great but not as good.....
Yes guitar hero2 is basically the same as the original, but its supposed to be, the only thing is that theres different songs. And guitar hero is only as good as its songs. guitar hero 1 had about 30 official songs...........all of them rocked(with the exception of maybe 1), guitar hero 2 has 40!!, yep thats ten more.......but only about 19 of them are actually cool to play and listen too..........ya pretty bad.
Guitar hero 1 was memorable because it had huge hits like sharp dressed man, iron man, godzilla, etc. The songs arent there because theyre popular, but because they have exciting riffs that are catchy, and extremely fun rythm. Every song had a cool rythm and which makes guitar hero 1 legendary.
But now in gh2, most songs are really unnecessary...... i mean "tattooed love boys"?? theres a lot of them, and they are the songs you usually would play in karaoke or something. It will get you mad that most of your favorite bands are replaced with bands like danzig, lamb of god, etc(which isnt bad but come on............). I think the common thing to do is to use legendary songs not some random crap(not saying danzigs music is crap or anything but compared to zepellin and srv it is crap).
All the "unknown" songs you play are really unfun.....i mean weres the spirit, rythm, and enthusiasm as in sharp dressed man?? or godzilla?? all you got is, institutionalized were some guy just talks throughout the whole song.....i think he says "like" about a hundred million times.
Also guitar hero2 doesnt seem like its appealing to music lovers as the original was. Not in song wise but gameplay wise. Guitar hero2 is hard.................hard as friggin hell. honestly, im not exagerrating but hard mode in gh2 is the equivalent of expert mode in the original. Ya so this game wasnt meant for casuals but pros of the first one.
All the songs are extremely tough, especially "psychobilly freakout" which i dont know how it isnt in the last and toughest category "face melters".
Red octane sees that its really fun to play fast and basically impossibly.............wel theyre wrong, its friggin frustrating and unfun, instead of feeling like your just jamming with the song, it feels like your actually trying to get the right buttons. After you play free bird on expert......or actually on hard, also misirlou, physcobilly freakout, and hangar 18, you will say to yourself "i can probably play these songs more decently on a real guitar......", ya thats how realistic red octane is trying to be.
another annoyance is that you got a lot of old school and great bands like van halen, spinal tap, motley crue, and rolling stones
but you got songs like "can you hear me knockin" and "you really got me"................why would they choose those songs??!!, wheres doctor feel good?? or jump?? or start me up??.......................did they honestly overlook "i cant get no satisfaction"??
ya poor choices. The old guitar hero basically chose every bands best songs. but guitar hero2 wanted to be different
ya so guitar hero 2 has some great songs, but the rest are craptastic...........i cant believe i had to force myself to play through songs i didnt want to play, just to get to free bird, and then when i got there, i couldnt even play it..........it was sooooo friggin hard..............
guitar hero 2 has coop and multiplayer which is really fun when your facing off. The bass is kinda...actually, really boring to play in most songs as you only play a monotonous beat and sometimes just stall(with the exception of yyz). The multiplayer actually takes your mind off how bad some of the songs are.
oh ya, the impersonations and recreations on the songs are still amazing as ever on most songs.........and on carry on my wayward son, and crazy on you......perfect. Some of the songs are kinda bad, especially the alternative stuff, but still you cant find a better axel rose anywhere else.
This game is still fun but its sooo frighteningly hard. I thought "this will be fun and familiar to play because i played the first" but its sooo much harder.
if your a newbie wanting to play guitar hero, sure buy, it is a must have but you really really really have to play the first because itll just expose you too much more awesome songs.
oh ya, i see a trend.......in the first guitar hero it said "they dont really want you to play free bird, theyre just heckling you", and it came out in gh2. But now in gh2 it says "remember no stairway!".......................could one of the best rocksongs in rock history(other than free bird) be coming in gh3!!???
zepellin rules!!
no but seriously, the bottom line is this game has lots of great songs, great multiplayer options, great graphics. But the choices of songs are really bad compared to the many other choices, i know i wouldnt have chosen heart shaped box over "smells like teen spirit" by nirvana..........but hey whats done is done
lets hope in gh3 they go back to their classic roots and bring out memorable songs that can really make you appreciate rock and roll better.