3 years ago, Guitar Hero made its debut onto the PS2. With it, came a huge fan base, including wanna-be rockers. Myself, one of them. Its now 2008 and Rock Band 2 made its debut onto the PS3. Where was I going with this...?
Anyway, Rock Band 2 is the squeal to the first Rock Band, which revolutionized rhythm games. But Rock Band was not a perfect game, and people soon realized that once that got passed the whole idea. The band system was messed up, the whole "band leader" thing was horrible. If you band leader was not there, you couldn't play, and that was really annoying.
Rock Band fixes that problem, trowing the whole band system out the window and making it simple for people to just jump in, make their character, and play. On top of that, the set list in Rock band 2 is amazing, bring together all types of genres like Southern Rock, Metal, Punk, and hey, there is bit of rap in here as well. There are 84 songs total in the game, but if that's not enough, all of your DLC you bought transfers onto Rock Band 2 for free, and if that's not enough, you could transfer most of your Rock band 1 songs for $5, and if that is not enough, more DLC and an AC/DC track pack is to come. That is enough songs for you, spoiled bastard.
The gameplay is the same fun Rock Band you know in love, but with better songs comes more fun gameplay. If you enjoy the first Rock Band you will love Rock band 2.
Say you thought Rock band was repetitive, and you don't think the set list for Rock Band 2 will last you long. There is a new more in Rock Band 2 called "Battle Of The Bands Mode", where you could do challenges and the someone online has to top you score on that challenge. These challenges are pretty cool and with the challenges updating every week, you might not get bored. There is also a challenge mode to do off-line where the more challenges you do the more you unlock, like Band Word Tour, except linear. As for BWT, nothing much has changed, except the ability to hire managers, which doesn't effect the game much.
At first glance, Rock Band 2 looks like the first, but when you dig deeper, you see its much better than the first.
