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Brand: MTV Games
EAN: 0014633191592
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Label: MTV Games
Manufacturer: MTV Games
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 120 months
Model: 014633191592
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Publisher: MTV Games
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Sales Rank: 69
Studio: MTV Games

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Product Description:
Rock Band 2 offers an unparalleled, deeper, dynamic gameplay experience. This package includes a newly designed guitar and drum peripherals, with spiffier detail and a more realistic playing experience. These are all fully compatible with the original Rock Band instruments. The Guitar is sturdier, with a more precise strum bar, a built-in sensor allowing quick and seamless calibration, a retooled tilt sensor for improved Overdrive employment, a more realistic neck and body design, and quieter buttons. The Drums have an improved kick pedal with metal plate, velocity-sensitive drum heads, cymbal and hi-hat expansion ports, quieter drum heads and a wireless connection.

Classic, Developing and Emerging rock acts including Pearl Jam, Metallica, Allman Brothers, Motorhead, Devo, Jane's Addiction, Megadeth, Paramore, Modest Mouse Features AC/DC including Let There Be Rock Axl Rose debuts official new track, ?Shackler's Revenge from the album Chinese Democracy Includes Bob Dylan's ?Tangled Up In Blue This package includes a newly designed guitar and drum peripherals

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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 - 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 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.
Rock Band 2 Logo
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 than ever before.
  • 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 "
Rock Band 2
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Rock Band 2
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Rock Band 2
Give the Crowd a Show
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Great Fun, but has problems.

I have more fun with this game than any other game I have ever owned, however the game is riddled with problems.

1) after only two hours of play I started seeing problems with the microphone not registering tambourine/cowbell hits.

2) about thirty minutes later the whole games audio started cutting out as if someone was muting the TV.

3) After about two days of play I've now noticed that the drums are constantly losing sync and not registering hits for a couple seconds at a time. (I can see the Blue Lights go out and come back on out of my peripheral vision.)

Problems 1 and 2 above somehow turned out to be related... I did some experimenting and found out that whenever the microphone was enabled the audio would mute for a few seconds at a time in the song. I purchased a new logitech mouse and found that to completely fix problems 1 and 2.

I am still experiencing problem 3.. It is very annoying.. Especially when you have a good run going on and working on a perfect then the stupid thing loses sync and causes about 6 or 7 misses in a row. I have also noticed this with the guitar as well, but not as bad.

Also if you leave the game idle for more than a couple minutes (potty break, or have to answer the phone) all instruments will completely lose sync and the only way to get it back is to hit the sync button on the remote receivers and shut off all instruments and turn them back on.

Aside from all of the Glitches the game is great fun... I just wish it wasn't so buggy... I feel bad for giving such a fun game a mediocre rating.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Better than before!
We got Rock Band Wii for Christmas and played it for a week. It was a lot of fun but a little disappointing in the features. The wireless guitar went out after only a week and we had to take the whole system back. Nobody had Rock Band in for the Wii so we decided to spend the extra money and upgrade to Rock Band 2 Wii. MUCH better than the first RB!!!

The drums are wireless with a reinforced pedal which is nice. They also have the ports to support an expansion pack for cymbals if you like those. The features alone in the game mode are so much better. The character creator is great and lots of fun. It has great tracks and is altogether so much fun.

If you don't have RB1 yet, don't bother with it...go for RB2 and be ready to rock all day and all night!!!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Never received mine
I ordered Rockband 2 for the Wii on December 19th. It was to be a present for three of my sons from their older brother. We ordered it through amazon because we purchase 95% of our gifts from amazon.com Well, it was supposed to be delivered on Dec 24th. It was never came. It was shipped through FedEx and they claim that it was shipped and delivered on Dec. 31st and left on my front porch. Who in there right mind would leave a package on someone's front porch? I believe that the driver from FedEx gave himself a nice Christmas present. Now i can't even get it re-delivered because Amazon doesn't have it in stock. Next time, i will make sure I purchase big and expensive items at a physical store so i can make sure I have it in my hands. My kids are sad and my oldest son is crushed that his big surprise was ruined. I really hope Amazon switches shipping companies.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Vast improvement of an already great game.
I would recommend RockBand 2 to anyone 9 to 90. Although the style of Rock music is deverse to cater to a wide audience... there's plenty for the 70's rocker to the modern EMO/Buzzcutter.

And online access allows you to join up with others and form bands across the world.

The hardware improvements are sizable too. Harmonix (game developers) listened to the Rockband community and delivers a homerun in this sequel.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Best Wii Game of 2008??
This game is a must have for every wii fan. It brings every single aspect about the game in the PS3 and 360, showing us how powerful the wii can be. It is the only 3rd party game that fully uses the wii hardware. It is done great, not like most wii games with rushed graphics and features. You will notice few difference between the 360 and the Wii versions of the game. The instruments are HUGELY improved, no more useless drums and guitar, Harmonix finally got over Activision, the guitars for both games are almost equal but Rock Band 2 Drums are far superior, specially if you buy the cymbals.


What to buy: Guitar Hero World Tour or Rock Band 2

GHWT:

Pros: Already has DLC
Mii Freestyle Exclusive for wii
A slightly better Guitar Peripheral

Cons: Only 2 wiis can connect (no full band experience online only offline)
No compability with rock band instruments.
Only about 1 fourth of available DLC is available for Wii
IGN Review (8.8)

Rock Band 2:

Pros: Equal to other consoles (PS3 and 360)
Better customization
Will have all DLC that other consoles have
4 Wiis CAN connect, so YES Full band experience online
IGN Review (9.0 out of 10.0)
Compatibility with all GH Wii instruments (GHWT and GH3 and GHA)
Better Drums
Drum Trainer that will help you with real drums
Can link acount to the the ROCK BAND webpage so you can take full advantage of the rock band experience

Cons:
No DLC until around January 9 2009

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