I have, on more than one occasion, mentioned my love of Guitar Hero… first of all, I totally can rock Sweet Home Alabama on the Guitar Hero World Tour, but more than that, it is a fantastic way to enjoy music and show my competetive edge ;) So, when Mom Central sent me the Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits game for the Nintendo DS, I JUMPED at the chance to review it!!!

But… I ran into a slight problem :-) My son ran into it first, lol. We decided to take it with us to Myrtle Beach so I set it all up for him so he could use it on the drive down. It took a few minutes but it was relative easy. It comes with not only the game, but the hand grip to play, so I put the handgrip on the DS and set up the game and off we went. 3 hours later he was STILL playing it! The kid was as good as I am on it :-) The next day I whipped out my DS and started playing with him, because we were lucky enough to be able to try Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades game too! The Decades game was totally for me! I knew a lot more songs, and I knew I could play them better, lol. So, using our wireless connection we were able to share songs and play against each other… FOR HOURS! And you know what? Out of the 6 or so games we played right then, my son totally killed me on 5 of them, lol.

I have to admit, he was definitely more adept at “strumming” the guitar which you do with the little pick they give you especially made for the DS. But I got the hang of it and played it frequently on our trip. Since getting home, it has literally been attached to my son. He is thrilled with the fact that you can unlock songs as you go along, so there is more and more music to listen to and to play.

The groups include people like Coldplay, Evanescence, Fall Out Boy and even my own Ringtone – Paralyzer by Finger 11!! On the Guitar Hero: Decades Tour you have some great songs from the 70’s through now, and they even have Sweet Home Alabama!! But alas, I haven’t unlocked it yet, but I’m getting there for sure!!

Here are just some of the things that make Guitar Hero on Tour for the DS so awesome:

KEY FEATURES:

Shred along to 28 master tracks, all modern rock hits from some of the hottest bands including Coldplay, Fall Out Boy, Tenacious D, Weezer, The Strokes and more. Players will tour through five all-new venues that are as extreme as the tunes played in them.

For the first time ever, players can choose how they take their band from the underground music scene to worldwide rock stardom with the exciting non-linear gameplay progression in Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits.

Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits delivers an all-new gameplay experience with Fan Requests. By completing Fan Requests players build their fan base and open up new challenges to rock-out like never before including jamming to an entire song in Hyperspeed, battling it out in a Guitar Duel with active Bomb Notes or whammying every single hold note in a song.

Fans can take the Guitar Hero experience wherever they go with Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits. The Guitar Hero™ Guitar Grip™ mimics a guitar fret board and fits seamlessly in people’s hands to deliver the same core gameplay that defines Guitar Hero.

Song streaming features allow players of Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits and its predecessors, Guitar Hero: On Tour and Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades, to share songs via local wireless connectivity. Players can rock out together in multiplayer modes, jamming to tracks from all three versions of the game.

If you love Guitar Hero and you love your Nintendo DS then you will LOVE Guitar Hero on Tour: Modern Hits and Guitar Hero on Tour: Decades!!