Game Info
Game Name: Rock Band 2
Developer(s): Harmonix (PS3/XBox 360)/Pi Studios (Wii)
Publisher(s): MTV Games
Platform(s): PS3, XBox 360, Wii
Genre(s): Music
Release Date(s): September 14, 2008 (XBox 360)/October 19, 2008 (PS3)/December 18, 2008 (Wii)
ESRB Rating: T
Aim high, score big!
Your band is back and now there is even more music to play. Get your friends together, make a setlist, and start your rock odyssey.
Rock Band 2 really overtook the Guitar Hero franchise with the release of this game. Its smooth controls, graphics, and huge setlist in addition to all the downloadable content just dwarfed Guitar Hero: World Tour’s attempt to get into the multi-instrument arena. Rock Band at this point was too established and had a larger music pool to pull from since artists were really recognizing the advantage of being on the popular video game. The setlist is awesome and with the ability to import songs from Rock Band’s original game, it even adds more content.
The complete Rock Band 2 song setlist:
A Jagged Gorgeous Winter—The Main Drag
Ace of Spades ’08—Motorhead
Alabama Getaway—Grateful Dead
Alex Chilton—The Replacements
Alive—Pearl Jam
Almost Easy—Avenged Sevenfold
American Woman—The Guess Who
Any Way You Want It—Journey
Aqualung—Jethro Tull
Bad Reputation—Joan Jett
Battery—Metallica
Bodhisattva—Steely Dan
Carry On Wayward Son—Kansas
Chop Suey—System of a Down
Colony of Birchmen—Mastodon
Come Out and Play (Keep ‘Em Separated)—The Offspring
Conventional Lover—Speck
Cool for Cats—Squeeze
De-Luxe—Lush
Down with the Sickness—Disturbed
Drain You—Nirvana
E-Pro—Beck
Everlong—Foo Fighters
Eye of the Tiger—Survivor
Feel the Pain—Dinosaur Jr.
Float On—Modest Mouse
Get Clean—Anarchy Club
Girl’s Not Grey—AFI
Give It All—Rise Against
Give It Away—Red Hot Chili Peppers
Go Your Own Way—Fleetwood Mac
Hello There—Cheap Trick
Hungry Like the Wolf—Duran Duran
I Was Wrong—Social Distortion
Kids in America—The Muffs
Lazy Eye—Silversun Pickups
Let There Be Rock—AC/DC
Livin’ on a Prayer—Bon Jovi
Lump—Presidents of the United States of America
Man in the Box—Alice in Chains
Master Exploder—Tenacious D
Mountain Song—Jane’s Addition
My Own Worst Enemy—Lit
New Kid in School—The Donnas
Night Lies—Bang Camaro
Nine in the Afternoon—Panic! At the Disco
One Step Closer—Linkin Park
One Way or Another—Blondie
Our Truth—Lacuna Coil
Painkiller—Judas Priest
Panic Attack—Dream Theater
PDA—Interpol
Peace Sells—Megadeath
Pinball Wizard—The Who
Pretend We’re Dead—L7
Psycho Killer—Talking Heads
Pump It Up—Elvis Costello
Ramblin’ Man—The Allman Brothers Band
Rebel Girl—Bikini Kill
Rob the Prez-O-Dent—That Handsome Devil
Rock’n Me—Steve Miller Band
Round and Round—Ratt
Shackler’s Revenge—Guns N’ Roses
Shooting Star—Bad Company
Shoulder to Plow—Breaking Wheel
So What’cha Want—Beastie Boys
Souls of Black—Testament
Spirit in the Sky—Norman Greenbaum
Spoonman—Soundgarden
Supreme Girl—The Sterns
Tangled Up in Blue—Bob Dylan
Teen Age Riot—Sonic Youth
Testify—Rage Against the Machine
That’s What You Get—Paramore
The Middle—Jimmy Eat World
The Trees (Vault Edition)—Rush
Today—Smashing Pumpkins
Uncontrollable Urge—Devo
Visions—Abnormality
We Got the Beat—The Go-Go’s
Welcome to the Neighborhood—Libyans
Where’d You Go?—The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
White Wedding (Part 1)—Billy Idol
You Oughta Know—Alanis Morissette
Rock longer & rock harder with one of the best setlists out there!
With the huge setlist and a much improved band tour, Rock Band 2 is definitely one of the best, if not the best music games out there. Harmonix hit their stride with this game, destroyed Guitar Hero, and unfortunately was so successful that a flood of music games hit the market (including more games by Rock Band). Great success is sometimes met by failure and the rise of the music game may end up being a failure in the long run…Guitar Hero is out…could Rock Band be next with all the games on the market?
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