Product Description

Requires a drum, microphone or guitar controller to play, Rock Band instruments sold separately

• Latest add on of songs for RockBand on the Wii

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #551 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2009-10-09
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .0 pounds

Manufacturer's Description

Developed by Harmonix, the world’s premier music videogame company, and published by MTV Games, Rock Band 2 is the next evolution of the groundbreaking music platform that forever changed the face of music videogames.  Rock Band 2 builds upon the original, challenging players to put together a band and tour for fame and fortune while learning to master lead/bass guitar, drums and vocals, and raises the bar to include an entirely new level of depth, connectivity, authenticity and exhilarating features.  The Rock Band 2 soundtrack will featureover 100 songs - with 84 songs on disc plus an additional 20 bonus tracks available for free download. Players will have access to all previously purchased DLC tracks, packs and albums as well as future DLC releases, as well as the ability to export most of the original Rock Band disc tracks into Rock Band 2. The music in Rock Band 2 features all master recordings and spans all genres of rock from punk, metal and alternative to classic and southern rock.

Rock Band 2 - Music

Major record labels and leading music publishers have signed on to provide unrivaled access to master recordings and legendary rock artists with hits from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s. The Rock Band 2 disc will feature more than 80 rock hits—all master recordings! Plus, Rock Band 2 owners will have access to the growing Rock Band DLC catalog of more than 440 tracks to date.

Rock Band 2 On-Disc Tracks:

2000s

Abnormality “Visions”	Mastodon “Colony of Birchmen”
AFI “Girl’s Gone Grey”	Modest Mouse “Float On”
Anarchy Club “Get Clean”	Panic at the Disco “Nine in the Afternoon”
Avenged Sevenfold “Almost Easy”	Paramore “That’s What You Get”
Bang Camaro “Night Lies”	Rise Against “Give it All”
Beck “E-pro”	Silversun Pickups “Lazy Eye”
Breaking Wheel “Shoulder to the Plow”	Speck “Conventional Lover”
Disturbed “Down with the Sickness”	System of a Down “Chop Suey”
Dream Theater “Panic Attack “	Tenacious D “Master Exploder”
Guns N’ Roses “Shackler’s Revenge”	That Handsome Devil “Rob the Prez-o-Dent”
Interpol “PDA”	The Donnas “New Kid in School”
Jimmy Eat World “The Middle”	The Libyans “Neighborhood”
Lacuna Coil “Our Truth”	The Main Drag “A Jagged Gorgeous Writer”
Linkin Park “One Step Closer”	The Sterns “Supreme Girl”

1990s

Alanis Morissette “You Oughta Know”	Pearl Jam “Alive”
Alice in Chains “Man in the Box”	Presidents of the United States of America “Lump”
Beastie Boys “So Watcha Want”	Rage Against the Machine “Testify”
Bikini Kill “Rebel Girl”	Ratt “Round & Round”
Dinosaur Jr. “Feel the Pain”	Red Hot Chili Peppers “Give it Away”
Foo Fighters “Everlong”	Smashing Pumpkins “Today”
Judas Priest “Painkiller”	Social Distortion “I Was Wrong”
L7 “Pretend We’re Dead”	Soundgarden “Spoonman”
Lit “My Own Worst Enemy”	Testament “Souls of Black”
Lush “De-Luxe”	The Muffs “Kids in America”
Mighty Mighty Bosstones “Where’d You Go”	The Offspring “Come Out & Play”
Nirvana “Drain You”

1980s

Billy Idol “White Wedding Pt. I”	Metallica “Battery”
Bon Jovi “Livin’ on a Prayer”	Motörhead “Ace of Spades”
Devo “Uncontrollable Urge”	Sonic Youth “Teenage Riot”
Duran Duran “Hungry Like the Wolf”	Survivor “Eye of the Tiger”
Jane’s Addiction “Mountain Song”	The Go-Go’s “We Got the Beat”
Joan Jett “Bad Reputation”	The Grateful Dead “Alabama Getaway”
Megadeth “Peace Sells”	The Replacements “Alex Chilton”

1970s

AC/DC “Let There Be Rock”	Journey “Anyway You Want It”
Allman Brothers “Ramblin’ Man”	Kansas “Carry On Wayward Son”
Bad Company “Shooting Star”	Rush “The Trees”
Blondie “One Way or Another”	Squeeze “Cool for Cats”
Bob Dylan “Tangled Up in Blue”	Steely Dan “Bodhitsattva”
Cheap Trick “Hello There” Elvis Costello “Pump it Up”	Steve Miller Band “Rock’n Me”
Fleetwood Mac “Go Your Own Way” Jethro Tull “Aqualung”	Talking Heads “Psycho Killer”
	The Guess Who “American Woman”

1960s

Norman Greenbaum “Spirit in the Sky”

The Who “Pinball Wizard”

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Customer Reviews

Must Buy for WII even if DLC not available for Europeans yet!
My pre-thoughts before buying this game were centered around the available download content already out there, I mis-presumed that the content would be available for the WII straight after release, but I was wrong. Currently there are no songs available for DLC in Europe (And reading on the forums we are going to be geting a few tracks a week soon, but this puts us around 250 songs behind the US of A!)

However once you get passed this issue, the game itself is excellent.

Guitar Hero is fun, but RockBand2 takes it a step further giving you more feeling of being in a band (rather than just playing an arcade game for points - ala GH).

The songs that come with the game are excellent and varied enough to keep everyone happy.

The GH5 guitar works seamlessly with RB2 (the only issue I had is that I am very picky about my calibration, and even using the RB2 automatic calibration I am still not 100% happy, but this is just me, the Calibration settings are excellent (both automatic and manual).

The Tour is another great section of the game (which I didn't even realise existed for a few days, presuming Challenge and Battle of the Bands were the only options in the Band section.....big Heading at the top of the menu 'BEGIN TOUR' should have been a blatant giveaway but I just presumed it was the Menu Heading :)

Having played this for a full week, including many late late nights I cannot praise it enough. The Menus are well presented (and look great in HDTV mode on the WII). The ingame graphics aren't quite as beautiful as on the 360 but the camera work covers most of this by switching between styles (black and white, grainy etc) and lets be hones the most important bit is the Guitar track which you are concentrating on most of the time which looks great!)

I just wish more DLC was available as this was the MAIN reason I bought the game after seeing the amazing DLC content thats available to American WII users (Pearl Jam's new album etc, which apparently Europe will not be able to download until 2010!!!)

anyway, had this been included as soon as the European version was released then Amazon would not have had enough stars for me to rate the game, so I guess thats a good enough reason for it to have been delayed :)

A definite must buy, 5 Stars!

Is meant to work with GH:WT kit
According to various game / gear matrix info out there on the web, GH:WT (and only official WT) guitar and drums is meant to work with RB2 (and not RB original - change of policy from Harmonix). That means for the proce of the game we GH peeps should be able to access the tracks exclusive to RB2 and their much larger DLC (downloadable content)...and to those not looked into this, RB releases about 3 times the amount of DLC each month compared to GH.

Read other reviews for playability...I dont have this YET. But wanted to ask the question if anyone has bought this on the Wii as well as RB, and simply done the registration thing and paid the $5 to unlock the RB tracks for RB2 without actually playing the original RB on its own ?

Because as far as I know, thats the only way for people already gone down the GH route to get hold of the tracks on RB without paying huge sums for additional instruments...and there are some good tracks on RB to expand my playlist, such as:

Faith No More - Epic
Radiohead - Creep
Sound Garden - Black Hole Sun
Muse - Hysteria