PS2/PS3 Rock Band 2 Standalone Guitar
- Auto-calibration sensor easily and accurately syncs to any type of TV. Game sold separately.
- Improved sturdier strum bar for greater precision and accuracy for advanced players.
- Quicker, quieter charming-action fret buttons.
- Retooled tilt sensor for improved overdrive deployment.
- Extra set of fret buttons for finger tapping solos or just for showboating
Product Description
Rock out with the all new authentic wireless Fender Stratocaster mock-up guitar
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I cannot in excellent conscience rate this guitar higher than 3 stars …
It’s a splendid guitar, you can read about all the details in the other reviews. But, in my original order I received a broken guitar (which was a replacement for my recently broken Rock Band 1 guitar). When I contacted Electronic Arts about a replacement, I was informed that about 2% of their Rock Band peripherals ship out defective. They were helpful and I received a replacement via UPS later in the week which included free return shipping for my defective guitar. While it was splendid of them to be so quick about fixing my conundrum, I cannot help but believe that a lot higher than 98% of their harvest should work correctly in the first place!
Rating: 3 / 5
Like Rock Band 2 and the guitar, but, there is one glaring conundrum.
It is next to impossible to replace the wireless adapter should it fail!
EA Sports meeting gave me the run around and all their reps kept telling me was to check out the EA Store for Rock Band 2 components.
Honestly I don’t reflect they even understood English based on how they were typing their emails to me. Right now my guitar is useless because I can’t find a wireless adapter anywhere!
Rating: 2 / 5
I previously owned Guitar Hero. After buying Rock Back 2 I will not go back. The guitars feel like they are much better quality. I have not had any issues with the guitar and all the controls have felt ’spot on’.
Rating: 5 / 5
I reflect it’s possible that a majority of the unenthusiastic reviewers just got lemons and if I were them I’d give the thing a poor rating too, but I also reflect the more “hardcore” you are about the game, the chances of you breaking an instrument go up. I play on “medium” or “hard” because I like to go around a lot when I play and I in person don’t like the thought of staring intently at the screen with all of my focus devoted to getting a high score. It’s much more fun [to me] to dial back on the difficulty in order to have more fun “role-playing”, but that being said, I can’t physically do “expert” difficulty [yet], so it’s not even an option for me right now. And I’m not trying to say that those people who can/want to play at “expert” are at fault for potentially breaking their guitars, but it seems the companies that make them should design these controllers to better handle the amount of input required of them at such high levels of play; it’s a bring shame on, but I can’t relate yet. I just treat the thing with more care than it probably deserves, but I can certainly see how one could break one of these. It makes that disconcerting plastic creaking sound like it’s going to snap somewhere, but based on how it’s place together with the residency of the screws, it should hold up structurally. I would just recommend the obvious: don’t bang it around and hold/pick it up/swing it around by its weak points. Regarding the buttons, I’ve had no issues really, the frets are nice and wide and don’t make too much noise, they’re a tiny bit rattley but not anything terrible. The start/brilliant buttons are basically out of the way; I’ve only accidentally hit the start button once and that was because I was being flashy. Initially, I wasn’t crazy about the strum bar, because it doesn’t have that satisfying Guitar Hero *click* to it, and it felt like you had to flick it pretty hard to get it to register, but that turned out to be either a calibration issue or it just needed to be “broken in”; now it’s a nice soft touch that I’m really used to. Speaking of calibration, that’s probably the most obnoxious part. I recommend using the auto-calibration with the guitar’s built-in sensors and then going into practice mode on 50% alacrity to sort out if any fine-tuning is necessary. I finished up removing about 30ms of video lag because the guitar enabled me to hit a note wayyy later than it should have, and I wanted more leeway for an accidentally early hit. It’s irritating to do all of this testing but it’s really satisfying once you get it sorted out. Just keep in mind that the drums may not exactly “like” the same settings [for video at least] as the guitar[s] so you may have to find a negotiate lag regard. By and large though I have no major complaints [knock on wood/plastic], and yes I do recommend this guitar here. I guess my only real issue is price; I reflect it’s a bit on the expensive side, but that can’t be helped I suppose [it's also way more for xbox]. I would hope a majority of its price has not anything to do with the auto sensors, because RB only allows calibration for one instrument. So now that I have my values and I’m looking for a second guitar as a bass, I don’t need another auto-calibrating instrument – it’s a tad irritating. I reflect I’ll try for a cheap used GH:WT guitar and if that is dreadful or fails I’ll spring for this legit RB2 guitar as the set aside. Hope this way-too-long review was helpful in any way.
Rating: 4 / 5
The Rock Band 2 PS2/PS3 Guitar is Awesome!! Plays brilliant…as a musician who plays both guitar, drums, and vocals…this Rock Band 2 set up, meets all my expectations for a PS2/PS3 sim. This RB2 aXe has a GREAT feel to it!! .. I like the solo keys and the finger tapping option 4 solos!! … you can use the solo keys for regular play as the kids like to use them because they are smaller and closer…makes it simpler for them to play…basically fun for the whiole fam!! I couldn’t be more pleased about the whole RB2 set up!!
Rating: 5 / 5