I
had not considered
that in this, the sixth
Year of Luigi, finding
music to play in
Audiosurf would be a
problem. Turns out I stream
everything. The only CD I actually
own is Bette Midler’s It’s The Girls
album, and even then I’d need to
stream the tracks from that via
Spotify because I don’t have a disc
drive on my PC anymore.
After exhausting the sole track
included with the game (Audiosurf
Overture by Pedro Macedo Camacho)
I decide to stream Audiosurf Online
Radio, which is basically just a
Soundcloud playlist. The only song
on the playlist is Audiosurf Overture
by Pedro Macedo Camacho.
I only discover this later when
Phil looks it up, as trying to connect
to Audiosurf Online Radio by clicking
a very 2008-looking button marked
‘www’ causes the entire game to
crash. Even Windows’ task manager
can’t help me fix it, so I have to
reboot my whole PC.
Rather than risk the World Wide
Web again, I’ll need to feed Audiosurf
some MP3s directly. This is how I
end up on the Free Music Archive
downloading songs like ‘Happy
Birthday’ by Eric Rogers (a
celebration of the birthdays of people
called Eric and Shelly) and ‘i love
you’ by Catherine Pancake (a woman
who says the words ‘olive juice’ over
and over until they gradually turn
into ‘I love you’).MAKING A POINT
Audiosurf takes these files and turns
them into futuristic racecourses, each
spackled with colored blocks.Collecting groups of matching
colored blocks in each lane of the
track is how you earn points. Warmer
colors are worth more points, so red
is the most desirable pickup and blue
is chump change. If you clog up a
lane with non-matching colors you
can’t pick anything up for a while.
Happy Birthday is too short to be
an enjoyable course, and i love you is
slightly too weird. The Freak
Fandango Orchestra’s Requiem for a
Fish works surprisingly well. The
latter has a jaunty folk rock thing
going on, which means there are
plenty of blocks on the screen to
maintain your attention, but after that
I was struggling for mp3 options.
Ambient electronica makes for
absolutely tedious racing, while punk
started giving me a headache,
because I’m a million years old and
deeply uncool.
This is when I took my problem
to the rest of the PC Gamer team.AUDIOSURF
NEED TO KNOW
RELEASED
February 15 2008
PUBLISHER
in houseDEVELOPER
Dylan Fitterer
LINK
http://www.audio-surf.comMaking tracks out of tracks. By Philippa Warr
EXTRA LIFE
NOW PLAYING (^) I UPDATE I REINSTALL (^) I WHY I LOVE I MUS T P L A Y
A paltry five minutes of
Bat Out of Hell.