I’m working on my review of Guitar Hero 2 for Games Radar, which is really the type of work I don’t mind doing. I spent about 5 hours playing on Friday night–until my wrists and fingers couldn’t take anymore, and then played more on Saturday.

The short review is that it’s an improvement in virtually every way over Guitar Hero 1, and there’s even some stuff improved over the demo version of GH2. I’m also hearing that some stores are breaking the Tuesday release date, specifically Best Buy and Target, so get out there and get the game. The songlist is awesome, and the new co-operative mode—where one person plays lead guitar, and the other plays rhythm or bass—really, really kicks ass.

Not that I really needed another example of Guitar Hero’s rad-ness.