UNDERDOGS (One Hamsa)
Lead Sound Design, Music Supervision
UNDERDOGS is a highly immersive VR experience hailed as "A New Benchmark For VR Arena Combat" by UploadVR. It is a visceral, physics-based mech brawler set in the gritty, dog-eat-dog world of New Brakka. Wrapped in 5 tons of customizable metal, players engage in savage combat, smashing, crushing, and ripping apart enemy bots amidst a backdrop of deafening, blood-thirsty crowds.
Reviews
Upload VR
“Sound design is also a standout feature and every audio component works seamlessly to create a world that feels grounded. The sound effects deliver a sense of weight and catastrophic impact, selling the clash of tons of metal, while making each crushing headshot echo with shuddering satisfaction.”
“The score is truly fantastic, filling every space with an ambient grime soundscape that matches the game's tone perfectly. Similarly, King's voice actor delivers an impactful performance that makes the silence of the cutscenes feel empty. With such a detailed world of eclectic characters, you could be forgiven for wanting cutscenes at the same standard elsewhere.”
Reality Remake
“Everything is gritty, but a futuristic gritty where you might get robbed or get smashed in the arena, but at the end of the day there's always another mech, more robots, and an intense soundscape to go along with it all.
UNDERDOGS VR looks great with a unified aesthetic and vibe to it all, and that extends to the sound design. You can hear the frenetic energy all the way throughout the fight. The combination of EDM and drill rap that makes most of this VR game's soundtrack go extremely well with the crisp crash of metal on metal as your Gorilla's steel fists snap another bot in two.
The music keeps the energy high and the sound gives each action you take an additional sense of weight, contributing to the feeling that you really are inside of a massive mech suit and that you really are smashing hostile robots in an underground arena.
Virtual Reality does a lot to give you this sense of immersion, but it's nothing without touches like good sound design, and UNDERDOGS VR knows this and does it extremely well.”
Duuro Plays
“The impactful sound design enhances immersion as you hear the metallic crunch of your punches, and the music goes extremely hard in the best way possible.”