360 Rock Band 2 Reviews Thread

[erikers]

Frodaddyg said:

erikers said:
The biggest mistake in this game was taking out the solo world tour. There was no reason to do that. This game really gives no incentive for one to push harder for higher scores. What's that little Johnny? Can't beat painkiller on guitar or drums on expert? That's ok, there's no solo world tour to try and beat nor are there any achievements for beating anything on expert except the endless setlist or as I call it, the 360 system death accelerator.

Everything else is good thus far though.

I think having the actual World Tour mode available for single player is way better than the "beat these songs in order of difficulty" approach in every game since the original Guitar Hero. Plus, you can always Quickplay songs if you're just looking to one-up your old high scores.

They could easily have the solo modes and make World Tour available for single player.  Extra options that extend the life of a game can only be good.  Exchanging 4 big solo modes for some instrument specific "Challenges" is not a good compromise.  There's no reason to remove THE feature that made GH 1-3 and Rock Band 1 great for fans.  

By the way, am I the only one who thinks they should just let us pick 20 of our favorite songs from the list of DLC they have up instead of them picking 20 free songs that will most likely blow and be unknown bands or more of harmonix's "inside" crap bands?  Anybody who thinks they would leave off huge/popular/good songs off the game to be added later is fooling themselves.