hiscore2.java+ (select.mod)

Posted by Lacquered Mouse on Thu 6th Jul 2000, rated 6 / 10.

This is quite a good piece, although some of the samples need tuning; this is especially noticeable during the introduction and makes you expect a very poor piece of music. Apart from this though, a good beat and rhythm is created, and it sustains your interest throughout the piece. The leads could have been a little more innovative, they get rather predictable. But overall a good piece of music. The samples are the problem here. The only real thing that I feel really makes these old ProTracker mods show their age is the poor sample quality (4 channels are enough if you're a good tracker :), and the samples in this song are poor quality; with an added dash of background hiss. The music _is_ its samples and when you get a good mod ruined by poor samples it really is disappointing. But leaving the samples to one side, and looking at the way the song is constructed, the song still isn't technically that good. However, the stereo LRLR construction is quite well used in this mod, and you don't get all the loud samples in one channel as you do in many other Protracker modules. Overall, not too bad, but could have been better.