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Audiosurf allows you to experience the intensity and emotion of your songs in real time, in full color, and in 3D. Songs that give you an adrenaline rush are converted into wild roller coaster rides full of color and motion. Songs that calm you down appear as cool colors against a relaxing sky. Audiosurf enhances the experience of your music collection by synchronizing its environment to the events in your songs--the beats, the intense sections, the long pauses followed by a burst of sound, all take on a more vivid meaning.

In Audiosurf, you race down a futuristic and colorful highway. The highway, the traffic patterns, and the scenery are all synchronized to the music you have chosen from your own collection. You earn points for clustering together cars of the same color on the highway, and can compete with others on the internet for the high score on your favorite songs. Audiosurf builds a highway for any music CD, MP3, iTunes M4A, WMA, or OGG song you choose, so the experience that you have is totally up to you.

Inside every song you own there's an immersive experience waiting to come to life through Audiosurf---ride your music.

http://www.audio-surf.com/

The size of the game is about 64mb [not including the update it has for it] and can be downloaded here.

It's an *.exe file, Mac users need not apply.

I tested this out with Daft Punk's CD entitled Human After All. The game is intense and the difficulty varies based upon what song is playing. So if you have a diverse collection of music, the game could be incredibly easy to impossibly difficult.

If you own a PC running a Windows OS and you love video games and music equally and have at least SOME music stored on your computer, I suggest giving this game a go. You don't have to register but like always, registration brings benefits.

The graphics are really well done. They're no Crysis graphics but the artistic style and effects that it pulls off blew me away. There are several different  types of filters you can put on each track to make it look different.

I highly recommend this game to anyone. It's fun, addictive, has great music (assuming your music taste doesn't suck, I KID), and it's free...for now.

Not my video because I just realized the video that I recorded via FRAPS was 1.6gig big. Instead, here's a video already on YOUTUBE. The sound doesn't match up very well but this video demonstrates the game rather well.

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