Last night I downloaded a demo of an amazing game called Audiosurf. The game kind of looks like one of those visualisation plug-ins except you get to fly through the music. When you start Audiosurf; you direct the game to your music files and basically the game will take your music file and create a racetrack from the beats and tempo. The game looks a bit like a guitar hero but the game play is more like Tetris. As I was saying the game is based on ones selected sound file so as the beat builds it is shown as slowly ascending a hill but when the beat reaches its top BPM you have this exhilarating rush as you descend rapidly following the music, getting totally into the beats. Every track is unique to the song which totally gives the game longevity. The first song I tried was DJ Shadow’s “Building steam from a grain of sand” which was pretty good, then I tried Fat Boy Slim “Gangsta Trippin” and that was better some heavy fast beats, but then I tried the Orbital remix of the Doctor Who theme song that was a mind blowing rollercoaster adventure. Probably the most amazing thing is the price only $10, if you buy it online from Valve. Audiosurf brings back all those old songs, it forces you to look through your MP3 selection and find those songs which could make the greatest tracks in the game. You can then go online and compete on other people’s soundtracks. One final warning about Audiosurf when you get into it, it’s highly addictive.