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Guitar Hero 5 Mobile (listed as GUITAR HERO 5 on the Android Market/Google Play Store) is the fourth entry in the Guitar Hero Mobile series based on Guitar Hero 5 developed and published by Glu Mobile for Android, BlackBerry, BREW, J2ME, webOS[2], and Windows Mobile.[1] There are 15 songs available in MIDI format in early mobile releases but official audio could be downloaded. The webOS and Blackberry ports had some additional songs.

Another version of the game was released in June 2010 titled Guitar Hero 5 Mobile: More Music for BREW and J2ME-based devices that features a new setlist of 15 other Guitar Hero 5 songs.[5] The Windows Phone port of Guitar Hero 5 Mobile combines most songs from the main game, the bonus songs of the webOS/BlackBerry port, and the More Music edition into a single game with full-length official audio.

Guitar Hero 5 Mobile and other Guitar Hero Mobile games were later removed from digital stores and servers for it are currently offline, making it impossible to download the MP3 versions of the tracks.

Gameplay[]

Guitar Hero 5 Mobile - What I Got by Sublime

Guitar Hero 5 Mobile v1.3.1's gameplay on Android

In addition to Guitar that Guitar Hero III Mobile introduced and Drums that Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile introduced, Guitar Hero 5 Mobile introduced Bass as a third playable instrument and is the only Guitar Hero Mobile game to include playable Bass. Like the previous games, there are three difficulty levles including Easy, Medium (added in a later update in the Android version), and Expert. Expert difficulty does not add every note heard in a song but has more notes than Easy and Medium.

Guitar Hero 5 Mobile plays similar to the previous mobile Guitar Hero games and where notes come down a highway of three lanes and the player taps the notes on screen or presses certain buttons (depending on device) as they come across the fret line. In addition to the three main lanes (Green, Red, and Yellow), Bass and Drums also includes a purple bar as a fourth note acting as open notes on Bass and bass drums on Drums. Pressing any of the fret buttons on a mobile device with touch screen activates the open note but these touchscreen devices will not allow additional notes on a bar chord while devices with a physical keypad allows them.

Keypad and gamepad controls
Keypad Gamepad Menu function Guitar function Bass/Drums function
5, OK A/✕, ▸/Start Confirm Hit red notes
BACK, CLEAR B/⭘, ◂/Select Cancel Pause
1, 4, 7 (Guitar), ← ◂➕/◂➕, L←/L← Navigate left Hit green notes
2, 5, 8 (Guitar), ↑, OK ➕▴/➕▴, L↑/L↑ Navigate up Hit red notes
3, 6, 9 (Guitar), → ➕▸/➕▸, L→/L→ Navigate right Hit yellow notes
7, 8, 9, ↓ ➕▾/➕▾, L↓/L↓ Navigate down Hit red notes Hit purple bars
*, shake device (if supported) Shake device (if supported) Activate Star Power
Guitar Hero 5 Android - Drums in Landscape

Drums in landscape orientation on Android.

On mobile devices with rotatable screen like Android phones, the game can be played in both portrait orientation and landscape orientation.

From time-to-time, there will be Star Power phrases that when successfully hitting all notes consecutively in the Star Power phrase will grant the player the ability to activate Star Power by tapping the cyan Star Power icon on the touchscreen, pressing the * key on a keypad, or shaking the device if the device has an accelerometer (there is no Star Power button for gamepad controls). Unlike the console games where completing a Star Power phrase gives the player 25% Star Power energy to the Star Power meter, the mobile version gives 50% Star Power energy, allowing players to activate Star Power right away. However, there is no whammy button to accumulate more Star Power energy on long notes.

Guitar Hero 5 Mobile includes Career and Practice modes, and has online leaderboards. However, with the servers shut down, leaderboards can no longer be accessed. There are also 31 in-game achievements can be earned while playing songs.

Soundtrack[]

Main article: Setlist in Guitar Hero 5 Mobile

In the earlier mobile releases of the game, there are 15 Guitar Hero 5 songs in the core game of Guitar Hero 5 Mobile covered in MIDI format that lasts around 2 minutes each but players connected to the Internet could download official MP3s of the songs that are also ~2 minutes in place of the default MIDI tracks.[6] The BlackBerry and webOS ports features 5 additional songs exclusive to it that also have official audio support,[7][8][9] with five exclusive songs being "Only Happy When It Rains" (replaces "One Big Holiday"), "Blue Day", "Demon(s)", "Streamline Woman", and "Six Days a Week", making it a total of 19 songs on webOS as opposed to the advertised 20 songs.[10][9]

The second edition of the game for J2ME and BREW mobile devices, Guitar Hero 5 Mobile: More Music, also comes with a different selection of 15 songs from Guitar Hero 5, also covered as ~2-minute MIDI tracks but can also be upgraded to MP3s. The Windows Phone port of Guitar Hero 5 Mobile launched with not only just the main game songs (excluding "Ex-Girlfriend") at "full" song length in their original audio, but also the bonus songs of the webOS and BlackBerry ports and 13 of the More Music songs (excluding "Feels Good Inc." and "Do You Feel Like We Do?") at core in full length.

Venues[]

There are three main venues in Guitar Hero 5 Mobile and Guitar Hero 5 Mobile: Mobile More Music in all ports of the game including:

  1. San Francisco
  2. New York
  3. Cairo

The BlackBerry and webOS port of Guitar Hero 5 Mobile has two new tiers below the three main Career tiers including Bonus Pack 1 and Bonus Pack 2, both of which use San Francisco's venue stage. The Guitar Hero 5 Mobile: More Music songs that appear in the Windows Phone port of Guitar Hero 5 Mobile have their own tiers underneath Bonus Pack 2 (for a total of 12 tiers) but also reuses venues from San Francisco and New York including:

  1. Rock Steady (reuses San Francisco's venue)
  2. 70s and 80s Bands (reuses San Francisco's venue)
  3. Together & Alone (reuses San Francisco's venue)
  4. Hits of the Decade (reuses New York's venue)
  5. American Made (reuses New York's venue)
  6. British Rock (reuses New York's venue)
  7. Encore (reuses New York's venue)

Unlockables[]

Main article: Unlockables in Guitar Hero 5 Mobile

Guitar Hero 5 Mobile and the More Music edition has two playable characters including Eddie Knox and Pandora that are available from the start.

Additionally, there are four guitar models and four drums models as cosmetics, three of each can be unlocked by completing each encore song during Career mode on any difficulty and on any instrument.

Guitar Hero 5 Mobile includes 31 unlockable in-game achievements in the appearance of picks earned by completing tasks. 11 of these achievements were removed in Windows Phone port but those remaining 20 in-game achievements were also online achievements for Xbox Live for Windows Phone[11] but they can no longer be unlocked as of May 16, 2022 when Xbox features went offline for Windows Phone devices.[12]

The More Music edition does not include achievements or leaderboard support.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • Being the only game in the Guitar Hero Mobile series having playable Guitar, Bass, and Drums, Guitar Hero 5 Mobile at its core (not counting downloadable content) has the most playable note charts in the core game compared to the rest of the Guitar Hero Mobile series. However, Guitar Hero 5 Mobile and its More Music version has short versions of every song that cut out during the middle of their songs.
  • Guitar Hero 5 Mobile is surprisingly still playable on newer Android OS despite the compatibility warning of it stating it may not being compatible. It's SDK/API level is 1, which is compatible for Android 1.0.0 at minimum. However, some of the other Guitar Hero Mobile games on Android such as Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile and Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Mobile have issues and are not compatible on newer Android OS. These other Guitar Hero Mobile games were designed for Android 2.X.X operating systems.
  • Guitar Hero 5 Mobile has the most achievements out of any Guitar Hero Mobile game with a record of 31 in-game achievements. However, achievements are not named unlike in other Guitar Hero Mobile games.
  • There are less drum notes playable on devices that lack a keypad (such as Android). This decision was made due to the inability to hit both purple bars and other gems together on touchscreen.

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References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Gamasutra — Activision Taps Glu for Mobile Modern Warfare 2, Guitar Hero 5
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 PreCentral.net — Guitar Hero 5 Rocks (and rolls) into the App Catalog, posted on February 27, 2010.
  3. ↑ IntoMobile — Guitar Hero 5 Now Available in the Palm App Catalog. Article posted on March 1, 2010
  4. ↑ GUITAR HERO 5 on Google Play Store, archive date July 7, 2012. Former full game link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glu.android.ghero5. Former game demo link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glu.android.ghero5_demo (no archive snapshot found for demo)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 PocketGamer — Guitar Hero 5 Mobile: More Music review
  6. ↑ MessengerGeek — Reviewing Guitar Hero 5 Mobile. Review posted by appledoo on Mar 2018.
  7. ↑ Free Blackberry App — GUITAR HERO 5 – MOBILE
  8. ↑ Bplay — Guitar Hero 5 Mobile
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Palm Store — Guitar Hero 5 for webOS (web archived; game currently no longer available)
  10. ↑ YouTube — Guitar Hero 5 mobile on Palm Pre (at 1:15) by Ballistik3, posted on Feb 26, 2010
  11. ↑ Exophase — Guitar Hero 5 Mobile Windows Phone achievements
  12. ↑ TrueAchievements — Thousands of achievements to be discontinued when Windows Phone loses Xbox support in May, article posted by Sean Carey on 16 Feb 2022
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