surf school 47

Next up in the download queue is Audio Surf, distrubited by valve for the PC.

JUNG
It’s a music adaption game, which builds a track and sets the race speed and theme based on which song you select to race with. Think R-type meets screensaver meets guitar hero meets coloumns. It comes packaged with the orangebox soundtrack as well.

BAJO
There’s nothing like groving out to your own music, and interacting with it at the same time. There’s three difficulty settings and about 11 characters to choose from each with their own abilities, such as picking up blocks and moving them, or jumping over solid blocks.

JUNG
But you can customise the game to suit your play style – so you can just chillax and freeride with some beach music, or go nuts with some techno and really stress yourself out.

BAJO
You get points by lining up colours, and you can play co-op with a friend. You get points by lining up colours, and you can then compare them against local or global leaderboards. It was actually kinda fun to chill out to, but it didn’t really hold my attention for long. I’m giving it 7/10.

JUNG
I thought there could have had a bit more variety in themes and sound effects, but we only have an early build of the game so the final version may have more. I’m giving it a tentative 7.