Although the game itself holds little substance the potential in it is tremendous.
The graphics of Jam Sessions mostly comprise of very clean, very sleek looking menus like a lot of our modern games and computer programs and it pulls that off well here but the game also offers more than 50 backgrounds and also contains a few alternate strings, although there could be more strings it ultimately gives you a wide opportunity to customize the game to your own liking which is always a good thing. The game doesn't give you the sense of a real guitar being there visually, instead it just offers one giant string to look at but that is probably a good thing as the rest of the game likes to keep things simplistic too.
But what is this game about? Holding a control pad button corresponding to one of the palette chords (which can be easily changed) and using your stylus to pluck a string on the screen, this is a mechanic that works very well and you'll even find your skill with using Jam Sessions just like learning to play a real guitar, it really is amazing. The real highlight of Jam Sessions is what the user can input of course, as with a number of cool, adjustable effects once you actually get enough practice in you'll be able to play your favourite tunes and even record them for future playback. Although with all the effects in the game it does make you wonder why they only offered you an acoustic guitar as an electric guitar would have been such an excellent feature to the game and really made the possibilities endless. Of course Jam Sessions is not a game you can just pick up and play right off so the game does help introduce you although doesn't really give any order of difficulty and some songs don't even offer the chance to demo them before you can play so although they managed to put together a really sweet track list with the likes of everyone from Bob Marley to The Pigeon Detectives, unless you know what some of the tracks sound like you'll just have to guess how they go and the game doesn't offer any kind of score or grading system at all, in fact you don't even have to pull off the right strokes to play the song, needless to say this is not what we want from such an otherwise in-depth experience and the game requires more than your fair share of self-teaching once your beyond basics.
The sound for Jam Sessions really makes you thankful of modern handheld sound quality and it actually sounds like a real guitar, no joke. Overall it can be really great if you have the time, patience and effort to put into teaching yourself because the game developers sure couldn't be bothered to but this is still worth at least looking into further for anyone who loves innovative games.