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The DOW III Music
SharKnight
Alright, now that the stream with the composer has passed and they have previewed some of the music from the game what are your thoughts?
I for one wanted Jeremy soule to come back BUT apparently he is super bussy making a new music software so I guess he was unavailable. Which is understandable.
Well then here it is the SM preview:
As for the music well Altought it has nice cues from the trailer I must admit that I was expecting a re-orchestration of the March of the Blood Ravens and the Dawn Of War theme that played during your main title screen in DOW 1 and such. For example Dark Crusade did a re-orchestration of the Blood Ravens theme for the Blood ravens campaign it was nice.
I must admit that the SM theme sounded a bit underwhelming but since it's just a sneeky WIP peek I guess it will get better.
Now we got the Eldar theme, again it is very different from anything we have heard of from them. It is very far from their elegant theme from DOW II and their mysterious queues
I think it's interesting altought the drums feel a bit generic, but I like the bells sounds here and there. It reminds me of some instruments that Jesper Kyd used for Assasin's creed first three games.
Finally we have the Ork theme which is something completely unheard of in the sense that it has rock guitars! - only a track from chaos rising has ever had rock guitars in out of all Relic's titles and that was for a very few notes this one however has a lot of them in it - I think the composer wanted to get the feeling of heavy metal sort of Junkie XtraLarge Fury Road's. So perhaps we get to have a speed Kult force? Any ways again it is very different from previous ork themes which happened to have a lot of drums and tribal/primal rythm and theme which I quite liked honestly.
Do you like it? sure thing this isnt Jeremy Soule nor Doyle. I think it's refreshing thought but I guess I will wait for the full thing to be released to see if it grows on me or doesnt. It feels a bit generic so far, to me at least.
Comments
Dranu
Great music. I love the organ in the Marine one too.
Ellie
When I first heard the ork theme, I thought it didn't fit well, because I was used to previous games ork themes, but after listening to it a few times, man is it hype sounding. Sounds like something the orks would play during a waaaagh march. The other two are alright. Eldar is a bit too drum-based in my opinion. Overall, I like them, can't wait to hear more.
SharKnight
When I listened to the Orks theme I thought about the Goff Rockers:
Fadlan
Ork theme in a signle image:
MrBenis
Drums are typically a war related instrument. I think many cultures historically used them in one capacity or another. Why the eldar would use them? I don't know, but maybe it doesn't even matter. You could go more of a UT route with tracks like Mission Landing, Nether Animal, Enigma or anything like that.
Adridos
I like the Ork theme the best, even if I have a soft spot for Eldar as well as synthwave music... It just feels so right to have rock in a game that is "Warhammer, metalified and thrown into space". Plus, it sounds Mad Max-ish and adopting (or ripping off, depending on how you look at it) Mad Max movies' ideas is basically THE thing that separates the Orks of 40k from the Orcs in Warhammer.
shmoulki
there are very good and different from each other.
the SM one is maybe more classic than the others but it still fits.
Ork is pure joy and eldar is strange so it fits.
first artistic element i really like in the game
SharKnight
I think the only one that I really like is the ork one because it tries something different that fits and puts you in the mood for smashing and going fast.
the other two still sound too generic, but oh well. At this point I believe this is the best artistic element the game has so far.
TY83
One can nearly see those high monstrous buildings and grim churches, hear the chains and feel the heavy armor marching between shadows. Even the music conflicts with the tiny small marine-children from the gameplay preview, jumping and flipping around, making everything colourful and shiny with their waterpistols. One will probably need to set the brightness of the game to the lowest possible, to make it appear spooky and dangerous.
The only thing is 40K so far is only(!) the soundtrack.
Renner
Paul just posted one of the final battle sequences track on his FB:
https://www.facebook.com/PaulLeonardMorg/videos/1177327389023893/