| Product Summary | | Manufacturer: Activision Inc. | | Format: PlayStation 2 | | Mfg Part#: 95071 | | UPC: 00047875950719 | | Buy.com Sku: 204555538 | | Item#: G25LPD | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 6501 | | View similar products |  |
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| | | Fans Can Once Again Whip Out Their Gibson-Shaped SG Guitar Controllers and Shred to Their Favorite Rock Tracks! The PS2-exclusive Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80's features a giant list of finger-melting tracks, including I Wanna Rock (by Twisted Sister), I Ran (by Flock of Seagulls), Round and Round (by Ratt), I Want Candy (by Bow Wow Wow), Metal Health (by Quiet Riot), Holy Diver (by Ronnie James Dio) and Heat of the Moment (by Asia)!
Full set list:
1) Opening Licks
(Bang Your Head) Metal Health - Quiet Riot
We Got The Beat - The Go Go's
I Ran (So Far Away) - Flock Of Seagulls (original artist)
Balls To The Wall - Accept
18 And Life - Skid Row
2) Amp Warmers
No One Like You - Scorpions
Shakin' - Eddie Money
Heat Of The Moment - Asia
Radar Love - White Lion
Because, It's Midnite - Limozeen (original artist)
3) String Snappers
Holy Diver - Dio
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Hold On Loosely - .38 Special
The Warrior - Scandal (original artist)
I Wanna Rock - Twisted Sister (original artist)
4) Return Of The Shred
What I Like About You - The Romantics
Synchronicity II - The Police
Ballroom Blitz - Krokus
Only A Lad - Oingo Boingo
Round And Round - Ratt
5) Relentless Riffs
Ain't Nothin But A Good Time - Poison
Lonely Is The Night - Billy Squier
Bathroom Wall - Faster Pussycat
Los Angeles - X
Wrathchild - Iron Maiden
6) Furious Fretwork
Electric Eye - Judas Priest (original artist)
Police Truck - Dead Kennedys
Seventeen - Winger
Caught In A Mosh - Anthrax
Play With Me - Extreme
| | Features |  | KILLER 80s SOUNDTRACK: Pick up your axe and rock out to tracks ranging from New Wave to Hair Metal. Every song will have you tapping your feet and banging your head!
| | AWESOME CHARACTERS: Play as your favorite Guitar Hero characters decked out in awesome 80s outfits.
| | CO-OP MULTIPLAYER: Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s puts 2 players closer to the rock experience, enabling players to play cooperatively with one person on lead guitar, and the 2nd on bass or rhythm guitar.
| | CHALLENGE A FRIEND: Jam against a friend in two competitive multiplayer modes.
| | PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT: Master those 80s hits using the awesome Practice mode. Play any part of any song or even slow down the songs to really nail those difficult sections.
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Gameplay |  4.5 | | Graphics |  3.5 | | Difficulty |  4 | | Overall | 4 |
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5 of 5 Guitar hero rocks Sunday, January 13, 2008
A Gamer from Farmington,Mn
Keep the new ones comeing.Hours of enjoyment Was this review helpful?  
3 of 5 Fun, but falls short of expectations Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Tony G from South Bend, IN
The best thing I can say about this game is that the songs are very fun to play. However, there are not enough of them, literally less than half of the number in Guitar Hero 2 (30 compared to ~65.) I care more about playing the game than the extras, so it didn't bother me that there were fewer characters, and all the same guitars and venues from GH2.
The difficulty level was slightly disappointing too. This is definitely easier than GH2 (I've only played at expert level.) I beat 27 of the 30 songs on my first try and got 5 stars on over half of them. That doesn't leave much for the experienced players to work for.
Overall it's a fun game, and I'm glad I have it, but since it is basically a Guitar Hero 2 expansion, and not a full game, it probably should have cost about 35 dollars. Was this review helpful?
4 of 5 Ehhh...Should've been better! Friday, August 10, 2007
DrWoody from Placentia CA
If you've read any other reviews of this, most people are saying the same thing, that it seems like a rushed attempt to cash in on the GH franchise one last time. While I can't neccessarily disagree with these points, come on...its still Guitar Hero.<br>
Yeah, having less characters and rehashing the same venues as GH2 is pretty weak for the die-hards. Yeah most of the alterations in color & graphics on the venues went unnoticed with our group. Yah, there are no extra songs. But truth be told, once the first chords or "Nothing But A Good Time" were strummed, nobody really cared about the aforementioned "flaws."
<br>Regarding the track listing, I would have to say its just so-so. Some songs severely suffer from not having the original song, more so than on previous GH installments, as they lack excitement or energy. However, belting out "Turning Japanese", "Hold On Loosely", and "The Warrior" is almost guaranteed to get your crowd singing & pumping their fists. An entire 80s version of GH certainly seemed like a great concept, unfortunately though, this one doesnt quite live up to the expectations that GH & GH2 set up.
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4 of 5 Wringing the last profits from GH2 Tuesday, July 31, 2007
CheezHead from Eau Claire, Wisconsin
It's not that I don't like this game, I mean come on... It's Guitar Hero. But I was very disappointed with the obvious attempt to get more profits from a game that ends up being a stripped down GH2 with 30 different songs.
They couldn't (or didn't care to) come up with anything more original than changing the guitar players' outfits and the background colors of the venues. No bonus videos (though the instructions mention buying them), fewer characters, no bonus songs and the same old everything else. Then as an added insult, they sell it for a higher price than GH2.
Knowing that Red Octane will not be involved with GH3, it really shouldn't be a shock that this version has nothing new. They even used more master tapes so they spent less on studio musicians to recreate songs. This produces a noticable difference in audio quality from one song to the next.
With all that said, if you are a GH junkie like me (played through medium and hard in 6 hours), then you have no choice but get this. Don't get it if you don't really like the song selection as there's nothing else there for your money. Was this review helpful?
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