80+ tracks for Rock Band 2, no music creation

So, there is no creativity. They'll just sell extra songs.

It better be compatible with RB's peripherals... And the DLC being compatible would be nice too...

If this means them doing it better than it's being done in GH4 I'm all for their "wait and see" approach. Seems like the games are just (on paper) leapfrogging each other. The competition is good!

Harmonix have my money in terms of actually getting things right though, shame they can't manage to release the PS3 version of RB1 in most of the world.. >.< I'm kind of hoping they skip it entirely now!

rock band 1 was great. had it's share of good songs and some that made me wonder what harmonix was thinking of when they put them in. also 80+ songs sounds great to me because rock band 1 only had around 58 songs. Hope they make the instruments higher quality though my friends guitar broke after a month or two.

I've been playing guitar for about ten years, and I absolutely love rock band and guitar hero. But yeah I agree with Jam919, I mean come on man. Playing covers with fake instruments is all well and good...but if you're taking time to sit down and trying to write a song on fake instruments...then you're just a douche. It's time to play a real instrument.

How long before we see rock band 2009, rock band 2010, and rock band 2011. I Swear to god, rock band 2010 better come with a fog machine, strobe lights, and lasers, or I'm not buying it.

Maybe someday when they are finished concentrating on hating europe, I might actually buy a rock band game. Until then it seems guitar hero is the way forward. Go Neversoft!

lool dnt forget disco ball

"We've had a year to listen to our fans and build out the scope, depth and polish"

Someone please let them know it still isn't released fully in Europe yet - they seem to have forgotten?

This is great...just wish I could play the first one already!

guitar hero wt ftw
gh said theyed have 80-90 songs, now rock band says the same, but gh will have cooler drums and touch frets on the guitar

If the main difference between RB1 and RB2 is the songs, then why not just release the songs on RB1 and call it a day?

Seriously, why even make a sequel with exclusive songs to make for some dumb disc swapping to kill the mood at a party when your friend wants to play the song that's not on your RB1?

I'm sure they are adding improvements to the graphics and game modes as well. Will definitely buy when it comes out, I've got 2gb's of DLC for Rock Band, the box set, plus an extra guitar.

Well.....I think Harmonix have a bl**dy cheek talking away about Rock Band 2

Im still sitting here waiting for Rock Band 1 in the UK for PS3

As far as I am concerned, Harmonix have lost the sale. The announcement of GH4:WT with the drum kit and the mic etc before Rock Band came out over here in the UK killed Harmonix. I personally stood over the coffin with hammer and nails.

Besides, all Harmonix will do is charge us double the US price and claim 'shipping'. Seriously, do they think we are all stupid? I could ship a full container (25 pallets of 40 kits) from China stacked full of peripherals for £1.50 each on the slow boat. So Harmonix charging us circa £50-60 and calling 'shipping' is to be frank an insult.

People in the US can go to a shop, buy Rock Band, Fedex it over to the UK and make themselves $20...........and still sell it on ebay for less than it retails for

Lastly, I believe the Harmonix were paid by M$ for a timed exclusive on Rock Band.........I hope the money you took from them was a lot, because it lost you PS3 owners buying Rock Band......and has also lost you Rock Band 2 sales as well

Personally I lost faith in them with Guitar Hero 3. The expert difficulty was too hard. By that I mean the gauge drops so fast that if you're in a hard part and trying to get adjusted to the speed you fail. I'm not big on practice mode cause either way I still have to be able to do it at full speed and complete the entirety of the song.

Look at how the 2 companies did business. Rockband in 1 letter category surpassed ALL guitar hero add ons. Rock Band add ons were 1.99 a piece. Guitar Hero ones were 2.50 a piece. So you're paying 50 cents more for 1/4-1/2 the playability? On top of that the production values seemed to be quite lower. With them providing 2 games this year (one whoring off of a band that I don't really care for) and the other one trying to compete feature wise with their ex-comrades they seem to me like they just don't really know what they're doing.

Rockband creators said that they were trying to add a new feature to each instrument. GHWT only has a redesigned drum layout which may or may not really be great and may or may not entirely bleed your savings dry. Will I buy Rockband 2 at the release using my DLC from the first game to increase my library past 100 songs? HELLZ YA. Will I buy any Guitar Hero games within this year? Not a chance. Not even a 1 percent chance. I'm waiting to see how well they improve, how much they back up their games with DLC, and make sure they're not working on yet ANOTHER game. They lost me. They will have to add more support, and build my confidence in them up from scratch.

Oh one more thing, the whole user content thing... I seriously doubt that will pan out as expected. Remember Dance Dance Factory? A lot of people will just want to create stuff that's overly difficult or overly simplistic. User generated content needs precision and I seriously doubt they'll offer that well enough for the average joe to make something decent.

I'd buy just the software for $40, but no more. As far as I'm concerned this is an expansion, not a new game.

I'm dissapointed to see that user created music will not be part of this expansion. That feature is something that I've been waiting for since I first played Guitar Hero 1. IMHO user created music is the only way to show any "creativity" in these rhythm based games.