Guitar Hero: On Tour and 'Guitar Grip' DS peripheral revealed
by Christopher Grant 
on Mar 19th 2008 2:27PM
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Finally, after months of speculation and funny Photoshop mockups of little guitars, Activision has spilled some details on the portable DS release of
Guitar Hero dubbed,
as expected,
Guitar Hero: On Tour. Most notable is the hardware peripheral that looks decidedly unlike a mini-guitar. Instead, the "Guitar Grip" gives you not only a place to grip your DS while playing, but four "fret" buttons and a storage slot for the game's sure-to-be-lost-quickly "guitar pick" that you "strum" on the touch-screen. Since the luckier amongst us have a full set of five fingers – with our poor thumbs reduced to simply
gripping things – we're anticipating a significantly easier gameplay experience than
On Tour's five-buttoned siblings.
But what about the music, man? Karthik Bala, CEO of developer Vicarious Visions, says "There are more than 20 songs in the game, with the majority being exclusive to
Guitar Hero: On Tour." he continues, "We've done custom note tracking for all the songs and over 80 percent of the songs are original, master recordings." We're not sure what 20 master recordings are going to sound like once they've been squished into a DS cart, but we're hopeful they've addressed that concern. Close-up shot of the Guitar Grip and cheesy marketing vid embedded after the break.
Read – Exclusive Reveal: Guitar Hero DS [IGN]
Read – Guitar Hero: On Tour Interview [Yahoo]
