Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5408 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2007-07-25
• Platform: PlayStation2

Manufacturer's Description

Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s will feature visually stunning retro rock venues and hipster characters, unlockable guitars, intense game play modes, and 30 awesome new songs to experience the ultimate rock star fantasy. The final nine tracks added to the initial list include:

Previously announced tracks include:

Customer Reviews

A good game but does not live up to expectations
If you own guitar hero 1 and 2 You will no doubt want to buy this game for the extra songs, just to expand your repertoir. However, be warned, This game feels as though it is a bit of an interim game whilst the programmers fully develop guitar hero 3. Many of the features of hero 1 and 2 are missing, you can not buy new outfits for your characters, there are no extra songs by unsigned bands on here, and all of the venues and effects have been ported straight from the first two games, which seems a little lazy. Also the track list is not as good as the first ganes (I had only heard of about half of the songs on 80s before).
Having said all this the gameplay is still great fun and it really is more of the same. The whole guitar hero series is brilliant fun, particularly with 2 controllers. So my advice is to buy this to expand your song list, but don't expect to enjoy it as much as the first two games in the series.

Disappointing, but worthwhile for Guitar Hero nuts, and fans of the playlist
Guitar Hero: Rock the 80's is essentially a song pack, rather than the kind of step up that Guitar Hero 2 was from the original. How much you enjoy the game will depend directly on how highly you rate the tracklist, so make sure you have a good look through it and try to play some songs first before leaping to buy it on the strength of the other titles.

This version is 80s-centric (obviously) and lacks the "something for everyone" range of the first two games. Also, it does not feature a collection of bonus tracks like in GH1 and GH2, which removes a large amount of longevity and replay factor from the title.

Personally, I found that there was a good handful of tracks that I liked, but too many which were uninteresting (both to listen to and and to play) for it to have been worth the purchase.

Definitely worth a try though, and if you like the music on it then a solid addition to a Guitar Hero collection.

What a disspointment.
Having being a fan of Guitar Hero, i was impatiently waiting for Rock the 80s. What a disappointment it is. The song list is terrible, I was expecting to see some good bands on it like Metallica, Guns' and roses, Megadeth etc; but no, we get a horrible soundtrack. The songs and the song charts themselves aren't done very well either, in fact it became a bore and couldn't force myself to go past 4th set of songs. Save your money and wait for GH3, hopefully it'll be much better than this.