Guitar Hero II

For the longest time, "Message in a Bottle" as made famous by The Police has been the bane of my existence.

This weekend, I finally had the pleasure of playing multiplayer Guitar Hero 2. I took my highly decorated axe down to Dustin and Jessika's place to finally settle the argument of who is really the Least Rhythmic Man Alive. As it turns out, it is Dustin, by a landslide. I will admit I'd already had a small amount of experience in head-to-head mode from playing Guitar Hero 1 the night before. I managed to take on people with little to no experience with the game, so I was able to easily destroy them in easy mode. Especially when, against my own warnings, they chose songs I had already beaten on Guitar Hero 2 at home. But I had a lot of fune stroking my ego that way. And fortunately for me, no one with actual talent took my challenge and put me in my place. I had even more fun with the cooperative mode yesterday. One player takes lead guitar and the other either rhythm or bass, depending on the song. Because I have a lot more time to practice the game (Jess claimed having a one-year-old to take care of was some kind of excuse for not playing), I tended to do better than her, and we found for most of the songs the bass section is a lot easier than the lead. We managed to get the cooperative versions of the 8x Streak, 100 Note Streak, and 100K Points achievements together, and I, for one, definitely had a good time doing it. It looked like she did as well.