I have to admit, after being very excited by GH1[*], I was somewhat disappointed by the track listing for GH2, and fairly meh about GH80s.
There's a limit to how many songs you can honestly say are worth air-guitaring to - and I think they hit it about halfway through GH2.
It'd also be nicer to have songs done by the original artists, where possible, rather than with studio perfomers. It was one of the few potentially positive things I could see coming from the MTV buy-out.
[*] I got severely burned to the tune of about 80 quid when trying to import it from the USA when it was first released. The seller had high feedback, but claimed shipping delays were due to the high demand and managed to drag things out past Paypal's claim-back period - shortly after, they got kicked off Ebay. Still, once bitten, twice shy...
Dio wrote:On Rodent we listed about 40 excellent tracks from the 80s they could have gone with, but, well, they didn't. I think they picked a very American set in the end. I'm not that surprised, to be honest. And I'll still be getting it just for Holy Diver, of course, although I'm looking forward to the utter madness that will be Play With Me on Expert as well.
Uh oh - to quote Gamespy:
Gamespy wrote:
while most are passable, several are brutal; it's a dealbreaker in a game with so few tunes. The vocals on "Metal Health" are so painful that I wince at the thought of playing it again. The arrangement on "Heat of the Moment" falls apart during the chorus. The singer attempting to emulate Ronnie James Dio on "Holy Diver" has been the source of much pain here at GameSpy HQ. And maybe the biggest head-scratcher of all: Twisted Sister's "I Wanna Rock" is actually a master track and yet the slower, lower-pitch album version rather than the one we grew up with on MTV.
(IGN goes a step further and says Holy Diver sounds like a bar-band cover)
