Joined: Tue Aug 15 2006, 06:16AM Location: The Wolf Clan Posts: 108
Audiosurf is a spinoff from the genre populated by games like Guitar Herp and Dance Dance Revolution. Whereas in the other games, you were restricted to using their own songs bundled with the game, and their unique peripherals, Audiosurf can take any song and import it into the game. The game can be played with either a mouse or keyboard, but you will be struggling on the harder difficulties to keep up using a keyboard, especially if you are into face paced Metal.
In Audiosurf, you do not have one single role, and there is a variety of game modes. You can choose one of your liking, but the simplest to start off with is Mono. In this game mode you have to try and collect all the coloured blocks, leaving the grey ones behind. Audiosurf is as hard as you want it to be, listen to a slow paced song, and you will be enjoying the heights whilst slowly lumbering uphill. Choose Motorhead however, and you better tighten your Virtual Seatbelt and hold onto your headphones.
As for the visuals....well, if you have the insane spec'd PC, you've just replaced your Windows Media Player Visualiser with this Eye-candy wonder. There is a game-mode setup specifically for just enjoying the scenery. This does require a very high spec machine to run it at full however. Everything you see was placed appropriatly to the music. Unfortunatly you are usually too busy trying to not overload your "stack", and never have time to gawp at the sights.
There is no multi-player, but there is a scoreboard, and a friends list so you can be overly-competitive and fight over who photoshopped their score.
This game is fun, and is worth its price in gold. But it's not something you would sit down for hours with, this is the kinda game you play between your lunch hour, or when you are bored and have nothing better to do.
