Product Description

Exclusive to Pop Star Guitar, is the "AirG," a snap on peripheral for the Nintendo Wii Remote which delivers a guitar like experience without a guitar.

Pop Star Guitar is a music-based rhythm-action game in which the player adopts the role of a lead guitarist forming a band, helping band-members to become stars and eventually winning the worldwide "Battle of the Bands" contest.

The game takes you through a journey where the player has the opportunity to live a personal story of self-improvement and transformation by achievement. Throughout the game the player improves his skills to deliver better, more challenging and rewarding performances that in turn deliver success, money, independence and fame.

• Single-player Career Mode
• Single-player and multiplayer minigames
• 60 pop songs, including masters performed by the original artist
• 12 playable characters (6 male/6 female)
• Form your own band and customise your band's look
• 25 visually stunning venues
• Customise your band with 20 lead guitars, 20 bass guitars, 20 rhythm guitars and 10 drum sets
• Three difficulty levels - Easy, Medium and Hard

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #602 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Midway Games Ltd
• Released on: 2008-11-28
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Format: Unknown format

Manufacturer's Description
Pop Star Guitar is a music-based rhythm-action game in which the player adopts the role of a lead guitarist forming a band, helping band-members to become stars and eventually winning the "Battle of the Bands" worldwide contest.

The game takes you through a journey where the player has the opportunity to live a personal story of self-improvement and transformation 'by achievement'. Throughout the game the player improves his skills to deliver better, more challenging and rewarding performances that in turn deliver success, money, independence and fame.

Exclusive to Pop Star Guitar, Introducing the AirG, a snap on peripheral to the Nintendo Wii remote delivers a guitar like experience without a guitar. 1 AirG included

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Customer Reviews

As good as Guitar Hero? Yes... but different.
Popstar Guitar is what it looks like. A rival to Guitar Hero aimed at younger gamers or those with more pop orientated tastes. But it's also more than that.

Popstar Guitar has a much wider range or music than Guitar Hero, that will include something for almost everyone. If you're not in to Rock then that's a definite plus for Popstar Guitar.

The music ranges from pure pop like Avril Lavigne's 'Girlfriend' and Miley Cyrus, to the mainstream but mature KT Tunstall and Rhianna, To things like Bowling For Soup for the grungier cool kids, to stuff like Greenday and Paramore that would be at home on Guitar Hero. (Misery Business by Paramore actually IS on BOTH games!)

I'm a Metal Head / Rocker personally but my girlfriend likes more pop and RnB. We both love this game though.

The only downside to the songs is that over half of them are not performed by the original artists. They're still good however, and most are very faithful reproductions. It may still annoy those who are major fans of the bands though.

Many people have said that Popstar Guitar is too easy, or easier than Guitar Hero. I would definitely not agree with this. Speaking from experience having completed most of Popstar Guitar AND Guitar Hero World Tour (both on the hard setting). On the easiest settings, Popstar Guitar is much harder than Guitar Hero World Tour and on the hardest settings there is little difference. Yes Guitar Hero has one extra button, but that's really not that hard once you get used to it. The one song that is on both games (Misery Business by Paramore) is actually quite a lot harder on Popstar Guitar requiring you to do the main riff note for note once on Easy and throughout the song on Medium, whereas Guitar Hero World Tour doesn't make you do this at all until Hard.

Many have also commented on the perceived speed of Popstar Guitar being Slower than Guitar Hero. It's just not. Guitar Hero angles the on screen fret board and makes the notes grow bigger as they approach so that they appear to come from a distance and accelerate towards you by making them fill a progressively bigger part of the screen. Popstar Guitar doesn't resort to these tricks. The result: no difference. They both follow the speed of the songs. Guitar Hero just uses an optical illusion to make you feel like you're going faster.

The one thing that does make a big difference between the games is the controller. Whereas Guitar Hero uses a realistic guitar shaped controller, Popstar Guitar has a plastic cover called an Air-G that goes over your Wii remote. This is a lot more comfortable because it means you can have your arms in any relaxed position you choose, meaning that you may be able to play for longer and more comfortably. Not to mention how much easier it is to store when you're not playing!

So would I recommend Popstar Guitar? If you like Guitar Hero and the song list of Popstar Guitar appeals to you then YES! If not then probably not. You Guitar Hero / Hard Rock fans know who you are and are probably only reading this to see if I tear the game apart. If you're considering buying this game already though: just buy it!!!

Guitar Hero fans will hate this!
Well I kept an open mind when buying this, as I was looking forward to playing a few pop songs rather than all rock which is what you get with Guitar Hero at the moment.
I have to say I love Guitar Hero but Popstar Guitar is awful in comparison and here is why.
I found the controller dificult to use, you use the AirG for your note changes and plug the nunchuk in and use as the strummer. Needless to say I found this very uncomfortable and kept dropping the nunchuk.
For anyone thinking of buying this and trying to play it with any of the Guitar Hero type guitars be warned they don't work. I tried plugging both of the guitars in I have but neither would work and it would only continue into the game when the wii remote was plugged in which was very annoying.
The screens between Popstar Guitar and Guitar Hero are very similar with a simple highway with notes moving down the screen.
The screen to pick songs is a bit annoying as you have to jump around on a map and it takes a while to figure out which songs you can play.
I can honestly say I am selling my Popstar Guitar and will stick to Guitar Hero.
In summary if you have never played Guitar Hero you might enjoy this game but if you have then you will find it very annoying and clumsy.

Popstar Guitar
This game is rubbish, if the attachment that goes on the control doesn't fit the control properly and causes problem for playing the game. Don't recommend this game to anyone not worth the money