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Guitar Hero II Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the throw-up-the-horns dept.

Gamespot reports on the official announcement of an encore to the extremely popular Guitar Hero title from Harmonix. From the article: "RedOctane today confirmed the band was indeed getting back together, as it announced that Guitar Hero II would arrive on the PlayStation 2 this November. While the song list hasn't been announced yet, the publisher confirmed that there would be more than 55 tracks in dire need of shredding. There's also a multiplayer co-op mode that will let players collaborate, each playing lead, rhythm, or bass guitar portions." IGN is running an interview with the gents behind the game, giving us heads up on their plans for the sequel. Rock on!

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  1. The Things I Want... by th1ckasabr1ck · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I would be really awesome to be able to buy a "classic rock pack" or a "grunge rock pack" and get a bunch of songs that I'll probably like. The song list for Guitar Hero was the best I've seen in a music game, but still it would be nice to be able to focus the type of music I'm listening and playing on my personal preferences.

    Secondly it would be nice to have a higher quality guitar. That thing looked and felt totally cheap, it was like a kid's toy. I would have felt like I was rocking a lot harder if the guitar was bigger and had taken itself a little more seriously.

    Van Halen - How you can have a game called Guitar Hero and not have a Van Halen track is beyond my scope.

    Still a cool game though.

  2. No game for keyboards? by Cthefuture · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why doesn't someone make a game like this for piano/keyboard playing?

    You know, hook up a MIDI keyboard and go to town. That would be an awesome teaching tool because you learn on the real thing. Much more fun than learning to play the traditional way because it's really boring when you are just starting playing any instrument (which generally lasts many months if not years).

    A high tech Guitar Hero would be nice too. I mean something that uses a real (electric) guitar and determines how you are playing by sound and/or the pickups.

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  3. Guitar/Karaoke Hero? by th3walrus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The co-op mode is great and the new addition of playing different song parts is even better. I'd really like to see Guitar Hero combined with a Karaoke Revolution type thing where you can either play the guitar and have to sing along or else you can play the guitar and someone else could sing.

    Are we eventually going to get to a point where we can have all our friends over to play Guitar Hero type songs as a full band? One guy has the guitar, another has the bass, another on drums and a singer! That would be great party fun.

  4. Not entirely fair to say. by Inoshiro · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Guitar Hero (the first one) is quite possibly the best and most fun game I've played in quite some time (meaning at least a decade)."

    This may be true of you, but some of us were enjoying other rhythm games like Dance Dance Revolution, Pop'n'Music, Samba de Amigo, etc, for years before this came out. I can appreciate that you like guitar more, but don't ignore the rest of the genre :)

    DDR is hardly like ballroom, but it's a heck of a lot of fun.

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