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Super Mario World, Half-Life 2

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Pretty or ugly: Pretty & Ugly
Description:

Good Game Audio:

1: Super Mario World

- A lot of variety in the background music.


- Background music becomes louder when you stand still, but gradually softens when you move and shoot.
- Sounds are coherent (all in one style).
- When you ride Yoshi, a drum is added to the background music.

2: Half-Life 2

- a lot of beautiful atmosphere (also in music).
- the voice acting has a lot of emotion, very believable.

Bad Game Audio:

1: Godfather

- Different sources have different sound volumes, bad mix !
- Exaggerated sound effects (especially the female screaming voice!)

2: Mortal Kombat

- bad (over-acted) voice acting, lack of real emotion, not believable
- too little atmosphere

3: Serious Sam

- bad sound transients (?)
- cheap sound fx
- the enemies sound already sound like crap, but when the number of enemies increases, their sounds are multiplied and become to loud.

Written by admin on July 10, 2007

1 Comment on "Super Mario World, Half-Life 2" »

richard
Posted on July 10, 2007

That female scream, is it in the game? Or is it just someone standing behind the player (I think this is recorded in an arcade/conference??). If it is in The Godfather, then it’s is horrible :) Also because the volume and panning don’t even adapt when the main character runs down the stairs!

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