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thumb Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades features a path through time, offering five songs for each decade. The game includes many differences from Guitar Hero On Tour, such as new venues, songs, and returning characters, Midori and Clive Winston. Venues change the way you play the game. For example, for the '00s stage, players play on New Year's Eve in NYC, playing songs by bands like Linkin Park and Jimmy Eat World. All songs in this game are, like Guitar Hero World Tour, Master Tracks, no covers. The game will also automatically unlock the career difficulty below the one that you're working on -- in other words, if you start with Hard and complete a song, you'll also be credited with the Easy and Medium difficulty levels of that song as well. Before heading into venues, you have to choose the three different storylines in your career path: lead guitar, bass/rhythm, and guitar duels. The two-player Duel mode returns, and you can play against any DS version of Guitar Hero, and, using wireless communications, you can transfer songs and play multiplayer on that song - but as far as Vicarious Visions is concerned, you can't keep that song for Quickplay.

Contents

Gameplay

The gameplay in Decades remains primarily unchanged from On Tour. The core game is a score attack music game, in which the player must attempt the notes of a guitar track of various rock songs. The game uses a "Guitar Grip", either as bundled with the game or from On Tour, that is inserted into the Game Boy Advance slot of a Nintendo DS or DS Lite; the peripheral is incompatible with the Nintendo DSi. The Grip provides four buttons, and the player "strums" by using a guitar pick-shaped stylus on the touch screen. The strumming detection has been improved in response to complaints from the first game.[3]

Decades provides an improved career mode that a player can follow for either lead guitar or bass/rhythm guitar, as well as a "Guitar Duel" career mode.[3] Both careers will present songs in reverse chronological order, starting with Modern hits and ending with classic rock songs.[4]

Decades can be played with another player over the DS's local wireless capabilities. Additionally, a Decades player can play with another player using On Tour, allowing any song from either setlist to be selected.

Characters

see: List of Guitar Hero characters

Venues

There are five venues in Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades. Modern, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, and 1970's. There are five songs at each venue

Setlist

Year Song title Artist Era
North American Version
Era
European Version
Era
UK Version
1970 "All Right Now" Free 1970s 1970s 1970s
1980 "Any Way You Want It" Journey 1980s N/A 1980s
1993 "Are You Gonna Go My Way" Lenny Kravitz 1990s 1990s 1990s
1994 "Buddy Holly" Weezer 1990s 1990s 1990s
2003 "Can't Stop" Red Hot Chili Peppers 2000s 2000s 2000s
2007 "Crushcrushcrush" Paramore Modern N/A Modern
2005 "Dirty Little Secret" The All-American Rejects Modern N/A N/A
2006 "Diventerai Una Star" Finley N/A Modern N/A
1999 "Down" Stone Temple Pilots 1990s 1990s 1990s
2007 "Estrella Polar" Pereza N/A Modern N/A
2004 "Everything is Everything" Phoenix N/A 2000s Bonus
1982 "Eye of the Tiger" Survivor N/A 1980s 1980s
1972 "Free Ride" Edgar Winter Group 1970s 1970s 1970s
2003 "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" The Darkness 2000s Bonus 2000s
1984 "I Can't Drive 55" Sammy Hagar 1980s N/A N/A
1987 "La Bamba" Los Lobos 1980s 1980s 1980s
2001 "The Middle" Jimmy Eat World 2000s 2000s 2000s
1992 "No Rain" Blind Melon 1990s 1990s 1990s
2000 "One Step Closer" Linkin Park 2000s 2000s 2000s
1987 "The One I Love" R.E.M. 1980s 1980s 1980s
1979 "One Way or Another" Blondie 1970s 1970s 1970s
2007 "The Pretender" Foo Fighters Modern Modern Modern
2007 "Ready, Set, Go!" Tokio Hotel N/A Modern Modern
2005 "Remedy" Seether 2000s N/A N/A
1976 "Rock and Roll Band" Boston 1970s N/A 1970s
1987 "Satch Boogie" Joe Satriani Bonus 1980s Bonus
2001 "Smooth Criminal" Alien Ant Farm Bonus Bonus 2000s
1995 "Some Might Say" Oasis N/A 1990s 1990s
1974 "Sweet Home Alabama" (Live) Lynyrd Skynyrd 1970s 1970s 1970s
2007 "Tarantula" The Smashing Pumpkins Modern Bonus Modern
2007 "Take Over, The Break's Over" Fall Out Boy Modern Modern Modern
1997 "Volcano Girls" Veruca Salt 1990s N/A N/A
1977 "We Are the Champions" Queen Bonus 1970s Bonus
2003 "You Can't Stop Me" Guano Apes N/A 2000s N/A
1986 "You Give Love a Bad Name" Bon Jovi 1980s 1980s 1980s