Audiosurf

Dylan Fitterer · Feb 15, 2008

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About

Audiosurf is a music-adapting puzzle racer where you use your own music to create your own experience. The shape, the speed, and the mood of each ride is determined by the song you choose. You earn points for clustering together blocks of the same color on the highway, and compete with others on the internet for the high score on your favorite songs.
Audiosurf on Steam includes The Orange Box soundtrack, integrated with the game to enable "Still Alive" surfing and more. In addition, Audiosurf is one of the first titles to leverage Steamworks, offering full support for the Steam Achievements that appear on Steam Community profile pages.

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PC

Critic 8.2 (6 critics) · Gamer 9.2

Critic reviews

GameSpot
Aaron Thomas · Apr 14, 2008
7.5
The visual presentation in Audiosurf is simple, with tracks appearing as little more than wire frames and sparsely populated backgrounds with minimal effects, but the uncomplicated visual design gets the job done. Graphic detail, resolution, and antialiasing can all be bumped up to slightly improve the graphics, but you'll need a pretty powerful machine to do so, or else the game's frame rate will chug and stutter.
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Games Radar+
Alec Meer · Feb 28, 2008
9.0
Within moments of embarking upon the track, you’ll know if you’ve got it right, both from its immediate feel, how closely it seems synchronized to the underlying rhythms, and from the crazily spiking and spiraling minimap that hints at the rollercoaster to come. Whenever you choose correctly, you’ll want to beckon others over to coo at the orgasmic colors and unreal topography of your achievement.
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IGN
Charles Onyett · Feb 27, 2008
8.6
A better fusion of casual and hardcore gameplay styles would be difficult to come by, particularly one with such boundless source material. The game is yours to manipulate as it readily acquiesces to your mood, making it worth playing on nearly any occasion, for any reason, for any person.
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Cheatcc
Cole Smith · Feb 15, 2008
8.4
The superhighway has a cool, neon, rock and roll vibe to it with lots of flashing lights and fireworks. It doesn't change all that much from game to game, and mode to mode, but there are different spaceships for each of the different modes. The arcade style of gameplay in which the difficulty increases to make new levels more challenging is going to bore the novelty seekers, but hardcores will appreciate the virtually unlimited replay value, the two-player mode, and the online leaderboard.
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Euro Gamer
Dan Whitehead · Feb 20, 2008
7.0
At the very worst, it's an ingenious multimedia toy that'll have you dusting off the untouched corners of your MP3 collection for a few happy evenings. But for those twitching fingers that still enjoy the thrill of the high score, Audiosurf has the potential to become a bite-sized obsession thanks to its quick fix gameplay and infinite musical possibilities.
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jeuxvideo.com
Cptobvious · Jul 31, 2008
8.5
Audiosurf est excellent, tout simplement. Grâce à un principe simple mais terriblement accrocheur, il parvient à nous faire ressentir la musique d'une façon inédite et jouissive. C'est une explosion d'adrénaline pure dans les veines, une expérience dont on a du mal à se remettre.
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