Everyone was very excited for Red Octane’s hit Guitar Hero 2. The game was sure to be great and fun especially because of the snazzy looking guitar for the 360. But, something happened, and the whammy bar was broken on 2 model numbers of the Guitar. There were a large number of complaints about this and then some homebrew fixes, but finally Red Octane came through with a patch. This patch was suppose to finally let all the people with broken whammy bars, finally rock out. Sadly, this did not happen as planned.

On the Red Octane forums and on the Xbox forums people have been complaining about their Xbox 360’s freezing and getting the RLOD(Red Lights of Death). The common factor in these is that Guitar Hero 2 update. Everyone is freaking out and the only known fix for this is to RMA to Microsoft, which they seem pretty linent about right now. The update also seems to be breaking systems whose whammy bars weren’t broken. The forum posts are actually really sad and these people seem like their lives have been ripped away from them.

But, the warning here is wait to update your systems, unless you want a broken 360. You should also check out the forums here.

-Ali Shah