Rock Band 2 for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

Harmonix's popularity has skyrocketed since the release of it's ever so popular Guitar Hero. They started off trying to teach people to play music through video games, but that wasn't working. So, Harmonix decided to get rid of the teaching part of their video games and went straight to the fun part. Rock Band 2 offers several new and exciting features including challenges, battle of the bands, online world tour, and a refined solo world tour. Lets start with the new solo world tour. This new version of world tour doesn't make you scroll down a screen and play every single song in the game. Now, solo tour allows you to do everything you can do in the band tour. Including naming your band, traveling the world, hiring staff (we'll get to the staff later), and picking your venue, song and set list. There are a few new cities including:Shanghai, Sydney, and many others. Now, lets get to Battle of The Bands and Challenges. Many people think this feature means two different bands battling at the same time, but it doesn't. One band simply plays a set list or song, and posts their score on the leaderboards. Then, another band tries to beat this score. The brand-spankin' new challenges mode works the same way. Harmonix simply posts challenges like best note streak on a certain song or highest score on a particular song. Your score is then posted on leaderboards. The online world tour allows you to invite friends or random players to play world tour on one of your bands. I enjoy the new Drum Trainer Mode. In this mode, you can practice drum beats, drum fills, or you can simply annoy anyone around with Freestyle mode. I still felt like the game was missing something. Yes, it had the greatest accumulation of songs in a game to date. Yes, it offers tons of features never before seen in other games. However, it lacks advancement in the character creation mode. The game still has the same basic creation. It would be a 10 if they updated graphics and character creation, I gave it 9.

This game is a huge step up from the original Rock Band. The fact the you can play your tour with only one person is totally awesome. The challenges add a new perk to the tour. I also like the fact that you get 20 free downloads.