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Guitar Hero hates the '80s

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: August 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I can only assume Harmonix wanted to hurry up and ditch this series to do their new game, so they picked a theme nobody there wanted to do. How else do you explain this?

There's no new nothing, which isn't necessarily a problem. Worse is that there are only 30 tracks, and the song selection is questionable at best. Three of them aren't even from the '80s! One is best known for being in the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. There's no Queen, Black Sabbath, Lita Ford, Prince, Heart, Guns N Roses, Springsteen, or even Bon Jovi - to name just a few snubbed guitar heroes. Co-existing uncomfortably with shredders like Anthrax and Judas Priest are a few New Wave and pop songs (what is "We Got the Beat" doing in a game called Guitar Hero? Or any game?), as if they couldn't come up with enough guitar-heavy songs to fill the meager track list.

Adding injury to insult, the covers suck. Which is strange, because the covers have always been very good in not only this series, but the Karaoke Revolution series as well. Even the nuts-and-bolts gameplay (which notes to hit, and when) seems simpler than in the previous games.

There is just no effort evident anywhere in the entire game, not in concept or execution. It seems to be a game about '80s music made by people who hate '80s music. The worst part is, this is probably the only '80s Guitar Hero we'll ever get.

50 bucks!?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is nothing but an exapnsion pack, they just slapped some new songs into the GH2 engine and then expect us to pay the same price as a fully developed game that spent years to make instead of the 10 minutes they spent on this one.

Great Idea Bad Execution

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Let me start by saying that I love Guitar Hero I and II and while you can argue for years about the song list for Encore: Rocks the 80's for me the disappointment comes in the execution. In the first two versions of Guitar Hero the production quality on the songs made you feel like you were playing with the real band at a big venue. With the new version, it sounds like your playing in someone's basement through a bad amp with a lead singer who has a cold. The other problem with the new version is the guitar work itself. With the previous versions the notes on the screen matched the song, in this new version there are many times where there seemed to be no connection between the music and the notes you were playing. This felt like Red Octane was in a hurry to get something out, grabbed some songs that would be cheap to license and then hired a second rate group to help them record the covers on bad equipment. I'm seriously considering sending my copy back to Red Octane.

Not Worth the Price

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I felt like there should have been more rockin' 80's tunes. The music selection didn't quicken my pulse like the other Guitar Hero games. It just didn't feel like it was worth the wait or the cost.

Where is the good 80's rock at?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: July 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is supposed to be Guitar themed upon 80's guitar...and there is not one Prince song on here. That alone disappoints me...but not as much as the music they did put on the game. Let's wait for 3, get Purple Rain on there or something.

Nothing Special

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Pretty disgusted at the lackluster attempt on this game. Theres virtually nothing special about it to explain the high price tag.

Absolutely HORRIFIC!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: September 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Avoid this game at all costs. I was one of the first to buy this game because of how much I loved GH 2. Too bad this game made me want to avoid all future GH series. This game has 2 maybe 3 songs that are actually fun to play. All of the songs are boring 90% of them I had no idea what they were or why they were chosen for the game. I got 5 gold stars on almost every song my first time around so I knew this 80's game was worthless so I sold it on ebay the next day. It was not fun to play YOU CAN'T BUY MORE SONGS and it's all the same characters just in stupid outfits. Save your money.

One Word: LAZY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

When this first came out, I almost bought it, but at the last second I changed my mind and rented it later. I'm glad I did.

This game is nothing but GH2 with 80's window dressing. I mean, the opening sequence is EXACTLY THE SAME, only the characters are now sporting 80's styles. As soon as I saw that, I got a bad feeling, and it only got worse from there. Everything--and I do mean EVERYTHING--is right out of GH2. I couldn't even make it through the first round before quitting in digust. This is nothing but pure laziness on the creators' part, just a desperate attempt to milk some more money out of this franchise.

If you must buy this game, buy it 50% off.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: July 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If this game cost me $25, it would be the greatest game ever. I would love it for hours, I would master every single song on it, and I would be very, very happy.

It costs $50.

There are only 30 songs, no bonuses, no quirks, no unlockables to speak of. It's Guitar Hero 2 bonus tracks with a palette swap.

That being said, I really love the songs. I am a huge fan of 80s music, especially the ever present metal.

If they ever plan on doing something like this again, they need to do three things.

First off, they need to either reduce the price or put in more effort. $50 is a lot for a game, and if I pay it, I expect an actual game, not just an expansion pack.

Second, they need to do playtesting on it a lot more. No, I don't just mean put in more effort, I mean... it skips, it jumps, it's awful. Many songs are unplayable because of the skips.

Third, they need to do more than just make songs more difficult. This version is *much* harder than Guitar Hero 2, and to a certain extent, as someone who plays exclusively on expert, that's a good thing, but even though I would kill for an Yngwie Malmsteen track on one of them, I have to confess, enough is enough. If you play on expert, expect endless triple chords and transitions from the first song. If you play on easier difficulties, expect it to be so easy that you will scream.

Guitar Hero forgot the 80's

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The price of the game $40-50 is too high for only 30 songs. But had those 30 songs been real gems of the 80's I could have forgiven the price and reveled in my teen years.

However, despite a couple of good 80's songs, the most loved of all the 80's bands were completely ignored and left out! I understand they have to pay for rights to these songs, but with as many copies as they sell and as high as they are charging, they owe us some decent 80's music. This is not a tribute to the 80's, it's a desperate attempt to throw us some cheap music for high profits.

I was a teen in the 80's and listened to rock for 18 hours per day. I've never heard of many of the songs on the tracks. I've never heard of some of the bands on the list!
Where are Bryan Adams, Pat Benetar, Prince, ZZ-top, Van Halen, Run DMC, Wham, Duran Duran, Springsteen, Def Leppard, Dire Straits, Guns N' Roses, and 90 others I could list that top most of the artists on this edition.

A huge disappointment. I would pay 50 per month for a new version if they had decent music on it.

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