So I realize I'm a few days behind the rockstars that had the game Saturday night, but yesterday I rocked out with the latest GH and it brought me right back to loving the game. Without too many things to say and still being very new to the new release, I wanted to give some initial thoughts and hear some of your impressions as well...

1. I'm glad the powers that be, did not make everyone buy new guitars. The new wireless ones are cool, but already having two guitar would have probably made me NOT buy the game because of the extra $100 you'd need for the game specific guitars. I'm glad that these games are playing fair.

2. The song list is fun again. There's so many classics, but I'm a huge Killers fan and I also enjoyed the AFI track they threw out. With so much music around the world, I wonder when you'll be able to download a song and their software will convert it into a playable track...now that would be cool!

3. I noticed the developers realized that we're too busy playing the notes to look up on the screen, so they've placed most of the information items on the bottom half of the screen which I thought was intuitive.

4. The story line is fun and thought the jail house rock was cool.

Overall, I'm back to loving Guitar Hero. I assume downloadable songs will continue to be released and I hope they can reduce the cost for those as well. I also hope the competition that Rock Band and the other music-surrounding games will force the development teams to stay on top of things and continue giving us what we love!

BEN
www.GatheringofGamers.com

PS-Here's a dumb little video of me playing GH2, but the point is the cool GoG skins we have available for your own guitars :)