Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's | 
| From: Activision Inc.
List Price: $49.99
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Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 357
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: musical instrument games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 95071
UPC: 047875950719
EAN: 0047875950719
ASIN: B000OPPR2C
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| 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 80’s 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 80’s 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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Product Description
Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s gives you the chance to be a rock idol by playing the biggest hits of the 80s! With new characters and retro-inspired venues, you're ready to thrash with the best of them -- and trash the place, if you're REALLY good. Cover the biggest hits of the era, and try the new multiplayer co-op mode with friends. Team up for double the rock as you play lead and your buddies play rhythm and bass. Songs Include: Dio - Holy Diver Asia - Heat Of The Moment. and many more!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 83 more reviews...
Disappointing July 24, 2007
N. Durham (Philadelphia, PA)
58 out of 67 found this review helpful
The Guitar Hero series has quickly become the premiere rhythm based gaming franchise, and with Activision now publishing the series, prepare for a yearly blitz of Guitar Hero games. Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's, compiles thirty songs from said decade. Many bands and group from the era; ranging from hair metal smashes like Poison and Ratt to legendary metal pioneers Iron Maiden and Anthrax, are featured here, along with songs from Asia, Twisted Sister, the Dead Kennedys, and Skid Row to boot. While many of the songs are incredibly fun to play, Guitar Hero Encore suffers from the fact that there isn't anything here that you haven't seen before. Combine this with the fact that the game is selling for the full list price and only features thirty songs with basically nothing else new, and you get one disappointing overall package. There's no unlockable tracks either, and some of the featured songs (like cuts from White Lion and Faster Pussycat) could have been done without. All in all, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's isn't bad one bit and offers a decent amount of fun for veteran players of the series, but the game is a disappointing quick cash-in attempt that doesn't offer enough bang for your buck to warrant the price tag.
Fun, but basically more of the same August 2, 2007
Harvey H. Meeker (Shelton, CT USA)
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks The 80s as a sequel to GH and GHII doesn't really measure up. It's still a fun game, mostly for people who grew up in the 80s like myself, but overall it really adds nothing new to the series. While GHII evolved the game quite a bit adding new multiplayer options and updating the hammer-on and pull-off functionality to make it more usable GH80s does nothing other than add a few new tunes to the mix. Barring a few tweaks the graphics are mostly the same throughout and the engine also remains the same. Apparently there are no plans to put this version of the game onto the XBOX 360.
Overall the songs are a lot easier to play through all difficulties with the exception of certain ones like Seventeen and Play With Me. For those who had a hard time progressing past the Medium difficulty this might be the right version of GH for you to break into Hard or even Expert. The songs themselves sound pretty decent overall and there are no glaringly bad vocal covers.
Songs by the original artists are:
"I Ran (So Far Away)" - A Flock of Seagulls
"Because, It's Midnite" - Limozeen
"The Warrior" - Scandal
"I Wanna Rock" - Twisted Sister
"Electric Eye" - Judas Priest
This will be the last GH game from Harmonix as they move on to do Rock Band. GHIII will be developed by Neversoft Entertainment.
I Want My 80's Rock July 24, 2007
Michael Kerner (Brooklyn, New York U.S.A.)
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
With the success of video games like Dance Dance Revolution, and Parappa The Rapper which recently got re-released for the PSP, many gamers have eagerly welcomed games that really were more about the music in them. Guitar Hero has been one of the most surprising games that really has worked very well in that success. The previous editions have made gamers want to kick their licks, and jam to their favorite smashes like Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana. While gamers are anxiously awaiting a new version for the upcoming Playstation 3, those who own the PS2 get their chance to hit the stream of the 80's in this band.
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks The 80's for the Playstation 2, is a spinoff from Activision popular music game that tries to tide over fans awaiting what will be in store on Guitar Hero III. The gameplay is very simple as you jam along with your favorite songs from the 80's, from guilty pleasures and one-hit wonders, to acts that were just hard core. The variety is already mixed with legends like The Police on Synchroncity II and Electric Eye from Judas Priest, to some acts that only feel like it is the 80's like The Vapors smash Turning Japanese and The Warrior from Patty Smyth and Scandal. The graphics and control deliver nicely, but I just wish that there could've been a lot more in the way of rock that should've been included. I was honestly hoping for acts like Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Pat Benetar and R.E.M. who really wrote and performed great Rock songs to be highlighted on this game.
All in all, Guitar Hero Encore: Rock's The 80's isn't a bad game but isn't quite enough to tide fans over who really want to party on down for a really good time. It still isn't a bad purchase for anyone who hasn't played Guitar Hero on the PS2 before, but you're better off awaiting for Guitar Hero III later this year, or just keep rocking on with Guitar Hero I & II in the meantime.
Graphics: B+
Sound: B
Control: B
Fun & Enjoyment: C+ for solo players, B- for multiplayer fun
Music Variety: C 1/2+
Overall: C+
 Great Idea, Bad Execution July 24, 2007
Kyle Slayzar (Grand Forks, ND)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
As a big Guitar Hero fan (I own the previous two installments) I was very excited that Red Octane was making an 80s version for us children of the 80s. Oddly enough, I didn't hear about it until literally the week before while doing some random research; it appeared as though Red Octane was barely advertising this and I think that was mistake no. 1.
Rock the 80s has a diverse track list that many a child of the 80s can enjoy. I personally enjoyed I Ran(So Far Away) by A Flock of Seagulls and Radar Love and my buddies got a kick out of Turning Japanese. However, that is where the fun ends. I bought it three hours ago and already I earned everything. As an encore I'm not surprised that Red Octane changed very little of the gameplay from Guitar Hero II but it seems as though they left out all the good stuff.
You can only purchase one additional character (Grim Reaper) so the other bonus characters are gone. This is sad as several of my buddies played exclusively as certain bonus characters. They also took out the bonus track section severely limiting songs. Red Octane barely edited the loading screen advice leaving most of the advice from Guitar Hero II on there.
On a few plus sides, I'm glad they kept co-op mode and many of the bonus guitars. I also wish they would've chosen better songs from certain groups (I think We're Not Gonna Take It would've been a better choice by Twisted Sister) but this is a criticism I have of the other Guitar Hero games.
Overall, I'm glad I waited in line to purchase Rock the 80s as I loved playing songs from my childhood but this could've been done a lot better with better bonus materials and less Guitar Hero II look-a-like but I should have expected as much when I saw "encore" under the title. An 85% overall with massive room for improvement.
 Is everyone else crazy? August 2, 2007
Melonhead
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
Who cares about the venues and the characters? Do you guys really get that much into the game? Whatever happened to just rocking out on 30 new songs, which by the way is how many songs the previous Guitar Hero games have(sure you can "buy" extra songs but who wants to play those crappy songs). I feel like everyone else is just hating to hate. The game is meant for the music not the stupid venues or characters or guitars you can buy. Have some fun, play the songs, and quit your bitching.
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