Activision have announced the final track listing for the second instalment in the DS Guitar Hero franchise, Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades. Exploring four decades of "rock's most celebrated artists", the set list for the title will feature twenty eight master recordings from a number of artists.

Highlights include Alien Art Farm, Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Queen and The Darkness. Overall, it appears to be an odd mix of tracks and they all seem pretty safe, much like Guitar Hero: On Tour. Given the main audience the DS instalment is likely to appeal to, this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

The entire track listing for Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades is as follows:

• Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal • The All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret • Blind Melon - No Rain • Blondie - One Way Or Another • Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name • Boston - Rock and Roll Band • The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love • Edgar Winter Group - Free Ride • Fall Out Boy - The Take Over, The Breaks Over • Foo Fighters - The Pretender • Free - All Right Now • Jimmy Eat World - The Middle • Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie • Journey - Any Way You Want It • Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way • Linkin Park - One Step Closer • Los Lobos - La Bamba • Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama (live) • Paramore - Crushcrushcrush • Queen - We Are The Champions • R.E.M. - The One I Love • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop • Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55 • Seether - Remedy • Smashing Pumpkins - Tarantula • Stone Temple Pilots - Down • Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls • Weezer - Buddy Holly

In addition to the tracks included with Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades, gamers will be able to share tracks from the previous title for multiplayer gameplay. There will also be an option to play bass guitar for each track. Hopefully, quality of the audo will be improved over the first attempt to move the Guitar Hero franchise onto the DS, as tracks such as Smooth Criminal by Alien Ant Farm and One Step Closer by Linkin Park having the potential to become no more than garbled static - much like some of the faster tracks featured in Guitar Hero: On Tour.

Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades is set to release internationally on the Nintendo DS at some point in November. No local release date has yet been set for the title.