An innovative and awesome music game
It mainly involves 3 tracks in which you drop colored blocks who when connected get you points. Much like the ancient Klax, but blended with a Whipeout overhaul and some nifty pickups that include turning your entire collection into one color, dropping 6 blocks of a certain color or sorting your mess out instantly.
There are a stack of different modes to play with, a few examples:
- Pointman, a mode in which you can pick up and drop blocks where you want
- Vegas, which enables you to shuffle your collected stacks, at random
- Pusher, much like pointman, but here you push the blocks left or right
- Eraser, allowing you do erase all blocks in your stacks of a certain color
- Mono, Dodge grey blocks, collect colored ones.
The difficulty in this game is divided in 3 sections. But its really up to you how hard you want to make it on yourself. Choose a slow and soothing song for an easy ride, or go all out on the most brutal grindcore track ever conceived.
All music is preloaded and thus spot-on once you're playing
Audiosurf encourages competitive play trough online scoreboards, which are divided into global, country based and among friends. And pushes this further with sending you an e-mail when you've been kicked from #1 (emails can be disabled might they bother you)
It also keeps track of personal highscores for those like me, who arnt really interrested in competing with the world but like improving your own scores more.
I got it via steam, which included a copy of all music in the orange box (yes including the portal song, "still alive") and sports achievements of which some are terribly hard to get (Snowstorm).
In a few words, i'd describe Audiosurf as a solid, fun and highly addictive game thats going to keep me happy for a LONG time to come.
Be sure to check out the demo, i highly recommend it.