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Fable 2

Game Title: Fable 2
Your name: Student
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: When you play fable 2 you often visit towns. When you enter a town all citizens will start to interact with you. When a lot of people are standing around you this means that you hear a lot of sound. If there are only two characters talking to you this is fine, but it gets insane when the ENTIRE town will start to talk to you. This creates one big blurry sound and you are unable to listen to the conversation with for example your family. You can't make the people stop talking unless you run away from them. Really stupid!

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Written by admin on February 16, 2009
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Assassin’s creed

Game Title: Assassin's creed
Your name: Rian Franssen
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: Although the game is nice and even the audio and voice acting, there's just one things that won't stop bothering me.

The voice of Altaïr is a very standard white male American voice. Eventhough he clearly is not.

It get's explained in the story, somewhere, I believe. But didn't find a very solid reason for Altaïr to have such a American voice between all the very realistic voices of foreigners. .

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Go Beryllium!

Game Title: Go Beryllium!
Your name: Sandra da Cruz Martins
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: At first sight (hearing?) the upbeat, bass-like tunes of this game seem to match the overall feel the game probably wants to portray. To me, the firing of bullets alone creates a drumming sound that makes you feel active and pumped up in the midst of the chaotic swarms you create.

However, to me the audio wasn't designed as thoroughly as could be. It doesn't empower the gameplay, in the sense that the feedback on your actions is extremely minimal.

Visually, it's very difficult to see when you gain damage or get boosted and therefore aknowledgments on doing wrong and right in the audio would have been pleasant. It would probably prevent a lot of new players to fail almost instantly. Now, you just think you'll be fine and move on, only to suddenly die moments later.

The video posted is game footage and not a trailer, but to me it still sounds like a track is pasted over the images. You can Google your way to the official site of the game to check it out yourself. .

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The Land Before Time – Return to the..

Game Title: The Land Before Time – Return to the..
Your name: Arthur
Pretty or ugly: ugly and annoying
Description: After browsing around, I found this game.

I have never ever played this game, and by the looks of it, I wouldn't recommend it, not even to my 8 year old brother which I don't have, unless he's annoying.

When the gameplay starts, just listen to the parrot who's giving you hints on what to do. He repeats every hint multiple times with the most annoying intonation.

When you accidentally jump with your dinosaur in the water, and you have to restart the entire level, the last thing you want to hear after you've missed your jump is: "Stay out the water!"

The music (especially in the second level) gives my a headache. .

Written by admin on February 15, 2009
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Oblivion

Game Title: The Eldar Scrolls: Oblivion
Your name: Tim Bosje
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: Een hoop van de stemmen van de personages zijn ingesproken door slechte acteurs/actrices. De stemmen zijn werkelijk zeer slecht, en maken het epische verhaal echt een lachertje. Daarbij zijn de geluideffecten erg monotoom, iets dat je goed kan horen bij het lopen over de trap. .

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Digimon World

Game Title: Digimon World
Your name: Charissa Korebrits
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: At daytime you hear bird sounds in the background. Now that's weird, considering there aren't any birdtype Digimon in the area.

When you navigate through the menu you hear a certain beep sound, now this sound isn't that disturbing, but when you are battling and give a lot of comments after another, it sounds really annoying.

They probably wanted it to sound all 'digital' since it's 'Digimon', but it sounds disturbing, rather than cool.

The main character also talks in Japanese towards his character,and I, as a player, don't have any problem with that, but I wonder if it's disturbing towards those, that don't understand these Japanese words.

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World At War Gameplay

Game Title: Call Of Duty 5: World At War Gameplay
Your name: Niels Hansum
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: Grenade explosions are way too soft, never heard one for real but I imagine them to make a bit more noise. At around 4:37 into the movie, some character interrupts itself a few times to immediately utter a few words from another sentence. Immersion breaking. Around the same time the player exits the area, the sound of battle fades away almost immediately. You'd expect to hear the mayham the player left behind for at least a mile or two into the jungle. .

Written by admin on February 12, 2009
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Hedgehog Launch

Game Title: Hedgehog Launch
Your name: Adriaan
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: Well, there's the upgrade menu song that's really terrible and annoying, especially when you are having a lack of money, still pissed of your bad last round and then hear this happy song. When the game starts, you get the rock song which is cool… when you're going fast and doing great. But that's almost never the case. The sound which occurs when you hit one of those bars makes no sense, the sound of your rockets is sonething you can barely hear. And then there's the score window which also gives you a happy feeling even when your score ain't that happy.

Frustrating, in the end. .

Written by admin on February 11, 2009
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Carmageddon (GBC)

Game Title: Carmageddon (GBC)
Your name: Vincent Kranenburg
Pretty or ugly: UGLY
Description: I remember having bought this one for my Game Boy Color once. I thought my Game Boy had died on me. .

Written by admin on February 10, 2009
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Resident evil

Game Title: Resident evil
Your name: Bor Walch
Pretty or ugly: Ugly as f*ck
Description: Well this is a classic. And a good one at it.

Unfortunately the audio in this game is one of the worst ever.
Especially the voice acting is horrible.
It's all very staccato and extremely dull.
As if the voice actors we're half asleep and trying to overact at the same time.
Capcom has come a long way, but the voice acting still ain't very good.

Written by admin on June 3, 2008
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