Salford City CollegeEccles Sixth Form CentreBTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGNUnit 73: Sound For Computer Games

Game Title Fallout: New Vegas Intro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxOiVxTB0KY

Provide detailed descriptions from chosen examples of sounds that establish…

Clearly state what production technique(s) you think have been used to create specific soundtrack elements

Setting The intro starts off with old music which makes you think the game is set in the 40’ 50’s era. You then hear a gun shot which makes it seem like there is a war. Then you hear a sound of a lighter for a cigarette or something. The music fades in all western like, making the clip sound like it is a western. You then hear someone talking about war, saying that the world has ended and people have survived in underground vaults, it then tells you what has happened after people have left them and what they have done, making civilization. It goes on to tell you that there is a place that hasn’t been touched by the war, and that there is a dam that can be turned on to give them power. It begins to tell you that there is a war going on at the dam between the NCR and César’s Legion, which a civilisation made up of slaves, the war has been going on for 3 years. Among all the war the New Vegas strip has stayed open controlled by an unknown person called Mr house and patrolled by police robots. It then begins to tell you who you are.

They use western music in the intro and some ambient noised to give the setting.

Mood The intro gives of different types of moods, at first it gives off a short happy vibe with the music, and then you start to think what is going on where you hear the gun shot at the beginning which gives a very strange mood. When the person begins to give a speech about war you begin to think that it is an war zone, after he tells you that the world had ended and is being rebuilt, its gives a evil mood and makes you

music that has been used in the clip is intense and the gun shot sounds crazy with ambient noises.

Salford City CollegeEccles Sixth Form CentreBTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGNUnit 73: Sound For Computer Games

think that the beginning is someone shooting victims. The music in the background is very sinister making the intro seem more eerie, you then hear people talking about a deal which makes you wonder what is going on, you then here someone saying “look whose waking up”. You then begin to think that you are a hostage and is tied up, you then hear someone saying stuff about killing people then that you were always going to get killed then you hear a gunshot which could off possibly been the end.

Game genre Open world, role playing game, survival Western music which was most likely edited in after the clip was made

Narrative The narrative in the clip is a man speaking about a war and what has happened to the world afterwards. He tells you about yourself and who you are and what you were doing before. He also tells you that there is a war going on during the time of the game and that it’s over a dam, told that there is a place that hasn’t been touched by the war and is controlled by an person called Mr house and is patrolled by police this could possibly be the games protagonist.

Some directional and recorded in a sound studio and some recorded using ambient sounds.