The MX300 was set for 4 speaker playback using Cambridge SoundWorks' FourPoint Surround system. In video options I had to chose between a Creative Labs Voodoo 2 board and a Diamond Monster Fusion board. In one of the enclosed files, instructions are given to tweak the gamma settings to maximize the effect of shadows. All other setting I left at the default settings. As the training level starts you stand in a room with a door at the opposite end.
Footsteps softly approach from the left and gradually get louder.
You look up to see a guard appear on an upper platform. As he moves around the front of the room the sound of his footsteps tracks accurately along with his movements and gradually disappears as he continues his patrol of the upper level. You go through the doors and are greeted by an instructor. Your training has begun. Keeping with the emphasis on stealth, two of the lessons drive home the importance of not being discovered.