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Guitar Hero II

Also known as: Guitar Hero 2, GH2

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The sequel to Guitar Hero has 55 new songs and the option to jam with friends on bass, rhythm or lead guitar tracks. Unless you hate rock, you need this game.

Genre: Family
Release date: Nov 7, 2006
Published by: RedOctane
Developed by: Harmonix
Multiplayer Modes:

Offline

2 player VS

2 player CO-OP

Franchise: Guitar Hero
Features: Guitar Hero SG controller compatible

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Latest Stories

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PS2 Feature - Feb 22, 2008

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"Don't underestimate Red Octane's hardware," in the face of EA's Rock Band

PS2 News - Jul 16, 2007

Rock Band a Guitar Hero "imitator" says...

Execs have taken a rock-like swipe at Harmonix and EA's new music game

PS2 News - Jun 1, 2007

Win! A chance to play Download Festival

Play Guitar Hero II in front of thousands of people

PS2 News - May 30, 2007

Cheats from CheatPlanet

Unlock Everything (disables save)

Jun 18, 2007

Codes for PAL Version

Nov 29, 2006

Hyper Speed

Nov 10, 2006

Air Guitar

Nov 10, 2006

Crowd has Eyeball Heads

Nov 10, 2006

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FAQ's and Guides from CheatPlanet

Guitar Hero II FAQ (PS2)

Apr 6, 2007

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Features

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Celebrate the beefiest badasses of all time

Feb 22, 2008

Nine gems of gaming merchandise

Rarest crap or super-sexy centerpieces? You decide

Apr 4, 2007

Ruined endings - part one

Games one through ten of our spoiler packed presentation

Mar 2, 2007

Guitar Hero II - Six-string Showdown

We played every GH II controller out there 'til our fingers bled - wanna know which one...

Jan 19, 2007

The Top 7... games you've never played right

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Jan 2, 2007

GamesRadar's potentially annual Platinum...

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Dec 22, 2006

Pre-E3 blowout day two: PS2/PSP

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May 2, 2006

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News

"Guitar Hero is still relevant," says...

"Don't underestimate Red Octane's hardware," in the face of EA's Rock Band

Jul 16, 2007

Rock Band a Guitar Hero "imitator" says...

Execs have taken a rock-like swipe at Harmonix and EA's new music game

Jun 1, 2007

Win! A chance to play Download Festival

Play Guitar Hero II in front of thousands of people

May 30, 2007

GDC: EA signs Guitar Hero developer

"The new project that we're working on is by far our most ambitious undertaking...

Mar 7, 2007

Guitar Hero 2 mourns arch rival

Pour some out for the fallen homey

Jan 25, 2007

Guitar Hero dev rocks new gig

Goodbye Guitar Hero, hello "ambitious endeavor"...

Jan 23, 2007

GamesRadar's potentially annual Platinum...

It's been a stupidly big year for games. Why don't we reduce it to a single glib article?

Dec 22, 2006

Adaptor solves Guitar Hero II woes

Add-on brings back the rock

Nov 8, 2006

Guitar Hero II goes cordless

Rock on and throw your tangles away

Nov 8, 2006

Guitar Hero controller lock out?

[PS2] Sequel demo won't work with third-party controllers

Oct 17, 2006

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Review

Take the stage for the greatest encore you've ever seen

Nov 24, 2006

Friday 24 November 2006 Confession time: we can't play Guitar Hero on Normal mode any more. Yeah, you read that right: not 'don't', but 'can't'. Other games? Yeah, sometimes we like them easy. But in Guitar Hero, Normal just doesn't give us that buzz; that twitchy jolt of adrenaline that comes when your conscious brain shuts down and your fingers fly over the plastic. Orange notes are our drug, and we've been desperate for a fresh fix for months. OK, we'll explain. Play on Normal in Guitar ...

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Previews

Guitar Hero II

Success brings the guitar-thrashing romp a major-label signing - and a sequel

Oct 16, 2006

Monday 16 October 2006 Guitar Hero's instantaneous appeal started with the guitar itself: the chunky, tactile plastic talisman that so effortlessly drew players out of themselves and into the music. The same shouldn't be true of the sequel - available sans controller, it's a refinement and expansion, all about the songs. But the new, cherry-red variant that ships with Guitar Hero II will prove tempting to many who never bought a second controller first time round (and maybe even some who did). ... » Read Full Guitar Hero II preview

Guitar Hero II - latest hands-on

It's gonna freakin' rock, man!

Oct 10, 2006

RedOctane may have carved out a small niche for itself by making dance pads, but it was last year's release of Guitar Hero that put the company on the map. A surprisingly addictive blend of gameplay, good music and a sweet Gibson-inspired, guitar controller all added up to a resounding success. Now the company is back for round two, and this year's revision is looking better than ever thanks to a packed song list and the addition of a few requested features. Numero uno on the list of ... » Read Full Guitar Hero II preview

Guitar Hero II hands-on

[PS2] We plug in for a six-string-slinging playtest

Jun 20, 2006

Thursday 11 May 2006 Unofficial music business lore states that if an artist's first major-label album is a smash hit, the follow-up is almost doomed to underachieve. It happens all the time. However, ten minutes on the show floor at E3 is all we needed to know for sure that the Guitar Hero series, which gives you a guitar-shaped controller and lets you play rock god, is absolutely not going to fall victim to that age-old curse. The thing the game does right is preserve everything that made ... » Read Full Guitar Hero II preview

E3 06: Guitar Hero 2 - hands on

PS2: We rock. And we've got the six-string-slinging playtest to prove it.

May 10, 2006

There's a dilemma in the music business called the "sophomore slump". It essentially predicts that, if an artist's first major-label album is a smash hit, the follow-up album is almost doomed to underachieve. It happens all the time. However, ten minutes is all we needed to know for sure that the Guitar Hero series, which gives you a guitar-shaped controller and lets you play rock god, is absolutely not going to fall victim to that age-old curse. Now, tinnitis… that's another story. The ... » Read Full Guitar Hero II preview

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