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Jurassic War

Game Title: Jurassic War
Your name: Berry
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: The voice acting in this game is really annoying, every unit only has a couple of different voices. .

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Halo 1

Game Title: Halo 1
Your name: David Keijner
Pretty or ugly: Ulgy
Description: The whole part where you drive the warthog(car). The music is so faint and… BORING!? When i played this part it made myself wonder… what am i doing here?

Its just bad… so empty and it just keeps on going and going and going… ulgh .

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Redcat Spookkasteel

Game Title: Redcat Spookkasteel
Your name: Rick van Ginkel
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: Terrible Dutch voice acting, need I say more? .

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Gish

Game Title: Gish
Your name: Brian
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: For a blob, Gish doesn't make a lot of noise. The times that he does, they are unconvincing, bland and repetative. The mediocre soundtrack doesn't make up for much either. .

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Anno 1701

Game Title: Anno 1701
Your name: Pieter Dirk Greeuw
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: Whenever a "disaster" occurs in the game a loud overwhelming sound plays even if the disaster doesn't threaten you directly. When the disaster is no longer on your screen the sound fades away but as soon as you go near it with your FoV you hear the sound again. Also it plays so loud you can hardly hear the other sounds that effect you directly. .

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Candy Mountain Massacre

Game Title: Candy Mountain Massacre
Your name: Ronald Houtermans
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: The sounds that the enemies make are not fitting to their character. The music playing in the background is..not enough in the background. It is merely working on my nerves and not providing a 'relaxed' game experience. The gun sounds are cheap, they sound dull.

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X-Blades

Game Title: X-Blades
Your name: Sander van Leth
Pretty or ugly: UGLY!
Description: Incredibly poor voice acting.

You can't see it in the youtube vid, but some of the subtitles are different than what is said. .

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Freelancer

Game Title: Freelancer
Your name: Tim Hengeveld
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: This is more a case of bad audio DESIGN than bad audio per sé. In Freelancer you can travel from planet to planet, and enter bars to find quests. These bars are usually populated by 4 or 5 questgivers, who represent different factions.

The problem is that they all say the same thing over and over again, often even using the same sound file, making everyone sound the same – even on just one planet, let alone the other 20. The above is a recording of a particularly bad spree where the main character even utters the exact same randomly triggered response to the same questions three times in a row. .

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Alex Kidd in Miracle World

Game Title: Alex Kidd in Miracle World
Your name: Lennart
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: The sound of this game is not only horrible but also very repetitive. After playing this for more than 10 minutes you won't be able to get it out of your head. And believe me, you don't want it there! .

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Bloody Roar – Primal Fury

Game Title: Bloody Roar – Primal Fury
Your name: Ramana Kleyn
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: This is definitely an example of Ugly audio. Why? Well the main problem is that it's terribly irritating. All the background music is terrible Japanese Arcade Rock. I suppose it adds to the whole arcady feel the game has going but it doesn't help me want to play it for longer than absolutely necessary.

Also all the characters have voice clips attached to each attack. This is something you'll see in most fighting games but as this is pretty much a button masher you'll be hearing a lot of "ai ai ai ai ai etc." .

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