On Sega of America's forums, it seems that owners of the PlayStation 3 version of Condemned 2: Bloodshot are having problems with the sound playback of this new title.
If what forums users are saying is true, those gamers using a digital audio connection are having their gameplay interrupted by audio dropouts and "snaps" in the game's first level. One forum member contacted Sega to complain of this and other gameplay problems. He received this reply from Sega support:
Thank you for writing. SEGA is aware of these issues and is actively investigating them. As the game is brand-new we are obviously quite concerned to hear of problems, in particular the controller issues.
For now, for the audio issue, if you are using an HDMI cable that is the likely cause of the audio problems. SEGA is investigating this as well, but in the meantime using a standard AV cable fixes the audio issues.
Ah, that's a really crappy fix. Let's hope that they get this patched some how. Going down from surround sound to stereo in a horror game is almost as bad as playing a music game in mono!
Are any of you suffering from this issue? Or are you playing the Xbox 360 version? After our review, I expect to hear plenty of "not at all" answers.
[Via Game|Life]
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12:48 PM on 03.28.2008
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Bum bashing for the win.
I use my 24'' PC monitor for my PS3 via HDMI, and with no audio in the monitor I always use the standard AV cable for audio output.
I definetly have been getting the audio pops people have been talking about.. I never get them with other PS3 games wtf!
If you paid for than $15 for your HDMI cable you sir, got served!
I use HDMI for picture and optical out for sounds and I have never had popping in any games (so far). I am just waiting for a price drop on this one.
and no audio popping anywhere else.
If you liked the first game but felt like it went nowhere storywise, Bloodshot connects everything together, has an awesome ending and sets up the next game beautifully.
We used to do it at church camp.
I have the Xbox360 version BUT I noticed this version gets sound dropouts too, but only in the dialog. There talking, and all of a sudden the voices disappear. I had to turn on the subtitles (and yes I even turned up the speech all the way up and turned everything off to see if it was the game).
So I guess it's not only the PS3 version.