Difficulty:

Just Right

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Almost, but not quite"

As it appears, the makes of guitar hero decided to slack off a little when they made Guitar Hero: On Tour for the Nintendo DS. After 3 successful console game releases with killer track lists and much harder game play, GHoT just doesn't seem to compare. The track list is lacking the numbers and the classic songs we are used to playing and the career leaves you with a empty feeling on the inside and the realization that you just payed $50 dollars to play an hour and half of mediocre music.

For those that have played all of the Guitar heroes (1-3) on the PlayStation and XBox you all know that Red Octane makes sure that the music you are playing consists of the newest hits or the classics oldies rock. So you will obviously be able to see where my disappointment is coming from when I saw the track list. I was pleased to see a Kiss song as well as a Ozzy Ozbourne song however I as extremely downtrodden to see that Blink 182, Smash Mouth, and Maroon 5 made it on the set list. I mean I have been a fan of Blink 182 all of my life and have never hated the other two bands mentioned but they don't belong on a guitar hero game. All the small things consists of the same couple chords repeated over and over again and when I play Guitar Hero I want to SHRED!

However I did like the fact that you used a pick stylus to play on the bottom screen (even though any stylus would do the pick added an overall feel. I actually enjoyed the method of strumming on the DS more than on the Guitar controller. However the button controller was not so intelligently created. The hand-strap positioned your hand in such an awkward manner that in a matter of minutes your hand possessed a painful cramp (I couldn't even make it though a song without getting a cramp.) This caused people to search for a proper way to hold the DS so you could play without knowing it was a matter of seconds until you couldn't move your fingers anymore. For me that consisted of disregarding the hand-strap and attempting to just grip the DS (usually it would start to slip with I got to the "solos") or the thumb strap methods which I normally use.

So even though the track list was quite disappointing and the fact that I felt that Red Octane just didn't put much effort into GHoT as compared to their other games, I still enjoyed the game. I had a fun time playing the game, for the time that I did. So in the end, if you want to play a music game and don't own the XBox or the PS but you do own a DS, this is not a bad game if your willing to spend the $50.