14 DAY TRIAL // It's practically the same thing you get with the PS2 version (and I mean that in a good way), just some visual differences will be noticed, but then again, just like Kotaku's Luke Plunkett reckons, "if you're caring about the graphics you're kind of missing the point." Guitar Hero is all about hitting those tiny fret buttons. If you haven't played the PS2 GH II with the PS2's Gibson Guitar, you probably won't feel any frustration trying to do what is already damn hard with the Gibson. It's the fret buttons.
They're so tiny that only midgets can play, or elves. The part with Microsoft's 360 having a rather different Guitar for the game I got, what I didin't get was why they made smaller frets for theirs. Nobody ever complained about the PS2's Gibson having too large fret buttons. There is a reason. Another (rather small) difference concerns the visuals. The Xbox 360 GH II has better texturing on the characters and better lighting. In fact, everything is so light up that it can become distracting at times.
Well, back to the controller now. Although the buttons on the 360 Guitar are tiny, they feel a lot better and even have some sort of feed-back, not in a rumble kind of way, but more in the way that they click firmly after being pressed (letting you know that you've surely pressed it), something that the PS2's Gibson kinda' lacks. And if you're familiar with the game, you might have noticed that problems arise when you have to use that pinky finger. Well, that's the reason they made them smaller. The pinky now reaches just fine with the 360 version. That's about it. That and 10 extra songs, that is. Plus you can download some new songs through Xbox Live Marketplace. OK, now really, that's it!