Best Sound 2009

[Daniel]

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The Reader's Game of the Year special will appear in issue 198.

[igotnewsuper8systemWRONG!]

Uncharted 2

[adam_91vn]

Borderlands

[Jay]

The Beatles: Rock Band

Not sure if this isn't cheating to put this in here, but even though they haven't used the remastered versions of the source material as a base, the game sounds incredible. Add to that the multitude of extra sound grabs and outtakes riddled throughout and this is a Beatles nerd's wet dream.

[AranchineD]

Brutal Legend

Judas Priest - Painkiller. That is all.

Actually it seems a cop out to leave it at that, the way the game tied its music to what was happening on screen at the time was fantastic every single time.

[buckstwits]

Batman: AA

the surround sound during the scarecrow section was excellent. Music was great too

[RunningMild]

Brutal Legend

The overall sound was impeccable. I'm talking voice acting, sound effects, and the greatest soundtrack in the history of gaming! Gets the nudge over Batman for including a song by Running Wild. :p


Runners Up

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Atmosphere- I has it. Epic score too.


DJ Hero

A massive setlist of awesome remixes that you can't hear anywhere else.

[Cian]

Batman: Arkham Asylum

The sounds made Arkham an incredibly eerie place. All of the villains came across as being twisted and sadistic thanks to some great voice acting. This is the only good thing Mark Hamill has put his name to since Star Wars.

[lex3191]

Batman Arkham Asylum

[RunningMild]

****, I forgot to mention Holy Invasion of Privacy. That 8-bit music/SFX was pure joy.

Actually it seems a cop out to leave it at that, the way the game tied its music to what was happening on screen at the time was fantastic every single time.

I'd go so far as to say that the 'Mr Crowley' cut scene was one of the best gaming moments of the year.

[AranchineD]

Yeah, that's the exact moment I was thinking off when I posted that.

[StorminNorman]

The Beatles Rock Band

You can talk about awesome video game music all you want, but this category is automatically won by TB:RB because, well, it's the godsdamned Beatles. Like seriously, no one can compete with the most important rock and roll band in the universe.

[Xanafalgue]

Modern Warfare 2

[Hyperblau]

Uncharted 2

Amazing sound design and amazing voice acting, impossible to fault.

[drzaius]

Uncharted 2. as above.

[Allick]

Uncharted 2

for the dialogue

[Clockw0rk]

Brutal Legend
Best. Soundtrack. Ever. The voice acting was top notch as well.

[Munky]

GH: Metallica.

Awesome soundtrack.

[erayser_168]

Uncharted 2 for the best voice acting of all time

Batman AA runs a close second with sound design that leaves chills down my spine every time i hear the joker :p

[REQUIEM]

Modern Warfare 2. With this game cranked it sounds like I moved to Iraq.

[borgster101]

Modern Warfare 2

The entire score is so fitting to everything going on around you and the sound effects are top notch.

[Nic Xtreme]

Killzone 2

[RunningMild]

'Splosion Man

For music and effects that had me splitting my sides with laughter. "Everybody loves donuts, I know I dooooooooooooooooooooo..."

[dinnerordie17]

BRUTAL LEGEND:
Best soundtrack ever, and acting, and its got fricken Ozzy in it.

[Zan]

Blazblue for soundtrack alone.
Batman for overall.

[chs999]

Eternal Sonata.

Very few people played it, but those who did will agree that it had the most beautiful and appropriate classical music sound track.

[Shaftoe]

This category is oversimplified to the point of being worthless, sound is incredibly important in a game these days and to lump sound design, score, voicework and licensed STs into a general "sound" award isn't giving game audio nearly enough credit.

Best Score: I really dug Borderlands, was almost like an ambient scifi Paris,Texas. The title song became pretty obnoxious after awhile though.

Best voicework: with Lemmy, Ozzy, JB and (best of all) Tim Curry, Brutal Legend owns this. Also had the best licensed soundtrack since last gens GTAs, 107 tracks of pure metal that made this game tits. Batman gets a nod for voices but Harley quinn was horrible to listen to. I also really liked Borderlands for voicework, beserking never gets old. And Ballad of Gay Tony was great too, with a few exceptions GTA4 has had great acting.
Oh Assassins Creed 2 was great as well, especially since the protagonist no longer has a North American accent (my biggest peeve with the first game). And as good as the english was I played the game in Italian for most of it, never had that option in a game before and it elevated the experience for me, made it that much more immersive.

Best sound design: I'd give it to Borderlands, Brutal Legend or Batman, nothing really stands out in the last year though.


overall, Brutal Legend I guess

[william h. cosby II]

Beatles Rock Band / Uncharted 2

Cop out, but the Beatles are the best band in the world ever, and Uncharted 2 had the best voice acting ever heard in a videogame bar none, so I feel it's quite fair to say "both".

[Tom Campbell]

Awesome songs(wish I could get a soundtrack). The commentary doesnt sounded recored on.

[Stevorooni]

Batman Arkham Asylum

[Argeaux]

I'm going to say Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

There are the usual bomb explosions, whir of helicopter blades and ack ack of gunfire that you'd expect in a war shooter.

What made the sound for this game special, though, was the music used to get your heart beat racing in dramatic moments.

When you add in the various directions shouted at you by your AI team mates, which were actually helpful, you've got one hell of a good sounding game.

[Adios]

Uncharted 2

The scene in the mountain village. As Drake amusingly stumbles through the small village, cracking jokes and interacting with the people and animals around him, a soft wind brushes up against the flags hung above him, there's a cry of distant animals and cow bells and constant soft chatter in another language that the player, and Drake, don't understand.

It's this scene, more then anywhere else, that the sound design shines in establishing a sense of place and mood.

[xander_cade]

Is something there?????

[lastitachionearth]

Final Fantasy Dissidia

[jawsy]

Guitar Hero: Metallica.

I'm taking the easy way out, but come one, Suicidal freakin' Tendencies.

[TimmyJ]

Brutal Legend, what with the likes of Mastodon, Static-X, In Flames, KISS, Judas Priest and craploads of other influential bands featured on the soundtrack, is my choice here. Voice acting was also top notch.