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Synopsis
Band Hero DS delivers full band features, with an ability to shred guitar, beat the drums, or sing lead vocals on your DS Lite. The “band” bundle includes a guitar grip and an all new drum skin peripheral. The microphone is built into the handheld, allowing you to take center stage singing the lyrics that scroll across the screen. Enter multiplayer mode and join up to 4 people to form your own band.
Amazon.com Product Description
table border="0" tr td valign="top" a name="product_description" Brought to you by the makers of iGuitar Hero/i, one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time, iBand Hero/i for Nintendo DS features the hottest chart-topping hits from everyone’s favorite acts including Taylor Swift, No Doubt, Lily Allen, The All-American Rejects and Jackson 5. Headlined by some of the biggest names in music as in-game artists and playable characters, iBand Hero/i is the ultimate party game to play on the road or at home, where players of all ages will be able to experience the signature, easy-to-learn but difficult-to-master iGuitar Hero/i gameplay. style type="text/css" .caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } ul.indent { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: -15px; } table.callout { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1. 3em; } td.vgoverview { height: 125px; background: #9DC4D8 url(http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/callout-bg.png) repeat-x; border-left: 1px solid #999999; border-right: 1px solid #999999; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 250px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; } /style p/ table width="160" border="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" cellspacing="0" tr td valign="top" height="89" div align="center"img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/bandhero.logo.150.jpg" align="middle" alt="Band Hero game logo" title="Band Hero game logo" width="150" height="132"br/ smallbi/i/b/small/div /td /tr /table table align=right width=250 cellpadding=10 tr td height="194"img alt="DS Lite in upright position while using the Band Hero grip accessory" title="DS Lite in upright position while using the Band Hero grip accessory" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B002E1P2JM.02.sm.jpg" border=0 align=top width="250" height="254"br center span class="caption"Use the Band Hero grip for guitar and bass guitar.br/ View larger./span /center /td /tr tr td height="194"img alt="Band Hero drum skins accessory on a DS Lite" title="Band Hero drum skins accessory on a DS Lite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B002E1P2JM.03.sm.jpg" border=0 align=top width="250" height="238"br center span class="caption"And the Drum Skins for drumming.br/ View larger./span /center /td /tr /table bNintendo DS Gameplay/bbr/ iBand Hero/i for DS (not compatible with the BSI) is the first ever portable full band gaming experience, allowing fans to create the band they have always dreamed of using any combination of supported inputs, providing wannabe rockers and performers of all ages the chance to experience and interact with their favorite music like never before. Full band gameplay is facilitated through a combination of 4-player multiplayer support via a Nintendo Wi-Fi connection and instrument emulation. Instruments possible in the game are vocals, drums, guitar and bass guitar. Vocal inputs are handled through the DS' built-in microphone, while the other three instruments are imputed via the two different peripherals included with the game. These two are the iBand Hero/i branded grip for playing guitar and bass, and the new iBand Hero/i drum skins for DS. Both contain colored buttons and pads respectively to guide players as they follow along with the game's familiar color-coated iGuitar Hero/i style gameplay. The drum skin rests atop your DS' D-pad and face buttons in an arrangement designed to mimic an actual drum kit, while the grip plugs into the DS' Game Boy Advance slot allowing for simultaneous easy use and screen viewing. The game includes multiple play options, including single player, and multiplayer modes and even the ability to team up with a partner playing on a Wii version of the game for an all new level of competition. p/ bThe Song List/bbr/ iBand Hero/i for Nintendo DS features over 30 master recordings from some of the hottest bands of today and yesteryear. Some of the songs players can expect to be cranking out with their bands are: ul liThe All-American Rejects - "Believe"/li liAvril Lavigne - "Girlfriend"/li liBlack Eyed Peas - "Let's Get It Started"/li liBlink-182 - "First Date"/li liBoys Like Girls - "The Great Escape"/li liDuran Duran - "Hungry Like The Wolf"/li liEagles of Death Metal - "Wannabe In L.A."/li liEvanescence - "Call Me When You're Sober"/li liFall Out Boy - "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs"/li liFoo Fighters - "Monkey Wrench"/li liKaiser Chiefs - "I Predict A Riot"/li liThe Killers - "Spaceman"/li liKings of Leon - "Manhattan"/li liKT Tunstall - "Suddenly I See"/li liLacuna Coil - "Our Truth"/li liNo Doubt - "Excuse Me Mr."/li liP!nk - "So What"/li liThe Presidents of the United States of America - "Lump"/li liThe Pretenders - "Boots of Chinese Plastic"/li liQueen - "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"/li liQueens Of The Stone Age - "No One Knows"/li liThe Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - "You Better Pray"/li liThe Rolling Stones - "Under My Thumb (live)"/li liSpin Doctors - "Two Princes"/li liSublime - "All You Need"/li liSum 41 - "In Too Deep"/li liUgly Kid Joe - "Everything About You"/li liVampire Weekend - "A-Punk"/li liThe Vines - "Get Free"/li liWeezer - "Troublemaker"/li /ul /td /tr /table