Building comparison
head to head
Clone HerovsRock Band 2
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Clone Hero
Execution · Pure Mechanics
The free fan-made Guitar Hero engine where competitive charting and scoring live on.
Rock Band 2
Execution · Pure Mechanics
The full-band rhythm game whose setlist and feel made it the genre's high-water mark.
Clone Hero leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Rock Band 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Clone HeroRock Band 2
Axis by axis
Execution9 vs 8
Clone Hero leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Clone Hero
Community charts push fretting speed past official games
Rock Band 2
Guitar, drum, and vocal accuracy on expert charts
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Clone Hero
Charts are static
Rock Band 2
Charts never respond
Variance0 vs 0
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Clone Hero
Fully deterministic
Rock Band 2
Fixed setlist charts
Optimization4 vs 4
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Clone Hero
Star power path calculation is a science
Rock Band 2
Overdrive activation paths decide leaderboard scores
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.