My High Scores for FreQuency

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.)

Playing the song Worst Mistake in FreQuency on Parallaxia, my favorite arena

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"). Scores for this game tend to be a lot lower than for Amplitude for three reasons:

  1. FreQuency's multiplier only goes up to x4, or x6 with a powerup. Amplitude's multiplier goes up to x8.
  2. 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.
  3. FreQuency has a much smaller hit window than Amplitude. This game is seriously tough to play at the top difficulty on an emulator.

Weirdly enough, my recent string of PBs actually happened on a PAL PS2. I decided to play through the game on my girlfriend's console and lounge TV (and she's in the UK), and it weirdly felt easier than I was used to. Probably more the laggy emulator I first set a lot of these scores for one thing, but also, you have to focus on the higher-scoring, harder sections, especially with a Multiplier powerup in hand, if you wanna keep breaking your high scores. I wasn't playing like that before, but I was this time, and it paid off in maybe PBs on half the songs, especially on Expert.

(I have both my NTSC and PAL saves still, so maybe it'd make the most sense to split them into two tables, but for my own casual scorekeeping, I've just combined the bests from both saves. Make it easy on everyone.)

FreQuency PBs as of 08/02/2025
Artist Song Name Easy Normal Expert
Stage One
The Crystal Method The Winner 418 885 1566
Akrobatik Exterminator 485 940 1481
No Doubt Ex-Girlfriend 596 840 1783
Orbit XLR8R 805 1129 1779
Freezepop Science Genius Girl 743 1412 2107
Stage Two
Dub Pistols Official Chemical 494 701 1302
Lo Fidelity Allstars LoFi's in Ibiza 464 779 1190
Fear Factory Frequency 530 1323 1701
Paul Oakenfold See It 368 1101 1431
Ethan E. Eves Selecta 221 869 1124
Stage Three
Powerman 5000 Danger is Go! 591 1148 1528
Orbital Funny Break 1037 1394 1992
DJ Qbert Cosmic Assassins 1074 1326 1713
BT Smartbomb 1844 2177 2402
Curve Worst Mistake 938 1048 1210
Stage Four
Jungle Brothers What's the Five O 1478 1663
Funkstar De Luxe Ignition 1568 1691
Roni Size ft. Reprazent Railing Pt. 2 1472 1302
Meat Beat Manifesto Dynamite Fresh 1277 1582
Juno Reactor Higher Ground 1736 1865
Stage Five
Tony Trippi Motomatic 1848
DJ HMX Ibiza Dreamz 1155
Symbion Project Funky Dope Maneuver 1344
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 486 699 840
Kareem Caines Scratchotronic 691 1155 1234
BT Godspeed 1333 1735
Campaign totals: 11785 27791 47004