Game Title: Project Nomads
Your name: student
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: This game features bad voice acting. The voice itsself is not that bad and probably even right for this character. However, the intonation and how the words are stressed is horrible: "When you pick-up an artifact, it is STORED in your … BELT!" .

Game Title: Zuma
Your name: student
Pretty or ugly: Pretty
Description: Good example of adaptive music in a game! The sound effects of the balls rolling and the shooting (which are really good too) have been disabled for this example. When the balls approach the hole, the music changes from more 'relaxed' to more 'dangerous'. The music doesn't get annoying and really suits this game because of the rhythm and instrumentation.

Game Title:
Your name: PrettyUglyGameSound
Pretty or ugly: Pretty & Ugly
Description:

Good Game Audio:

1: Super Mario World

- A lot of variety in the background music.

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Game Title: Half-Life 2
Your name: Richard
Good or bad: Good
Description: At the end of the battle, there is a layered (musical) sound that signifies the conclusion of the battle. Since Half-Life 2 hardly features a score, such an unexpected non-diegetic sound has extra impact (compared to let's say, the End Of Battle-jingle of Prince of Persia – The Sands of Time, which you hear over and over again). I also love the layering in the sound – very tense!

Game Title: Counter Strike
Your name: HKU student
Good or bad: good
Description: Weapon sounds very powerful and gives the feeling that you are handling a powerful weapon. Repetition sounds good. Dynamics are good!

Game Title: Doom3
Your name: HKU student
Good or bad: bad
Description: The weapon sounds dull, without dynamics. I do not get the feeling that it is powerful. Besides, it sounds very repetitive.

Game Title: Quake III Arena
Your name: Sander
Good or bad: bad
Description: Quake III Arena. When the enemy is hit a very abstract icon is heard. The submitter complained about the abstract sound. "Sounds like a Windows error message"

Game Title: FIFA 2006
Your name: Richard
Good or bad: Bad
Description: I captured a weird audio bug in the Dutch-language version of FIFA 2006. The voice-over does not adapt to changes in gameplay. The game is well underway while the voice-over continues talking about the players getting ready for the match. Therefore I think this is a good example of bad game audio.
(ps: anyone have an idea what the reason might be? Bad implementation in the original, bug caused by localisation?)