This document summarizes techniques used to create sound effects for the game Halo 4. It analyzes specific audio elements like teleporting noises, a struggling sound followed by gunfire, alien sounds mixed with gunfire, and a computer voice communicating with a human and alien. The writer believes the teleporting, struggling, and alien sounds were likely computer generated, while gunfire was recorded in the field and voices were made by recording into a microphone. The setting is futuristic, the mood is dark, and the game genre is a sci-fi shooter based on the audio elements and narrative described.

1. Salford City College
Eccles Sixth Form Centre
BTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGN
Unit 73: Sound For Computer Games
Game Title
Halo 4
Provide detailed descriptions from chosen examples that establish…
Clearly state what production technique(s) you think have
been used to create specific soundtrack elements
It is set in the future as there are sound in the middle of the audio were it sounds
like something is teleporting around.
The teleporting noises could have been computer
generated.
The mood seems quite dark, close to the middle of the audio, the computer voice
makes a struggling noise, then some time after that, gun fired is heard.
The struggling noises would have been made by
just simply making noises into a mic, and gun fire
from a firing field.
The game is a sci-fi shooter because there are noises that are alien like throughout
the audio, then gunfire.
The guns could have been recorded on a field
where they fire guns and the alien sounds could
have been computer generated.
Right at the beginning, there is a computer voice communicating with a human,
then later on the human talking with what sounds like an alien.
The computer voice could have been made with
computer effects and the alien voice probably
been making random sounds into a mic.
Setting
Mood
Game genre
Narrative