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Rock Band 2 out in November?
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26-09-2008 6:14pm#1this UK ad seems to confirm it'll be out in November (for 360 at least):
http://www.xbox.com/NR/rdonlyres/B0A74559-7377-451D-865E-56A756E1F860/0/vidliveyourmomentrockband.asx
(unless they mean November 2009
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Also on a slightly related note am i the only one who hasn't recieved the RB update that allows you to transfer your songs to HDD for use in RB2?0
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ShawnRaven wrote: »So thats both RB2 and GHWT both out in November? The war is on!
Hopefully, which are ye most looking forward to?0 -
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Hopefully, which are ye most looking forward to?
Both to be honest, a whole heap of songs to play before and during christmas. The chances are i'll open one and save the other til christmas. I'm a solo player so i generally just play the guitar bits. So i generally go nuts.
I'm also part of an online band in RB, and right now they're carrying on without me for RB2 (as the rest of them are in the states), just hope i don't lost my place by the time November rolls around
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Same here, cant wait for RB2, will probably get GH as well tho, but not expecting to be great, just a disc full of songs till RB2 comes out...
I dunno, there's some pretty decent songs in there in my opinion, the live version of Demolition Man on there (credited to Sting, but it's actually a rockier version of the Police track that came out around 1980), Foo Fighters Everlong will be as fun to play as Monkey Wrench was on GHII. The opener to Crazy Train will be a great feeling to play. And good luck 5 starring Van Halen's Hot For Teacher with that solo. Come to think of it, i'm really starting to look forward to it now.I think the music creater thing in GH is gonna be crap tho, its probably just thrown into it....
I won't use it. I think the only ones who will use it are those who have too much free time on their hands...
... (and they'll most likely be here bitching that such and such is missing from the game) 0 -
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I heard that Rock Band 2 is out in november.. Then I asked Gamestop and they didn't have a date.
To be honest.. They did the same thing with Rock Band 1... I think they're trying to make it sound like it's out soon so that you don't get GHWT and get RB2 instead. I don't believe it'll be out for at least 6 months.
Well.. I couldn't wait, so I bought an NTSC xbox online, and imported the game.. I now have RB2 and it's awesome.
The Drum Trainer is excellent, and I can't wait until the Ion set is actually available here.
I'm also not getting GH:WT as I don't have space with all my RB + GH kit... Also, I don't have any money left after buying all the DLC from Rock Band :P
The game itself is actually awesome... It's not hugely different except you can't just play through all songs in a row on whatever difficulty... You have to do a career and unlock everything... You can be a random guy and connect online and complete your career mode online, which is most awesome
The characters also work properly.. One word of advice though... I'm left handed and I play GH right handed... but Drums left handed... You have to switch this before each song (each time you switch instrument) or the notes come up on guitar on the wrong side (or drums) and you'll possibly fail (and lose fans because of it). This RB, you can have 1 character and that character can play any instrument
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Nice.
Is the general consensus that GHWT drums are the better ones? They seem far and away superior to the RB ones, although I've not seen/heard much of the new RB ones (although I thought they were more or less the same).
I might go GHWT band bundle, then RB2 solus. Should be a few fun get togethers for these. 0 -
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Just when I thought gaming season was going to calm down, they come along and announce this.
Lets hope Mirrors Edge turns out to be crap then
Otherwise the 14th will be a money drainer. 0 -
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I also have RB2 and GH:WT... I don't have the new controllers though.. Just old GH3 guitar and RB1 drums/strat. I will wait for reviews and availability here before I buy newer ones... From what I heard, they aren't that much better to warrant dumping old ones for new ones.
I do want to mention a few things to people before they buy RB2 though. I'm not trying to influence anyone here, but because I've had the game about 2 months now, I would like to share my thoughts. It's an expensive game and I wouldn't like anyone to spend money on it if it's not what they will enjoy.
RB2 does not have a mode anymore where you can just play through all the songs singly. It has a "Band World Tour" Mode which is pretty much the Band Career Mode from RB1. The difference is that you can play it 1 player, and there's different "challenges" pop up in each location EVERY DAY. (for example, there's an "accent" challenge in Dublin at the moment.. which is basically sing 2 songs with strong accents on them. One is Cool for Cats, and I can't remember the other. Rules are that it must be signing).
You can import all your songs from RB1 exept for 3 of them. The way to do this is by putting in your RB1 disc. Downloading the update when the game loads up (if you don't already have it), and then in the options theres a thing that says "export songs". It asks you to pay 400msp and then it saves them to individual files on your hard drive.
There is a new "Challenge" mode on RB2 where you play through challenges. Basically this means that you need to play these 5 songs on guitar, and get ranked online, OR play those 3 songs on vocals (and get ranked online), etc, etc. Some of the rules are that you need 2+ members in your band. Some force you to certain instruments, etc. This is the quickest way to unlock all 84 songs... If you play only certain challenges... (see rockband.scorehero.com for more specifics).
Remember how Talky Parts were a bit broken on some songs in RB1? Well, they've broken it in a completely opposite way now... If you put the mic sensitivity up max, and hold your mic against a fan or a radio, it will give you "awesome" for all talky parts... Good for singing, but makes it easier. Also, means you choose beastie boys for your 100% expert singing achievement. (also Gold Star achievement).
So, there are 84 songs after you unlock them all... You can also import 54 of your old RB1 songs (after paying 400msp), and all your old DLC will work..... There are also 20 FREE songs given to you as a code on the back of the RB2 booklet. The idea is that you register and they send you a download code when it's "ready". This is not out yet and a lot of americans are complaining about it :P
My biggest gripe about RB2 is that they have released (in US a few days ago), the AC/DC game... This is a separate RB game purely with AC/DC songs on it... You can import them to your normal RB2, but it's their way of getting more money. I don't mind this as such, but that was one of the big things I liked about RB is that they gave full albums online instead of releasing separate add-on discs
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Mostly though, the game is very similar to RB1. When you create a character, it can play any instrument. You can save your progress half the way through a challenge (list of songs), but I haven't seen a way to do it in career gigs. You can't switch your instrument between songs as easily as they say. There is a "feature" in the game where it you play a 3 song gig on guitar or something and it says "Hey.. Would you like to play the last song on Drums? If so, you'll get more fans or whatever". Anyway... It is still linked to your Gamerprofile, so if you are signed in as you on the drumset, you will need to sign out of that, and onto another instrument, thus quitting out and back into your band. It is a lot better the way it works in the menus and I didn't have as much frustration with it. I think they could have done better though. (or maybe it wasn't obvious how to do some things).
They have added some sort of hyperspeed mode if you like the speedups from GH3.
The Drum & Fill Trainer is very good and fun. It could be a whole lot more in-depth in my opinion though as there are only a set amount of patterns you can go through with varying difficulties, but there are a huge amount of possible patterns I would like to have seen in there. Surely it would only have taken them and hour to add hundreds more patterns or even have program in your own patterns. They do have a freestyle mode which is basically bash the drums anyway you like and it doesn't care.... it's not the same though. The point of the drum trainer is to give you a common drum pattern and keep repeating it so that you get good at it... You can change the BPM and it's just a good idea in general. However, there are only 73 or so patterns in total There could have been thousands.. I would like to have seen more drum roll combinations (eg, like Run to the Hills) and more common rudiments. Where's the Paradiddles, Dragadiddles, Pataflaflas and Ratamacues? (lol I'm not making these up)
Bleh.. Great game, but is VERY similar to RB1. Not sure if it's worth buying a whole new set if you already have the first one...0 -
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The Ion drumset that's pretty damn awesome is not available to europe.. That much sucks. drumrocker
So... I would recommend do some research before buying the RB2 drumset.. Make sure it's not shoddy... I've gone through 2 sets of RB1 drums already.
RB2 is totally worth it though... especially if you get together in groups.
I was playing some versus last night and went toe to toe with this guy on expert drums.... it got to 5-5 and then I lost 7-5 although in fairness, I did something stupid on one and deserved to lose. The other I just lost by a small margin.
Anyway.. the online thing is muchly improved... if you use that part of it.0 -
My biggest gripe about RB2 is that they have released (in US a few days ago), the AC/DC game... This is a separate RB game purely with AC/DC songs on it... You can import them to your normal RB2, but it's their way of getting more money. I don't mind this as such, but that was one of the big things I liked about RB is that they gave full albums online instead of releasing separate add-on discs<clicky>
In fairness,it's not harmonix's fault.They had to do this because ac/dc have an exclusive deal with best buy so it couldn't be sold online.Cully wrote:The Ion drumset that's pretty damn awesome is not available to europe.. That much sucks. drumrocker
So... I would recommend do some research before buying the RB2 drumset.. Make sure it's not shoddy... I've gone through 2 sets of RB1 drums already.
RB2 is totally worth it though... especially if you get together in groups.
I was playing some versus last night and went toe to toe with this guy on expert drums.... it got to 5-5 and then I lost 7-5 although in fairness, I did something stupid on one and deserved to lose. The other I just lost by a small margin.
Anyway.. the online thing is muchly improved... if you use that part of it.
It's also worth mention that if you have a real elctronic drum set you can plug it into the midi port on the gh:wt drums and use it to play gh and rock band without having to mod your drums :eek:0 -
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