Given my sweep of Amplitude, it was only a matter of time before I started scorekeeping its rough draft, FreQuency. An early enough PS2 game to come on a CD instead of a DVD, FreQuency's main difference from Amplitude is it's played in a big tunnel instead of on a highway. It's pretty neon and alien-looking, and I don't think it plays quite as well, but it's still fun. (The music is the best part of it—hard trance and big beat and trip hop and all those trendy 90s electronica genres. If only someone ripped the soundtrack.)
Here's my current PBs across the game's 27 songs (plus the European exclusive, "Why", and the two inaccessible on-disc songs, "Godspeed" and "Scratchotronic"). My scores for this game tend to be a lot lower than mine for Amplitude for three reasons:
- FreQuency's multiplier only goes up to x4, or x6 with a powerup. Amplitude's multiplier goes up to x8.
- You lose your multiplier way more often in FreQuency. Good example is if you have a bar of a section left and thus not enough time to capture that track (you need to play two bars correctly to capture a track), you'll go into the next section without a multiplier.
- FreQuency has a much smaller hit window than Amplitude. Paired with the lag from PCSX2 (I have to hit notes seriously early for them to register), the harder songs are frankly pretty frustrating to play.
I'll definitely want to revisit this game with a CRT and a real PS2.
| Artist | Song Name | Easy | Normal | Expert |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage One | ||||
| The Crystal Method | The Winner | 418 | 812 | 1430 |
| Akrobatik | Exterminator | 485 | 940 | 1246 |
| No Doubt | Ex-Girlfriend | 596 | 840 | 1286 |
| Orbit | XLR8R | 805 | 1129 | 1385 |
| Freezepop | Science Genius Girl | 743 | 1274 | 1881 |
| Stage Two | ||||
| Dub Pistols | Official Chemical | 494 | 701 | 1216 |
| Lo Fidelity Allstars | LoFi's in Ibiza | 464 | 779 | 1190 |
| Fear Factory | Frequency | 530 | 1323 | 1320 |
| Paul Oakenfold | See It | 368 | 1101 | 1324 |
| Ethan E. Eves | Selecta | 221 | 869 | 1124 |
| Stage Three | ||||
| Powerman 5000 | Danger is Go! | 591 | 1148 | 1360 |
| Orbital | Funny Break | 1037 | 1394 | 1691 |
| DJ Qbert | Cosmic Assassins | 1074 | 1326 | 1115 |
| BT | Smartbomb | 1844 | 1725 | 1634 |
| Curve | Worst Mistake | 938 | 1048 | 1130 |
| Stage Four | ||||
| Jungle Brothers | What's the Five O | 1478 | 1075 | |
| Funkstar De Luxe | Ignition | 1568 | 1469 | |
| Roni Size ft. Reprazent | Railing Pt. 2 | 1472 | 934 | |
| Meat Beat Manifesto | Dynamite Fresh | 1277 | 1582 | |
| Juno Reactor | Higher Ground | 1736 | 1461 | |
| Stage Five | ||||
| Tony Trippi | Motomatic | 1495 | ||
| DJ HMX | Ibiza Dreamz | 1155 | ||
| Symbion Project | Funky Dope Maneuver | 1263 | ||
| Komputer Kontroller | Control Your Body | 1609 | ||
| Symbion Project | FreQ Out | 1599 | ||
| SurgeCore | Luge Crash | 1874 | ||
| Robotkid vs. Inter:sekt | End of Your World | 1354 | ||
| Exclusive/Inaccessible Tracks | ||||
| Reeload | Why | 486 | 699 | 798 |
| Kareem Caines | Scratchotronic | 691 | 1155 | 1234 |
| BT | Godspeed | 1333 | 1735 | |
| Campaign totals: | 11785 | 27101 | 40969 | |