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Thursday October 12, 2006
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 The rock gods may sneer at the five-button fretboard and limited song list, but Guitar Hero junkies will love the newly revamped second version of this popular game brought to market by Red Octane.
The graphics are crisp and the concerts are much more animated in this version, which makes viewing the game while waiting for your turn much more fun. The new cooperative play mode allows you to play lead guitar alongside a buddy jamming either on rhythm or bass guitar. And you can jam out to any of the 64 songs available, as compared to 47 songs in the first version, but that still seems a little short to me. If you're a real newbie, flip into practice mode and slow the songs down until you get the patterns right. Note that you'll need to be Slash in order to compete in Expert mode, by the way, so don't worry about mastering the game too quickly.
Guitar Hero 2, complete with a new virtual guitar, will sell for $79.95 (pay $119.98 and you'll get two guitars) and will be available on November 7th, just in time for the holidays. If you already own the guitar from the first edition, you can buy the standalone Guitar Hero 2 software for only $40.
On the sly, I heard that Guitar Hero 2 will be available for the Xbox 360 in Q1 or Q2 of 2007, and that you'll be able to purchase new songs from the Xbox Live Marketplace.
(Be prepared to see even slicker stuff soon from Red Octane as its new parent, Activision, pumps money and creative resource into the pipeline.)
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October 13, 2006 8:24 PM
Great site, lots of neat stuff...but so little on the amazing developments in music...example the cool new.(but expensive) instruments from yamaha, the new drum devices...the huge inroads in using your computer to create music...would love to see your take on some of this...thanks for your otherwise exhaustive research on everything else... James