Rock Band 2

[SethSquall]

Yea loving that track list.

[macgravel]

Hey, watch this totally cool looking video of GH:WT.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qoI-rkMnyV8

Man, doesn't that just look fresh? I haven't seen anything like that before in my life. It's totally unique. I knew Activision was run by geniuses.

[EnR]

Originally Posted by macgravel

Hey, watch this totally cool looking video of GH:WT.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qoI-rkMnyV8

Man, doesn't that just look fresh? I haven't seen anything like that before in my life. It's totally unique. I knew Activision was run by geniuses.

Wow, thats some pretty unique **** right there..

The way that they took out that bar to show your life or w/e is amazing.

What ever happend to 120+ songs lawl.

EDIT: That song list looks amazing, sold. Bonus songs suck though :/

[Tokzic]

hahahahahahahaha activision has absolutely no originality

not only that but it looks like garbage

[Serverkiller]

GUITAR HERO PWNS ROCK BAND, GUITAR HERO FTW!!!

[Squeek]

thank you for your insight

[Tokzic]

The bonus songs are always local bands from Boston that Harmonix wants to get known. They usually do not disappoint.

[Squeek]

1. AC/DC "Let There Be Rock"
2. AFI "Girl's Gone Grey"
3. Alanis Morissette "You Oughta Know"
4. Alice in Chains "Man in the Box"
5. Allman Brothers "Ramblin' Man"
6. Avenged Sevenfold "Almost Easy"
7. Bad Company "Shooting Star"
8. Beastie Boys "So Whatcha Want"
9. Beck "E-Pro"
10. Bikini Kill "Rebel Girl"
11. Billy Idol "White Wedding Pt. I"
12. Blondie " One Way or Another"
13. Bob Dylan "Tangled Up in Blue"
14. Bon Jovi "Livin' on a Prayer"
15. Cheap Trick "Hello There"
16. Devo "Uncontrollable Urge"
17. Dinosaur Jr. "Feel the Pain"
18. Disturbed "Down with the Sickness"
19. Dream Theater "Panic Attack"
20. Duran Duran "Hungry Like the Wolf"
21. Elvis Costello "Pump It Up"
22. Fleetwood Mac "Go Your Own Way"
23. Foo Fighters "Everlong"
24. Guns N' Roses "Shackler's Revenge"
25. Interpol "PDA"
26. Jane's Addiction "Mountain Song"
27. Jethro Tull "Aqualung"
28. Jimmy Eat World "The Middle"
29. Joan Jett "Bad Reputation"
30. Journey "Anyway You Want It"
31. Judas Priest "Painkiller"
32. Kansas "Carry On Wayward Son"
33. L7 "Pretend We're Dead"
34. Lacuna Coil "Our Truth"
35. Linkin Park "One Step Closer"
36. Lit "My Own Worst Enemy"
37. Lush "De-Luxe"
38. Mastodon "Colony of Birchmen"
39. Megadeth "Peace Sells"
40. Metallica " Battery"
41. Mighty Mighty Bosstones "Where'd You Go"
42. Modest Mouse "Float On"
43. Motorhead "Ace of Spades"
44. Nirvana "Drain You"
45. Norman Greenbaum "Spirit in the Sky"
46. Panic at the Disco "Nine in the Afternoon"
47. Paramore "That's What You Get"
48. Pearl Jam "Alive"
49. Presidents of the USA "Lump"
50. Rage Against the Machine "Testify"
51. Ratt "Round & Round"
52. Red Hot Chili Peppers "Give it Away"
53. Rise Against "Give it All"
54. Rush "The Trees"
55. Silversun Pickups "Lazy Eye"
56. Smashing Pumpkins "Today"
57. Social Distortion "I Was Wrong"
58. Sonic Youth "Teenage Riot"
59. Soundgarden "Spoonman"
60. Squeeze "Cool for Cats"
61. Steely Dan "Bodhitsattva"
62. Steve Miller Band "Rock'n Me"
63. Survivor "Eye of the Tiger"
64. System of a Down "Chop Suey"
65. Talking Heads "Psycho Killer"
66. Tenacious D "Master Exploder"
67. Testament "Souls of Black"
68. The Donnas "New Kid in School"
69. The Go-Go's "We Got the Beat"
70. The Grateful Dead " Alabama Getaway"
71. The Guess Who "American Woman"
72. The Muffs "Kids in America"
73. The Offspring "Come Out & Play (Keep 'em Separated)"
74. The Replacements "Alex Chilton"
75. The Who "Pinball Wizard"

So yeah while I was doing this some jerk went and made a youtube playlist of all these songs.

I still think I won.

[hi_top]

OMFG I am so buying this game.

[EnR]

wow squeek, nice job O.o

Pinball Wizard sounds hard on guitar D=

Panic Attack is gonna be hands down one of the hardest songs in game.

[three17s]

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63005

If I'm not mistaken, this is the first game to endorse companies making peripherals for their game.

Kick up the intensity with officially licensed third party instruments from Mad Catz:

- Fender Telecaster Controller features soft buttons with lower action to help you shred faster than ever.
- Fender Bass Controller, the first bass guitar controller ever, takes the shape of the Fender P-Bass with extended length, tuning pegs and a split strum bar to replicate finger-bass style picking.
- Full-sized Squire Stratocaster Guitar Controller multiplies the authentic guitar experience by featuring a controller built into an actual Squire Stratocaster body.
- Cymbal Expansion Pack is a straightforward but amazing upgrade to the Rock Band 2 drum set featuring add-on cymbals.

Take Rock Band 2 instrument authenticity to a whole new level with a high-end peripheral from ION:
- ION Drum Rocker, a real electronic drum kit that functions as a game controller, brings the Rock Band fantasy to life featuring a simple substitution that takes the drum kit from a controller to a real instrument.

[MalReynolds]

Uh Mastodon is hell yes. I don't care if I have to wait another 2 months for RB2. I have freinds with 360's. I wasn't expecting it until 2009 anyway.

[SethSquall]

Yea defo going to by Rockband2 and the Madcatz bass guitar as a pack. Definitely

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

Ok, after seeing that songlist, I think I'm going to have to go get this right away. I was kinda putting it off, but those are some ****ing awesome songs.

Also, I haven't read up on this much at all, but does anyone know if they have decided to put in a speedmod so that I can have a faster scroll this time?

[revolutionomega]

Insane! song list looks amazing, should be some really fun stuff
Just gotta get my 360 fixed xD

[ddr_f4n]

I'm actually surprised that Freezepop won't have a song in the game itself (non-DLC) after their awesome and catchy song in RB1 (Brainpower; I still play from time to time).

[Afrobean]

They're gonna have a bunch of DLC available for free when you buy RB2. So you'll get a mess on the disc, then you can turn around and download a bunch more without any cost at all.

I would be very surprised if Freezepop didn't pop up on either the disc or the free DLC.

Also, is it just me or is the idea of the split strum bar for a bass at odds with the style of the note charts for bass parts? Like, "wow now i can pluck up instead of strum down oh wait i could always do that oh well now i can pluck down 2x as fast oh wait that doesnt have anything to do with bass parts because they never go any faster than quarter notes lul". Would it be beneficial to guitar charts though? I don't pretend to be on the expert level there, so I can't say for certain, but I would think it wouldn't help.

I'm still waiting on news about the for-reals guitar. I really hope they nail it how I've been dreaming of. Plenty of people have mod'd guitars into functioning controllers, but not a one of them has handled the frets the way my dream is. I just want it to be the same as the RB strat, wooden fingerboard/fret buttons, and frets between the buttons. I don't think that would be too hard to manage, even if it's not as easy as just cutting holes in the finger board and shoving GH buttons through them.

[macgravel]

Originally Posted by Afrobean

"wow now i can pluck up instead of strum down oh wait i could always do that oh well now i can pluck down 2x as fast oh wait that doesnt have anything to do with bass parts because they never go any faster than quarter notes lul"

No clue if this is sarcasm or a joke, but the first time I played Green Grass and High Tides, I played it on Bass. Watch the guy on the left. There's also Run To The Hills, which has a harder than "quarter notes" chart.

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by macgravel

No clue if this is sarcasm or a joke, but the first time I played Green Grass and High Tides, I played it on Bass. Watch the guy on the left. There's also Run To The Hills, which has a harder than "quarter notes" chart.

It was sarcasm... I'm more than aware that some songs will have bass parts which are more difficult than what I said. I was just pointing out how absurdly easy most songs are on bass; I seem to recall failing guitar on hard, yet comboing full songs on bass expert.

When me and my mate have been playing bass, we really did think how awesome it would be to just upstrum with our index and middle fingers effectively like a real bass. You couldn't do it effectively at all. You could just strum up yea, but it was really extremely hard to do so and you'd miss a lot, especially with triples. It was also very difficult to strum up with your index for one and then strum up with your middle for the next. It was just awkward and didn't work. I found you'd flick up but the big strum bar wouldn't flick down enough before you used your other finger for the next upstrum. And so it wouldn't work well.

Meh. I still don't think it's all that important. Not like you have anything to gain by trying to play it like you would a bass, rather than playing it like you do a video game controller. I mean, when you're playing guitar parts, you're not necessarily doing it the way you would on a real guitar.

[macgravel]

Originally Posted by Afrobean

It was sarcasm...

Yeah, just checking, hahaha.