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Xbox 360 Rock Band 2 Special Edition

Published on Sunday, May 17, 2009 by admin

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 100 on-disc and downloadable 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.

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Rock Band 2

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 will ship with 2nd generation hardware: more durable, wireless drums with an expansion port to support cymbal pads and improved wireless Fender Stratocaster guitars – with multiple colors – that will let you rock harder and longer then ever before.
  • Compatible with ALL past and future downloadable content – even tracks you downloaded for Rock Band back in 2007 – so you can play a never-ending, face-melting set.
  • 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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5 Responses
    • Fun for everyone
      My usual gaming preference is RPGs, and in the past I would never even give this type of game a second look, but I have to give credit where credit is due. We’ve had family, friends, and neighbors over and there have been near riots over who gets to play next. Even my jaded, clinically depressed, and medicated family members, who normally respond to everything with “This sucks- you should die for even trying to get me to have fun” had a blast. One said, “Wow. This is better than crack.” (Sadly, she might actually know if that’s true.)

      The whole bundle is a great value, especially as it has provided entertainment for so many. The wireless devices have worked flawlessly and seem to hold up well.

      I took off one star the overall “Fun” rating because there aren’t *that* many modern songs out of the box that I know people would want to play/sing, although I understand more are available for download. That’s our next step.

      Overall, good stuff, even for people who generally don’t game.

    • Better than the first Rock Band
      PROS: Drums are awesome; more songs, more fun to sing on this one. Basically just MORE of the first one.

      CONS: No Cons

      Would you recommend to a friend: Yes!

    • xbox 360 elite brings family together
      We are having so much fun with this game. Everyting works great and it brings our family together and we can all take turns on all the instruments and we all get to sing.We have unlocked alot of the songs already so we are doing good.

    • Rock Band 2 vs Guitar Hero World Tour
      There are plenty of reviews out there for this game. I just want to point out something to help with the decision many are asking. “Which one should I buy?” Well, personally, I’ve gotten both and think everyone should but if you are limited to one choice, consider this. The Rock Band 2 game currently overs you a much larger available setlist of songs via DLC (downloadable content). I personally have over 500 songs for my Rock Band 2 game and while I have more fun sometimes playing some of the songs on World Tour because of the new features that were incorporated, I would choose my larger setlist game in the long run. It seems the Rock Band 2 folks are working harder to get more songs for us than with Guitar Hero.

    • Fantastic game, but needs more instructions
      We love this game – we’ve played it for hours. I love the multiplayer aspect, with the ability to play drums, guitars and vocals simultaneously – it gets all your friends into the action! The user interface on multiplay is excellent, before I played the game I worried how it would look with all the instruments going at the same time, that the screen would be too cluttered with frets and vocal guides, but the game lays it out very intuitively, with the vocal track on the top, with a pitch guide and the lyrics written, so you can follow it easily. Another excellent feature is the training modes, so you can practice and even get lessons and get better at your chosen instrument. this is especially helpful for the drums, which have the steepest learning curve, but are also the most fun to play, in my opinion.

      Now for the downside: The mfr really needs to include more detailed instructions. The booklet they include with the game only covers the most superficial aspects of the game, and you are left in the dark a lot in the beginning. Be prepared to go online the moment you get the game to figure out how to run it. For example, the game comes preloaded with only 21 songs, half of which are totally lame. You have to go online to find the cheat code that unlocks the rest of the songs, about 30-50 more. Another annoying aspect is when you are playing in multiplayer “band” mode and try to turn off one of the controllers. An irritating “reconnect controller” flashing icon appears on the screen, and distracts everyone else while they are playing. Nowhere in the manual does it explain that you have to first go through a complicated process of exiting the play mode and signing off that player, before you can turn off any controller, to avoid the annoying reminder icon.

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