Guitar hero was a massive success because it was fun to play and made you feel like you could really play the guitar. The game comes with a guitar peripheral with six buttons on the neck and a strummer switch that represents the strings by strumming it. You follow on screen commands that tell you which cord to play next and before you know it, you're making music to well known songs. There is an option to buy this game without the guitar bundle, ideally for people who have already got one from the first game.

Manufacturer's Description:

Rock the Rhythm, Lead, and Bass Guitar tracks in the follow-up sequel to the Best Music Game of the year of 2005. Form your guitar duo and shred riffs cooperatively or go head to head in all new multiplayer modes. With over 55 tracks to rock out to, you'll go from Guitar Hero to Guitar god in one press of a fret button. Choose from multiple rock characters and jam at concert venues that grow in size as your rock career progresses! You'll start your rock career playing small clubs and bars, but if you play well you'll work your way up to stadiums and arenas.

Tracks include:

Opening Licks:
Cheap Trick - Surrender
Danzig - Mother
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight

Amp-Warmers:
Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son
Kiss - Strutter
Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box
Police - Message in a Bottle
Van Halen - You Really Got Me

String-Snappers:
Alice in Chains - Them Bones
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
Iggy Pop and the Stooges - Search and Destroy
Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys

Thrash and Burn:
Butthole Surfers - Who Was in My Room Last Night
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knockin'
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Warrant - Cherry Pie

Return of the Shred:
Aerosmith - Last Child
Primus - John the Fisherman
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of
Sword - Freya
Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation

Relentless Riffs:
Allman Brothers - Jessica
Heart - Crazy on You
Jane's Additicion - Stop
Stone Temple Pilots - Tripping on a Hole in a Paper Heart
Stray Cats - Rock This Town

Furious Fretwork:
Anthrax - Madhouse
Lamb of God - Laid to Rest
Living End - Carry Me Home
Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout
Rush - YYZ

Face-Melters:
Avenged Sevenfold - Beast and the Harlot
Dick Dale - Misirlou
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Megadeth - Hangar 18
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized