Xbox 360 Critic Reviews

If you already own the first game and all the instruments, this is a must-own title; if you haven't experienced the magic, this is a great place to start.

It's both a must-own for fans of the genre and a great place for new players to get started.

It’s not radically different from its already brilliant predecessor (at least not yet), but everything is tighter and runs more smoothly, and there’s an explosive, extended encore.

If you've been playing Rock Band regularly over the last 9 months, then you'll find a lot of welcome features -- and tons of more music -- in Rock Band 2.

Rock Band 2 has a killer track list seemingly compiled from every mix tape you were proud of in college.

"Rock Band" seemed like the definitive music game experience when it came out, and Rock Band 2 has taken it even further, fixing the few things that were wrong with the first and adding a little bit extra to boot.

Perfectly constructed.

On paper, the new features of the game may not seem like much, but the resulting effort makes it one of the greatest music games available today and destroys any need, or desire, to play the original.

Rock Band 1 was innovation. Rock Band 2 is perfection. Buy it.

If the first game was a success on so many levels, the sequel brings the same success back but pushes it so high that at this point it will be hard for anyone to catch it up. I can’t finish my review without saying that if you never experienced Rock Band, you’re definitely missing something really special.