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| Rock Band Wireless Guitar | 
 enlarge | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $56.16
You Save: $3.83 (6%)
Buy New/Used from $39.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  (17 reviews)
Sales Rank: 440
Platform: Xbox 360
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 29.8 x 11.4 x 3.1
MPN: 15908
UPC: 014633159080
EAN: 0014633159080
ASIN: B000TT2D20
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Add another guitar to your band with the Rock Band Wireless Guitar for the ultimate Rock Band World Tour experience | | • | For the first time ever on Xbox 360, rock out with the replica Fender Stratocaster with full wireless freedom | | • | Hook two Rock Band Wireless Guitars up to one system for some fierce competitive guitar action in modes such as Score Duel where you battle for the highest score, or the challenging Tug-of-War mode, where performance is key | | • | Supports downloadable content for never-ending challenges | | • | Play through the entire play list featuring tracks from punk, metal and alternative to classic and southern rock of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s |
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Product Description
Rock out with biggest guitarists, bassists, drummers, and singers of all time with this Rock Band Wireless Guitar, whether as a solo artist or as part of a hard rocking band. The makers of this guitar made unprecedented deals with top record labels and music publishers to bring you music that spans all genres of rock and includes many master recordings from legendary artists. You can add another guitar to your band for the full 4-player Rock Band experience. This guitar is a modeled replica of the classic Fender Stratocaster guitar. It is fully wireless so you can flail as wildly as you shred. The controller also includes 5 additional frets at the top of the neck so you can tap out extreme solos without having to strum.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Same problem with the tilt switch. July 1, 2008
Just like everyone else, we had trouble with the tilt switches on our wireless guitars. My brother-in-law bought two, one for him and one for me. The one he bought for himself wouldn't boost no matter how he shook, tweaked, tilted, or swung his guitar. He could only get it to boost by hitting the good old fashioned start button.
The one he bought for me was the exact opposite. Every time you breathed, it boosted on you! You didn't have to tilt at all, and wham--power boost! You could ever get more than half a bar stored up because as soon as you did, the guitar would boost on you whether you wanted it to or not. In a way, this was worse than no boosting because you could hit "start" to make it boost when it wasn't responding; you couldn't hit a "stop" button to make it not boost...
We returned both of them and stick with the wired controllers--which is a pain.
The real drag was that we waited several months to try and buy these. A lot of reviews said the "first batch" had the problem and newer ones were fixed. I just don't buy this. Ours were a newer batch that we bought from a local store (and had just come on the truck in that day).
I didn't give the product one star because the wireless feature seemed to work well with no snags. Also, they redesigned the wammy bar on this model, so it doesn't accidentally hit the start button or trip up your effects switch quite as easily, so well done there. Those upsides just don't outweigh the negative here, however. Like others say, buy at your own risk. I'm tempted to wait for Nyco or Madcatz to release an off brand one and see if it works any better...
Nice to Look At. . . Not So Nice to Play June 27, 2008
The Rock Band wireless guitar has the look of a real Fender Strat and is noticeably bigger than any Guitar Hero controller. It definitely feels less like a toy than its competition. However, performance is ultimately what matters and in this realm, it falls short.
Both the strum bar and the fret buttons feel radically different from the GH controller. After using both for a while, the GH controller lends itself to better accuracy and higher scores. The strum bar on the RB guitar is free-floating, i.e. there is no clicking into place with each strum. I find that the clicking provides your strum hand with necessary feedback on when a note has been registered. You'll miss a few here and there on the RB guitar as a result. But the real crime is the fret buttons. They're nicely-sized, covering the entire fret, so I expected the RB guitar to shine here. However, they actually do click (and click hard) into and out of place with each press. Plus, the plastic is strangely sticky compared to the much slicker buttons on the GH controller. All of this combines into more difficult gameplay, which makes the RB controller less useful and fun to play.
The RB guitar adds some bells-and-whistles functionality like an effects switch and high fret buttons, but they're just unnecessary gimmicks. Each of the effects just make your playing sound bizarre because their depth is way too deep. The high fret buttons can be used to solo with one hand (i.e. no strumming necessary), but it's more of a hassle than it initially sounds. The buttons are awkward to reach, it's difficult to move from the lower to the higher button sets on faster songs that transition quickly to/from the solos, and ultimately, it diminishes the feel and fun of actually playing guitar.
Much like the drum kit for Rock Band, this peripheral needed a little more time on the design table. Rock Band may be the superior game, but the instrument controllers just aren't up to par.
PROS
* Unibody construction has a good, solid feel compared to the detachable neck of the GH guitar
* Large, full-fret buttons
CONS
* Sticky/clicky buttons coupled with floating strumbar greatly diminish gameplay performance
* Control configuration is tough for lefties to use
* Incompatible with Guitar Hero games
 This guitar Sucks.... June 9, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This guitar wont let you rock out like you normally would by tilting the guitar. You have to press the back button to rock out. It really affects gameplay and makes rocking out alot more difficult then the normal guitar. I Would Strongly suggest buying another guitar.
First batch is defective! May 30, 2008
Mine got here today. Guess what?? Star power doesn't work. I called EA customer service. EA never fails to disappoint. They said it would take several weeks to get a replacement. The option to give them money, have them ship a replacement, return mine in a box, and them refund the money isn't even available for the wireless guitar. That means that so many of these things are defective they don't have enough stock to replace them, or they don't want to replace them with more defective guitars.
DO NOT BUY.
Broken Guitar May 27, 2008
I'm a Marine in Iraq when I did finally recieve this item one button was broken and the star power does not work.
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