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Guitar Hero: On Tour
| Price: | $53.89 |
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- Select from six characters, decking them out with stylish threads and hot guitars earned through success in the in-game venue circuit.
- Use the included innovative Guitar Hero DS guitar grip peripheral and the included pick-stylus to strum the touch-activated screen to rock out on the go.
- Prove your guitar shredding skills while navigating through a variety of single player modes featuring classic Guitar Hero style note highway gameplay.
- Multiplayer options allow you to play Face Off, Pro Face off, Co-op and Guitar Duel together with a friend by utilizing local wireless multi-card play.
- Blow into the DS microphone when the touch screen is set on fire in pyrotechnics, or sign an autograph when requested to by an excited fan.
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| ASIN | B0013ZEMUK |
|---|---|
| Release date | June 22, 2008 |
| Customer Reviews |
3.9 out of 5 stars |
| Best Sellers Rank | #32,994 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games) #213 in Nintendo DS Games |
| Pricing | The strikethrough price is the List Price. Savings represents a discount off the List Price. |
| Product Dimensions | 4.25 x 5.25 x 2 inches; 7.65 Ounces |
| Binding | Video Game |
| Rated | Everyone 10+ |
| Item model number | 400009415834 |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | Yes |
| Item Weight | 7.7 ounces |
| Manufacturer | Activision Inc. |
| Date First Available | February 15, 2008 |
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Rock out to Guitar Hero on the DS with the Guitar Hero Guitar Grip and local wireless multi-player modes. Use the stylus to strum the touch screen like a true rocker. Select from a variety of classic rock, pop and alternative rock favorites. Guitar Hero: On Tour for the DS features over 20 monster tracks. Pick from 4 different game play modes. Single Player Mode: Prove your guitar shredding skills while navigating through Career or Quick Play modes. Multiplayer Modes: Players can play: Face Off, Pro Face Off, Guitar Duel and Co-op. Guitar Duel Mode: Battle it out with different attacks, including DS-microphone and Touch Screen attacks. Practice Mode: Practice using the Guitar Hero Guitar Grip to nail those tricky solos.
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The first game in the Guitar Hero franchise's foray into the handheld market, Guitar Hero: On Tour turns your Nintendo DS into a guitar or bass as you set off to attain rock and roll immortality. Featuring, and bundled with the innovative Guitar Hero grip*, a range of single player and multiplayer modes and a set list comprised of 26 master tracks from influential artists ranging from Ozzy Osbourne and the Doobie Brothers, to Stray Cats, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smash Mouth and others, it is a whole new take on the addictive and wildly popular Guitar Hero gameplay that you can take with you wherever you go. .caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } ul.indent { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: -15px; } table.callout { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1. 3em; } td.vgoverview { height: 125px; background: #9DC4D8 url(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/callout-bg.png) repeat-x; border-left: 1px solid #999999; border-right: 1px solid #999999; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 250px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; }
Rock On the Go
With Guitar Hero: On Tour fret board fanatics on the go can unleash their inner rock stars anytime, anywhere in single player and multiplayer modes as they hone their shredding skills and jam to a diverse set list of monster tracks including classic rock, alternative and pop varieties using the DS pick stylus and the Guitar Hero grip peripheral.
Bundle includes peripheral & stylus pick.
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Classic Guitar Hero gameplay.
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Multiplayer modes.
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6 playable characters and 5 venues.
View larger. The Guitar Hero Grip
The Guitar Hero: On Tour bundle includes not only the game software, but also the innovative Guitar Hero guitar grip peripheral for DS and DS Lite with wrist strap, and a special stylus pick. Compatible with all games in the Guitar Hero: On Tour series, the grip peripheral contains four color coated buttons for familiar Guitar Hero note highway input, with the stylus pick designed for strumming on the DS' lower screen. Designed to get you rocking in a matter of seconds, players simply slide the peripheral into the your DS' Game Boy Advance slot and you are ready to shred through 26 master tracks, which can be streamed in multiplayer modes as well as single player.
Multiplayer Options
Along with a deep Career Mode, Guitar Hero: On Tour also includes several multiplayer options. These utilize the game's wireless DS multi-card play functionality, and include: Face-Off Mode in which players duel each other via alternating riffs, Pro Face-Off Mode in which players finger the same notes, and a Co-op Mode, in which one person plays lead guitar and the other player joins in playing either rhythm or bass guitar.
Key Features:
- Unique Portability - Use the innovative Guitar Hero DS guitar grip peripheral and the included pick-stylus to strum the touch-activated screen to rock out on the go.
- Single Player Mode - Prove your guitar shredding skills while navigating through a variety of single player modes featuring classic Guitar Hero style note highway gameplay.
- Multiplayer Modes - Play Face-Off, Pro Face-Off, Co-op and Guitar Duel together with a friend by utilizing local wireless multi-card play.
- Unique DS Guitar Duel Functionality - Blow into the DS microphone when the touch screen is set on fire in pyrotechnics, or sign an autograph when requested to by an excited fan.
- Character Customization - Select from six characters, decking them out with stylish threads and hot guitars earned through success in the in-game venue circuit.
"Do What You Want" – Ok Go "Spiderwebs" – No Doubt "Are You Gonna Be my Girl" – Jet "All the Small Things" – Blink 182 "We’re Not Gonna Take it" – Twisted Sister "Breed" – Nirvana "All Star" – Smash Mouth "Jessie’s Girl" – Rick Springfield "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" – Pat Benatar "This Love" – Maroon 5 "Heaven" – Los Lonely Boys "Helicopter" – Bloc Party "China Grove" – The Doobie Brothers "Rock and Roll All Nite" – KISS (cover by Line 6) "What I Want" – Daughtry "Jet Airliner" – Steve Miller Band (cover by Wavegroup) "Black Magic Woman" – Santana (cover by Line 6) "Stray Cat Strut" – Stray Cats "La Grange" – ZZ Top (cover by Line 6) "Youth Gone Wild" – Skid Row (cover by Wavegroup) "I Don’t Want to Stop" – Ozzy Osbourne "Anna Molly" – Incubus "Knock me Down" – Red Hot Chili Peppers "Pride And Joy" – Stevie Ray Vaughan "I Know A Little" – Lynyrd Skynyrd (cover by Wavegroup) "I Am Not Your Gameboy" – Freezepop
*The Guitar Hero grip peripheral is not compatible with the Nintendo DSi.
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This little DS version is the perfect solution; I can pick it up & pop in the headphones, and play a little while on my own, whenever.
I received it only recently so have played it only about 8 hours but it's nearly as fun as the full-size version (at least for a novice like me).
However, unlike the full-size version, it's very hard to find a comfortable position in which to hold it. It's not a simple matter of wrist position, as the little booklet advises; instead, it's the fact that the console and its buttons are straight across, while your fingers are not. So if you have it comfortably set for your first 3 fingers, your pinkie's gonna miss those blue notes, and if you adjust for your pinkie, you'll soon find your hand or wrist cramping while your other fingers struggle to feel natural. And if you try to re-adjust mid-game, you risk dislodging the game from the DS slot (thereby stopping the game), because it's not a tight "snap" fit in the GBA slot.
Still, it's fun and for a novice like me will be challenging for some time to come. (The playlist has lots of songs that I like, such as Spiderwebs by No Doubt, This Love by Maroon 5, All Star by Smashmouth, etc....although in the first run-through of the first 3 levels, I actually did better on songs with which I was totally unfamiliar -- if you read music you'll probably experience the same thing.) Like the 'real' game, you can go back and Quickplay or Practice any song you've unlocked.
This is an ingenious little take on GH; I just hope the designers can go back to the drawing board and refine the GH device so that it fits the hand more naturally (and can be flipped for 'lefties'). If they can do that, it would eliminate the problem of the device slipping from the gameslot.
Is it as good as the console verions of Guitar Hero? No. Is it just about as good as it could be on the DS? Yes.
The main complaints that people have with this game are the lack of the fifth strut that the console games have and the overly compressed sound quality of the songs. In response to these complaints, a fifth strut on the DS version would have made the game very difficult (it already gets very hard with four struts) and would have been hard to fit on the guitar grip. As for the sound quality, you can't expect much from two tiny speakers and a game cart that holds a tiny amount of data (compared to its competitors). I used a plug to allow me to plug my DS into my 500 watt home stereo system and the songs get plenty loud enough, but they do sound like overly compressed MP3's. Overall the sound quality is far from great but it is certainly good enough for a portable game.
I enjoyed the game in every way from gameplay to graphics. The only real complaints that I could think of are some of the song choices are a bit on the pop side and the developers should have been able to cram another 5 or 10 songs into the game for a longer lasting experience (especially with how compressed the songs are).
Overall I say get it.
The song selection varies enough to make it interesting to just about anyone, and they did a very good job of transferring the game to this portable platform.
With that said, I probably wouldn't recommend it to anyone who isn't already a fan of Guitar Hero on standard consoles. I imagine it would be a bit harder to learn from scratch in this format. I could be wrong, though.
Also, I've noticed that some of my guy friends with larger hands have trouble with it because the "fret" buttons are so small.
It's a lot of fun, though, and you can even play in public without embarrassment if you invest in a set of headphones. (To activate star power, it tells you to "yell" into the microphone, but blowing on it works as well.)
Don't let the lack of a 5th fret button fool you - this version is still very challenging. I think it's definitely worth the money.
Well, I'll admit, I'm not a die-hard fan of the Guitar Hero series or anything, but they are fun games to play for sure. This game, however, just doesn't seem to have that same feeling as the others. The songs, as they are stuffed on a DS cart I'm sure, are pretty horrible quality, and the game itself just seems a little hastily made.
There is also the fact that trying to play the game makes my wrist and arm feeling like they are being stabbed to death. It is not a comfortable game to play in any way at all. I'm not really sure how they could have designed it better, but the way it is now doesn't really work.
Stick to the big console versions of the game, and use your DS for the things it was designed for.










