| Doom III was with no doubt the big
winner of this year's E3. Besides the awards "Best of
Show", "Best PC-Game", "Best Action Game" and "Special
Commendation for Graphics", the official
e3awards website also reports about this award:
Special Commendation
for Sound
DOOM III
(Trent Reznor/id Software/Activision for PC)
"No game programmer envies the idea of competing against
John CarmackŐs latest 3D graphics engine. So imagine
the challenge of trying to create a soundscape that
not only matches but also compliments CarmackŐs 3D
magic. Leave it to Trent Reznor, frontman for Nine
Inch Nails, to meet and exceed that challenge. ReznorŐs
richly textured 5.1 channel soundtrack literally rocked
the theater, forming an important part of the ever-so-impressive
multimedia assault that was DOOM III. Presented in
a special theater at the Activision booth, ReznorŐs
pristinely mixed sound effects and cranked-to-the-max
sound system made everything else at E3 sound like
an old transistor radio."
Also, USA
Today featured a brief article on Doom III with
Trent Reznor about the Doom III just recently.
"What made the original
Doom such a landmark achievement was that you had
never seen anything like that," says Trent Reznor
of Nine Inch Nails, a Doom fan. Several years ago,
Reznor sent concert passes to the id gang. He ended
up supplying music for Quake. Now, he's supervising
all the sounds in Doom III.
Doom "was politically
incorrect at the time," he says. "It was violent,
it was exciting."
Reznor is taking the
same detailed care with his haunting surround soundtrack.
"I want to get across fear or dread or high anxiety
Ń through the sound of the environment," he says.
"It's like mixing sound in a real 3D environment.
Sound behaves as it would in the real world."
Thanks a lot
to: 'Kid.A' and 'Deadpool5'
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