The game was released first to PlayStation 2 in 2006, but later released for the Xbox 360 in 2007.

Guitar Hero II challenges players to recreate the lead guitar portions of many rock music songs using a specially designed guitar-shaped controller, based on either a Gibson SG for the PlayStation 2 version, a Gibson Explorer for the Xbox 360 version, or else a standard console controller.

As notes scroll down the screen towards the player, the player must hit both the fret buttons on the guitar controller and the strum bar at the same time to successfully hit the notes.

Successfully hitting notes improves the players performance in the game and also raises their score, while missing notes will reduce the players performance, and a poor performance may end the song prematurely.

Each song can be played at one of four difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, Hard and Expert.

These levels reflect the number of fret buttons used and the number and frequency of the notes to be performed.

Once purchased, they are playable in quick play, competitive, and co-operative modes.

The song Raw Dog by The Last Vegas was selected as part of the Be a Guitar Hero contest for the release of Guitar Hero II.

These are typically released as packs of three, or as single song.

These packs include songs from the original Guitar Hero for the PlayStation 2.

Additional packs consist of songs that have not been featured in Guitar Hero before, and are masters, even though some are indicated as covers in the game.

As of April 1st, 2014, these songs are no longer available in the Xbox Live Marketplace.

IGN: Guitar Hero II Final Tracklist Revealed.

IGN. Retrieved 2008-07-24.

Guitar Hero II 360s New Tracks Revealed.

UP.com. Archived from the original on 2010-01-05.

Guitar Hero 2s Hidden Tracks Revealed.

UP.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-16.

Guitar Hero II song packs now Live, pricey.

Engadget. Verizon Media.

Archived from the original on 2017-11-17.

E3 2007: Guitar Hero Track Pack 4 Released.

IGN. Archived from the original on 2010-12-14.

Guitar Hero II on 360 gets My Chemical Romance pack.

Joystiq. Archived from the original on 2012-09-04.

New Guitar Hero II 360 DLC tomorrow.

UP. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16.

International, Individually Priced GH2 Tracks Hit Xbox Live.

Shacknews. Retrieved 2008-04-06.

Joystiq. Archived from the original on 2013-01-27.

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