Darth Maul TPM Review By Eric A. Patterson Jr

[Darthirishman]

Well my job is to make sure everyone behaves, I am behaving

[DarthRage]

I'm glad the crying is over about the sounds for now at least.  We've only seen one review where that guy says that Maul's sounds a lot like Vaders.  Well it is another red saber and they did sound alike even in the movies so he could be mistaking about them being rehashed and not being able to spot little differences in the sound.  I'm more exciting about the lighter weight and the brighter red blade I keep hearing about, plus it's a double sided saber!  Can't wait til I get one.

[Darthirishman]

In a Doctor Evil voice, riiiigggghhhhttttttt

[ani104]

You could always chnage the sounds ;)

[Darthirishman]

Yeah but for how much, money is tight man

[Anakin2]

true. I would love to change the sounds. But with upgrade kits costing a few hundred dollars...(come on now...i find it hard to believe that the parts for these actually cost that much) changing the sounds out good be expensive as heck

[DarthRage]

If you guys can't get over the fact that Maul's sounds like Vader's then you probably won't like Obi-Wan's FX sounding like Anakin's.  I bet it will, or maybe Luke's.

Like somebody else here said and I agree with.  The sounds are probably based on the colors.  Some sounds may have been upgraded but they probably didn't upgrade this with better sounds because they've reached their limits for now.  Dooku's FX will probably sounds the same.  Qui-Gon's FX will probably sound like Luke's ROTJ and so on.

[Dark Skywalker]

probably

[Darthirishman]

We shall wait and see, my thoughts come from what I have heard in the movies

[darthmaddy]

No the point is Maul's saber sounds nothing like the Vader sounds.  MR improved every aspect of this new gen saber, but put totally inaccurate sounds in it.  Its like perfectly detailing a car, but leaving one big muddy spot on the quarter panel.  If they are going so far as to improve all these aspects they might as well go all the way.  I wouldn't even be complaining if they used the Anakin FX sounds because they are generic, but they used VADERS, and those don't sounds like any other saber.  It doesn't make sense.

[DarthRage]

All of those darkside (RED) sabers share those same darkside deep pitch sounds.  I'm with everybody here when they say they should have recorded new sounds but they still would have been similar to Vader's in some aspects and closer to it then if they were to use a lightside saber like Anakin's, Mace's, or Luke's.  Basically, it doesn't bother me that much because I love the Vader sounds and I don't think that Maul's was that different from the movies... maybe a quicker sound but oh well.  None of the FX's sounds aren't totally accurate from the movies.

[Dark Skywalker]

It doesn't bother me because I don't have a Vader :D

[Darthirishman]

Well to me the idle hum of the Maul is like a hive of bees buzzing, the swing motion sounds sound like a hot blade cutting through fog, just me, the Vader is more machine like in the motion sounds.

[xwingband]

I always have to leave when I post something... by extra I meant the extra effort.  Not that it would be like an extra feature.  God that'd be appalling: Pay more for accurate sounds!  I'd drop kick MR if they did that.

[ani104]

The thing that bothers me is that Mauls sounds were unique, they didn't sound like Vaders at all :-\.