangled Up In Blue

Continue Your Rock and Roll Fantasy
Rock Band 2 lets you and your friends take your band on an even more expansive and immersive world tour - in person or online - and continue your rock and roll fantasy.
Harmonix, deliver Rock Band 2, the next step to the platform that lets audiences of all ages interact with music in an all-new way. Rock Band 2 lets players vicariously jam out as some of the best guitarists, bassists, drummers and singers of all time.
Featuring a track list with more than 80 on-disc tracks from some of the most hallowed bands of the rock pantheon, Rock Band 2 by challenges rockers to master lead guitar, bass guitar, drums and vocals.

Key Features
Take your band on an online-enabled World Tour mode, record albums, tackle the addictive Set Challenges, or even compete against other bands, either in your living room or halfway across the world, in the "Battle of the Bands" mode... plus all of the modes you know and love from the first Rock Band game!
Rock Band 2 pushes music simulation farther than it's ever gone with a tool that actually teaches you how to play the drums in real life - or you can just have fun jamming and playing along to songs like an animal in the Freestyle Drum mode.
Track List
Abnormality - "Visions"
AC/DC - "Let There Be Rock"
AFI - "Girl's Not Grey"
Alanis Morissette - "You Oughta Know"
Alice in Chains - "Man in the Box"
Allman Brothers - "Ramblin' Man"
Anarchy Club - "Get Clean"
Avenged Sevenfold - "Almost Easy"
Bad Company - "Shooting Star"
Bang Camaro - "Night Lies"
Beastie Boys - "So Watcha Want"
Beck - "E-pro"
Bikini Kill - "Rebel Girl"
Billy Idol - "White Wedding Pt. I "
Blondie - "One Way or Another"
Bob Dylan - "Tangled Up in Blue"
Bon Jovi - "Livin' on a Prayer"
Breaking Wheel - "Shoulder to the Plow"
Cheap Trick - "Hello There"
Devo - "Uncontrollable Urge"
Dinosaur Jr. - "Feel the Pain"
Disturbed - "Down with the Sickness"
Dream Theater - "Panic Attack "
Duran Duran - "Hungry Like the Wolf"
Elvis Costello - "Pump it Up"
Fleetwood Mac - "Go Your Own Way"
Foo Fighters - "Everlong "
Guns N' Roses - "Shackler's Revenge"
Interpol - "PDA"
Jane's Addiction - "Mountain Song"
Jethro Tull - "Aqualung"
Jimmy Eat World - "The Middle"
Joan Jett - "Bad Reputation"
Journey - "Anyway You Want It"
Judas Priest - "Painkiller"
Kansas - "Carry On Wayward Son"
L7 - "Pretend We're Dead"
Lacuna Coil - "Our Truth"
Libyans - "Neighborhood"
Linkin Park - "One Step Closer"
Lit - "My Own Worst Enemy"
Lush - "De-Luxe"
Mastodon - "Colony of Birchmen"
Megadeth - "Peace Sells"
Metallica - "Battery"
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Where'd You Go"
Modest Mouse - "Float On"
Motorhead - "Ace of Spades "
Nirvana - "Drain You"
Norman Greenbaum - "Spirit in the Sky "
Panic at the Disco - "Nine in the Afternoon"
Paramore - "That's What You Get"
Pearl Jam - "Alive"
Presidents of the United States of America - "Lump"
Rage Against the Machine - "Testify"
Ratt - "Round & Round"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Give it Away "
Rise Against - "Give it All"
Rush - "The Trees"
Silversun Pickups - "Lazy Eye"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Today"
Social Distortion - "I Was Wrong"
Sonic Youth - "Teenage Riot"
Soundgarden - "Spoonman"
Speck - "Conventional Lover"
Squeeze - "Cool for Cats"
Steely Dan - "Bodhitsattva"
Steve Miller Band - "Rock'n Me"
Survivor - "Eye of the Tiger"
System of a Down - "Chop Suey "
Talking Heads - "Psycho Killer"
Tenacious D - "Master Exploder"
Testament - "Souls of Black"
That Handsome Devil - "Rob the Prez-o-Dent"
The Donnas - "New Kid in School"
The Go-Go's - "We Got the Beat"
The Grateful Dead - "Alabama Getaway"
The Guess Who - "American Woman"
The Main Drag - "A Jagged Gorgeous Winter"
The Muffs - "Kids in America "
The Offspring - "Come Out & Play"
The Replacements - "Alex Chilton"
The Sterns - "Supreme Girl"
The Who - "Pinball Wizard "

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Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Rock Band 2 for Wii "Rocks"!!:

I received my RB2. Very cool, but almost exactly the same as GHWT. Therefore, the initial excitement of the new ideas seemed a little diminished. I will have to admit that this game is far more sophisticated using the same concepts as GHWT. As an added benefit, as I was hoping upon speculation of previous reviews that I had read, the GHWT guitar is completely functional with RB2. This made a world of difference to me. I like GH guitars much better and find them easier to play. I was so excited about that... more info

Rock On!:

This has been such a great family game!
I am sorry we did not start playing it until Christmas Day! My sons and I played RB1 a lot and they had also played Guitar Hero 3, but this is SO much more fun! Being able to go online and find others to perform with is wonderful. I really hope that EA is able to set up the DownLoadable Content (DLC) for Wii soon, as we will most likely master all the current songs very soon. That is the reason I am not giving this five stars as RB offers 100s of songs but the... more info

rockband 2:

I bought rockband special edition new for $[...] and then bought rockband 2 and now have them both for less than what some people pay for the 1. Rockband 2 is a great game and has a lot a songs on it to rock out to. You can play alone or as a group and even on-line. You can tour different cities or play locally and so on. I like it and my 3 sons really enjoy it also.

Graphics are fuzzy but the additions are great:

For some reason, the notes are very fuzzy on RB2. They aren't on RB1 so it doesn't seem to be my TV. I've replaced the disc and it didn't solve the problem. However, if yours aren't fuzzy or you can put up with it, like I am, the additions are great. I like the "never fail" extra that lets kids play with adults and never fail out of the gig. I also like the touring additions - earn fans, add staff, play benefits, tour the world. Good stuff all. Now if they'd just fix those graphics...

Accessories:

Gene Simmons Axe Guitar

Binding: Accessory
Published: 2008-12-09

$71.99

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