Audiosurf

Nova

Boom-shacka-lacka
Has anyone else snagged this off of Steam yet? I'm practically addicted to the game already!

Basically, the game takes whatever song (and I mean any song) you give it, and it creates a a track out of it. You then take a certain character / car, and you drive on said track, collecting blocks of the same color to score points.

It's not just that, though. Depending on the song you put in depends on the difficulty as well. If you put in something, like, Dragonforce's "Through Fire and Flames", you can expect a lot of downhill high-speed areas with more blocks then you can handle. If you put in a more calm song, you can expect the track to be more uphill and more low-speed in general. Basically, whatever song you put in, puts a different track out.

The track is created on a number of things. For example, calmer, quieter areas are, as said, uphill and slow, and louder, more intense parts give higher speed downhill slopes. Each block on the track represents any sticatto part of the song. A tunnel signifies an intense moment in the song. And I still don't know what a corkscrew in the track means :lol

There's a multitude of characters to select from, each within 3 different difficulies. For example, Mono has just two kinds of blocks: grey and colored. Pointman lets you grab a colored block and put it somewhere else. Eraser lets you remove a block entirely that you've already collected.

And there's a global high score board, which uses 3 different tables, one for each of the three difficulties. If you must know, I'm already #1 in Static X's "Black and White" in all 3 difficulties with Ninja Mono :lol

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Pointman. This is basically what the game looks like on an easier mode.


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An imperfect run on Mono on DragonForce's Through Fire and Flames
 
Fr0dus Maximus said:
Just download Steam and there ya go.

I need to find the demo at least. I heard that this game is amazing from a few other people.

Don't you have to pay though? Or no? I've never used it before. :-\
 
Strubes said:
Ah, ok thanks. And each game's price varies, correct? Or is it $10 per game?
No, game price varies depending on the game. It's usually about the same as retail. For example, the Orange Box is $50, like the retail copy.
 
Homicidal Cherry53 said:
No, game price varies depending on the game. It's usually about the same as retail. For example, the Orange Box is $50, like the retail copy.

Oh okay, and the upside is that you don't have to go out to a store and spend time getting the game. I think I get it now. Thanks.
 
Strubes said:
Oh okay, and the upside is that you don't have to go out to a store and spend time getting the game. I think I get it now. Thanks.

Yep, essentially it's the same as Direct2Drive, another service where you can download the games straight to your hard drive. Though I don't think too many people get those versions, because they need seperate patches and what not.

Anyhoo, I finally finished recording and compressing a video of me clearing Static X's "Black and White". Of course, Youtube usually likes to perfrom "site matinence" around this time, meaning I can't submit anything.

Anyway, here's a video that looks almost impossible. And yes, that's my comment on the video as well:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pQdx4HizN9c
 
Strubes said:
Oh okay, and the upside is that you don't have to go out to a store and spend time getting the game. I think I get it now. Thanks.

Yea, and usually when Steam gets a new developer to put stuff up for sale Steam will sell the developers pack for a discount too (like the iD Software package and the recent Unreal package).
 
I downloaded the demo off of Steam. Sure you can only play 4 songs but, with those 4 songs my mind is made up. I am going to buy this sometime in the near future.
 
So everyone else has this game right?

You all should.

Best-selling Indie game on Steam, which says quite a bit.
 
I just got this as an early birthday present. I <3 it.

Red Fraction by Mell (Black Lagoon opening) is so awesome on this game. :D
 
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