I’m a big fan of electronic/house/techno and turntablism. Most of my day is spent listening to the likes of DJ Shadow, RJD2, and Bad Boy Bill, amongst others. The upcoming DJ game craze has taken hold and DJ Mix Tour for the iPhone looks to capitalize on the momentum. The game falls a bit short, though.
DJ Mix Tour plays very much like Tap Tap Revenge. You have two spinning records on the left and right carrying notes as well as a middle note on the controls. The game includes 16 pretty good tracks to play, including the classic Sandstorm by DaRude; some solid material to play if you enjoy that type of music. There is a Mixing Tool where you can go in and scratch with any of the available tracks, which is fun for a little while.
The flaws outweigh the positives in DJ Mix Tour, though. The game runs very slow on my iPhone 3G. The menus are sluggish and at times unresponsive. During actual gameplay, it runs fine, except if a message pop-up comes in (SMS, Push Notifications, Calendar reminder, etc). The game will pause, as expected, but come back without the music track playing. If you manually pause the game and resume afterwards, the track will come back. My biggest problem is the need to play through the cheesy Career mode to unlock all the songs. If I want to hop in and play Sandstorm, let me.
At $4.99 and a whopping 287MB, it’s very hard to recommend DJ Mix Tour. You can get the same type of content for free with Tap Tap Revenge. With all the bugs and need to unlock all the tracks, I’d say pass on this one.
What I’m not understanding is why this game got a 2/5, when you said “I’d say pass on this one.”
The game isn’t utter shit, which is what 1’s really are. The mechanics work well and the track list was pretty solid. It was below average, hence the 2 out 5 score.
For me, is the same old “tap” game but with other colors…
Is that a reason for playing the game? The same old “tap the button when the circle get to the end of the screen”
It doesn’t matter if now it is for iPhone…it did when the first game came, maybe the first four, but definetly not the twentieth…
I mean, I really can’t believe that, even before we see that there IS POSSIBILITY to make different musical games,they still insist with the old style ones…
Take a look at Drums Challenge for example, it’s the old style but with ACTUALLY ORIGINAL IDEAS… starting with the basic: A NEW INSTRUMENT… drums
… and more, diferent music styles during the game: Jazz, Blues, Funk, Rock, and others…. the gameplay is FINALLY something diferent. instead of the colorfull circles, you have to play just like the oponent in the right timing, taping in the drum itself…really criative…
I hear all about tap classics and never about game like drums challenge, I think some critics should try it and then, tell if it’s so “great” all those “guitar hero copies” that are everyore…
but that’s my opinion, anyway…
I didn’t like DJ Mix Tour… The game is cool, but not so different from the others… and when I’m playing it I have the same problems with my iPhone, I mean, it is very very slowly in my iPhone, sometimes it not responds… I decided to bought a new brazilian game called Drums Challenge that a friend indicated to me and I liked it so much. It’s a musical game where you play drums, not guitar… And there are many battles with different music styles that you can play and also a free style battle that makes the game more interesting and challenging! I preferred than Dj Mix…