Review: AudioSurf
Posted on February 20, 2008 - Filed Under Gaming, Review
What’s AudioSurf you say? It’s a game that took 12 hours to go from unheard of to latest addiction thats what!
Check it out here Or Check out some gameplay videos here and here. Credit goes to Maoric for finding this game and getting me to try it.
With that out of the way, on to my take on the game. It’s fun! If Guitar Hero and Tetris had a child, this would be it’s offspring. You can take ANY song on your computer(mp3, mp4, wma, cd format and a few others) load it into the game, then the game will create a path for you. Depending upon the mode you play, depends upon the color the blocks will be. Personally, being a noob i’ve only been doing the mono racer. Which is get colored blocks, and avoid gray blocks. There are other modes where you have multiple colors to get and have to arrange them in chunks of 3 or more (obviously more means more points). Then after you finish up your song, it takes you to the leader board. Which is where the addiction really kicks in. You can see how you compare against everyone, just people in your state, or against all your steam friends. So the competition to get on top can be quite fun for some of the more popular songs. With the low price of $9.99 it’s well worth your money. No DLC to play more songs, no waiting 6 months for a new version. Now bare in mind it’s still a young program, and the dev team is fairly small. It’s got some bugs in it, but they are working hard on hammering them out, the forums are fairly active and a lot of workarounds are already in place. I personally haven’t had any major problems beyond an occasional slow down, and one time i loaded the game and got no sound.
So in standard reviewer fashion breakdown: Graphics, Sound, Replay Value, Gameplay, and what will call the “mike factor” which the higher the better.
Graphics: 6/10 Sure it’s no major “next” gen console game. However it’s still pretty. The colors work well with the atmosphere, it’s nothing to flashy but it gets the job done.
Sound: 10/10 you pick the songs, if the sound isn’t good it’s your own damn fault. oh btw,downloading just the demo(or full version) comes with the entire Orange box album, which means Still Alive for everyone!
Replay Value: 8/10 It’s got the addicting nature of Guitar Hero/Rock Band with the leader boards in place. Getting to listen to any song you like, and multiple modes and difficulties give pleanty to do. It’s even got some basic multiplayer, which if they ever allow a competitive style online multiplayer this will get the bump to 9, which until a game can match the thousands of hours SC has given me, is about as good as it gets.
Gameplay: 8/10 It’s simple but fun. Isn’t that what all games should be? The puzzle aspect of it is a little hard for me as i’m not good at planning combos and what nots. It’s missing some aspect to make it from great to excellent.
Mike factor: 9/10 Did i mention I became addicted to this game in under 12 hours? It’s a lot of fun, and getting to play any song you have on your computer means I’ll have pleanty to play for quite some time. I’ll look to see you on the leaderboards!
Stream Name is I_Like_Toast, will you be my friend?
Well there we have the first review, short, sweet, and to the point. I’ll try to get DW6 up by Monday, but no promises depends on how much I play over the weekend. I’ll also intend on making some sort of web app to hold the reviews as well as to rate the games yourselves, if I can get enough people to rate games I’d like to write a recommend me a game algorithm, based on your likes, but i’ll need some data before I can fiddle with that. But enough about that for now, I’ll let you know more once I publish it.
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