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Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile is the third entry of the Guitar Hero Mobile game series developed by Hands-On Mobile using codebase engineered by MachineWorks Northwest LLC[1] and published by Hands-On Mobile for mobile devices with J2ME in November 2008, and was later ported to Android in March 4, 2009, BlackBerry possibly on April 16, 2009,[4] Windows Mobile sometime in 2009, and Nokia Symbian S60 via its N-Gage (N-Gage 2.0) gaming service on August 27, 2009.[5] It includes 15 songs with the core game with new songs are released each month as downloadable content.

Gameplay[]

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Guitar in Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile with Star Power activated.

Like its mobile prequel Guitar Hero III Mobile, there are three lane of notes: Green, Red, and Yellow, and notes are now aligned with the beats of the highway. In addition to Guitar, Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile has Drums as a playable instrument. The Drums track has a fourth note in form of a purple line, representing bass drum kick.

On Guitar, the controls are as followed:

  • Hit green notes: 1, 4, or 7
  • Hit red notes: 2, 5, or 8
  • Hit yellow notes: 3, 6, or 9
  • Activate Star Power: *
  • Pause: Right soft key
GHWTM - Are You Gonna Go My Way Drums Expert

Drums in Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile.

On Drums, the controls are:

  • Hit green note (snare): 1 or 4
  • Hit red note (hi-hat/high tom): 2 or 5
  • Hit yellow note (ride & crash cymbals/low tom): 3 or 6
  • Hit purple line (bass drum): 7, 8, 9, or 0
  • Activate Star Power: *
  • Pause: Right soft key

Star Power can be acquired by successfully completing Star Power phrases and there is no whammy button to acquire more Star Power from sustained notes. Star Power can be activated when at least 50% of the Star Power meter is filled and will double the score multiplier when it's activated until it runs out.

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Battle Mode in Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile's online multiplayer.

The game also supported online multiplayer and online leaderboard support when the servers were online. Servers are currently offline.

Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile features two returning playable characters from Guitar Hero III Mobile that can be selected in the Options menu: Axel Steel and Judy Nails. After selecting a character, you can select one of four guitar colors that are available from the start: Blue, red, black, and white.

The only unlockables there are in the game are 8 trophies that can be unlocked by completing tasks. Players that play on Symbian S60 devices and are signed into the N-Gage gaming service can earn N-Gage Achievement Points (NAP) by unlocking these in-game trophies when the servers were online.

Soundtrack[]

Main article: Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile/Setlist

The main core of the game comes with 15 songs from Guitar Hero World Tour covered in MIDI format (official MP3s can be used) that lasts for 2 minutes each with more songs released as downloadable content over time.

Trophies[]

There are 8 in-game trophies that can be unlocked while playing songs. When the servers were online, N-Gage gaming service on Symbian S60 devices featured them as online achievements and S60 users can earn N-Gage Achievement Points (NAP) by completing these tasks.[7]

Icon Trophy Description
GHWTM - Kitty Fingers Kitty Fingers Complete any five songs!
GHWTM - Fraternizer Fraternizer Complete first Song Group on Expert!
GHWTM - Castle Stormer Castle Stormer Complete second Song Group on Expert!
GHWTM - Festival Favorite Festival Favorite Complete third Song Group on Expert!
GHWTM - Head Breaker Head Breaker Complete all songs on drums!
GHWTM - Axe Murderer Axe Murderer Complete all songs on guitar!
GHWTM - Ringer Ringer Get 5 stars on 5 Expert songs![a]
GHWTM - Prodigy Prodigy Get 5 stars on 10 Expert Songs![a]
Notes:
    a. 1 2 Tip: "Ringer" and "Prodigy" can be earned by getting 5 stars on 5 and 10 different songs respectively on either Guitar or Drums on Expert difficulty. Getting 5 stars for both instruments on a single song will still only count as 1 song but as long as you have 5 stars on either instrument, it counts as +1.


Videos[]

Trivia[]

  • This is the only Guitar Hero Mobile game to be on the N-Gage gaming service.
  • This game has the least amount of unlockable achievements ("trophies" in this game) among the Guitar Hero Mobile series with only 8 achievements to unlock and they are not too difficult.

External links[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile's About menu (image #1, image #2)
  2. N-Gage — Games you can't wait to play — Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile
  3. Softpedia News — Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile Now Available for Android, article posted on March 5, 2009.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile on GameFAQs. Release date states April 16, 2009, which may be accurate when the official trailer was posted near that date. However, this list of rhythm games states February 25, 2009 as the release date.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Wikipedia's list of N-Gage 2.0 games states it was released on September 18, 2009 but a blog on Emo185's Wordpress posted on September 13, 2009 states it was release a few weeks before the blog review post (see the release blog, posted August 27, 2009).
  6. Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile formerly supported online multiplayer and leaderboard. However, servers are currently offline.
  7. PocketGamer's Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile N-Gage review
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Expansion games Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s · Guitar Hero: Smash Hits · Band Hero (main page)
Band-centric games Guitar Hero: Aerosmith · Guitar Hero: Metallica · Guitar Hero: Van Halen
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Guitar Hero: On Tour series Guitar Hero: On Tour · Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades · Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits
Guitar Hero Mobile series Guitar Hero III Mobile · Guitar Hero III: Backstage Pass · Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile · Guitar Hero 5 Mobile · Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile: Backstage Pass · Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Mobile
Other games Band Hero (NDS) · Guitar Hero (iOS) · Guitar Hero Live (iOS)
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Cancelled games Guitar Hero 4 (NDS) · Guitar Hero Greatest Hits (NDS) · Guitar Hero 7 · DJ Hero 3D
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