Customer Reviews

Playstation 2 Guitar Hero Wireless Guitar

5 star:		(41)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

I got this controller a few days ago and I already hate it. I thought it would be great because its wireless. That's probably the only great part about this controller. I play on expert, which requires a lot of hammer-ons and pull-offs, and with this controller, the action is MUCH slower. The buttons are a bit sticky and stay pressed down a split second after the note is released. This completely screws up my streak in the solos and basically any notes that are very close together. Also, the whammy bar is loose, causing it to face downward when I'm playing, so I hafta find the whammy bar every time a tail comes along. The strum bar also springs back too far sometimes, causing the note to be hit more times than intended. Oh, and the buttons are facing the wrong way (the round edges facing me rather than the ground). I'm most likely gonna sell this controller and get one of the wired controllers instead. They're more reliable.

I've tried several guitars. Other than what comes with the Activision bundles, this is the only reliable guitar - buttons have good react time, strum and whammy have good action. Everything else I've tried breaks within only a few weeks of moderate use. Someone out there could make a killing developing a reliable guitar for this game. This one is good, but not great. But it's way better than just about anything else.

I have owned the white, black, and red guitars; and the red corded one is definatly the most durable. All of them started out great, i esspecially like the range of the wireless guitars, but the buttons are cheaper and the clicker wore out too quickly. I had to dig out my old red guitar because this white one randomly strums now without even touching the guitar. Overall this guitar is too pricy for it to wear out within a month. I would stick with the cord.

I got this guitar along with Guitar Hero I and II for my little brother for Christmas. I was really excited and he was SUPER excited... until we plug it in and it wouldn't work. Turns out the base station was broken - it wouldn't link up to the guitar. We tried everything. We turned off our cell phones, we disconnected our wireless router... We followed all of the instructions.

We returned it to get a new one and THAT ONE BROKE!! We had it for about two hours... and then the second guitar's connection wouldn't link up to the base station.

The concept is cool - wireless controller - but Activision clearly does not have the technical competency to make it work.

This is the most awful gift I've ever given. I feel bad about giving this piece of junk to my brother: He was so excited to play this game... and his heart has been broken. He's been sad and frustrated.

This was supposed to be a gift!

Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II are both excellent games for those music loving people people who just aren't that musically gifted. I'd bought Guitar Hero with the guitar and then Guitar Hero II without the guitar figuring I wouldn't need a second guitar. Well, that was a big mistake because I lost out on having multiplayer battles when friends came over (I think I underestimated how many of my friends would enjoy it).

In retrospect it worked out, because I ended up picking up this wireless guitar which works very well overall. I've loaded up several songs on both GH and GHII and they have all been working terrific with this new guitar. The controller is well put together with a quality feel that is at or above the original wired guitar I have. It comes with batteries (Energizer) to power up the guitar and the standard shoulder strap. Now the only question is if I'll splurge and get another one for dual wireless guitar battling. Ah that's okay, the guests can have the wired one.

A tad pricey, but well worth it. Excellent battery life, wireless range, comfort and performance. Works just fine right along side a second wireless controller.

If you want a wireless guitar for your PS2 and the Guitar Hero series, this is the way to go.

after trying them all, we have ended up with 2 of these. they work great, what else needs to be said.