And you thought you had good hand eye coordination! (Frequency (PS2))

Member Name: Stemondo

Product:	Frequency (PS2)
Date:	01/07/02 (91 review reads)
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Advantages: Highly Addictive, Long lasting, Brilliant Music

Disadvantages: Can be difficult

If you are not interested in music or addictive rhythmic type games then read no further on this opinion and press the back button now. Where as if you are you have come to the right place. This game follows the lines of games like Parrapa the Rappa and games where you have to press a certain button at a certain time. Seems simple eh!

The different music genres in the game are:

Dance
Techno
Trance
House
Rock
Electronic Rock
R&B
and many others.

The game splits all its songs up into Easy Normal and Expert, and when it says expert it means it.

The game controls are very simple, 3 buttons for the beats 1 or power ups, the d-pad for changing section and the analog stick for scratching. The main 3 beat buttons can be placed anywhere you want but are set at L1, R1 and R2 or square, triangle and circle. I use a combination of both.

There are around 25 songs all with three different difficulties meaning they change what you play to a more detailed harder rhythm. The songs are made up of an octagon (might be bigger) type tunnel with each of the parts (instruments) being on each side of the shape. Like vocal, drums, bass, synth and vocal being the main ones.

To pass a level you have to keep your energy meter up by constantly gaining points by pressing the appropriate buttons on the appropriate beats in a short sequence, then move to the next instrument. Then there are about 10 or so sections which reset all the instruments and some change rhythm, you can also pick up point increasers and an item that does that instrument for you. Confusing stuff but if you have got this far in the review then you must be interested. The easy mode is fairly easy which gets harder through the 12 songs and 3 extra's you have to gain. In normal there are 16 songs and 4 extras, to pass this stage you need to have a fair bit of rhythm and some patterns are ridiculsly hard and sometimes done out of luck.


EXPERT now this level is something to be desired. Here?s a science lesson for you, when you want to say press a button the controller you first have to take the image of the screen, then send it to your brain to figure out what button to press, then when you have thought, you send a message to your muscles to press the button. Now the reason for telling you this is because expert is so hard that you don't have time to do that you have to literally press the button without thinking, which is basically guessing which doesn't work, so because you don't have time to think you have to become the music and be the rhythm. This mode ill take some doing and being a musician myself who has good rhythm hasn?t got past the first song or drum track yet as its fairly tricky. You will soon see.

Other than that this is a great game with colourful graphics and changeable tunnels and has extras such as remixes where you make your own song. It includes multiplayer which you battle out for the most points together which is a fantastic extra. If you?re worried then rent it.

Presentation = 9
Graphics = 8
Sound = 10
Gameplay = 8
Lasting appeal = 9

Overall = 9 out of 10

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