Rock Band 2-Was Rock Band worth an encore? Harmonix have not once, but twice turned the music genre onto its head. In 2005, it made Guitar Hero, which was one of the few games to feature a peripheral to use to play the game with in the form of the Guitar controller. Living out rock fantasies for young boys and old men alike, things looked peachy for the series until Harmonix and Activision fell out and Harmonix left Activision to make the series with Tony Hawk developer Neversoft. But rather than leaving behind what it began in 2005, the developers went bigger, better and more expensive with Rock Band, which let you play Guitar, Bass and Drums as well as sing. ...  Read the complete review

== Introduction == Not so long ago there were two games; Guitar Hero and Singstar. The former let you play along to your favourite songs; not on a real guitar of course, but with a simplified guitar controller that allowed non-musicians to play along. Bizarrely it worked, quite brilliantly, and a whole new genre was born. The latter game was basically just good old fashioned karaoke but with some nifty signal processing that detected how faithful your rendition of the song, at least in terms of the pitch and timing, was. Anyway, along came Rock Band, from Harmonix, which successfully married these two concepts together. Throw in a bassline, played on an ...  Read the complete review

I owned rockband and was really excited about the relese of rock band2. It lives up to expectations, it is as brilliant as the first game and has a couple of extra features as well as a whole new song list. This game works best with a band of your friends (up to 4) following is a breakdown of the various part. each part can be set to easy medium hard or expert seperatly in band mode. GUITAR - If you are new to rockband you have probably laughed at people playing away on a small plastic guitar but once you are holding the guitar you are impowered with the power of rock and you forget you are pressing 5 buttons on a guitar shaped peice of plastic and suddenly ...  Read the complete review

When Guitar Hero came out, I fell in love with it immediately. I thought it was very clever to fuse a games console with instruments. However, after playing it for so long, it did get a fair bit boring, and I only had one guitar therefore only one person could play at a time. When Rock Band came out, I vowed to buy it after hearing there was a drum kit included - I only hope it didn't annoy the neighbours as a normal drum kit would! The actual Rock Band disc was similar to Guitar Hero, basically full of songs (although had a lot more features like Freestyle and a mode where you could create your own songs which was very fun!) that you play along to ...  Read the complete review

If Guitar Hero was the next step in interactive gaming, then Rockband is the next, next step! Rockband was released in 2007 and this follow-up, Rockband 2 was released in 2008. One of my favourite things about Rockband 2 is the ability to copy all your songs from the first Rockband onto your Xbox 360 hard drive so that you can play them using just the Rockband 2 disc! There are loads of tracks that can be downloaded via Xbox Live too, so there is a huge amount of music out there to play! I currently have about 300 songs that I can choose from and I also have the AC/DC Rockband as I am a massive AC/DC fan! The game is very easy to navigate and you ...  Read the complete review