Wii Rock Band 2 Special Edition
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Product Description
A hundred new songs, better instruments, and original modes ensure you’ll be rocking past the wee hours. And once your band has mastered their craft, you can take on around-the-world rockers in “Battle of the Bands” online competitions. Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2, MTV Games, T.
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.
Customer Reviews
New to Rockband
Rhythm type games never interested me much, until now. I played guitar hero way back and was left unimpressed so I never thought much of checking the progress in this genre. For Christmas, I received Rock Band 2 for the Wii as a gift and immediately loved it.
Overall, all the instruments are easy to play and are fun. The freestyle, training, and solo mode allow to progress at your own pace. (Currently, I’m terrible but am improving). Challenge and band tour mode prove more difficult as your progress.
As mentioned previously, I don’t have experience with RB1, GH, or GHWT so I cannot compare but I’m totally thrilled at how much fun my entire family is having playing this TOGETHER.
The only possible downsides I can see are:
1) At the time of this review, the Rock Band store for the wii is not up yet – so I cannot download the free songs or buy any new ones. According to Harmonix, it will be up soon.
2) The memory on the Wii is limited so downloading a lot of songs can be a problem so buy an SD card if you plan to purchase new songs. I wish I knew how much each song and it’s data took up on my SD card. I can’t test yet since the wii RB store isn’t open yet.
3) It’s pretty costly, but at least the quality of the instruments feels good.
I highly recommend Rock Band 2, it’s a blast.
Edit after playing for 2 weeks:
I’m still playing every day and loving it.
For those interested about the instruments and playing:
Drums – To me, the drum set looks a little kid-like but it’s durable and I haven’t had any problems. The included drum & fill trainers help you get the beats down so you can move to the harder levels. I love that you can move the bpm up and down to further test yourself. I find the drums are the hardest of the 3 to play as you need to learn limb independence, but they are also the most fun IMHO. In my family “band”, I’m the drummer 90% of the time.
Guitar/Bass – Nice looking guitar. Plays great. Easiest of the 3 to learn. Look into learning different strum techniques and moving your hand up and down the neck of the guitar on harder difficulty levels.
Vocals – Well, I’m not a singer but after spending a couple days learning how to match my pitch/tone with the indicator, I can generally do OK. I think I’ve become a slightly better singer too, because I’m better able to slowly shift between the tones.
