Rhytm Zone

 

Honest review by: QUIK

I have a love / hate relationship with rhytm games. They do seem fun to play from time to time but who wants to spend tons of money on plastic instrument looking controllers? On top of that the music selection is usually hit and miss with miss being preeminent.

Rhytm Zone is an indie game made by Sonic Boom Inc. At first glance the gameplay and the “feel” of the game bring to mind the Guitar Hero game series yet it is quite different. First of all you do not need to own an expensive controller. The game is simple to control and I honestly don’t think even a PC gamepad would make this game any easier to play. I use the “asdf” keyboard keys for the four channels where the beat points come at you. Rhytm Zone comes with a bunch of indie music you can download but here is the best part: you can add your own music. Whether your music is on a cd, it’s in your mp3 library or a purchased iTunes track you can add that song to the game and play it almost immediately. The game searches the last.fm database to make sure the tags in the track are correct and you can compete on the leaderboards to any and all of your songs! I had a blast today when I added the song by Jason Steele of the FilmCow studios (Charlie the Unicorn fame) called “Put a Banana in Your Ear”. The points where you have to press the rhytm buttons seemed perfectly matched, even parts where the music “extends” for lack of a better word where nicely matched to the points where you have to press the button longer for bonus points. I even made the top 10 scoring second place! <bows graciously>

The best part is the game costs only 7,99€ on Steam and you can add any music you can possibly think of for free! If you enjoy rhytm games I think you will enjoy this indie title. The game plays great and looks very beautiful in 1080p.