Audiosurf is a little game that keeps on giving and giving.

User Rating: 9 | AudioSurf PC
It's a mark of both shame and pride that I always play games not for short bursts but for long stretches at all times because, well, I tend to focus on one thing until it's done and am not partial to doing things piecemeal. This isn't a hard and fast rule - sometimes I find myself with ten minutes or so before I've to leave for classes or what have you and I try and beat a Super Meat Boy level - this always ends in shouting though - or some songs in Audiosurf. Both of these titles are superb but I'll focus on the latter since, well, I am on its page.

Audiosurf is a great little title that delivers a lot for little cost and little time investment. Do you have music on your computer or on a flash drive or external hard drive or CD? If you do than congratulations! You can play Audiosurf with that music. The premise of Audiosurf is that you can ride your music and that premise certainly lives up with the game.

The rhythm of each song determines the way it is constructed. Have some death metal with heavy bass that isn't sixteenth notes but eighth or quarter notes than you can expect a bumpy ride - get songs with nothing but double bass and the game will determine that it's just one sound and the ride'll be smooth but fast and complex.

The goal of the game is to collect as many points as possible - the possible point...pickups are the notes of the song, cymbal crashes or the entrance of the vocalist for example. You also have a number of ships to choose from that can radically change the gameplay.

Ninja Mono for example only has to pick up colored bars and avoid the grays, do so and you can rack up high scores. The Pusher Elite on the other hand has far more to handle. What with all bars being possible combinations but each color has to be connected to two or more of its brethren for the combo to be counted as points and its possible to create a scenario where you have all twenty-one slots filled with colors that don't match and you're deadlocked.

There are other ships to choose from and each offers a unique and challenging experience but I've found the bulk of my time spent with Ninja Mono to limit the micro-management and so I can just enjoy the music but it's not nearly as challenging as the other ships.

For ten bucks Audiosurf provides a near limitless level of content - you got enough songs to last eternity you can play this game for eternity and experience is different for each song - and a rather triply visual style that is always pleasing to the eye.