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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Happiness is: The Guitar Hero 2 Demo
I don't normally get Playstation Magazine, but this evening on the way home from work I had to snag a copy, due to the featured Guitar Hero 2 demo.
YYZ, You Really Got Me (the Van Halen-sounding version), Shout At the Devil, and Strutter.
My hand is cramped right now from an hour of pretending I was Alex Lifeson, Mick Mars, and Eddie Van Halen. If I really wanted to pretend I was in KISS, I'd go for the late 80's / early 90's version, without all the glitter, platform shoes, and clown makeup. In fact, that goes the same for Motley Crue - those guys were pretty freaky-looking in the early 80's. (I wonder if they ever look back at their second album cover and say, "Dang, we looked freaky." Or maybe they look at it and say, "Dang, we were pretty girls." But I digress.)
But whichever era I was rocking out it, it doesn't matter. The audience held the lighter up for me as I aced all the medium-difficulty songs with 5 stars on the second try (first try on Strutter, and I don't even know that song very well). Then I went up to "Hard" mode, and YYZ kept handing me my butt. But I managed to nail the 3-fret chords on You Really Got Me on my first try, so I felt pretty good about that. Well, most of me was feeling pretty good about it, except my cramped left hand. But that was okay.
As far as I can tell, Harmonix didn't screw with the formula. At least in single-player, quick-play mode, it may as well be Guitar Hero I, but with cooler special effects. And 3-fret chords. Which suits me just fine.
I am VERY anxious for this game, can you tell?
By the way, 1Up has published the "official" list of the 40 licensed songs for Guitar Hero 2 (40 out of "over 55"). I'm guessing the remaining 16+ songs are indie bands. Besides the ones appearing on this demo (I would have been thrilled with just YYZ), the songs I'm most looking forward to are "Carry On Wayward Son," "Message In A Bottle," "Misirlou" (after seeing the video of this song in action), "Sweet Child O' Mine," "Crazy On You," "Rock This Town," and "Hangar 18" (Just for the relentless solos!)
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Wow, that list is excellent! I too cannot wait to get my hands on this game. Did the demo have any of the 2-player modes? I'm jazzed to play against my wife with her taking the easier rhythm guitar while I hit the harder lead stuff.
Unfortunately, the demo only had single-player Quick Play. You'll have to wait 4 weeks for the full version.
I'm kinda anxious to play 2-player. I never played 2-player in the original game, but I heard that it had some problems. But if I get a second guitar controller with #2.... should be fun... :)
I'm kinda anxious to play 2-player. I never played 2-player in the original game, but I heard that it had some problems. But if I get a second guitar controller with #2.... should be fun... :)
The 2-player in GH1 is very boring for one of the players if there is a gap in the skill level between the two guys (which is very likely unless you are hardcore and only play against hardcore people). I *think* GH2 allows you to set separate skill levels for the 2 players, which would be perfect. One thing that you can kind of do to equalize the skill in GH1 is for the better player to use the PS2 controller, but that defeats the fun of GH.
In case some of you are going -- Do I know that song? Someone compiled a GH2 youtube video list. (Original artists, not videos from that game)
Check it out here... almost all of the songs are covered.
http://games.shizzle.be/2006/10/10/volledige-tracklist-guitar-hero-2-%E2%80%98geyoutubed%E2%80%99/
Brian H
Check it out here... almost all of the songs are covered.
http://games.shizzle.be/2006/10/10/volledige-tracklist-guitar-hero-2-%E2%80%98geyoutubed%E2%80%99/
Brian H
# posted by 
: October 11, 2006 3:23 PM
: October 11, 2006 3:23 PM
Great youtube compilation! Also, for those that need their GH-like fix while waiting for GH2, check out a PSP (and I think PC too) Koren game called DJ Max. It has very similar gameplay mechanics and almost as addicting.
And here is Misurlou on Expert...
SCARY!!!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5917694961697952440&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en
Brian H
SCARY!!!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5917694961697952440&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en
Brian H
# posted by : October 14, 2006 9:46 PM
: October 14, 2006 9:46 PM
HOLY CRAP!!!!
He nearly biffs it bad in the middle of the song - pulled the needle up from deep in the red at the last second. And it only takes a couple of seconds to go from green back down to red, too.
Wow.
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He nearly biffs it bad in the middle of the song - pulled the needle up from deep in the red at the last second. And it only takes a couple of seconds to go from green back down to red, too.
Wow.
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