God I used to love this game. I sold it along with my PS2. At the time it was the only PS2 game I had and I mostly play my Xbox 360. If they don't release this game for 360 it will be a travesty. The 360 is made for this game, with built in wireless, and how good Marketplace is for downloadable content it would be great. Plus, as was already mentioned, it could be a direct port of the PS2 version graphically and no one would care, although next-gen graphics would be even better.

I wonder how an online mode would be? They could do VS./high score mode or whatever or a co-op mode, like maybe 4 players, 1 on lead, 1 on rhythm(sp?), 1 on bass and 1 to sing into the headset.

Looks like we can add Sweet Child O' Mine to the song list for Guitar Hero 2. Gamespot has a new video up(8/21), featuring that song. The song list for GH2 keeps getting better and better.

Yup, watched that video yesterday. It went from "must buy" to "let's build a time machine just to get it sooner."

I finally played the first one over my friend's house and I will now be buying it and eventually the second one.

I really wish this was out for GameCube, I hate keeping the PS2 around just for this one game.

Of course, I can always just play real guitar I guess...

'Freebird' is also confirmed now for GH2.

So, I'm like, completely addicted to this game. The only things I've done for two days is work, mow the yard, and play GH with a quick hour break for Prison Break.

And, I'm already seeing improvement. Still a looooooooong way from being any good, but I'll get there.

That's freakin awesome! I just watched the video for it, on Gamespot. Hopefully it's the full song. If it is, my hand will probably fall off by the end, but it will be awesome.

This is the partial list that I gathered from Joystiq in regards to the playlist for this game. However there's no mention of "Freebird".

- Stone Temple Pilots' "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart"
- Anthrax's "Madhouse"
- Mötley Crüe's "Shout at the Devil"
- Reverend Horton Heat's "Psychobilly Freakout"
- KISS' "Strutter"
- Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"
- Butthole Surfers' "Who Was in My Room Last Night?"
- The Kink's "You Really Got Me" as performed by Van Halen
- Rush's "YYZ"
- Primus' "John the Fisherman"
- Drist "Arterial Black"
- Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name Of" (maybe)
and ... Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine"

Good luck. Remember to do all three tutorials. The subject of the third one (dealing with Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs) is something you should be keeping in mind while you play through Medium, and at least attempting as you go along. It'll make things easier once you get up to Hard and Expert.

If you are good enough at strumming up and down you don't even need to worry about doing the Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs. I seem to have an easier time strumming up and down instead of doing that.

That is because it hasn't been confirmed yet. The only source you guys should be looking at is the real one:
http://forum.guitarherogame.com/Defa...g=posts&t=3695

Well, they're not exactly skills that are interchangeable, or are even applicable in similar situations.

Up/down strumming is signifigantly important in playing fast passages with groups of similar notes, as with Bark at the Moon, The Breaking Wheel, and Fat Lip. It's also generally helpful in various other sections (depending on what's comfortable), due to how it reduces the number of actual hand movements per note by half.

HOPO can only be used in certain spots, but they make it easier to do faster runs of different notes. Once you get the timing down for HOPOs, it's a worlds easier to do many of the HOPOable sections with HOPOs instead of strumming every note. Not only that, but there's less chance for error with HOPOs. If you're strumming a fast passage of three notes, then you've got to coordinate the fret presses with every strum, but if you HOPO, then you've just got to get the first note on the strum, then you can just worry about using the frets for the rest.

Technically, you don't need to learn how to do HOPOs in order to beat the game (or even get 5 stars on everything, theoretically), but they still make things a whole lot easier.

In the last day, I've moved from the Easy setting to Medium, and I think I've adjusted kinda okay. Having to use your pinky is really tough if your pinky is weak. Although, not sure how tough of a song it is, but I got 94% on 'Take Me Out' on my third or fourth try. Adding that fourth button makes it really start to feel like you're playing guitar.

Video on Youtube of Freebird...

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/23/fr...uitar-hero-ii/

I'm almost done on Medium...4 stars on the obvious, Cowboys, Bark at the Moon, but damn if I can't get 5 stars on No One Knows. If anything, I have the most fun playing Crossroads.

I did a search, but didn't see anything about this...does Guitar Hero give you the option to "flip" the colors so that left-handed folks can more easily play this game? I've tried to play this game at the local Best Buy, and I think it'd be a blast if I could somehow switch the colors because I hold the guitar left-handed (playing the colored buttons with my right hand). I didn't get a chance to check out menu options to see if it allowed for switching the color sequences for left-handers.

Thanks!

yes, there is an option for left-handed players ...

Fuck yes! I just found two used copies of Frequency at EB, for $15!

I'm a big fan of all of the games made by Harmonix, and this was the one that got me into them, after playing its demo on an OPM disc. I did own it, but a friend of mine lost it on me (as well as my copy of NBA Street,) and never replaced it. I've been looking for it for a while, but I was only able to find Amplitude new (it rocks as well, but I prefer Frequency because it's a bit nostalgic to me.)

Anyone else love those two games?

Here is a clip of YYZ:

http://www.rushisaband.com/video.php?id=586

<raises hand>

I had heard about Frequency when it came out and thought it sounded neat, but didn't have a PS2 at the time. When I eventually got one, I got the one that came with the Network Adapter, which had a demo of Frequency on the setup disk. I ended up playing the four songs on that demo countless times, all the way up to the hardest difficulty. Frequency was my next purchase, followed by Amplitude once I beat Frequency.

Still don't like some of the changes they made in Amplitude, though. I hated the change from the tube to the flat layout. Made it next to impossible to get from one side to the other to continue your combo if you had messed up previously, mostly because you couldn't see the notes that were coming up. In Frequency, you could just look at the proper track in the tunnel and see what you'd have to start playing if you ended up making it over in time.

I also couldn't stand those stupid arrows that indicated where you could continue your combo. Yes, they were handy in the beginning, but they also didn't disappear until you were right on top of them, and since they obscured part of the view of the new track, you couldn't get ready to play what was coming a lot of the time.

Yeah, I didn't like those changes either. The addition of the ship really bothered me, because it threw my timing off for a while. It's a great game, but Frequency is superior.

I found ten or eleven new copies of Frequency at my local Toys 'R Us, today. I bought one and I plan to take my used copy back. It was even $5 cheaper to buy it new ($10 instead of $15.) It must be back in print.

If you haven't purchased Frequency, do yourself a favor and get it!

Apparently the new EGM has a preview of GH2, and some new songs are revealed...

Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
The Police - Message in a Bottle
The Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys
Cheap Trick - Surrender
Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Going to Rock You Tonight
Heart - Crazy For You
Allman Brothers Band - Jessica
Avenged Sevenfold - Beast and the Harlot
Dick Dale - Misirlou
Lamb of God - Laid to Rest
Alice in Chains - Them Bones
The Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking

A lot of those are going to be some damn good additions, but oddly enough, I find myself to be really excited about Misirlou. It just seems like it'd be really fun to play (and woe be to those who refuse to learn alternate strumming).

Lamb of God, fucking awesome!
Avenged Sevenfold, not so fucking awesome.

Definitely looking forward to playing a lot of those other songs listed.

Spinal Tap. Awesome...

What exactly do people not like about that song, anyway? I've heard it on the radio a few times (if I'm thinking of the right one), and it seems that this seems to be the one song that everyone's going "ugh" to. It's got a good guitar part, it's heavy sounding without being just a bunch of yelling (like that song by Slipknot from Amplitude), and at least it's not another song like "Fat Lip" (or do people like that one?).