Jan 24 2009
Guitar Rock Tour for Nintendo DS Review
Guitar Rock Tour is a cheap Guitar Hero knock off if you ask me. I personally have not tried the real Guitar Hero, as you cannot rent it with the peripheral guitar thing. This game is pretty good, though. I just doubt it is as good as Guitar Hero on the DS. I do like that it has drums and guitar and not just guitar.
In this game you play different songs per gig and try to keep in beat to pass the song. If you miss too many in a row you lose. I found easy mode and even medium mode tolerable, but hard mode was too much for me. Actually for the guitar even medium and easy were tough. Having to tap the different notes on the guitar is just not too natural feeling. The drums are more natural controls because you just hit buttons on the left or right side of the DS based on which side the beats are. I guess part of it is that I just cannot handle the five different colors on the bottom.
Overall I found this an entertaining game, but I cannot help to imagine that the peripheral from the Guitar Hero games is very necessary to enjoy a guitar playing experience on the DS. Thus even though I have not tried that series I am more inclined to recommend it than recommend this game for someone that wants a music game for on the go. I only recommend this if you only want the drum playing experience, however, the depth is not all that great.
