Requiem
Cyclone Studios / 3DO

What was that??:

Sound wise, this game is excellent, it actually makes you jump sometimes thaks to the sound. The best example of this is a level which has you crawling around in a sewer system to find the rebel base, all the time you are down there, you keep hearing all these sounds, you know something is there but your not sure where, and then it usually leaps at you at the next turn. It has the same effect as the sound does in Half-life and you really can’t expect to live long in this game if you don’t use it but then again, who actually turns the sound off in a game. Another good sound use is that of the weapons, they sound pretty much right, the pistol and the machine gun are the most satisfying though.

A cool feature they have is the noise you get when you shoot armoured troopers with projectile weapons. Now it might have been in other games but i’ve never noticed it as well as in this, it really makes those poor bullet weapons sound useless, which is good because they are next to useless against armoured targets. The sound is a wonderful atmosphere enhancer especially when it is used as effectively as it is here. Nothing bad here then, even the speech is good.

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