GTA – San Andreas
Game Title: GTA – San Andreas
Your name: Marvin Nooitgedacht
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: GTA sound glitch. Found the sounds tacky as well, not that realistic.
Game Title: GTA – San Andreas
Your name: Marvin Nooitgedacht
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: GTA sound glitch. Found the sounds tacky as well, not that realistic.
Game Title: Silent Hill 2
Your name: Eveline Albers
Pretty or ugly: Pretty
Description: Part of the 'endscene' fragment of Silent Hill 2. Emotionally very heavy as in just a few minutes a voice goes the full range of pity, spite, rejection and desolation.
This fragment is cut to show the difference at the start of the scene, and the end. At first there's a very strong plea to just let the woman die in her misery, but at the end of the hall, it has become a cry for help.
Game Title: Eternal Sonata
Your name: Rami Ismail
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: Sadly, while Eternal Sonata focusses completely on music, the voice acting is lacking in many parts. Polka's voice, for example, as illustrated in this video, can't be described with anything but 'annoying' – and one-liners are included so scarcely they might as well repeat the same line. Twice. Per second.
Game Title: Dead Space
Your name: Rami Ismail
Pretty or ugly: Pretty
Description: In space, noone can hear you scream. They nailed that in this video.
At 1:16, you can hear a weapon being used quite clearly. After the player turns the room into a vacuum, as he disposes some of the enemies around 1:56, you hear the sound being extremely muffled.
This is one of those details that's often overlooked, and extremely well and atmospherically implemented into Dead Space.
Game Title: GTA – San andreas
Your name: Marvin Nooitgedacht
Pretty or ugly: Pretty
Description: Halo, has always been a game that I think dedicated a lot of time and energy into the details of the game. It's not everyone's favorite, but after also seeing the making off – I would definitely say that it's audio (both background and SFX) is extremely good.
Game Title: Deathrow
Your name: Joram Wolters
Pretty or ugly: ugly
Description: Deathrow is a pretty old xbox title, one of the first in fact.. But that doesn't excuse the horrible, horrible soundtrack, the extremely poor voice-acting and the overdone commentator.
And don't claim the soundtrack is just a matter of taste, I love just about any kind of electronic music, but this stuff is just really, really poor.
Game Title: Runes of Magic
Your name: Dennis Kloos
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: The free-to-play MMORPG "Runes of Magic" an overall good game, but there is no music most of the time! The only thing you hear are the rather minimalistic sound effects and sadly, this is not aiding in improving the feeling of the game at all.
Game Title: Tomb Raider 2
Your name: That One
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: while not to bad considering the age of the game I find this one of the weirdest pieces of music in the game
The background consists of a heartbeat, or actually the engine of the ship your on. Except that you're on a sunken ship, one that had been lying on the bottom of the sea for quite some while, why would the engine be on.
There is also sound of metals clashing, water drops leaking and the voosh of a fan, all which make a bit more sense, but are still accompanied by the ever present heartbeat.
Game Title: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Your name: Nicodemus
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: While the other sounds in Zelda: OOT are quite good, there is one sound in the game which is VERY irritating. It is Navi the Fairy.
Whenever there is info to display in-game, Navi wil tell you. This will happen very sudden while Navi yells "Hey!" or "Listen!".
Considering the fact that on some moments in-game, you don't want to read any info, Navi will get irritating VERY quickly. (The movie exaggerates this a little
)
Game Title: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Your name: Peter van de Kuijt
Pretty or ugly: ugly
Description: Dreamfall is the sequel to the Longest Journey. It's a narrative game; it tells a story.
This is why it's important for the main character to NOT have an irritating accent, that makes her sound stupid. They failed on this part.