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| From: Activision Inc.
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $37.99
You Save: $12.00 (24%)
New (51) Used (17) from $29.89
Rating:  73 reviews
Sales Rank: 12
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: musical_instrument_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: 95327
Model: 400009415834
UPC: 047875953277
EAN: 0047875953277
ASIN: B0013ZEMUK
Release Date: June 22, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand New, Never Opened, Fast shipping, Item is in stock, Ready to Ship. Cannot ship to AFO/APO/FPO
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 11-15 of 73
 A Rockin' Good Time! June 22, 2008
Marcie K. Kuehl (Madison, WI United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This game is GREAT. A must have for Guitar Hero fans. The gameplay is the same but the interface is very creative (Strumming on the touch screen, yelling ROCK OUT! at your DS to activate Star Power).
The song selection is good and the sound quality is pretty good too considering how small the DS is.
 Small Hands July 7, 2008
D. Fisher (Orange Park, FL)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Love the game....one thing though.....if your left handed like me the game is hard to hold and the buttons are so close together it would take midget hands to play it right.
Very uncomfortable.
 It works... but not always. September 9, 2008
Austin Shau (New York, NY United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Let it never be said that developer Vicarious Visions lacks innovation and ambition: These folks have often tried to push the limit of portable hardware, first with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 on the Gameboy Advance and then in trying to craft a 60-frames-per-second 3D graphics engine for Spider Man 2 DS on the handheld's launch day.
With the new guitar grip, Vicarious Visions has made the unthinkable happen. Guitar Hero: On Tour IS Guitar Hero on your DS. It's not some cut-down version where you play it with your thumbs, like on a mobile phone, or with the face buttons and d-pad. It's Guitar Hero, in the flesh, with one hand curled up as if its fingers were getting ready to dance across a fretboard, and your other hand ready to pick and strum at a moment's notice.
There are problems, sadly. The issues with this game are largely mechanical, as opposed to with the content. The guitar grip is prone to slipping out of the Gameboy Advance slot during intense play, forcing players to reboot the entire system. It's also quite unwieldy -- and even more prone to slipping out -- for those with large hands. It takes longer to get to a comfortable angle with this peripheral, since your hand is tied down by the unit's strap.
Furthermore, though the strumming "feels" somewhat like strumming thanks to the pick-shaped stylus, the touch screen lacks the tactile "click" feel that comes from either flipping the strum bar on the console versions or actually picking a real string. It's easy to pick at the wrong area when you're not looking, causing alt-strummers to gape in disbelief as they mysteriously miss a series of eighth-notes because their first touch didn't take.
These are two large problems that are severe enough to hamper the fluidity of the gameplay. It is in this sense that the game doesn't always "work." Neither of these problems are necessarily anyone's "fault", instead being due to the nature of the hardware, but surely improvements can be made for the next go round. (How about an anchoring mechanism to keep the grip in place, and less finnicky strumming code?)
The other gripe you might have is hand cramps. Holding your hand in this new awkward position will definitely introduce some pain, and while "omg hand cramp" is a flippant complaint often used by Nintendo DS detractors, it actually does hold true here.
If you can tolerate these issues, then Guitar Hero: On Tour can be just as fun as the console versions if you come in expecting lower-quality sound files and a reduced tracklist. Hammering a tricky solo flat-out works here, and is just as satisfying to your fingers as it is on the console guitars. Shouting at the mic (I prefer clearing my throat) is a serviceable way of activating star power for the score junkie in you, and even though you don't quite feel like you're playing a fake guitar, you still feel like you're pulling off some mean feats when you play on Expert.
All told, Guitar Hero: On Tour is a viable option if you really want Guitar Hero in the car. It plays and feels enough like its console cousin, and is a commendable effort by the developer. Its mechanical issues simply cannot be ignored, however, and you need to be ready to handle them if you're going to plug in.
Surpassed my expectations June 23, 2008
Peter Galamaga (Bedford, NH)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I got this today along with the limited edition DS.
I was going to get the game for my son but, since I use his DS so much I figured I might as well get my own.
I am a mediocre GH III player on the Wii (I love the game - just not a lot of free time), so that may or may not be why I enjoy the game so much.
After a quick tutorial, I was playing GH On Tour this afternoon.
So far I've played 5 songs on Easy. It was a lot of fun. I like the songs and the sound quality is as good as can be reasonably expected.
Wow July 7, 2008
Roberta Pompeu (Hamden, CT USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Thought it was going to suck. didn't expect much of it at all, but its awsome!!!love it! tottally addicted to it now :] hopefully they will create some new games with different songs so that we can vary a little.
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