First of all, I'll explain the rules to those that aren't familiar with the Donkey Konga-principle: on the screen there's a circle with a bar where disks slide. When the disks enter the circle, you have to do the appropriate action. with a red one you need to hit right, yellow is left, pink means both drums at the same time and with the blue one you need to clap your hands. A bit like Dance Dance Revolution so to speak, only with another layout.

The most important thing in a music game is of course the music. Following numbers are playable in Donkey Konga 2 :

Pop

All Star

I'm a Slave 4 U

Losing My Religion

Are You Ready For Love?

Trouble

Boombastic

Shiny Happy People

Sidewalks

Runaway Train

Don't Let Me Get Me

Breakfast At Tiffany's

Enjoy The Silence

Rock

Drive

Predictable

I Don't Want to Know (If You Don't Want Me)

Mansize Rooster

Pumping On Your Stereo

I Just Wanna Live

Dance

Contact

Disco

Jungle Boogie

That's The Way (I Like It)

Latin

La Bamba

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

La Cucaracha

Klassiek

Habanera

Trepak (Nutcracker Suite)

William Tell Overture

Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Videogame Soundtracks

Green Greens (Kirby Theme)

Super Mario Bros. 3

Donkey Konga 2 Theme

Pokémon Main Theme

Mute City Theme (F-Zero)

There are different game modes in which you can practice your skils on one of these songs. The most important one is Street Performance, here you can earn medals and bananas in three difficulty levels; Monkey (easy), Chîmp (medium) and Gorilla (hard). The medals are only for the honor, the bananas are necessary to buy new drum sounds, unlock the songs in Gorilla mode and play mini-games.

These are immediately the second mode, although they're a bit disappointing; there are only two different ones, being Barrel Race where you need to drum the series of notes on the screen as fast as possible, and Rythm Keeper where you need to remember a certain tune and continue playing it at the correct speed.

Next to these two modes there's also Challenge in which you need to play as many songs after each other, and Battle where two people fight for the title of best player. For those that prefer to play a bit more relaxed with up to 4 players, there's Concert mode where everyone gets their own partiture. In the end you don't get any points for that though, and there's no winner.

Finally, there's the Freestyle Zone which isn't much fun at all. There's no notebar, nothing, you just drum along with the music as you please.