[Heavy Metal Hero]

This is pretty amazing. The game is great and the audio analysis by the program is damn near flawless. I always thought it was impossible for a computer to interpret audio and turn it into something useful, but apparently I was wrong.

So, to explain how it works: The traffic on the track is mapped to significant beats and instrument voices in whatever song you use, ideally with more valuable notes on the more pertinent beats. You control your ship with the mouse, and try to intercept the different colour traffic blocks in a meaningful pattern to score clusters. Hot colours are worth more than cold colours, and larger clusters are worth more points exponentially. The velocity of your ship is proportional to the slope of the track, with slower songs producing upward slopes with faster music creating a downward slope. Plus, the track twists and turns according to the movement of the music.

There are many modes, most of which give you a special ability that allows you to last longer without crashing yourself (overfilling a column causes you to go into a "respawn") or rack up big points. Also popular is Ninja Mono Elite mode, where there is no shoulder on the road and only one colour of block, but a lot of gray blocks (basically bricks) that you have to avoid.

I must say this game is absolutely amazing and definitely worth trying out, even buying when it becomes available.