I have been listening to the massive 7+ hours game rip of Modern Warfare 2 and I wonder if there will be an official release. As most of you know, Modern Warfare 2 are the latest game in the Call of Duty Franchise. Michael Giacchino, Harry Gregson-Williams, Stephen Barton, Sean Murray, Joel Goldsmith and Graeme Revell has had the pleasure of scoring the previous games. The game music of Call of Duty has always represented high quality but strangely has never seen an official release. Sure some of the soundtracks have been released within the game, but I can’t help to wonder why they were not deemed to stand on their own. I bet they would sell, I really would.
No offense to the previous composers in the series, but the name Hans Zimmer is far bigger to most people. It’s been a stroke of genius to hire him to do his very first video game score. The buzz around the game has been fantastic and there has been rumors of record breaking sales of the game itself. The reviews has been nothing short of stellar and only a few has given less than top mark. This has to be taken as a great honor to Hans Zimmer as well because without great music, the game would be far worse.
My first impression of the game music was ‘meh’. I heard the previews on YouTube and I heard nothing special. After listening to the game rip of the music itself, I have been pleased with the overall quality and sound of this production. There’s no doubt that this score is perfectly right for the game and Hans Zimmer got it spot on. I wouldn’t necessarily put this near the top 10 of Hans Zimmer’s greatest works though.
Yes, there is actually over 7 hours of music featured in the game, 7 hours, 35 minutes and 16 seconds to be exact. Most of the music are short snippets of max 30 seconds, but there are some more lengthy cues as well which is the ones I have been listening to. The ‘Intro Credits Load’ cue is clearly part of an animated intro as we hear some sound effects as Hans music play in the background. It’s a decent start and perfectly represents what the rest of the score is like. It had to be a score like this, a very high tempo action score, very modern. It doesn’t quite work when listening to it outside of the game, but almost. It’s wonderful ambient music for work and play, and that’s its strength and weakness at the same time.
I’ll quietly tap Hans Zimmer on the back and say: “Well done!”. There’s some Zimmer in there, but there’s also Harry Gregson-Williams, Steve Jablonsky and Trevor Morris. Knowing Remote Control Productions, there probably has been more composers involved and hopefully we’ll find out who.
Here’s a track called ‘Packfile 81′
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The most funny thing, is that Hans made only main themes. Majority of the score is made by Lorne Balfe. HZ only put his name on the cover to increase popularity. Kinda the same thing as with MW1 with Barton and HGW – but there, HGW made a lot music for MW1 too. I rate this score 2+/5. Could be a lot better. I wanted one epic big variation of Synchrotone or Chant.
That seems to be the case. Although to be fair, it is basically just 3 themes repeated ad infinitum, so maybe Lorne did all the ambient stuff and the sound effects.
Jorn, ‘Packfile 81′ is quite good and makes me wanna hear the rest.
Where did you find 7+ hours game rip ?
Try Google
Like this: http://tinyurl.com/yzdkuh9
I highly recommend listening to this track here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vC9MgxQdKI&feature=PlayList&p=36508F3A6248BC62&index=3
The themes found here (particularly at the 5:15 and 9:19 marks) are truly of the epic variety.
Awesome! Thanks for that. I recently got hold of an edit which has proper track names and is chronological as well. It’s better than the previous bootlegs out there. Hope they release it officially soon.
What a great piece a music! HZ doesn’t disapoint this time
and yes from 9:19 till the end is incredibly moving. Reminds me feelings when listening to Last Samurai
Can someone help identify which missions’ musics are on the track ? I’ve have the gamerip, but although listening carefully, I’m not able to recognize them
Jorn, please, PLEASE read this!
I have a 3.5 hour version of the score. It was cut down, and put in order to exactly match the events of the game, with longer tracks, correct names, and proper mixing. I could get it to you, if you want. You’ll want to hear it if you’re going to review this. You said the music doesn’t quite fit in a soundtrack, well, you wouldn’t believe what a difference this kind of organization makes! Please contact me about this at sten4sw@verizon.net
Hmm I think I have the exact same version. Found it on a forum if I’m not mistaken. An official soundtrack is in the works
Really? That’s cool, but if it’s just one disc, I’ll just keep this version. Was the forum: http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?t=71528 ?
No worries! Thanks for that.