Strum along to your favourite songs (Jam Sessions (DS))

Member Name: Plushroom

Product:	Jam Sessions (DS)
Date:	29/09/09 (18 review reads)
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Advantages: Gives you the confidence to move onto the real thing, fun to mess about with

Disadvantages: Not thast many songs, not exciting

The Ubisoft game that turns your DS into a guitar and the player into a musician instantly. Well okay, not instantly - but compared to how long it would take you to learn all of the songs featured and how to play a real guitar (not to mention the cost) this is pretty fast.
Essentially this is a learning game with a music theme - doing the tutorial stage is a must as it explains exactly what you are doing and how to do it. You use the control pad to determine your chord and then strum along on the touch-screen to the track.
This game has over 35 different tracks including Nirvana, Bob Dylan, Blind Mellon and Death Cab For Cutie, as well as what appear to be French and Spanish tracks (Though my foreign language skills are so poor these days I'm not certain what the tracks are called in English or who they are by) - I don't know whether the unknown tracks to the British charts were added to give it more European feel or just because they didn't want to spend any more cash on more licensed hits everyone would know but they are not an unwelcome pick. Even though I've never heard them before some are really good.
There is also a free play mode in which you can create your own music and record it on the DS, so nice for kids (and those who are kids at heart) to play at being a rock star.
It's not the most exciting looking game, and honestly if I hadn't found it pre-owned at a ridiculously cheap price I probably wouldn't have picked it up, but it is a fun game and has helped with my confidence musically. Perhaps now I feel like I can strum in time and right I'll be able to put that into practice on the real thing!

Summary: Buy preowned at a bargain price for a little fun