Halo 3 awarded for sound design

News Portal · **Posted:** 13 Oct 08, 9:05 am

There are plenty of good reasons to celebrate Halo 3, and happily, gamers aren't the only ones to realise it. The incredibly popular FPS has netted a place in this year's Technical Excellence and Creativity Awards, which are run by The Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio, a not-for-profit sound industry organisation based in California. Halo 3 was one of five titles nominated in this year's addition to the Outstanding Creative Achievement categories, Interactive Entertainment Sound Production.

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Kelevra · **Joined:** 8 Feb 07, 5:25 pm **Posts:** 9

Bah, Halo 3 sound design was average at best...
The soundtrack was dull, and the weapons sounded like something you'd buy from the toy section of your local super store.

I really don't understand all this pole polishing that goes on over Halo 3.

Colsey · **Posted:** 13 Oct 08, 9:29 am

It sounded great imo, what are you talking about?

Listening through you iPod headphones is no way to go...

Scared · **Posted:** 13 Oct 08, 9:39 am

How the hell could they choose Halo over COD?

My 2 favorite games for sound are Crysis and COD.

Lumen Melano · **Posted:** 13 Oct 08, 9:44 am

I loved the sound design of Halo 3. Plus I think award was more a technical merit, rather than a great variety of soundbites. Halo 3 utilised some pretty sweet sound processing technology, particularly with the voice communication during the campaign.

lord-ezekiel · **Posted:** 13 Oct 08, 10:41 am

Halo 3 wins my vote for the best sound design ever in a game!
The music especially is incredible, and shites on pretty much every other game ever released (bar a few final fantasy games)

Anyone who disagrees can go suck a fat...

exe3 · **Joined:** 30 May 07, 9:25 pm **Posts:** 3282

yea, people need to get over bashing Halo and accept it's a good game

the only time i'd question an award for Halo is for story or graphics, the environments may look quite nice at time but 640p is a bummer and those human faces murder the experience

with music, I wasn't actually fussed on it, I only liked the teaser trailer score, the rest was just remixes of past scores and techno which i'm no fan of

r107 · **Posted:** 13 Oct 08, 1:34 pm

the story outside of the games like actual story for halo is quite good the games story is crap. and the sound is great. CoD sound however was not so great not crap but just not overly exciting.

exe3 · **Joined:** 30 May 07, 9:25 pm **Posts:** 3282

aenema wrote:

the story outside of the games like actual story for halo is quite good the games story is crap.

yea, halo 3 was the only bad story but it was such that it shaped the universe too much (ending the war when it shouldn't have) and Contact Harvest while good did start to incorporate a bit too much of what made halo 3's story bad so i'm iffy about the universe, especially if the story continues to go downhill with Recon, Halo Wars, Chronicles and The Cole Protocol

Jez · **Posted:** 13 Oct 08, 3:16 pm

I thought Halo 3 had excellent audio personally, there are supposed to be over 20'000 pieces of in-game dynamic dialogue, which is pretty incredible.

Just to get an idea: http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox360 ... 6632/50845

The way they handled in-game conversations between NPC's was much better than any other game that had tried it too.

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