Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Electronic Arts, 2007
Without a direct audio folder to open, I could not examine the files directly. DirectX is used so I assume they are wave files. I am not sure of the meta data or file names the designers used so I applied my own based on obvious choices. It is probably not 44.1 audio either. Spoken dialogue is a large component of this game. There are many character classes. The main class is not an in game character but an emotionless voice (male or female depending on faction chosen: NOD or GDI) from the command centre telling the player certain things have been done or are being done. Each vehicle, soldier and device has its own characteristic sounds or dialogue. The ‘driver’ of a vehicle speaks different dialogue when commanded around the battlefield. I noticed in the “Almost too quiet”[1] article there is a column named ‘chance.’ I assume this is to show the programmers how often this sound is to be triggered as to which parameters are in effect in the game at that particular moment in time. The GDI faction has been chosen for this analysis.
Electronic Arts, 2007
Without a direct audio folder to open, I could not examine the files directly. DirectX is used so I assume they are wave files. I am not sure of the meta data or file names the designers used so I applied my own based on obvious choices. It is probably not 44.1 audio either. Spoken dialogue is a large component of this game. There are many character classes. The main class is not an in game character but an emotionless voice (male or female depending on faction chosen: NOD or GDI) from the command centre telling the player certain things have been done or are being done. Each vehicle, soldier and device has its own characteristic sounds or dialogue. The ‘driver’ of a vehicle speaks different dialogue when commanded around the battlefield. I noticed in the “Almost too quiet”[1] article there is a column named ‘chance.’ I assume this is to show the programmers how often this sound is to be triggered as to which parameters are in effect in the game at that particular moment in time. The GDI faction has been chosen for this analysis.
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[1] Lampert, Mark. 2006, IT’S QUIET … ALMOST TOO QUIET, Bethesda Softworks, 2006,
"Chapter 2 - Sound Database". Childs, G. W. 2006, Creating Music and Sound for
Games, Thomson Course Technology.
Haines, Christian. 2008. “AA2 – Game Audio Analysis.” Seminars presented at the University of Adelaide.
[1] Lampert, Mark. 2006, IT’S QUIET … ALMOST TOO QUIET, Bethesda Softworks, 2006,
"Chapter 2 - Sound Database". Childs, G. W. 2006, Creating Music and Sound for
Games, Thomson Course Technology.
Haines, Christian. 2008. “AA2 – Game Audio Analysis.” Seminars presented at the University of Adelaide.
“Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars” EA games, 2007.
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