Shedding, Not Shredding, Rock Band 2

After an late nighter with a bunch of friends playing Rock Band 2 until 2am, I feel like Rock Band 2 surved it's purpose and is ready to go back out into the street.

I don't know what I was expecting with a music game sequel. More music tracks, obviously, but the improvements or changes to the game didn't really warrant another $60 game purchase. There was a drum fill/beat trainer that was interesting for a few hours, some really obviously changes to the way bands and band members work (which should have been in the first game) and that's about it.

So the important thing here is the music. The game has 80 tracks on the disk, but just like Rock Band 1, there are really only so many songs on that we really like. Then having the downloadable content made things better by being able to pick and choose, like an iTunes store.

Luckily though, there's no pressure to buy Rock Band 2 for fear of being locked out of downloadable content for new music. So I'm selling the over-priced program update and putting that money towards buying downloadable tracks.