Guitar Rock Tour 2

Guitar Rock Tour 2, a sequel that feels just like the original, only with totally new songs and graphics, plus a local Wi-Fi multiplayer mode. This mode lets two people compete on the same track to see who hit more notes and received the higher score.

Guitar Rock Tour 2 starts with a collection of 18 purely rock tracks—Born to Be Wild, Sweet Home Alabama, I Wanna Rock, and no Michael Jackson this time—and plans to offer downloadable additional songs going forward to expand the game’s catalog. Once again, you can play through in a quick mode that is just any unlocked song of your choice with either four tapping pads (guitar) or two (drums), or play through a career mode that lets you move through a series of cities playing gigs. Formerly 2-D selection and character screens have been either glossed up with better 2-D art or replaced with polygonal 3-D models, and the prior game’s 3-D models have been swapped for new ones. Every city you play in has its own concert-themed backdrop that the camera moves through as you’re hitting notes, showing off various members of your band as they perform. This occupies the top half of the screen during every song.