Lol, of course it is, since Kely did it, but why is this so inportant, i mean for a post?

Actually, the music isn't as good as it cound be. In shooters you rarely have music like that, it's usually more upbeat and more action style music. Not that Kelly did a bad job, I love it but I think it could be a lot better.

Hi
I think the music is okay but I just wish that it would progress more.
Game Man

I'm surprised anyone really noticed the music uch less likd it so much.  Personally I could do without those lame eighties-style drums in some of the songs, and that main menu theme is ok (I think Kevin Reeves did some of the tracks)_ but not very triumphant or anything.  I'm not complaining though since you really don't notice it that much or at least I idn't.

Sorry, i installed the game
and I had no clue of what to do, even after reading the instructions. It reminds me of agrip: audio quake...

hi.

the music is alright, i liked the piano sequence at the start, however it starts to grate a little when you listen to it a lot.

the music in doom however is some of the best i've heard, and some of the doom background noises such as in level titled "limbo" would have been good in shades of doom.

what i didn't like about s.o.d, was that it seemed as if someone had made a complex full of empty rooms and corridoors.
in doom there were toxic canisters that you could use to blow up your enemies if you got them close enough, there were pools of acid you had to dodge and the items left ontop of the pools that you had to get before you died, they where great obsticles to overcome.
don't get me wrong sod was great, but it just felt empty to me. there were no computer noises to suggest a scientific facility, nothing.
well, there were the alarms, but they were'nt much. the only thing that come close to a little background was the toilet part.
other than that it's pretty barron.
don't you think?
no offence to david of course, he really made a good game, it's just that say even in monkey business labs without graphics the sounds used completely got across the fact that it was a lab.
best reg.

archer

Hi,
I think the Music in Shades of Doom is good, but I wish you had some different music for level 10 where you had to fight the bos. Apart from that, SOD is a great game.

I couldn't agree more. But you know some modern games like Red Faction, Transfers and Haylo 2 all have really awesome sound tracks? And the fact that the music changes from background to battle is really awesome. It'd be really cool in Sod. Like say you have some really haunting and slow song in the background. All of a sudden while you're walking down a corridor past an opening leading down another hallway, two monsters appear from the intersection to block your path. Then the game should follow up with huge clang from the procution to symbolize surprise, then crank up some heavy rock as you blow these monsters back to their moms. And then, if more monsters should appear, change to some other heavier song. The basic point is to make a not so heavy song for just one or two monster, whereas it goes to like major speaker-blowing rock songs when you get swarmed.

That's true. If you've ever played Namco's Urban Reign, the music is heavy-duty rock and heavy metal. But the sounds stil come through all right. And with the S.O.D feature to adjust the music volume, it would really improve the game a lot.

I didn't say anything about making every enemy resistant to certain weapons. All I said was that certain enemies, note the key word Certain, might be immune to, say, a bolt gun, so you'd need another weapon. You could make blobs, let's say, immune to all but laser weapons, or have different types of blobs and only have the stronger ones appear on the later levels. Or you could create an entirely new enemy that only appeared on the later levels and it would be vulnerable only to a laser pistol or Bio Disruptor. Mainstream games feature this type of situation all the time and therefore there's no real reason why we shouldn't match them as much as we can. Everybody's complaining about how simple most audio games are, so this could remedy the situation. Yeah we'd need to set limits on it, but who cares? I certainly don't.
  I do agree that the music in SOD should have done more to reflect the situation. I can't describe how unrealistic it feels when you're playing SOD, you've got that piano theme playing in the background and you're trying to fight off a hoard of mutants. Treasure Hunt is a good example of what Assault Freak and some others mean. You're exploring the lab, you're suddenly spotted by a guard and the music changes to that upbeat rock theme. And the sounds came through all right in that game, so it could be done with SOD, especially since you can adjust the music volume, there should be no problems. Or, you could have it start out loud, like right when you get spotted, then settle into a quieter but still upbeat theme. Well, there's my two cents.

Ohn the music front I was merely exercising caution.

And with the weapons, from past experience modern mainstream gfames very rarely have enemies that are only vulnerable to one weapon. Only being able to use one weapon against a particular enemy gets repetitive fairly fast in my view. Resistance is good and introduces variety, immunity to all but one of two weapons usually detracts.