Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s (Sony PlayStation 2, 2007)

I have been hooked on Guitar Hero since I played it the first time. Unfortunately I started with Guitar Hero III, which was the best one in my opinion. I purchased Guitar Hero 80's Encore with the idea it would be like Guitar Hero III. They do play the same, but the difference is in the music on the game itself. The cover band or bands on the 80's game are not very good!! The original artist's do not perform the songs on the game. Meaning the music played on the game that you play along with is not up to par with the awesome 80's songs put in the game. The songs on the game are great, but I wish the song performance and sound of the songs was a lot better. Going and playing Guitar Hero III after playing the 80's version is a night and day experience. Guitar Hero 80's for me is a game that had great possibilities, but completely stumbled with poor musical delivery. If it wasn't for the great song list on that game I would get rid of it, but I'll tough it out for the sake of my affection for 80's rock.

Guitar Hero rocks the 80's is as fun as the other Guitar Hero games but it is a major ripoff. It does have some cool 80's hair metal and new wave songs. A couple of the songs are kind of stupid but that is my own personal opinion.

The problem with this game is that it is not worth money. I saw another reviewer say it would be great if it was under $30. I would completly agree with that reviewer. There are only 30 songs on this game with no extras that you could buy. The other guitar hero games have around 60 songs when you buy the extras. Seems like the game is just a big money maker. I recieved this game as gift and couldn't return it because I didn't want to look unapprieciative.

Also, there are no special extras like in the other guitar hero games. There are a few guitars and finishes but only one extra charachter. There are no outfits to buy, videos, or songs. I really do not care much about buying extra guitars but, it just goes to show how much of a money maker this game really is. I would buy any other guitar hero game but no this one. If you want to play it, rent it for a day or two to see if 30 songs are really worth $50 new. You could easily beat the game in a couple of hours if you have had experience playing the other guitar hero games

This game shouldn't be 50 dollars retail. You get 30 songs (less than gh1), there are no songs for purchase, some of the characters and venues from gh2 are missing, the menus and stuff look the same but with pretty colors, there are no guitars that you can't find in gh2 besides the cream bass that you can only use in multiplayer, and the songs Radar Love and I Wanna Rock have been pretty much butchered by the crappy singers.
On the positive side, I don't pay much attention to the characters anyways. Its hard to watch both them and the fingerboard on the screen. Expert's difficulty has more of the three finger chords and most of the solos are a lot more difficult (also known as more fun) than gh2's. The songs that didn't get ruined by horrible singing are actually really fun to play.
Personally I had more trouble with Seventeen than I did "the ultimate song", Play With Me. If you are a fan of the plastic guitar, buy it. I would wait for the price to go down if I were you.

If you're getting sick of songs in GH2 or 3, this is a cool supplement to get. I know the 80s - some may say songs were cheesy or lame in the 80s. If thats not true in real life its certainly true in the game. Although there are a few greats (I enjoy playing sychronicity II, round&round, holy diver, i ran so far away) most of the songs are very annoying (even more than those songs can be!). Just so you know, this is not 80s pop this is 80s glam-metal (as should be expected, its guitar hero).

I bought Hero I on ebay and got into it, I currently have 4 diffrent guitars for my playstation 2. I know own Guitar Hero I, Hero Rocks the 80s, and Guitar Hero III. The 80s has good music that was from my era, but heroIII came out too close to the release of the 80s. Im not the best but am pretty good and really enjoy battleing,(two players playing at once). I really like that I have two wireless Guitars, it makes it even funner that you can move around the room and rock. Thanks Hope Everyone owening Guitar Hero games have fun too... Thanks Frank