Playstation 2 Guitar Hero Wireless Guitar

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Game sold separately.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000I5X65S
• Item Weight: 8.3 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: May 29, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (62 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,980 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #48 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Hardware > Controllers
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Imagine leaning back and pointing your guitar neck to the gods while ripping that ultimate solo, then running across the stage or into the crowd and gracing your fans with your presence while you dazzle them with flair and fast licks. There's nothing more rock and roll than a wireless transmitter for your guitar. With the Guitar Hero Wireless Controller, you can simulate that same stage sensation in your living room. Jump on the couch, run from one side of the room to the next, do a somersault and rock a monster solo - the possibilities are endless when wires are not a hang up. Once you've achieved StarPower, use the sensitive tilt-sensors in the wireless guitar to achieve maximum points. With five multicolored fret buttons and a super-responsive strum bar, you'll go from guitar hero to guitar legend.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Works great... until it breaks., November 26, 2007

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Jonathan Hull (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Playstation 2 Guitar Hero Wireless Guitar (Video Game)

Well the guitar worked really well for the most part. Same size as the SG guitar that comes with the older games. Wireless is not very laggy and it has good range. Only complaint here is that the buttons seem to stick a bit more than the other guitar and they feel like they are made cheaper, but they worked good enough to use even on expert.

So it worked great for a month, and then one day it wouldn't connect to the receiver. I tried and tried and it would not connect. Tried everything I could think of including replacing batteries, resetting it, resetting the PS2, and even turning off my WiFi router and cordless phones. Nothing could make it connect, and in the rare case it did it would not hold the connection. I did not have a receipt so could not get a replacement on warranty so I decided to open it up and tinker with it a bit and here is where I found the problem. The wireless board is separate from the rest of the internal circuit board, and instead of being held on securely with a screw or such IT IS HELD ON SOLELY BY THE DATA PINS. I just barely pushed the wireless board with my finger and it easily bent back at a 45 degree angle from the other board. Most defiantly one of these pins had broken loose and caused the connection problems. This is very bad design. Since I have no soldering skills I had to throw it away.

If it wasn't for the bad design of the internals I would recommend this guitar. Until they fix the problems (maybe they have with the new style GH3 guitars) I would avoid these completely.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Warning Not to Buy This Wireless Guitar, November 23, 2007

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JoeyJukebox "Joel" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Playstation 2 Guitar Hero Wireless Guitar (Video Game)

If you plan on buying this guitar, then beware! I bought this guitar a while ago on Amazon for about 50 dollars because of the positive reviews it received. Man, do I wish I listened to the negative reviews of this product. Don't get me wrong, this wireless guitar is great when it works. It was working flawlessly for about a month. The response was just as accurate as the wired controller, and the wireless feature certainly was a plus. However, after a month of using it, I noticed something odd. The strum bar was losing its responsiveness to down strums. Then one day, it just lost the responsiveness to down strums completely. I didn't do anything to cause this...I had never dropped it or hit it in any sort of way. I now had to play all songs while strumming the strum bar upward. This was really irritating since it made playing songs like Misirlou on Guitar Hero 2 nearly impossible. Misirlou is a song that pretty much requires both down and up strums, so good luck on trying to beat this tune while strumming in only one direction for the entire song.

The wireless guitar does come with a warranty, but it's ridiculous. I went to the Red Octane website to try to have my guitar controller exchanged. After emailing them, they replied within a few days. They told me that they would gladly replace my wireless guitar....at the cost of 45 dollars! I might as well should buy another wireless guitar. But, that's not going to happen anytime soon. Stick with the wired controller.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excelent guitar!, June 15, 2007

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R. Peters (Green Bay, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Playstation 2 Guitar Hero Wireless Guitar (Video Game)

I play guitar hero on expert, and i'm very picky about my guitar. This is the only one that I like. The buttons are smooth and the strum bar has just enough feedback while not being to hard to strum quickly with. Two guitars wireless at once do not interfere, they lock on to their own signal right away. I had a fear that there would be a lag in the wireless, and there has been absolutely none noticeable, even when going out of the room while playing. Oh yeah, it's wireless so on repetitive parts that you have memorized you can still play and pass a song while going elsewhere. While this isn't practical, it has worked once at a friends house grabbing sodas. I do show off while playing and the wireless prevents me from knocking my ps2 onto the floor and crying because my ps2 is broken and I can't play with my awesome guitar anymore. I have probably played with this guitar for 5 billion hours (okay, probably more like 100 some) and it still works like brand new. I am a guitar hero freak and no matter how much use it gets form me playing it and having everyone play it in guitar hero tournaments it still keeps going and going. For those concerned about battery life, I've replaced the batteries 3 times. Compare that with my hour estimate of how long it's been used above. That's pretty good battery life. Overall, I don't think there could be a better controller for the Guitar Hero series.