Game Title: Bomberman Fantasy Race
Your name: Nhiwbie
Pretty or ugly: ugly
Description:
The musicsound before the countdown sounds horrible. There are much action going on during the race and I think the voice of the characters are unnecessary. The characters are yelling too much, and let's be honest. The voice doesn't even match with the characters.
Game Title: Braid
Your name: Simon
Pretty or ugly: pretty
Description:
The sound itself in Braid might not be the best around. In fact, some of the sounds are quite bad. But the way the sounds are used is what makes this sound design pretty. As you can see, or actually hear, in the footage above, the sound design is very simple. But in a game where the player is able to manipulate time, the sound get's deformed in a lot of different ways. Like you see in the trailer you are able to let your shadow repeat actions you took. Yet as the shadow repeats them the sound is muffled. Sound plays backwards as you go back in time or is slowed down as time is slowed down.
Game Title: Legend of Zelda – Ocarina of Time
Your name: Simon
Pretty or ugly: ugly
Description:
The sound I'm talking about is the infamous low health sound from most of the legend of zelda games. The sound itself isn't bad at all, in fact it's rather good for it's purpose. Yet the fact that it's played every half of a second makes it unbearable to hear. Imagine yourself unable to find a heart and hearing this for five minutes! Yet even the newer legend of zelda games use the same sound with the same interval.
Game Title: Pokémon Black 2 & White 2
Your name: Adinda van Oosten
Pretty or ugly: pretty
Description:
Pokemon the classic game which everyone know, the music and the sounds are catchy as always. Furthermore in battle mode you can find a lot of gameplay just by listening to the music. Many different attacks and pokemons with their own sounds. Healing, confusing, sleeping all have a different sound which you can easily recognize. The same is the fact with the health of the pokemon: when your pokemon is almost dead you can easly hear it in advance.
Game Title: Dracula: Love Kills
Your name: Shirin R
Pretty or ugly: pretty
Description:
A very simple hidden object adventure game and I think the music does support the game pay and the narrative. The background music is not overpowering and gives you the feel of excitement, mystery and a bit of tension and pressure. The sounds which are made when you click something are in balance with the background music. When you click on objects the sound is a functional in a bit of a mysterious way. When you listen to the sound, for example, you hear that you do not just grab a book but it disappears and reappears in your menu.
Game Title: Centurion: Defender of Rome
Your name: Shirin R
Pretty or ugly: ugly
Description:
The only sound you hear in the game is de background music/noise. I think it should be determined as a bit of exciting battle music or anticipation music for games from the 1990s but after two seconds you have more than enough of the sound. The music consists of very simple notes which are repeated over and over again. You do not hear any sounds when you click with the mouse on any button or in the game itself. The sound does not really support game play. It does not sound like background music either because the repeating noise is pretty overpowering and irritating even when you turn the sound low.
Game Title: L.A. Noire
Your name: Ruben Ulfman
Pretty or ugly: pretty
Description:
While featuring some very interesting gameplay and amazing facial-moddeling work, L.A. Noire also offers it's players some excellent Voice Acting. Here's a clip where the player interrogates a suspect.
Game Title: RAGE
Your name: Max P
Pretty or ugly: pretty
Description:
The effects and weapons in this game have a really great sound. Explosions really blow you out of your chair. And when you shoot with your shotgun it really sounds like you are shooting a heavy weapon. The voice acting isn't so great though.
Game Title: RAGE
Your name: Max P
Pretty or ugly: pretty
Description:
The effects and weapons in this game have a really great sound. Explosions really blow you out of your chair. And when you shoot with your shotgun it really sounds like you are shooting a heavy weapon.
Game Title: Divinity II: Ego Draconis
Your name: Shirley Butter
Pretty or ugly: ugly
Description:
The sounds in combat are a bit 'flat': Creatures that are 20 foot away sound like they are right in front of the player. A certain sense of depth is missing. Also it seems as if the developers never took the time to record decent sounds: Some of them could be taken from a cheap MMOPRG if you didn't know better.