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Jam Sessions Rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Jam session is a great way to create your own music as well as learn notes and play other songs.

a good idea that's carried out poorly

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

When I first heard about jam sessions i was really excited. I just recently bought the game from amazon for a cheap price. I started playing as soon as it came in the mail and I literally I was tired of it in about 15 minutes. I play guitar so theres just no point of having this game. You are very limited to what you can do. Theres only 2 modes; free play and song mode. Song mode is pointless unless you know the song, because all it does is give you the chord names and lyrics. it doesn't even tell you how to strum for all of the songs. In free play mode, you choose what chords you want to use to play. Thats the one good thing; there are a lot of chords to choose from. The sound is also pretty good and most chords song like a real guitar. On the other hand, I really hate how there's no sense of accomplishment in this game. When you learn a song on real guitar, it feels really good. In jam sessions, it feels like cheating. In other words, don't get this game unless you're too lazy to learn real guitar

feels more like a cheap tech demo than an actual game..

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: February 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

its sad. this game had a lot of potential, and a lot of potential for sales. a lot more care should have went into making this.

basically you play the ds as if you were playing a guitar. kind of. you can select chords from a huge variety of chords and assign them to the different directional buttons. there is a bar across the touch screen and you strum across that with the stylus as if it were a pick. you can save songs and you can use to mic to record your voice along with the guitar stuff. theres also a few effects that sound awful. its best to leave them alone.

there is no career mode to speak of. theres just a set list of under 20 songs. no difficulty settings either.

theres pretty much nothing to speak of graphically either. you can change the color of the bar in the middle of the screen and you can change the background color.

a career mode, slightly higher quality sound, and more songs just might have been enough to save this title. as it is now, i wouldnt even say its worth renting. just get a real guitar. (dont get me wrong, i love GH and Rock Band)

5/10

Great product

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My grandson was very happy with the game and it was a great price. Shipping didn't take long at all.

Great for what it is

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Don't expect Guitar Hero out of this software. It is not a "game" It is a guitar software piece. The D-pad acts as a chord selector and your strum to play that chord. It is open ended and you can play any song you can think of that uses straight chords, sorry no picking individual strings. I would love to see someone take full advantage of the software by hooking their DS up to an amp and playing a little show with it.

Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy (and no fun at all!)

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Let's be honest one with another: As a game, this DS title sucks. Pitiful song selection, vomitously bad graphics, and a meager effects system. But that's just the beginning of my woe. Relatively few of the songs have demos, so if you've never heard the song in question, you're out of luck. Another thing that doesn't help is the absolute LACK of rhythm guidance during play. You get only a rough indication of where you are in the song, and although you can set the tempo of the optional metronome, there's no real accompaniment, nor is there any scoring system at all. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if someone told me this title was developed by a couple of college students over the course of a couple of months, because it is altogether weak and feature-starved.

Having said all that, the large chord library makes Free Play mode at least sufferable.

Be advised that this game doesn't include "Santeria," which is featured in the ads.

Good idea gone wrong

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game had a great concept but its like you hit the same repetitive notes over and over it gets old really fast and the song selection is awful stick with guitar hero

where are all the songs?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game just to kick back and have some fun with no agenda, it does that just fine, but my ONE complaint is that there arnt enough songs and no link for more songs to play on free play.

Cool idea, but nor much to do.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is an excellent idea by Ubisoft, don't get me wrong, but it is horribly implemented. The songs that are included in this "game" are more like sheet music, and after you play them there is nothing left to do.

Jam Sessions, isn't as much a game as it is a pocket guitar, and I would say that it is worth about half as much as retail (15$).

Extremely Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: October 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am really disappointed in this game. I saw it like a month ago before it came out and I couldn't wait to get it. I thought it was gonna be like a little guitar hero but this game is nowhere near the fun of guitar hero. it doesn't even play along with you when you play the songs. all you hear is when you strum on the guitar, so if you have no idea how the song goes you'll be sitting there just playing notes in order. you dont even have to be in time to complete the song. don't make the same mistake I did though. I bought it the week it came out and I sold it to gamestop about 2 weeks later and only got 12 dollars for it. DONT GET IT!!! unless you enjoy playing songs out of rythym and stuff.

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