Condemned Criminal Orgins
As far as a game to play Condemned might not really be my bag. Namely due to the fact that most of my game time comes fairly late in the evening and this game is REALLY FREAKING SCARY. Now with that being said while I wasn't necessarily the one manning the controls I couldn't take my eyes off of it.
From an audio standpoint this game is REALLY well done. The satisfying sound when you finally find one of the birds sounds (EXACTLY LIKE A DEAD BIRD). Its kind of gross and a bit creepy. I'm actually fond of the fact that they didn't use a more UI type sound when finding a bird. Its a funny story actually at E3 I was having dinner with one of the sound designers from Monolith and she mentioned the sonic orgins of the dead bird sound. Guess what,,,,,,,,, its a dead bird. Now she claims they just found it, but these people are dedicated to their art so who knows what REALLY happened.
The audio package in this game is absolutely driven by realism and the impact sounds (espeacially with the lead pipe) are very well done and impactfull (no pun intended). As far as the techy UI sounds I'm a huge fan. They are not so techy that you feel like your in the matrix or anything but they are unique enough and real enough to be believable in our world.
The music in the game is equally well done in fact the music is so creepy and atmospheric that I would venture to include it in the sound design catagory. It works well because there is absoluteley no grounding in reality and it paints a nice sonic picture next to the highly effective and realistic sound design.
If there are any complaints about the audio package it is the voices. I'm sorry but if I was walking through a sewer with a lead pipe and a lot of demon/heroin addict looking people I would probably not answer my communication device as loudly and as confident. The reads from the enemies are well done (although the cursing is off the train tracks). I'll give the obnoxious use of cursing the benefit of the doubt and venture to say that probably if your a drug addict living in the sewers cursing might be the least of your problems.
All in all the game is extremely well done from an audio standpoint. I bought it all and never thought to myself (wow that seems out of place). Everything fit nicely in to the world.
Overall:8.5
SFX: 8:0
Music:8.5
Voice:5
From an audio standpoint this game is REALLY well done. The satisfying sound when you finally find one of the birds sounds (EXACTLY LIKE A DEAD BIRD). Its kind of gross and a bit creepy. I'm actually fond of the fact that they didn't use a more UI type sound when finding a bird. Its a funny story actually at E3 I was having dinner with one of the sound designers from Monolith and she mentioned the sonic orgins of the dead bird sound. Guess what,,,,,,,,, its a dead bird. Now she claims they just found it, but these people are dedicated to their art so who knows what REALLY happened.
The audio package in this game is absolutely driven by realism and the impact sounds (espeacially with the lead pipe) are very well done and impactfull (no pun intended). As far as the techy UI sounds I'm a huge fan. They are not so techy that you feel like your in the matrix or anything but they are unique enough and real enough to be believable in our world.
The music in the game is equally well done in fact the music is so creepy and atmospheric that I would venture to include it in the sound design catagory. It works well because there is absoluteley no grounding in reality and it paints a nice sonic picture next to the highly effective and realistic sound design.
If there are any complaints about the audio package it is the voices. I'm sorry but if I was walking through a sewer with a lead pipe and a lot of demon/heroin addict looking people I would probably not answer my communication device as loudly and as confident. The reads from the enemies are well done (although the cursing is off the train tracks). I'll give the obnoxious use of cursing the benefit of the doubt and venture to say that probably if your a drug addict living in the sewers cursing might be the least of your problems.
All in all the game is extremely well done from an audio standpoint. I bought it all and never thought to myself (wow that seems out of place). Everything fit nicely in to the world.
Overall:8.5
SFX: 8:0
Music:8.5
Voice:5
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