An addictive and fun casual game...

User Rating: 8 | AudioSurf PC
I don't like the term casual and Hardcore but what I mean by Casual game here is that you can pick it up and play Audiosurf for 5 mins and then put it down. If you play it for hour son end then it'll get boring fast, so really it' a game for when you only have a moments spare time or you want to see how a song plays. What got me addicted to Audiosurf though was the fact theres scoreboards for each song and you can spend ages trying to break the high score. This is where some of the problems come through though, people can have a song named the same but it can be a totally different track, so it's like they're cheating. I've come across this sooo many times when their version of the song is like 8 mins longer and much faster, so basically you wont beat their top score with your proper version of the song. However you can report people but I havn't seen any action taken so far, hope they do something about it in a patch soon though.

Another problem i've come across is that some tracks wont really play like they should do and you'd think it would be a fast paced song but you're sitting on a slow hill the whole time, it can really ruin songs and make it not fun to play. I wish they did something more to make slower songs fun and wish they'd fix some stuff to make other songs play properly.


The graphics are nice to watch and great and the sounds are great, obviously this mostly depends on your song though because that's all you will be hearing for most of the game. The menus are all great and everything controls really well and found it weird that you use your mouse rather than the keyboard but it makes sense when you're playing because the reaction time when using the mouse is much much faster.


So yeah for $10 Audiosurf is a great little casual game purchase and you wont regret buying it, quite weird how this style game could be sooo fun but that's just more props to the developers for making this game. Turns a simple idea into something sooo addictive and fun.... I just hope some of the little annoying bugs are ironed out soon and they carry on adding features, though for $10 it's hard to imagine they'll add much.