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Title: Video game soundtracks are coming
Review: Great soundtrack, a lot of the ambience of the game. Incubus' tracks are good too. I'm not at all a fan of hoobastanks song or the [...] dance track "Never Surrender". Those two songs are the reason I give this album a 4 instead of a 5.The people that complain about the tracks on the cd not matching the mixes that were in the game need to realize that the music in the game is mixed dynamically, meaning it can mix back into itself depending on how long you stay in a certain part of the game. Video game music has to be arranged differently than movie music because of that fact.Marty and Mike do a good job at capturing some of the themes you remember from the game and arranging them into a linear format for the CD, although many do run on the short side. If they release a volume 2 soundtrack, I would really like it to have mixes that are longer than the 2:30 average that most of the tracks run.
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