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Definetely a must to wii fans and a Plus to Rock Band. The most thing we like about RB2 is the fact to personalize your character. IS too cool to see ourselfs like a rock singer or guitar player. plus service quickly and eficient. Cant Complain.
My nephew love this game since the first moment. Hi and his friends have too fun with it. They have formed a band.
They are definitely both great games (never would have tried RB if GH wasn't so fun) but there are a few extras that RB has that push it ahead. I'd always thought it was one of those things that only a kid would enjoy and/or that I wouldn't be able to get the hang of it enough to bother with but I was wrong on both counts. Third, there are a few things that come up while playing RB that are fun that GH doesn't do. and at first I didn't really like it.
Also, they have special finishes on some songs and that can be fun too. It's a little different from Guitar Hero and being used to the one I was actually kind of critical of Rock Band 2. However, after spending more time playing Rock Band 2 and bouncing back and forth between the two I find Rock Band 2 to be more fun than Guitar Hero World Tour. I picked up Guitar Hero World Tour during a gold box special and was completely surprised by how much fun it is. What is most telling is that when it comes time to play the first choice is always RB2 over GH. Second, this may or may not be the case but at least for how I perceived it RB seemed to have more/better songs overall and the game play seemed like it was more fun and lasted longer (also, the character designs seemed better to me).
For example, RB has a unison feature where if everyone hits a specific note at the same time you immediately get overdrive (star power in GH). It's actually a nice touch because then everyone can go into overdrive together right after.
I'm glad that I picked up GH first though since their equipment works with RB but not the other way around. Eventually I decided to give Rock Band 2 a try (after I saw it marked way down too).
These are small things that I really didn't notice until switching back to GH and it just feels like GH is missing something now. First, Rock Band is a little easier (although I think GH lets you go further before giving you a fail).
If I switch from playing on medium from one to the other there is a real difference. Overall though it comes down to fairly subtle differences between the two games.
So my advice would be to get the full band set up for GH and then just pick up the RB games.
The songs that are for mature audiences have a blue dot next to them to tag them for you. I got this for my husband so he could let his inner rock star out. I stored it with all of his other "mature" video games. Even better, we can let our kids play along. I love this game. Then I decided to give it a try since it looked like so much fun.
I've found the blue dot songs have mature lyrics or suggestive movements. It was rated "teen" so I did not think that it would work for our whole family (we have young kids). So we know to avoid those when our kids play. It is a blast. You can make up your own personality and add more to your rock band. If you have wifi, you can download even more songs once you've accrued enough points with your rock band.
Now I just need to add more instruments.
We can use both guitars, and we prefer to use the drum set from GHWT (softer feel than RB1). We have Rock Band 1, with those instruments, and Guitar Hero World Tour with those instruments. We don't use online play, so I can't comment on that. We bought Rock Band 2 game only, and use it with either set of instruments. Many of the songs on RB2 are the same as GHWT, but RB2 is more fun in actual game play. I love hanging with my friends and playing this game. I will do any instrument, but my favorite is singing.
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