Audigy 2 ZS and Raven Sheild a true testermen

Man oh man. If I ever thought that EAX HD did not work with my card properly, then I was wrong, DEAD WRONG!
. Hot **bleep** every single room will give me a completely differnent reverb and or occlusion effect. I have never heard anything like this before in my life.
Words can not trully explain it, so unless you havent played this game then you have no idea just how good the ZS can be when thing are done right.
Bullets bounce off walls and give a different effect depending where they hit and bounce off. Voices are muffled and DO sound differently depending if they are behind brick or timber and if you close your eyes you CAN tell if its brick,timber or steel.
Just like the EAX HD demo, this game sounds just like that, everything has different sound FX and blends and mixes perfeclty , the translation form room to room is SO freaking good its scary as you hear the background melt away as you get closer to a new sound source.
I just thought I would mention this as it seems that Creative may not be at fault for the most part and it would seem that game developers HAVE to get it right in a BIG WAY. This one game is testerment to what CAN be done with the ZS cards and SHOULD be held up as a bench and FULL compair when it comes to EAX HD 24 bit gaming.
I know its an old game and I never really got into the Rainbow six games but man oh man oh babe this is PURE EAR SEX to the max. Oh, the 5. is perfect and reflects sound spot on.
Do your self a favor, get this game, if only for a true EAX HD sound thrill ride.

Man oh man. If I ever thought that EAX HD did not work with my card properly, then I was wrong, DEAD WRONG!
. Hot **bleep** every single room will give me a completely differnent reverb and or occlusion effect. I have never heard anything like this before in my life.
Words can not trully explain it, so unless you havent played this game then you have no idea just how good the ZS can be when thing are done right.
Bullets bounce off walls and give a different effect depending where they hit and bounce off. Voices are muffled and DO sound differently depending if they are behind brick or timber and if you close your eyes you CAN tell if its brick,timber or steel.
Just like the EAX HD demo, this game sounds just like that, everything has different sound FX and blends and mixes perfeclty , the translation form room to room is SO freaking good its scary as you hear the background melt away as you get closer to a new sound source.
I just thought I would mention this as it seems that Creative may not be at fault for the most part and it would seem that game developers HAVE to get it right in a BIG WAY. This one game is testerment to what CAN be done with the ZS cards and SHOULD be held up as a bench and FULL compair when it comes to EAX HD 24 bit gaming.
I know its an old game and I never really got into the Rainbow six games but man oh man oh babe this is PURE EAR SEX to the max. Oh, the 5. is perfect and reflects sound spot on.
Do your self a favor, get this game, if only for a true EAX HD sound thrill ride.

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