

Perhaps the game’s main shortcoming is the most important factor in a game such as this: the music itself. Many tracks are repeated due to the game’s rather miniscule repertoire of songs and this is perhaps the game’s main fault – with only 15 songs to choose from the game can quickly become rather dull. New tracks are introduced in each city in career mode and each stage requires progressively more tracks to be completed. There are a few avatars to choose from for the main character, although a character creation option would have been nice. Career Mode has a simple back-story which involves the rise to fame of the player and his or her travels around different world venues, claiming fans in various cities such as Los Angeles and Tokyo. Quick Play is pretty self-explanatory: at the start of the game only two songs are available to be played in Quick Play, and the rest have to be unlocked by progressing through Career Mode. There are two modes of play available: Quick Play and Career Mode. For making successful strings of notes players are rewarded with power ups that can increase the player’s score or wipe the screen of all notes.

Medium difficulty should suit most players and Hard mode is understandably pretty challenging as many note combinations appear on screen at once. As there are three difficulty levels available there is quite a lot of scope for meeting the needs of individual players, and for those who are musically challenged Easy mode really is very easy, at times almost mind-numbingly so.
