X-Men: The Official Game w/ 3D spatial sound (CMSS-3D HRTF)
8Turn your volume way up and use headphones only with any virtual surround features turned off. Best HRTF effect at 2:31.
This is X-Men: The Official Game with CMSS-3D HRTF on the X-Fi Titanium. That's right, this is the official X-Men game, the only one of its kind. All those other X-Men games you might've played? Yeah, turns out they weren't authorized by Marvel at all. They're just, uh...bootlegs? Anyway, this game has an option for 3D sound in the menu but it crashes with DSOAL. The spatialization makes no sense, however. It plays sounds in any random direction it feels like. By the 2nd Sabretooth fight, left and right sounds are completely reversed!
It's rather unfortunate that this movie tie-in bears the "Official Game" seal because it might be the worst X-Men game I've ever played. Then again, that's not surprising considering it came from the same studio as BMX XXX. First off, this game was made in 2006 for the Xbox 360 yet its graphics look like a Nintendo DS title. Second, you can only play as Wolverine, Iceman, and Nightcrawler. That's easily the smallest roster out of any non-Wolverine specific X-Men game I've ever seen. The gameplay is just the most mundane button-mashing shit you can imagine. The animations look straight out of a Nintendo 64 title and there's no timing on anything. It's really noticeable when Nightcrawler's doing roundhouse kicks 2 seconds after you've pushed the button. Also, the Iceman stage I spared you from watching is disturbingly reminiscent of Superman 64.
HRTF grade:
D (broken spatialization)
Settings:
Windows Control Panel: Stereo
IRC_1037 HRTF tables placed in %APPDATA%/OpenAL/HRTF
(in alsoft.ini located in %APPDATA%)
channels=stereo
frequency=44100
stereo-mode=headphones
cf_level=0
sample-type=float32
periods=3
period_size=128
default-hrtf=irc_1037_44100
hrtf=true
resampler=linear
Credits:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_The_Official_Game#/media/File:X-Men_-_The_Official_Game_Coverart.png
(Use of this logo falls under fair use laws for non-commerical usage.)
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