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Rock Band 2

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  • Tour Challenges - mini-campaigns focused on the best songs by instrument, decade, genre, etc
  • Quickplay - with prefab or customized characters that can play on any instrument. Make customizable set lists and organize your song lists in different categories
  • Customizable Set Lists keep the music rolling and your band rocking in Quickplay mode
  • Drum Trainer - gives you the fundamentals of different beats and fills, translating gameplay into real drumming skills
  • Character Creator - new choices in clothing, accessories, tattoos, hairstyles, etc

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  • ASIN: B001BX6JY6
  • Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 5.4 ounces
  • Media: Video Game
  • Release Date: December 18, 2008
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #566 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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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 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 80 on-disc 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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Key Features

  • Take your band on an the improved Band World Tour mode, record albums, tackle the addictive Set Challenges...plus all of the modes you know and love from the first Rock Band.
  • 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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ROCK BAND 2 IS THE SEQUEL TO 2007S MULTI-MILLION UNITS SELLIG, GENRE-DEFINING, CULTURAL PHENOMENON ROCK BAND, THE ULTIMATESOCIAL MUSIC GAME EXPEROENCE AND THE BEST SELLING NEXT GENEMUSIC GAME IN 2008. ROCK BAND 2 DELIVERS THE MOST AUTHENTIC ANDAMBITIOUS MUSIC GAME TO DATE-CHALLENGING ROCKERS TO MASTER

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A suitable Sequel for Rock Band for PS2, December 26, 2008
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 
The PS2 is showing it's age with Rock Band 2 in comparison to Xbox360 & PS3 versions of Rock Band 2. This is understandable as it's not fair to compare Apples to Oranges. As a whole, Rock Band 2 is fun game. For musicians (like myself), it's not a simulator though, some of the new features within RB2 can definitely help a new wannabe drummer in learning some important rhythm techniques. This is where RB2 can be a great catalyst in a young person's musical career.

Some of the negatives about the game is that contrary to even Amazon's line-item in the description of the game, there is no character creation in PS2. If there is, I haven't found it yet.

No Online Support for PS2. Disappointing. I would rather lose graphics to have the ability to play with other RB2 players online. I could understand not having the Downloadable Content that the XBox360 and PS3 enjoys since there is no hard drive, but why can't we play online like other PS2 games?

The major plus on RB2 over the original, is the fact that on the PS2, it has a much quicker loading time between songs, and at the moment, no freeze-ups on my fat PS2 (Built in 2001). On the original RB, I had to set it in "diagnostic mode" every time I played it. With 2 days of playing, I did not have to do any of those steps and with no stoppage in play.

The final plus on RB2 are the selection of songs. There are more of them, and some interesting information is provided on the songs (Year, Band Name, Album, and Album Art). With over 84 songs to choose from, it has a wide selection of Indie, Rock, Metal, and New Wave songs to pick. The ability to play The Replacements, Devo, and Journey in the same game, is A-OK.

For PS2, Rock Band 2 is a worthy sequel. It packs as much into this game as the PS2 can allow. For having a delayed release date, it also looks like they solved their Manufacturing bugs from the original RB on the PS2.

Enjoy!

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional Sequel, how did they fit it in there???, January 6, 2009
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Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 
This might be one of the most impressive games I have seen for the PS2. I've been playing guitar games since GHII, and Rock Band II is without a doubt the best of the genre.

The play quality is flawless, the graphics are perfect, and to be honest it looks even better than Rock Band I. All of the instruments I have (GH2, GH3, RB1 guitars and RB1 drums) play without a hitch or hint of lag.

The game play is much improved over RB1. They still don't allow custom avitars (apparently they just can't do 4 avitars plus the 4 tracks) however they do have a much improved tour mode, much better ratings on the songs for complexity, and a much better training mode. Game play is a lot more fun; you can have people join you as you progress, and it's a lot less linear. You get groupies, tour bus, airplane, manager, the works.

In short it's a lot of fun. The songs are all pretty neat, and the vocal quality is much improved over RB1.

Overall I have to say that Harmonix really did an excellent job with this port of Rock Band to the PS2. They took their time, and the result is an amazing product. I'm not sure how they fit it all on a single DVD, but this pretty much takes the Emotion Engines of the PS2 to the absolute limit.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Rock Band, the original, December 24, 2008
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 
I got this game a day earlier than Amazon told me I'd receive it. Already a plus. This has more songs than the original, you get to see a music video in the background when you do the Battle of the Bands. My son and I started on medium as soon as we got the game because we already had enough practice on the original Rock Band. We've been playing this game every night since we got it. The Rock Band 2 version has a few more songs that I'm into (i.e. Duran Duran and the Go-go's) compared to more of what I consider 'rock' songs so I definitely like this version better. We like it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Rock Band 2 for PS2
The only thing I had to do "extra" with this game was to reset the lag calibration because I use an old CRT TV and not an HDTV, which probably won't need that extra work if that's... Read more
Published 8 days ago by Chris Lloyd

5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest Game for PS2
What can I say. Best game for PS2 PERIOD...... Better than first rock band game especially because it has more songs and has a better career mode called world tour. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jacob Davis

5.0 out of 5 stars RockGame
A great game for families, friends to gather together and have fun, mutual help from each band mate saves other band mates. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jose P. Avila

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun game with friends and family
I used to play video games quite often and could've been considered a 'gamer' at one point. I usually hate these simon says type games like dance dance revolution. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Christopher Fox

5.0 out of 5 stars the best combo of songs of all the vesions
This is the best rock band game of all of them. Huge list of good songs and you can create a set list which lets you go from song to song quickly, like real life concerts.
Published 8 months ago by R. P. Clary

4.0 out of 5 stars Love It
I found this one quite a bit more challenging than the original RB. Tons of songs though, and so much fun to play.
Published 8 months ago by A. Mahmood

5.0 out of 5 stars Love IT
Played it as soon as it came through the door. Fun with friends especially with the no-fail mode. :)
Unlocked almost all the songs, now to try the infinite playlist set... Read more
Published 10 months ago by V. Flanagan

3.0 out of 5 stars Would be a 5 overall...if it worked.
I've read the other reviews here and think another voice from the negative side is needed.

Unfortunately, I'm one of the users that can't enjoy the game fully. Read more
Published 10 months ago by durman620

5.0 out of 5 stars Love It
Rock Band 2 is the same as Rock Band #1, except there are different songs on it.
Published 10 months ago by Ann Sherry

5.0 out of 5 stars rock band 2
My daughter was very thrilled with the game. It did take every bit of the 7 days to ship!
Published 10 months ago by Marilyn Aspinwall

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