Jam Sessions

Jam Sessions Description

Ubisoft has turned the Nintendo DS into a guitar. Frankly, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Jam Sessions will inevitably draw comparisons to the Guitar Heroes, Rock Bands and Elite Beat Agents of this world, but those comparisons will be unfair. Rather than being another rhythm game, Jam Sessions is as close a simulation of a real guitar as the DS will allow. The set-up is fairly simple. Notes pass across the top screen, while the DS's touch screen is used for strumming. Simultaneously the D-pad can be used to play chords, with the L button working as a shift button to further open up the range of chords. The game comes with an extensive tutorial, so non-musical DS owners can effectively learn the principles of the guitar straight from their DS. Bundled in is a range of guitar pop for players to strum along to, while others might prefer to use it to put together their own arrangements on the fly. A virtual tool set provides even greater depth, with players being able to pre-set and customise a range of different effects. It all comes with a wide range of visual options, too. There are 60 different background and colour templates as well as eight different strum animations.

Use the Nintendo DS to make music just as you would with a real guitar, while experiencing authentic, remastered sound modeled after an actual acoustic guitar.

Free-play design allows users to learn and play ANY song ever played using an acoustic guitar. What you play is entirely up to you.

Play and sing songs from some of today and yesterday's most popular artists with accompanying chords and lyrics actually built into the title.

No problem. Advanced tutorial modes allow novice musicians to learn how to play guitar without paying for lessons! Additional modes will help users understand chord progressions and train them to recognize chords by ear.

Jam Sessions is basically a pocket guitar for artists to write, play AND save original music - anytime, anywhere thus making it a virtual notepad.

Controls can be adjusted for both left-handed and right-handed musicians, up and down strokes can be swapped to a players' preference.

A built-in effects processor lets players add reverb, chorus, low/high pass, tremolo and more to customize the sound; un-lockable backgrounds for performing well in Performance and Training modes.