Playstation 2 Rock Band Special Edition
- Bundle includes game, USB Hub, microphone, guitar and drum set peripherals
- 45 licensed tracks from legendary rockers
- Showcase a real drum solo with Rock Band’s mobile drum fill Windows featured in each song
- Vocalists can bring the crowd to their feet during Rock Band’s mobile vocal fill windows. Ad-lib your own words or shout to the crowd to raise the rock intensity of the performance.
- Build your own band and tour the world
Amazon.com Product Description
Tap into your Rock & Roll fantasy as you pick your axe, form a band and tour for fame and fortune, all while sticking the rock credo of learning your instrument as you go in Rock Band.
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Developed by Harmonix, creators of the blockbuster Guitar Hero franchise, Rock Band is an all-new platform for gamers ready to take on the challenges of the Rock & Roll lifestyle. Instruments available to players are guitar, bass, drums or vocals as they hit the road as either an aspiring megastar solo act, or for the first time in game genre history take on the right collaborative and challenging nature of music as they form a band and jam together in multiplayer action. Either way players will need to master their stage presence owing to the various game modes and polish their rock chops via the unrivaled Rock Band song list if they hope to make it out of the garage, into the clubs and finally on to the main stage.
What’s In the Box
Rock Band Special Edition for PlayStation 2 comes with everything you need to get you rocking right out of the box and includes: 1 wired guitar (for guitar & bass part), 1 wired mic, 1 wired drum kit peripheral, plus software, USB hub, drum sticks and guitar belt.
Extensive Game Modes.
Rock Band delivers four music sports meeting in one – challenging rockers to master lead guitar, bass guitar, drums and vocals owing to the five separate game modes.
- Tutorial Mode: Master the basics! No need for experience. Pick your weapon of choice and ascend from beginner to rock god.
- Practice Mode: Exact your tune! Breakdown any part of any song at your preferred alacrity before hitting the main stage.
- Quickplay Mode: Instant fix of fun! Jump into any unlocked song for some quick jam time either on your own or with other players.
- Solo Tour Mode: Take it on the road! Pack up your instrument of choice and set out on the open road for a fun and challenging release player career.
- Band World Tour Mode: Conquer the world! The journey to rock stardom takes you from small town bars to world-renowned venues. Earn fame and fortune by the side of the way to secure rock star necessities.
A Song List That Goes to Eleven!
Built on unprecedented deals with top record marks and music publishers, the mix of remastered originals and covers that make up the epic Rock Band song list puts players in the shoes of legendary artists from day one. And with the promise of additional downloadable songs and albums you are sure to be rockin’ for some time to come. In addition to the 45 tracks listed not more than, Rock Band will also feature 13 songs ranging from a variety of established bands to up-and-coming independent artists that can be unlocked as you play owing to the game. Track list includes:
- Rolling Stones, “Gimme Shelter”
- Aerosmith, “Train Kept a Rollin’”
- The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
- Boston, “Foreplay/Long Time”
- Mountain, “Mississippi Queen”
- The Police, “Next to You”
- David Bowie, “Suffragette City”
- Black Sabbath “Paranoid”
- Blue Oyster Cult, “Don’t Dread the Reaper”
- The Ramones, “Blitzkrieg Bop”
- Deep Purple, “Highway Star”
- KISS, “Detroit Rock City”
- Molly Hatchet, “Flirtin’ With Disaster”
- The Outlaws, “Green Grass & High Tides”
- Sweet, “Ballroom Blitz”
- Rush, “Tom Sawyer”
- Bon Jovi, “Wanted Dead or Alive”
- The Clash, “Should I Stay or Should I Go”
- Faith No More, “Epic”
- R.E.M., “Orange Crush”
- Iron Maiden, “Run to the Hills”
- Foo Fighters, “Learn to Glide”
- Metallica, “Penetrate Sandman”
- Nirvana, “In Bloom”
- Stone Temple Pilots, “Vasoline”
- Weezer, “Say It Ain’t So”
- Smashing Pumpkins, “Cupid Rock”
- Radiohead, “Creep”
- Beastie Boys, “Sabotage”
- Hole, “Celebrity Skin”
- Garbage, “I Reflect I’m Paranoid”
- Soundgarden, “Black Hole Sun”
- The Hives, “Main Offender”
- Queens of the Stone Age, “Go With the Flow”
- The Strokes, “Reptilia”
- Jet, “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”
- OK Go, “Here It Goes Again”
- Nine Inch Nails, “The Hand That Feeds”
- Pixies, “Wave of Mutilation”
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Maps”
- Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Dani California”
- Coheed & Cambria, “Welcome Home”
- Fallout Boy, “Dead on Arrival”
- The Killers, “When You Were Young”
- New Pornographers, “Electric Version”
Bonus Tracks:
- The Konks, “29 Fingers”
- Anarchy Club, “Blood Doll”
- Freezepop, “Brainpower”
- Death of the Cool, “Can’t Let Go”
- The Acro-Brats, “Day Late, Dollar Small”
- Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives, “I Get By”
- Flyleaf, “I’m So Sick”
- Underhanded X, “Nightmare”
- Tribe, “Outside”
- Bang Camaro, “Pleasure (Pleasure)”
- Vagiant, “Seven”
- The Mother Hips, “Time We Had”
- Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld, “Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld”
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Nearly $400 for this complete package is a ripoff. The game is splendid, but the package is not worth the PS2 Holiday pricetag. If you have guitar hero guitars, you are halfway there. Just reflect of this game as an extension to Guitar Hero, but with more well loved rock songs that are taylored to the Karaoke crowd. And you can buy a Logitech microphone that works with Karaoke Revolution for only $4.99 at Best Buy. It works splendid with this game. Unless you’re a drum enthusiast, the drums are not worth it IMO. Extremely hard at times.
Rating: 5 / 5
We set this game up, and after messing with the calibration for a half an hour finally got to play. We were horrible. I knew I had no rhythm but the drums were frustrating. In Guitar Hero I’m pretty excellent, I get about 98% or higher on medium level (still kinda suck on hard), but with rock band I nearly fail simple songs. This leads me to believe that the calibration is STILL way off. I guess I’ll have to drag this into my bedroom on my normal microscopic tiny TV… smash everyone in the cramped room and try it again…splendid party game. The guitar controller is a piece of crap, I despise the strum bar, and the start/brilliant buttons are too close to the bar so I kept accidently hitting them with my hand.
I’m a girl, so naturally my voice is higher than the singers, and found I’d only get “Awesome” when I sang in exaggerated low vocals. Also for a kareoke game they chose some eerie songs, that Im guessing most people wouldn’t know very well…but I did have a blast singing In Bloom and Say It Aint So.
I guess on my day off I’ll have to spend the day really figuring out the calibration and getting used to drums. I just feel a small disappointed. When I first got Guitar Hero I sucked, sure, but I at least had a lot of fun learning. This game just frustrated me.
Rating: 3 / 5
I had so much fun with my version of the game, I came to Amazon to buy it for a friend. Wow, pretty nervous of Amazon.com to charge $100 over the suggested retail price I paid for the game just a few weeks ago! Are they taking advantage of the small supply? Why not just charge the retail price and when they’re gone, they’re gone. If you can wait for the supply to come back in, you’ll save $150. Amazon, you’ve tarnished your usual sterling reputation with this go. Terrible form.
Rating: 5 / 5
My wife and I have found Rock Band to be fun and exciting, but there are a couple of issues with the game that make it ultimately somewhat irritating.
1. The learning curve is not charming. You can be jamming by the side of and everything is splendid, and you will come upon a song rated at the same difficulty that is impossible to complete. GH3 has a much smoother progression of songs which brings you up easily.
2. The Vocals player does not contribute directly to points when they complete phrases.
3. The accuracy of timing on clarification required on medium is perhaps too tight.
4. Once you get to 260,000 fans you can’t get anymore until you can play at the Hard level. There is a large gap between the medium songs and the Hard songs making a barrier to nonstop unlocking play.
5. The game is so strict on note accuracy that 10ms of timing difference set in the options can have a significant impact on your performance. This is so incorrect, and it bothers me to no end. I like GH3’s note accuracy model much better. It provides challenge without being needlessly irritating.
6. I feel that the clarification are not well represented in Rock Band. I find myself noticing that the buttons required for play don’t seem to really match what clarification are playing in the song. GH3 seems to be much closer. In GH3 my hand starts to “know” what to play if I know the song.
I in fact started playing GH3 after playing Rock Band. I had become annoyed at the learning curve on RB, so I switched to GH3. Also the GH3 guitar controller seems better made. My RB controller has a broken Wa wa bar groundbreaking new. I’ve scheduled a new replacement, but I have not seen the RMA box yet in the mail after 2 weeks.
All these detractors aside, it is really fun to play the game with my wife. We really delight in nailing a song with me on Guitar, and she on the vocals.
Rating: 3 / 5
I was very excited about this product upon buy. I am an avid Guitar Hero fan and I thought that this would be just as splendid. It was fun for about 2 weeks, only with a group of people. Solo play is dull. Guitar is not as user-friendly as Guitar Hero guitar, drums require a seat shorter than the set. I would recommend it for group fun, but by and large the game is disappointing.
Rating: 3 / 5