In today’s world of hyper-realistic gaming, it’s easy to overlook the immense amount of work that goes into every detail of the player’s experience. Go behind the scenes with Halo‘s sound designers as they break down their techniques for everything from weapon firing to the sound effects of its sci-fi world.

Halo’s team describes sound layering, adaptive sound design, and some of the crazier tricks of the trade they pulled, all in the name of video game ambiance.