Reviews for the game's audio were also mixed. The music was praised by Chudah's Corner, which called it the game's "saving grace" and "a marvel of its own", while "Game Informer" called it "decent" but felt Square should have enlisted big bands to match the music of the competitor series "Gran Turismo". GameSpot called the music "solid, albeit imperfect" and also thought that it lacked impact compared to that of "Gran Turismo 2", "" or "Ridge Racer V". While the site praised the game's ambient sound effects as realistic and detailed, IGN and GameZone felt they were too muted and "nothing special". GameZone, Game Revolution and the American magazine "GamePro" felt the music was "intolerable" and "out-of-tune", "cheesy and annoying", and sounded like "a flock of seagulls being maimed and tortured".