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.

[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.

[2] The game features a line-up of 60 songs, which includes original mastered tracks from pop and rock artists.

These songs include: 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.