Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Game Title: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Your name: Paul Suurmeijer Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: In my opinion, Warhammer 40k Dawn of War (1) is flawed in audio design. …
Deathrow
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 …
Metal Gear Solid
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bkh_DHInxFsGame Title: Metal Gear SolidYour name: Jonathan Barbosa DijkstraPretty or ugly: UglyDescription: The sound of enemy choking takes the player out of the immersion of the game by being dreadfully …
Monkey Island
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1-9my0tsutwGame Title: Monkey IslandYour name: RhénaPretty or ugly: Bad but funnyDescription: This is an excerpt from the game Monkey Island. I did not isolate parts of the clip, because the …
Beasts and Bumpkins
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wMP-6wvC9vQ&feature=relatedGame Title: Beasts and BumpkinsYour name: Bas DabroekPretty or ugly: uglyDescription: I like the game but this music is very frustrating and ruining the game. This shouldnt be music to …
Wii Fit (Aerobic Step Plus)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qVLIh6fqLJI&feature=relatedGame Title: Wii Fit (Aerobic Step Plus)Your name: AndreaPretty or ugly: UglyDescription: In this Wii fit game you need the music for your rhythm. But as soon as you take …
Aion – Tower of Eternity
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kX9pHlKYfXoGame Title: Aion – Tower of EternityYour name: Jeffry van der HeulPretty or ugly: UglyDescription: Here is a good example of not thinking things through in therms of gamedesign/audiodesign. This …
Half Life 1, break a leg
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HeYsloewe94&feature=PlayList&p=0C70E8CD69DBC1A4&index=10&playnext=2&playnext_from=PLGame Title: Half Life 1, break a legYour name: Guus HoevePretty or ugly: UglyDescription: Fast forward to exactly 3.00 minutes in this movie. This is exceptionally bad game audio. It …
GTA – San Andreas
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pMyDlPWOaJcGame Title: GTA – San AndreasYour name: Marvin NooitgedachtPretty or ugly: UglyDescription: GTA sound glitch. Found the sounds tacky as well, not that realistic.
Eternal Sonata
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TyeJmVhRBE4Game Title: Eternal SonataYour name: Rami IsmailPretty or ugly: UglyDescription: Sadly, while Eternal Sonata focusses completely on music, the voice acting is lacking in many parts. Polka’s voice, for example, …
Deathrow
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Oa_2lqKLto&fmt=18Game Title: DeathrowYour name: Joram WoltersPretty or ugly: uglyDescription: Deathrow is a pretty old xbox title, one of the first in fact.. But that doesn’t excuse the horrible, horrible soundtrack, …
Runes of Magic
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Wt503PdCEGame Title: Runes of MagicYour name: Dennis KloosPretty or ugly: UglyDescription: The free-to-play MMORPG “Runes of Magic” an overall good game, but there is no music most of the time! …
Ocarina of Time
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 …
Tomb Raider 2
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4iFm44oZjbA 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 …
Castlevania – Symphony of the Night
Game Title: Castlevania – Symphony of the Night Your name: Jan Willem Nijman Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: Skip to the voice acting. About one third. Ruins it really.
The Longest Journey
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 …
Halo 3 ODST
Game Title: Halo 3 ODST Your name: Laurens de Gier Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: My example of bad sound design. Don’t mind the narrator, that’s not important. I just …
Chocobo Racing
https://youtube.com/watch?v=R4MFFGvL1Fk Game Title: Chocobo Racing Your name: Mitch Manderd Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: Hear for yourself. This game has the worst sound effects ever. It’s a ps1 title but …
Legend of Zelda – A Link to the past
Game Title: Legend of Zelda – A Link to the past Your name: Roos Schultheiss Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: I think it’s really annoying how the soundtrack of the …
Anno 1602
Game Title: Anno 1602 Your name: Gerard Bossenbroek Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: However I liked to play this game, there are some very annoying sound effects in it. Most …
Pokemon (platinum)
Game Title: Pokemon (platinum) Your name: Sven Boers Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: I know my health is low!!! That freakin sound really gets on your nerves, cus it goes …
World of Warcraft
Game Title: World of Warcraft Your name: Daan van Zwieten Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: World of Warcraft has some pretty nice music, but Stormwind’s music is one of those …
Command & Conquer red alert
Game Title: Command & Conquer red alert Your name: Hans Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: Do not mistake me, this one of my favorite rts games to play. The music …
Duke Nukem – Time to kill
Game Title: Duke Nukem – Time to kill Your name: Michelle Reints Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: I played this game in the early days and I liked it very …
Baldur’s Gate II – Voices…
Game Title: Baldur’s Gate II – Voices… Your name: Martijn Prins Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: You’re fighting a boss. And what happens when you click on one of your …
Aero the Acro-bat
Game Title: Aero the Acro-bat Your name: Susan Schoonberg Pretty or ugly: Ugly! Description: It starts with the first sound the game makes.. My ears.. help! The tunes are annoying, …
The Incredible Machine
Game Title: The Incredible Machine Your name: Emiel Bransen Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: The music: Very unfitting and annoying. The game is a puzzle game, so you would expect …
Morrowind
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y_hN0YoTG-c Game Title: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Your name: Erik van Wees Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: Notice how every step and jump you make sound the same on …
Robocop (nes)
Game Title: Robocop (nes) Your name: Wesley Schouten Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: The background music doesn’t really fit the “theme”. It’s some kind of happy tune, while you are …
Stuntman (GBA)
Game Title: Stuntman (GBA) Your name: Wouter van Dongen Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: At first the sounds quality is pretty good. It is annoying though that the music restarts …
PixelJunk Monsters
https://youtube.com/watch?v=M3qAa1P0MbM Game Title: PixelJunk Monsters Your name: Mick Vermeer Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: When you check this video you’ll probably think: Why is this sorted at ugly? It is …
Battletoads
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9D_C0GifKas Game Title: Battletoads Your name: Christiaan Ribbens Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: This game is awesome, but it has one flaw and that is the music during the pause …
Resident Evil
Game Title: Resident Evil Your name: Jens Wouters Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: Although it is now one of the most well known franchises and it spawned the survival horror …
World of Warcraft
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LZLfrvu_bPMGame Title: World of WarcraftYour name: Jordi de RijkPretty or ugly: UglyDescription: The login screen is one of the times I am very annoyed with the sound in this game. …
ET
https://youtube.com/watch?v=R2o3mlg5AxQ&feature=relatedGame Title: ETYour name: Joeri van EesPretty or ugly: UglyDescription: What’s not to hate about this game. Is there anything good about this. Well maybe the opening title screen but …
Final Fantasy X
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wTkIfQGImzI Game Title: Final Fantasy X Your name: Eric Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: Horrible voice actors trying to laugh, but fail. .
A2 racer
Game Title: A2 racer Your name: Eric Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: Horrible music made horrible to listen to due to horrible sound effects ruining my horrible mood. .
Clive Barker’s Jericho
Game Title: Clive Barker’s Jericho Your name: Bruce Buutfeld Pretty or ugly: ugly, very ugly Description: The weapon and explosion sounds in this game are first of all, very poorly …
Worms World Party (GBA)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk13YwgO9I&fmt=18 Game Title: Worms World Party (GBA) Your name: Jay Pretty or ugly: BAD. Description: What the fuck? The Game Boy Advance can do so much better than this! .
Daikatana
Game Title: Daikatana Your name: Casper Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: The actual game audio of Daikatana isn’t great (listen to the awful teleporter hum, and the overly looped ‘machine’), …
Sims (all)
Game Title: Sims (all) Your name: Bram Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: I still don’t know what i must think of this game audio. It’s to generic. It’s doesn’t contribute …
Black and White 2
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_0iGzT8boPc Game Title: Black and White 2 Your name: Maarten van Ruitenbeek Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: Could have been so much more, controls not working properly and no multiplayer! …
Spore
Game Title: Spore Your name: Paul Konings Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: The audio overall is hectic and constantly changing depending on how far you’re zoomed in. The alien voices …
Conker
Game Title: Conker Your name: Tim S Pretty or ugly: Both! Description: Yes, you read it right; this clip includes both bad and good videogame sounds… or… so I think …
Fifa 99 or how to use last year’s hits
Game Title: Fifa 99 or how to use last year’s hits Your name: Marc De Vreede Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: Fifa 99 (or just every fifa game). Godawful the …
SimCity 2k
Game Title: SimCity 2k Your name: Daan Boon Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: The music this game has is pretty obnoxious. It is not constant, and when there is music …
Dungeon Keeper
Game Title: Dungeon Keeper Your name: Tim Remmers Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: First of all, i don’t want to offend the game , CUZ IT’S GREAT:D my favorite RTS:D …
Panzer Elite
Game Title: Panzer Elite Your name: Bas Kersten Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: The tank doesn’t make realistic sounds. It doesn’t sound like a tank at all. And the voice …
Fifa 2006
Game Title: Fifa 2006 Your name: Björn Spies Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: It’s an example of the bad commentary system within this game. The commentator is still speaking about …
Jurassic War
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rZGQdmR4qgU&hl=nl&fs=1 Game Title: Jurassic War Your name: Berry Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: The voice acting in this game is really annoying, every unit only has a couple of different …
Halo 1
Game Title: Halo 1 Your name: David Keijner Pretty or ugly: Ulgy Description: The whole part where you drive the warthog(car). The music is so faint and… BORING!? When i …
Redcat Spookkasteel
Game Title: Redcat Spookkasteel Your name: Rick van Ginkel Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: Terrible Dutch voice acting, need I say more? .
Gish
Game Title: Gish Your name: Brian Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: For a blob, Gish doesn’t make a lot of noise. The times that he does, they are unconvincing, bland …
Anno 1701
Game Title: Anno 1701 Your name: Pieter Dirk Greeuw Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: Whenever a “disaster” occurs in the game a loud overwhelming sound plays even if the disaster …
Candy Mountain Massacre
Game Title: Candy Mountain Massacre Your name: Ronald Houtermans Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: The sounds that the enemies make are not fitting to their character. The music playing in …
Freelancer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PNdPOwaZnO0 Game Title: Freelancer Your name: Tim Hengeveld Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: This is more a case of bad audio DESIGN than bad audio per sé. In Freelancer you …
X-Blades
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hb0_qDGhxEs Game Title: X-Blades Your name: Sander van Leth Pretty or ugly: UGLY! Description: Incredibly poor voice acting. You can’t see it in the youtube vid, but some of the …
Alex Kidd in Miracle World
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3OxK_2EP2K4 Game Title: Alex Kidd in Miracle World Your name: Lennart Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: The sound of this game is not only horrible but also very repetitive. After …
Bloody Roar – Primal Fury
Game Title: Bloody Roar – Primal Fury Your name: Ramana Kleyn Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: This is definitely an example of Ugly audio. Why? Well the main problem is …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Land Before Time – Return to the..
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lvv4YiKT8tA 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 …
Digimon World
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LFDgx6r4Rao 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 …
World At War Gameplay
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JTAVPcmEzDE 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 …
Hedgehog Launch
https://youtube.com/watch?v=37h640Z9Ck8 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 …
Carmageddon (GBC)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GZhax2ShnwY 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 …
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 …
Halo
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CyLip4pu_BI Game Title: Halo Your name: Jochem Schut Pretty or ugly: ugly Description: – The voices of the aliens are not believable. They’re too high and they sound to stupid. …
Fun: Ms. Pacman
Game Title: Ms. Pacman Your name: Remi Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: Today a short joke as a reminder to always keep the dogs in mind while designing your sounds…”Remi …
Zuma Deluxe
Game Title: Zuma Deluxe Your name: Sander Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: In this example of Zuma Deluxe (previously featured as “pretty example”) you see that something unexpected happens what …
Panzer Elite
Game Title: Panzer Elite Your name: student Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: – No background sound! These tanks drive around on a planet that maybe resembles Earth, but where there …
Revolution X
Game Title: Revolution X Your name: student Pretty or ugly: Ugly Description: – The music (and Aerosmith) hasn’t really got anything to do with this game – The sound of …
Project Nomads
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 …
Super Mario World, Half-Life 2
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.
Doom3
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 …
Quake III Arena
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 …
FIFA 2006
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 …