Product Description

Strap on your Guitar Hero Wireless Controller, plug it in, and Crank It Up! The Guitar Hero Wireless Controller feels just like a real guitar, making it the ultimate way to jam on your PlayStation. With the Guitar Hero Wireless Controller, you turn into a rock star every time you play Guitar Hero!In Guitar Hero, players press the fret buttons on the Guitar Hero Wireless Controller in sync with scrolling "notes" on screen that indicate the rhythm of the song. Players activate these "notes" by flicking the strum bar on the Guitar Hero Wireless Controller.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1285 in Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Model: Wireless Controller
• Released on: 2007-05-29
• Platform: PlayStation2
• Dimensions: 3.05 pounds

Features

• Game sold separately.

Customer Reviews

Works great... until it breaks.
Well the guitar worked really well for the most part. Same size as the SG guitar that comes with the older games. Wireless is not very laggy and it has good range. Only complaint here is that the buttons seem to stick a bit more than the other guitar and they feel like they are made cheaper, but they worked good enough to use even on expert.

So it worked great for a month, and then one day it wouldn't connect to the receiver. I tried and tried and it would not connect. Tried everything I could think of including replacing batteries, resetting it, resetting the PS2, and even turning off my WiFi router and cordless phones. Nothing could make it connect, and in the rare case it did it would not hold the connection. I did not have a receipt so could not get a replacement on warranty so I decided to open it up and tinker with it a bit and here is where I found the problem. The wireless board is separate from the rest of the internal circuit board, and instead of being held on securely with a screw or such IT IS HELD ON SOLELY BY THE DATA PINS. I just barely pushed the wireless board with my finger and it easily bent back at a 45 degree angle from the other board. Most defiantly one of these pins had broken loose and caused the connection problems. This is very bad design. Since I have no soldering skills I had to throw it away.

If it wasn't for the bad design of the internals I would recommend this guitar. Until they fix the problems (maybe they have with the new style GH3 guitars) I would avoid these completely.

A Warning Not to Buy This Wireless Guitar
If you plan on buying this guitar, then beware! I bought this guitar a while ago on Amazon for about 50 dollars because of the positive reviews it received. Man, do I wish I listened to the negative reviews of this product. Don't get me wrong, this wireless guitar is great when it works. It was working flawlessly for about a month. The response was just as accurate as the wired controller, and the wireless feature certainly was a plus. However, after a month of using it, I noticed something odd. The strum bar was losing its responsiveness to down strums. Then one day, it just lost the responsiveness to down strums completely. I didn't do anything to cause this...I had never dropped it or hit it in any sort of way. I now had to play all songs while strumming the strum bar upward. This was really irritating since it made playing songs like Misirlou on Guitar Hero 2 nearly impossible. Misirlou is a song that pretty much requires both down and up strums, so good luck on trying to beat this tune while strumming in only one direction for the entire song.

The wireless guitar does come with a warranty, but it's ridiculous. I went to the Red Octane website to try to have my guitar controller exchanged. After emailing them, they replied within a few days. They told me that they would gladly replace my wireless guitar....at the cost of 45 dollars! I might as well should buy another wireless guitar. But, that's not going to happen anytime soon. Stick with the wired controller.

Excelent guitar!
I play guitar hero on expert, and i'm very picky about my guitar. This is the only one that I like. The buttons are smooth and the strum bar has just enough feedback while not being to hard to strum quickly with. Two guitars wireless at once do not interfere, they lock on to their own signal right away. I had a fear that there would be a lag in the wireless, and there has been absolutely none noticeable, even when going out of the room while playing. Oh yeah, it's wireless so on repetitive parts that you have memorized you can still play and pass a song while going elsewhere. While this isn't practical, it has worked once at a friends house grabbing sodas. I do show off while playing and the wireless prevents me from knocking my ps2 onto the floor and crying because my ps2 is broken and I can't play with my awesome guitar anymore. I have probably played with this guitar for 5 billion hours (okay, probably more like 100 some) and it still works like brand new. I am a guitar hero freak and no matter how much use it gets form me playing it and having everyone play it in guitar hero tournaments it still keeps going and going. For those concerned about battery life, I've replaced the batteries 3 times. Compare that with my hour estimate of how long it's been used above. That's pretty good battery life. Overall, I don't think there could be a better controller for the Guitar Hero series.