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| Developer(s) | Broadsword Interactive |
|---|---|
| Publisher(s) | XS Games |
| Platform(s) | Wii, PlayStation 2 |
| Release | November 18, 2008 |
| Genre(s) | Music game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player & Multiplayer |
PopStar Guitar is a music game for the Wii and PlayStation 2 developed by British studio Broadsword Interactive and published by XS Games.
In PopStar Guitar, players embark on a journey as a budding guitarist with aspirations of becoming the ultimate pop music sensation. Throughout the game, players develop skills to help them achieve their goal of success on the main stage of a worldwide Battle of the Bands competition, which will bring them international stardom.
The career mode will see the player starting as a member of a garage band before touring across the 25 different in game venues before performing at the Battle Of The Bands.[1] The game features 12 playable characters (6 male/6 female) to choose from, and players are able to customize their look and the instruments they play.
The game is played similar to other music games with players trying to press buttons as they follow scrolling notes onscreen. The PlayStation 2 version supports guitar controllers for play, while the Wii version will come packaged with one AirG controller shell allowing players to play air guitar-style using only the Wii Remote and Nunchuk.[2]
The game features a line-up of 60 songs, which includes original mastered tracks from pop and rock artists.[3] Half the setlist are songs credited as "Indie". These songs include:
| Song | Artist | Master recording? |
|---|---|---|
| "When I'm Gone" | 3 Doors Down | Yes |
| "It's Not My Time" | 3 Doors Down | Yes |
| "Dirty Little Secret" | The All-American Rejects | Yes |
| "Move Along" | The All-American Rejects | Yes |
| "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" | Fall Out Boy | Yes |
| "Sugar, We're Goin Down" | Fall Out Boy | Yes |
| "Makes Me Wonder" | Maroon 5 | Yes |
| "Wake Up Call" | Maroon 5 | Yes |
| "Shut Up and Drive" | Rihanna | Yes |
| "All The Small Things" | Blink 182 | Yes |
| "Welcome to My Life" | Simple Plan | Yes |
| "Misery Business" | Paramore | Yes |
| "S.O.S" | Jonas Brothers | Yes |
| "See You Again" | Miley Cyrus | Yes |
| "Our Time Now" | Plain White T's | No |
| "Girlfriend" | Avril Lavigne | No |
| "Hot" | Avril Lavigne | No |
| "Before He Cheats" | Carrie Underwood | No |
| "Dance Floor Anthem (I Don't Want to Be in Love)" | Good Charlotte | No |
| "Since U Been Gone" | Kelly Clarkson | No |
| "Face Down" | Red Jumpsuit Apparatus | No |
| "Hero/Heroine" | Boys Like Girls | No |
| "Anna Molly" | Incubus | No |
| "Suddenly I See" | KT Tunstall | No |
| "The Saints Are Coming" | Green Day & U2 | No |
| "How's It Going to Be" | Third Eye Blind | No |
| "1985" | Bowling for Soup | No |
| "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" | Panic! At The Disco | No |
| "Honestly" | Cartel | No |
| "It's Not Over" | Daughtry | No |
| "In Vain" | Under The Flood | Yes |
| "Renovators Boogie" | The Renovators | Yes |
| "All She Left Me Was The Blues" | The Renovators | Yes |
| "So Cool" | Vibrolux | Yes |
| "Hear Me Talkin'" | Blues Kings | Yes |
| "Sweet Rock N Roll" | Vibrolux | Yes |
| "Wonder" | Hyper Maru | Yes |
| "Broken Wings" | Slant | Yes |
| "Across The World" | Red Horizon | Yes |
| "When The Rain Comes Down Again" | Zox | Yes |
| "The Best Of The Worst" | Mitch Allan | Yes |
| "Go (aka Go Your Way)" | The Kin | Yes |
| "High And Dry" | Valeze | Yes |
| "Setting Sun" | Terra Diablo | Yes |
| "Glitterbug" | Slinky Vagabond | Yes |
| "Since You Walked Out My Door" | Blues Kings | Yes |
| "Heaven Helps Us All" | The Premiums | Yes |
| "White Lightning" | The Premiums | Yes |
| "All I Really Want" | The Premiums | Yes |
| "Car Crash" | The Day After | Yes |
| "Guilty" | Weedeeter | Yes |
| "Don't Say Anything" | Mojophonic | Yes |
| "See You Around" | Dimtribe | Yes |
| "One Last Time" | Dimtribe | Yes |
| "Better Off" | Dimtribe | Yes |
| "Start A Fire" | Fractional | Yes |
| "Are You Afraid" | Fractional | Yes |
| "Too Far Gone" | Fractional | Yes |
| "On The Rocks" | Lez Zeppelin | Yes |
| "Control" | Weedeeter | Yes |
IGN called the Wii version of the game "a wholly unnecessary piece of shovelware" that was "clunky, fugly" and with a "bottom-of-the-barrel" soundtrack, though they believed the AirG peripheral worked well. They gave it 3.5/10.[4]