Can't Change Volume of Music/Car in 2008?
posted by Bubbha (REDLANDS, CA) Feb 1, 2008
Member since Oct 2006
I will probably play this game again at a later time, but I was so annoyed that as I was driving around, there was no way to alter the sound. Sometimes I just want to hear cars, sometimes just music. Granted, the music here was good. So I just wanted to hear it. If it annoys me after a while, I just want to hear sound effects.
There seemed no intuitive way to do this, if any way exists at all.
I thought I might like this, driving around, freely. But I can't even control the volume? And this is 2008? Please. That's a user-hostile experience.
I also did not like that EVERYTHING was rendered in this lame greenish tint. I assume they used a limited pallette to keep the frame rate good. Fine. But why not transition to other palletes, like while the player is in a tunnel?
So while the 'universe' of this game was very large, it all looked the same. It had none of the snappy artistry of other car games like, dare I say it... even Ridge Racer. At least there, you have a different feel, through different scenery.
No, this was a well-streamed world with good control and physics where everything looked... bland green.
And why do the crashes always occur in slow motion? There should be a setting to control this, to let everything happen in "real-time" if you want, or to go back to slo-mo... or player-controlled slo-mo, for the crashes.
I was so disappointed in a "next-gen" game, in 2008, that didn't even give me the choice of controlling the volume of the car and of the music?
This is ridiculous, fascist. Yes, let's let EA dictate what volume levels should be. The fact that something this simple was never allowed to be controlled by the user, I find simply repugnant.
It's 2008. Doing something that simple would have gotten an 8 rating, so I could drive around, like in the old days, controlling the sound.
But EA couldn't even give the user that control, and that is arrogance.
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