Unreal
Digital Extremes / Epic Megagames

Sounds of pain:

Sound, hmm, can’t imagine playing a game of this type without sound, it would suck. Thank god this game and lots of lovely sound too. The sounds are very good, high quality stuff. You get footsteps that vary depending on what you are walking on (although this isn’t always right), You get the groans of monsters plus appropriate atmospheric sounds that suit the location. Every monster has his own distinct groan so that you can, if you listen hard enough, figure out what you are coming up against. The weapon noises are good too although some aren’t beefy enough for my liking, for example, the flak gun just makes a kind of "poof" noise which doesn’t really match the power of the gun. Music is another strong point, and it’s good also, as well as being dynamic. So when the action hots up, so does the music which is good, although I prefer to play without music seeing as you wouldn’t be doing this (if it were real) listening to a walkman, but then again everyone has there own taste.

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