More than 100 artists mixed in the popular music game
July 15, 2010 — Activision has announced that DJ Hero 2 will be a crowded house, featuring tracks from more than 100 of the biggest artists from around the world who have combined U.S. full albums sales alone in excess of 375 million.
DJ Hero 2’s featured artists include a wide array of talent from the world of pop, dance and hip-hop, including Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Eminem, Daft Punk, Dr. Dre and The Chemical Brothers.
With the highly skilled DJ’s and music producers at FreeStyleGames – joined by Deadmau5, David Guetta and a crew of world renowned mixologists – dropping the beats, everyone will have a chance to experience the following artists’ music in an all-new way:
* 2Pac
* 50 Cent
* Basement Jaxx
* Busta Rhymes
* Chamillionaire
* Daft Punk
* David Guetta
* Deadmau5
* DJ Shadow
* Dr. Dre
* Eminem
* Gorillaz
* Janet Jackson
* Kanye West
* Lady Gaga
* Lil Jon
* Lil Wayne
* LL Cool J
* M.I.A.
* Missy Elliott
* Mos Def
* MSTRKRFT
* Nas
* Puff Daddy
* Pussycat Dolls
* Rihanna
* Robin S.
* RZA
* Sean Paul
* Snoop Dogg
* The Chemical Brothers
* The Crystal Method
* The Notorious B.I.G.
* The Prodigy
* Timbaland
* Will.I.Am
* Young Jeezy
…and many more
“With DJ Hero 2, we wanted to create the ultimate party experience of 2010, and that meant not only revamping and adding social and multiplayer game modes, including full microphone support, and all-new levels of creative freedom, but also mixing and mashing hits from over 100 of the biggest and most popular artists on the planet,” said Dan Neil, Music Director, FreeStyleGames.
The ultimate mixer of music and friends, DJ Hero 2 will deliver the definitive way for players to come together and party with a host of new multiplayer modes – including DJ Battles that pit DJ against DJ in mixes produced specifically for battle gameplay – and invite vocalists into the spotlight with integrated on-screen singing and rapping of lyrics and rhymes while bringing the party to life with jump-in/jump-out Party Play gameplay.
Further immersing players into the music, the game offers a heightened level of creative input and allows everyone to add their own touch, directly impacting the beats they’re spinning with freestyle scratching, crossfading and sampling. The game will also feature an all-new career-based Empire Mode where players start out as an up-and-coming DJ on the road to becoming the head of a major entertainment empire, all of which is founded solely on their success as a DJ.
Dropping this autumn, DJ Hero 2 will invite a wave of new digital disc jockeys to the turntables as the game will be available as a Party Bundle which will include a copy of the game, two turntable controllers and a microphone, offering the ultimate “party-in-a-box.”
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