4cr Hands-On: Guitar Hero On Tour Decades

I recently got a chance to try out Guitar Hero On Tour Decades, the sequel to GH On Tour which was released earlier this summer. Lets just say it’s more of an expansion than a new game, but that’s a good thing. As you probably saw in my review of Guitar Hero On Tour, you’ll know that I liked it the first time around.

One of the things I noticed was the little tweaks to the interface and the better graphics.

On Tour

On Tour Decades

The game will bring 28 new songs to the plate, featuring bands from the ’70s till today. These include bands like Fall Out Boy, Linkin Park, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bon Jovi, REM, Queen and many more.

They added two new single player career paths. You still have the lead guitar career, but now you can also choose the bass guitar or the guitar duel. The guitar duel lets you play every song in duel with the computer. So when you have no one to play multiplayer with, this is a welcome alternative.

Then there’s multiplayer, where they did something really interesting. Let’s say a friend of yours skipped On Tour and decides to get On Tour Decades and you’re the one with On Tour. You can play multiplayer together, choosing from any song from both games. So this gives you over 50 songs to choose from in multiplayer. They kept the same attacks for compatibility issues, but the attacks in the first one were so well thought out, making great use of the DS hardware, that I can’t complain if they haven’t changed.

I can’t wait to add this one to my collection. I really liked the song selection in this version, more than the original. To tell you the truth, I like the DS version of Guitar Hero better than the console versions. Why? Because I can’t play with 5 buttons (hard/expert) on the consoles. But I can play on hard mode in Guitar Hero On Tour, because it’s only 4 buttons

Update

This is what’s been released thus far

* The Take Over, The Breaks Over, Fall Out Boy
* Crushcrushcrush, Paramore
* The Pretender, Foo Fighters
* Dirty Little Secret, All American Rejects
* Tarantula, Smashing Pumpkins
* I Believe In A Thing Called Love, The Darkness
* One Step Closer, Linkin Park
* Remedy, Seether
* The Middle, Jimmy Eat World
* Can’t Stop, Red Hot Chili Peppers
* No Rain – Blind Melon
* You Give Love a Bad Name – Bon Jovi
* Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd