Guitar Hero 2 360 version: New songs with retail version

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This is about online and in-the-box.

With the additional time Red Octane has to work on Guitar Hero 2 for Xbox 360, there was little doubt they'd develop some additional content, but they've kept mum for the most part. Would it be new modes? Downloadable content was assured, but maybe they'd just release songs from the original Guitar Hero with added bass sections (which wouldn't be all bad, mind you). Team Xbox got their hands on the official box art for the game, which reveals the upgraded version of Guitar Hero 2 will feature both "additional songs and downloadable content," which leads us back to our original confusion: what does "additional songs" mean?
Too bad about that wired controller, too. Boo urns!
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http://www.gametab.com/news/779403/
 
Can't ****ing wait. They better not jack the price up though. Sucks about the wired controller though,, anyone know how long the wire is?
 
Should be a good-sized wire.
 
Hopefully. Any word about the release date?
 
Late Feb/early March is my guess.
 
Would somebody post a pic of the guitar they're gonna give.
 
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Hmm... something tells me getting a second controller might be a tad difficult... here's to more songs...

Next: Drum Hero! Yah!
 
The ten new songs, all of which are unlockable in career mode, are not cheap additions as some might have feared. Among the stellar new tracks are "Billion Dollar Babies" by Alice Cooper, "Dead!" by My Chemical Romance, "Hush" by Deep Purple, "Life Wasted" by Pearl Jam, "Rock 'n' Roll Hoochie Koo" by Rick Derringer, "Possum Kingdom" by Toadies, "Salvation" by Rancid and "The Trooper" by Iron Maiden.

While the majority of tracks will be covers, as is the standard for Guitar Hero II, both "Dead!" and "Possum Kingdom" are listed as "master tracks," meaning they are the original recordings. The final two tracks remain unrevealed, leaving us to hold out hope that Hendrix will make his 360 debut this spring.
 
HUGE preview from 1up
http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3156280

We are jerks: we've been playing the 360 version of Guitar Hero 2 for the last week and couldn't tell you. It's mostly just been Garnett and myself trading off songs, trying to open up the setlist as quickly as we could to see what's new and different. He's of the opinion that while the PS2 version was still fun to play, the song lineup in GH2 was most unsatisfactory because of a mysterious "right band, wrong song" phenomenon.

I couldn't agree more: "Message in a Bottle" and "Rock This Town" have absolutely zero heroic qualities, not to mention the musical/fretwork train wreck that is "Psychobilly Freakout." Then again, this is the same game that has "Sweet Child O' Mine," "Them Bones," "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'," and "Jessica" -- so forgiveness is easily given.

But just like back-to-back shows in the same town, the setlist has changed...

The New Songs

* Possum Kingdom - The Toadies
* Salvation - Rancid
* Life Wasted - Pearl Jam
* Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
* Hush - Deep Purple
* Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo - Rick Derrenger
* Dead! - My Chemical Romance
* The Trooper - Iron Maiden

It's one new song per tier, basically, except for the first tier which has two new tracks and the last which doesn't seem to have any (though that leaves us two songs short of the promised 10, so we'll have to wait to see how that plays out).

"Possum Kingdom" is an excellent addition with plenty of rhythm-heavy "chka-chka" chords, and "Salvation" is punky fun. The Pearl Jam song, however, is an odd choice. Taken from their most recent self-titled album, "Life Wasted" is by all accounts a competent rock song (they did a decent job with mimicking Eddie Vedder's unique vocals and an excellent job with Mike McCready's lead guitar work), but there are so many better choices for that band: "Alive," "Animal," and the obvious killer guitar/bass combo "Jeremy." A possible reason for this is that all of those "classic" Pearl Jam songs came when the band was under the Sony-owned Epic label -- the latest album Pearl Jam is part of a new deal, and one suspects that the licensing costs for the older songs could have been too much for Red Octane.

Enough of the music nerdery, moving on: "Billion Dollar Babies," "Hush," and "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo" add the classic rock core that the PS2 version lacked, "Dead!" is catchy enough and surprisingly fun to play (emo crisis averted!), and the inclusion of Iron Maiden's "The Trooper" caused Garnett to hop up and down like a little girl (he's a closet metal freak). The developers have also done some rearranging of the older songs so that the difficulty balance makes more sense. For example, "Carry Me Home" by The Living End is now bumped up to Tier 8, and "Heart-Shaped Box" and "Strutter" have been busted down to Tier 1.

The Guitar

A replica of Gibson's Explorer, the new 360 guitar controller is quite comfortable, thanks to the slanted cutaway on the top of the body. It also features a built-in D-pad and Xbox 360 home button. Aside from those changes, the fret buttons feel pretty much the same as they do on the PS2's black and red SGs. And though the guitar's not wireless, the cord on the underside of the guitar is bent like a real instrument cable for minimum interference.

...and we thought that was all, until we noticed something on the underside of the body: a phone-jack sized port whose purpose, so far, remains a mystery. The leading theory in the office? Expansion effects pedals for real-time distortion. Make it happen.

The DLC

When you go into the Guitar Hero store in career mode, there's a new option for "Downloads." Selecting this will kick you directly to the Xbox Live Marketplace area for Guitar Hero 2. There's nothing currently there, so who knows what Harmonix has planned for downloadable content. First on our wishlist would have to be the original Guitar Hero's setlist redone with GH2's bass and rhythm parts. (Second on our wish list would be "Sex Supreme" by Tenacious D.)

So, it looks just like in real life, the second show is always better.
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AWESOME.
 
FABUlOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even the stickers for the guitar are better!!! haha
 
I shall own you all in this game. :meow:
 
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