The friendly team at XS Games sent us a review copy of the PopStar Guitar Wii game, and my kids have been happily playing it this weekend.
It's kind of a Guitar-Hero clone, but aimed at a much younger crowd. There's more than 50 songs include music from The Jonas Brothers, Fall Out Boy and Miley Cyrus.
The game comes with two "AirG " adaptors, which you clip over your Wii remote to turn it into an air guitar. Your kids can compete head to head or form their own band. For an old dude like me, I didn't know most of the songs, but I'm sure many kids would love this under the Xmas tree.
The game is to buy on Tuesday for Wii and PS2, but if you're a cheapskate, we're going to let someone take away the review copy (slightly used) by registering and leaving a comment on this story telling us which song they really wished was featured in one of these games. Sex Pistols? Beatles? Osmonds? Sigue Sigue Sputnick? The best answer as judged by me at the end of the week will get the game. Rock on
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Andrew W.K. - "Party Hard" would have been a GREAT song to pretend to play. Hehe
"I Like Big Butts" by Sir Mix-Alot would be great. The sight of a bunch of little kids wiggling their rear-ends to gain points and win a date with Prince/Princess Big Butt would be just precious.
Wii could sell out entire stadiums with little tyke tournments.
or, since it should probably incorporate the guitar, how about "Green Grass and High Tides" by the Outlaws?
Green Grass and High Tides is on the first Rockband...
I'm not entering, just commenting....
I'm thinking that you are going to have a reeeaaaallllllly difficult time getting that review copy away from the participant pictured above--the last photo has a 'make my day' clint eastwood air about it...which I find hilarious!
It is? I need to look at the first RockBand. I never would have expected "Green Grass and High Tides" to be included. You have to have some endurance for that one!
We'll start tame...
Guitarzan, by Ray Stevens
Star Spangled Banner, by Hendrix...pending "waggle" gives you feedback.
She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
Smack my bitch up by Prodigy cause i'd be funny
Jordan by Buckethead for difficulty
This might be a surprising pick for some, but Geek USA by the Smashing Pumpkins would be fucking incredible. They already picked Cherub Rock, but that was just the natural pick--one of their most popular songs that pretty much everyone will recognize, and damn rocking too. But Geek USA is the better guitar song. It starts off with a fucking bang--none of this slow build up bull shit, it's just them fucking smashing right off the bat.
Then, it starts getting wilder and wilder and you're waiting for the shit to explode. Just building and building after the second verse and chorus. You wait for it--then insane break down. So fucking mellow, the definition of "Quiet before the storm." After a bit of this, there's a little drawn out BOOM guitar that really fucking lets you know what's about to go down.
Of course, the storm needs to come. And it does. Fucking Billy Corgan just wails on the guitar--for about a minute 15. It's not all wild, but it's slamming.
In the final minute, it's just your classic heavy Smashing Pumpkins guitar--big and brooding.
Might not be a popular pick, and there's a good 50% of people who hate his voice, but I love the pumpkins and think they rock.
Here's an old video of them playing the song. I couldn't find the master on youtube (Billy with hair--wild): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMkjOIROR4w
I refuse to buy any of these guitar video games until one of them includes the song with the greatest bass line of all time: The Fraggle Rock theme song.
If i had to pick a song that I would love to see...
Fish Heads - Barnes and Barnes LOL
but seriously... Eruption - Van Halen or Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix exclusively for the fact that they both have what I think are some of the best guitar solos of all time.
Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus (or as my 5 year old says "hannah-tana") Fall Out boy, talk about hitting the parents with what the kids love. My 3 kids who would probably go crazy for this game.
The new Guitar Hero World Tour lets you create songs to play. So if you WANT to play the Fraggle Rock theme song, then just rip it and make it, hehe. And I think Green Grass & High Tides is a downloadable song in Rockband, not a stock one.
Looky there, three little Scaramouches! Don't tell me your daughter looks as much like you.
Miss Cellania..she actually looks the most like him..4 little scara clones..:)
First of all, those boys are darling - you can totally guess their personalities by their body and facial expressions.
Since Eruption has already been mentioned, how about Suite en Espanola by Andres Segovia on the limited edition Guitar Masters for Wii Guitar Hero?
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. Duh. Every kid should get to know Brian May and the late great Freddie!
ANYTHING from 311 would have been great as well. Guitar Hero World Tour has Beautiful Disaster, but THAT'S IT! No Transistor, Use of Time, Light Years, or anything!
ANYTHING from 311 would have been great as well. Guitar Hero World Tour has Beautiful Disaster, but THAT'S IT! No Transistor, Use of Time, Light Years, or anything!
How 'bout some Nine Inch Nails? Parents would love for their kids to rock out to Mr. Self-Destruct. :)
...or maybe some Nickelback?
Nooooo not Nickelback! They have no songs worth playing. I believe that There are a couple of NIN songs out there for Rock Band 2 and the new Guitar Hero title, as well. I don't think that any of them ar Mr. Self Destruct, however. Maybe It will be DLC someday.
I'm surprised that more people haven't posted. That's awesome tho because we all have about a 1/10 chance of winning the game, hehe. My stepdaughter would like this game. She rarely plays her Wii anymore because she only has Mario Party 8 on it and we have Guitar Hero for the XBOX, hehe. Well, good luck everyone!
is there a winner yet?
Not sure. The post said that a winner would be drawn at the end of the week. Saturday is technically the end of the week so we'll see today, hopefully.
well, i was going to say eruption...but someone already did, i would like to hear some greenday in one of those games though
The competition is now closed. I'll contact the winner via email today. Watch for another competition later today.