The guitar hero series has managed to collect a very large number of fans over the years. Because of the huge success of it's console games, it was a big surprise when guitar hero decided to traverse the portable frontier. Will Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades disappoint, or will it forge a new frontier for portable music games? GHOTD has 3 options to choose from on the title screen. Single player, Multiplayer, and Training. Options and Credits can remain unmentioned. The Single player game has a career mode and a quickplay mode. The quickplay mode is just what you'd expect. Picking a character, and playing a song. The Career mode is the main highlight of the game, and it even introduces something new for guitar hero veterans. Guitar Duels. It is basically guitar hero meets mario kart. Playing a sequence of spiky notes gives you an item to unleash on your foe, such as, setting their guitar on fire(the fire can be put out by blowing into your microphone, which may raise a few eyebrows if you are playing with people in the room) or raising the difficulty on the other players song. The guitar duels are challenging, even if your playing against the computer, but they are always fun. You can even play a whole career of guitar duels. The career mode also allows players to play through a career with bass guitar and lead guitar. You can select the difficulty level for each of these instruments. There is easy, medium, hard, and expert. The challenge remains surprisingly intact for each of the difficulties. When you start your career, you can customize your character, buy clothes or guitars from the store, or play a live show at one of the six venues. Each venue consists of five songs, including the encore after the last song. The complete list of songs comes to a grand total of....28! This is nothing compared to the expansive song selections in some of the more recent games. This doesn't ruin the experience, but it is the biggest flaw of the game. The songs in the game are at least stellar choices that everyone will enjoy. Playing the songs works surprisingly well. There is a new guitar grip that you have to put into the gba slot to start playing. There is one less fret key, which might disapoint guitar hero fans, but it's a minor sacrifice. The grip(if held incorrectly)can cause hand cramps after a short period of time as well. Gamespot.com decided that this setback completely ruins the game. I disagree, since there are proper and improper ways to hold the grip, and the game even shows you the proper way to hold the grip. The next option is multiplayer. If you have a friend who is willing to play, then this mode is a blast. You can do a face-off, and a pro-face-off, which guitar hero fans are familiar with, and gutiar duels. All of the modes are fun to play for hours on end. The next option is training, which lets you play a certain song repeatedly to get better at it. One drawback is that you will have to play the song or section at top speed. Overall, Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades is a solid buy for fans of the series, but some will be disapointed by the short tracklist and the new guitar grip.
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When Guitar Hero On Tour came out and I had puchesed it, I beat it and then got bored. It didn't have that feeling that the other GH gaames have. I thought that this would be the case for Decades and thankfully im wrong.... Read Full Review
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