Nov 16 2008
Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades, More Of The Same
Well, I was less than impressed by the first Guitar Hero foray into the handheld realm, and Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades really doesn’t look like it will change my mind in the least. The peripheral is dumb and doesn’t really imitate the feeling of playing a guitar like the Guitar Hero console controller. The graphics are pretty pointless, although you don’t play Guitar Hero for the graphics. The gameplay is the same, because it’s Guitar Hero, so I guess you can fault that, but the music…
The music is horrible, because the likelihood is that you’re not playing the game with your headphones on, because how often do you do that with your handheld. Maybe you play with headphones all the time, but I don’t anyway. And the sound quality on the first Guitar Hero On Tour coming out of the DS’s speakers was awful and made me regret having ever given the game a try.
The whole point of playing Guitar Hero is blaring the music and really getting into the sound. But from my experience with the first On Tour game I don’t see why Decades would offer anything close to different.
Not to mention the fact that the good songs for Decades will be songs you’ve already played in Guitar Hero World Tour, or previous incarnations of the franchise. Because nobody is going to push out the big bucks for licensing exclusive songs for a handheld. And I seriously find it hard to get excited about such ‘amazing’ exclusives as Veruca Salt’s “Volcano Girls” or Sammy Hagar’s “I Can’t Drive 55”. Neither of which are really all that guitar game worthy.
So yes, don’t buy Decades if you didn’t buy On Tour or just didn’t dig On Tour, because Decades looks like more of the same.
