i like these songs better than guitar hero 2!
obviously you have to be a child of the 80s to like these songs, and thats maybe why i like rock the 80s better thatn GH2. GH2's songs were all over the place and i didnt really get into them so much. i got to a point i was grinding through the game and not really enjoying playing the songs (in GH2). in rock the 80s it was the opossite... sure there were some crappy songs, but they were 2 or 3 vs the 9 or more in GH2 which just plain sucked.
coop and face off were really cool in this regard, just because all my friends are also children of the 80s... so we really got into the songs and jumping around and making faces and screaming the song lyrics....
rock the 80s is great... a little short but in my opinion better thatn GH2 because it has more hits than misses, kind of like guitar hero 1, the best so far.