Ultimate Band

Realistic instruments and an easy-to-use set of creation tools are innovations that should become common across all rhythm games. While only players who are able to overcome the painfully shortened and poorly vocalized set list will truly enjoy the title, all fans of the genre will find something to like.

Ultimate Band DS won't suit anyone looking for a hardcore music experience, even on the DS.

If it sounds complex, just understand this: It makes it surprisingly easy for you to make decent sounding tunes, and it’ll store up to 12 of them. You can even join up over Wi-Fi and record yourself and three other players jamming together, or connect to the vastly inferior Wii version of the game and use your DS to run a light show. Guitar Hero, are you paying attention?

Ultimate Band isn't as good a game as "Guitar Hero: On Tour", but it does offer more variety. Its biggest downfall is the minimal track list.

This could have been a great game, but the very short song list and the insufficient multiplayer-part really drags it down.

Ultimate Band for NDS is an original musical game with great variety, but not in songs. It is not good like the Guitar Hero experience, but it has a funny multiplayer mode and the option to let us create our tunes in the music studio.

It's telling that my main criticism of Band is its meager song count, as it's a feat for any game that actually made me love jamming to Fall Out Boy.

Without the depth of titles like KORG DS-10 or Guitar Hero, Ultimate Band is a pretty decent musical title for Nintendo DS, its main feature being the opportunity to play any instrument using the stylus.

To be honest, the Nintendo DS version of the game was more entertaining, especially because of the multiplayer mode.