Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80\'s

Filthy lucre-- cash grab on GH freaks

Strengths: Guitar Hero is fun, SOME decent songs

Weakness: Some weak songs, seems like no effort was spent on the game, poor sound quality on some songs, some cover versions don't sound a lot like the real songs

I was really looking forward to an 80s edition of Guitar Hero, but unfortunately, this game really let me down. I have loved Guitar Hero I and II, and love 80s music, so this should've been a must-buy. However, it seemed like this game was sort of "phoned in" just before Redoctane was bought out-- and I almost mean that literally. The sound quality of some of the songs is absolutely horrible...

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Guitar Hero Encore Rocks the 80's

Strengths: New songs to jam along with.

Weakness: same graphics-no new game play-

If it is just new songs you are interested in because you are bored or mastered GH I & II then this is good. I enjoyed the set since I grew up with the tunes. It has a good selection although I would have chosen some others. All in all good as we await GH III. I paid less than $1 a tune so I feel it was worth it.

Expansion disc, More Songs, not much else

Strengths: More songs for Guitar Hero

Weakness: Strange song selection, nothing new over Guitar Hero II

I've been able to try out every song on this expansion disc for Guitar Hero. Fans of the game will enjoy more songs to play, but this collection almost seems a bit sloppy. Many of the songs have long breaks where you don't play and there is very little (if any) changes in the graphics or stages since Guitar Hero II. I expected a little more, especially for a $40 game. It still is Guitar Hero,...

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Milking the proverbial cash cow

Strengths: Um, it's Guitar Hero? (seriously, a couple songs are at least fun)

Weakness: Too many lame songs that are simply not fun to play, asking full price for a quicky expansion pack?, too few songs

Wow, words simply cannot describe how dissappointed I am in this game. Almost half the tracks feel like your stuck playing rhythm guitar, so it's not as fun as the lead guitar driven tracks of previous GH's. There are only 30 songs, about 10 of which are worth playing more than once. Every aspect except the songs is ripped from GH2, with pallet swaps and a couple added objects to make it "80's...

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An expansion pack that should have sold for $20

Strengths: Quite a few fun songs. Great if you're a fan of 80s music.

Weakness: Very limited song selection, rehashed presentation, absolutely no extras.

I had high hopes for Guitar Hero Encore. The endlessly entertaining game play of the previous GH titles injected with blazingly fast, guitar driven 80s music sounded like a fool-proof formula ... Well, the game certainly had the potential to be something exception, but it falls short of reaching the greatness of the two previous titles. On the plus side, the songs, for the most part, are...

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An encore, no more, no less.

Strengths: It's still the same gameplay and it's got SOME good songs.

Weakness: It's got ALOT of bad songs and very bad note charts for a majority of the songs. It's a full price game. Extremely easy compare to the original two.

First things first, this is NOT a full game. It is suppose to be an expansion (albeit a full price one.) If you're expecting a full price game, you will be sorely disappointed, if you are getting it knowing full well that it's merely Guitar Hero 2...round 2, then you won't. The songs all come from the 80s, you either love it or you hate it, for those who grew up in that time period, you'll find...

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By member: zoglog - Jul 25, 2007

Recycled garbage over and over

Strengths: It's guitar hero and works with the previous controller.

Weakness: repetitive milking rehash, 80's songlist is subpar, Crappy art design/direction

What's there to say about this? It's simply a re-milking of the franchise. All the character models/stages are the same except they have different outfits. Nothing has changed at all and you're basically paying full price for less than half a game. a reasonable price for this would have been $19 rather than the $50 retail. Looks like Guitar Hero is working it's way into the genre milking strategy...

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Awesome game!

Strengths: New Combination Of Songs!

Weakness: Downloadable content would of been nice.

Cool game. Only big complaint is I rather this not feel like an "add-on". It should be a Guitar Hero 3. The either series was all about innovation but because they limited this version to just the 80s it killed it. I strong think they need to stop just releasing games just because they could. If every company took years to develop a game there would not be so much junk out there. It lasted a good...

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Bit of a dissappointment

Strengths: New songs...

Weakness: Really lacks much of anything new...

The game is still fun to play, but I wouldn't recommend purchasing it. They really should have lowered the price for a game lacking in anything new from the other Guitar Hero games, other than the songs and outfits. They could have added more guitars, guitar finishes, and more songs to unlock or purchase. Personally, I think the new song selection could have been better, but that's subjective I...

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Take the fun of Guitar Hero II mix rapidly with...

Strengths: Of course it is Guitar Hero so it is always fun and easy to learn but also challenging at the higher levels. Great fun for a party game.

Weakness: There was no attempt at refreshng this title. The attempts to cover the songs just don't seem as good as GH2.

This game is really fun to play and has a high replay value. Step 1. Unlock all of the songs in single player with no regard for score. Step 2. Get another Guitar and have a blast playing through the songs and "jamming" with friends. Step 3. Go back and aim for your personal best on each track. The bad part is that this game is really just Guitar Hero II with an 80's theme skin and not very many...

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