Guitar Hero II (Xbox 360)

[Yoshimax]

Yeah it works nicely - There are tables for "career" (which takes your highest score per song across all difficulties) and a table for every song.

Each song table also shows everybodies highest score regardless of what difficulty they achieved it on (there's a letter next to the score denoting which level it was achieved on).

You can filter overall or friends only and split it by all time or "this week".

Very Nice - I Like

[Nijo]

As long as it displays all the friends correctly (marble blast...) and in order (viva pinata...) it'll be fine.

What about the question on the clickiness of the strummer? Is it still really clicky or did they quieten it a bit so I can play at night?

Is Game going to have it in store today? I was thinking of popping over at lunchtime....

[Yoshimax]

I'd say the strummer is *maybe* a little bit quieter - certainly didn't seem as untrusive but it's certainly not a great improvement !

It's the guide button I need to do something about !!!

I got 4 achievements by the end of my first song last night (Surrender on Hard )

[Redsquirrel]

I have completed this on medium now. I really enjoyed it, but in all honestly it doesnt really warrant a purchase if you have the PS2 version (like i have too).

The new songs are mostly good, but apart from that its practically the same game.

The most dissapointing thing to me is that you can't play multiplayer online. Just online leaderboards. a big missed opportunity =(

[Yoshimax]

You have the PS2 version and you played through on medium ? amateur

I traded in me PS2 versions so this didn't cost it was like a swap really - the graphics on an HDTV are different gravy compared to the PS2 one (to be fair the PS2 looks **** no matter what it's running on a 40" LCD !) and as I've said already I love all the little touches (crowd feedback, the vocalist).

When the camera pulls back at the end of a song in Red Octane you really appreciate what the higher res brings to the table !

Hurry up you lot I needs to be seeing some scores to aim for !!!

[Redsquirrel]

Yeah to be honest I found medium too easy (i pretty much perfected every song or missed one note on most songs). I just wanted to beat it quick. Didnt get too many achievements, probably like 300 or so.

I do agree the sound is better, but saying that I have been running PS2 Guitar Hero 1&2 via a Yahama sound system and 100 inch (or so) projector screen in 480p. And who really takes notice of the visuals when playing?

Looks the part on my 32inch hdtv though and i do lik all the crowd feedback. I will have a go at hard/expert songs over easter, but will probably play on the ps2 version later as have two guitars with that and a bunch of friends eager to play =)

[Myth]

So with the high scores it just shows a score and not what difficulty it was done on? Surely that means that theres less of an incentive to do it on expert cause someone could mash your score on easy.

[Tobal]

anyone else got the problem of the subwoofer not working on there 5.1 setup's? I went back and checked out CoD3 and crackdown and it working fine with it but for some reason 360 GH2(even though GH1/2 PS2 works fine) won't use the subwoofer even though it's clearly using 5.1 through the rest of the speakers.

Any suggestions?

[Nijo]

So with the high scores it just shows a score and not what difficulty it was done on? Surely that means that theres less of an incentive to do it on expert cause someone could mash your score on easy.

No, you can get way higher scores on expert. Even if it's true about the highscores, which would be surprising.

[EvilBoris]

Well parcel force was late so i had to deliver it myself...Congrats Jebus! anyhow i went into game on my lunch break and I was pleasantly suprised to see that they were selling it early because of the bank holiday. yay!

[PeteJ]

Yoshi has already explained the leaderboard here:

Each song table also shows everybodies highest score regardless of what difficulty they achieved it on (there's a letter next to the score denoting which level it was achieved on).

Besides, as Nijo says you can get higher scores on the top difficulties because there are more notes to hit.

[wicky]

Any DLC out yet ?

[hudson]

Any DLC out yet ?

Not when I checked about an hour ago.

[Yoshimax]

The GH area of MP was empty when I checked yesterday - was hoping something might be up tonight but not sounding good now - hopefully we'll get the dozen tracks tomorrow !

[Orgun]

Argh been playing for about 3 hours now, oh the pain but oh the fun