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Product Details of Jam Sessions

Description

A guitar-playing Nintendo DS game.The Nintendo DS touch screen represents a guitar's strings and the D-pad / buttons become the fingered chords. By "strumming" on the virtual strings you'll play the chord that you've selected on the D-pad. The tool recognizes both up and down strums at half and full velocities, and you'll hear the subtle changes to the chord in the different ways to play them.

Quick Glance

ESRB Rating: E10 (Everyone 10+)

Game Genre: Simulation

Release Date: 2007-9-11

Summary

Product Title: Jam Sessions

Manufacturer: UbiSoft

Power Score: 3.8 | 12 Reviews

Game Information

ESRB Rating: E10 (Everyone 10+)

Game Genre: Simulation

Release Date: 2007-9-11

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Reviews on Jam Sessions

  • 2
  By member: PhillyDWilliams - Dec 28, 2007

Amusing Guitar Simulator

Strengths: Song list & demos let you jump in and play songs.

Weakness: Creating your own songs is a lesson in patience.

Jam Sessions turns your DS into a guitar simulator. Though the game, if you can call it that, only allows you to play chords, it is a neat little product that can be pretty satisfying if you have the patience and time to put into it. It comes with some preloaded songs that will even demo how to play them for you. It's probably the quickest way to jump in and feel like you have some guitar chops....

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  • 3
  By member: DisneyboyEverest - Dec 9, 2007

Jam Sessions

Strengths: Can play guitar chords on the DS, instructions for many songs on the game, can record original material onto the ds

Weakness: can only play chords, not individual notes

Jam Sessions is a fun musical game. In it you can play guitar chords on your Ds. Jam Sessions has many songs to play to built in the game and a free play mode where you can play whatever you want and even record several of your own guitar chord songs onto the game. I would recommend Jam Sessions to anyone who likes music or musical activities. My one problem with it is that you can only play...

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  • 4
  By member: Tricky02 - Oct 13, 2007

Jam Sessions

Strengths: Jam Sessions turns your DS into a guitar. Guitar effect actually sounds like a guitar.

Weakness: Not enough songs included

Jam Sessions lets you turn your DS into an acoustic guitar. There's really not much more to it than that. You can write your own songs and record up to five of them on the cartridge or you can play one of the 17 songs included in the software. The first 10 songs have a demo that you can listen to, but for some reason that's not available for the other songs. There is no reason why you shouldn't...

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  • 4
  By member: mkernan - Sep 12, 2007

Great little music toy

Strengths: Easy to use, can record and playback what you play, unique experience, ability to learn to play popular songs, great effects

Weakness: No electric guitar - acoustic only, can only play chords, recording time is somewhat short

Jam Sessions is a really great little product. You can't really call it a game, but hopefully people are already aware of that. It essentially lets you play chords on a virtual acoustic guitar. The free play itself is worth the price of admission alone, but Jam Sessions also includes the ability to learn to play a collection of popular songs by showing you the chords and the lyrics. It would be...

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  • 4
  By member: aminaha - Sep 30, 2007

Great Software

Strengths: Lots of options to tweak the sound of your virtual guitar. 16 chords at your finger tips when you play. Can save you creations.

Weakness: Effects like Distortion don't sound quite as good as the guitar without it. Only play chord songs accurately since there is only one string. Need speakers or headphones to get it to sounds great.

Let me just get this out of the way and say that Jam Sessions isn't really a game. Jam Sessions is a tool or software application for the Nintendo DS that allows you to learn to strum a guitar. There is only one string and you can strum up and down. To start you off there is a tutorial that shows you how to do some basic strumming. Then you have four options to choose from in the main menu. Free...

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  • 3
  By member: Caliburnis - Oct 31, 2008

Nice guitar simulation

Strengths: Authentic guitar sounds. Early title feel of guitar simulation.

Weakness: Really only a simulation. Has not aged truly well after release of Guitar Hero DS.

Jam Sessions does what it was created to do well - simulate a guitar. The game is fairly straightforward and users will pick up on it quickly. However, you'll realize teh limitations that the game has. As an earlier DS title, this was likely groundbreaking, but in a DS era post-Guitar Hero DS, most users will probably want to opt for that game. Still, using your finger/stylus to pick chords is...

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  • 3
  By member: TokioB - Sep 1, 2008

Strumming to My Own Beat

Strengths: Free Play mode let's you jam even if you aren't musically inclined. Ability to record and save.

Weakness: Clipping of sound if you switch notes too quickly. Not that in depth.

Not being able to read music hasn't stopped me from enjoying Jam Sessions. You'll probably get more out of it if you knew what you were doing, but sometimes it's just about being able to express yourself by strumming your own kind of song. Thank goodness for Free Play. * The other component of this "game" has you following along to songs from various artists from pop to rock -- one note at a...

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  • 4
  By member: mj_f - Jul 30, 2008

Jam Sessions

Strengths: Fun virtual guitar tool

Weakness: Just don't expect it to be a music game like Guitar Hero

On the surface Jam Sessions may appear to be a Guitar Hero knock-off. However, that is not the case at all. Jam Sessions is, in fact, a virtual guitar, with very authentic guitar sounds and the ability to play different chords, strum in different ways, etc - all with the reproduced sound being very realistic. Of course the interface puts certain limitations on the experience. You only strum one...

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  • 4
  By member: justin42 - Jun 30, 2008

Awesome use of the DS

Strengths: Great for just playing around with, good sound effects

Weakness: This isn't really a game-- so don't buy it expecting "Guitar Hero"

First off-- Jam Session IS NOT a game!! This is really more of a very simple music creation tool for the DS. You can play a variety of chords as you would on an acoustic guitar, and the program allows you to record and play back those chords. It won't teach you much about a real guitar (Although it's probably great for portable tweaking/composing-- if you get a great idea you can at least try...

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  • 3.4
  testseek.com - Nov 12, 2008

Jam: Sessions

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  • 3.7
  TopTenREVIEWS.com - Mar 17, 2008

Jam Sessions

Jam Sessions receives an overall TopTenREVIEWS rating of 2.98 out of 4.00. It is ranked the #2,747 game of all time, #14 game of 2007 for the Nintendo DS and #66 Nintendo DS game of all time. The rating and ranking is based on an average of 15 critic scores, awards and other criteria. To see a breakdown of the game ranking, read individual critic reviews, or see how other games ranked, click on...

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  • 4.6
  GameZone - Oct 5, 2007

Jam Sessions

These days, between the mainstream successes of Dance Dance Revolution, SingStar, and especially Guitar Hero, music-based games are all the rage. Titles that would have been niche releases just a year or two ago are now mainstream hits — just ask Elite Beat Agents. Their current popularity also allows more obscure titles a shot at a major release. This is the situation regarding Jam Sessions, a...

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