Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori - Halo: Reach [Original Game Soundtrack]
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Artist: Martin O'Donnell, Michael SalvatoriEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2010-09-28
Music Label: Sumthing Else
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Overture
- Winter Contingency
- ONI: Sword Base
- Nightfall
- Tip of the Spear
- Long Night of Solace
- Exodus
- New Alexandria
- The Package
- The Pillar of Autumn
- Epilogue
- From the Vault
- Ashes
- Fortress
- We're Not Going Anywhere
- At Any Cost
- Both Ways (Remix)
- Walking Away
- Ghosts and Glass
- We Remember
Music reviews of Halo: Reach [Original Game Soundtrack]
Music Review: You've played the game, enjoy the music!
Rating: 5 Stars
As has been the case with every Halo game to this point, Martin O'Donell and Michael Salvatori have created a gripping and atmospheric soundtrack to assist in telling the Halo tale.
For some of us, the music of Halo is a bit of an unsung hero (pun intended). The music plays in the background, sometimes without you even realizing there IS music playing, but as you finish a level you start pulling all of the pieces together in your head and realize that while you may not have consciously heard the music, subconsciously the music has stirred emotion in you and pushed you to fight or exerted influence on your heart strings when the horrors of war take what is important from the character you play and the Halo world as a whole. Masterful music at its best.
I won't say every piece is a master work, but many of the pieces are stirring, jarring and fit perfectly in the scenes in which they play. In game there seems to bit a bit of dynamics at play on how the actual piece plays and finishes; as the game is pushing the soundtrack out to your ears on the fly; the CD will never capture this dynamic nature. Instead you are given the entire piece, something you may not ever hear during a play through of the game.
If you're wondering "should I buy this?," ask yourself this: do you enjoy the in game music? Do you enjoy the in game music enough to enjoy it outside of the game? In the car? As you do house chores? Ride the bus? If you answered yes to any of these, pick this up now and you won't regret it. If you answered no, then that's your answer. If you hate the music in the game, you'll hate the music outside the game. Simple. If you're undecided or apathetic to the music you hear in game, again, hearing it in CD form won't change your opinion either way.
If you have not yet played Halo: Reach and are wondering if this CD set is worth purchasing, did you enjoy the music from the other games in the main series? If so, you'll enjoy this music just as well. It is by the same musicians as the others after all.
The CD is well mastered and free from anything that crushes the dynamic range. Being "classical" (as best as it can be classified) in nature, the lows are low and the highs are high. I am extremely pleased with the presentation of the music on the CDs.
There are 20 tracks total and comprise the entire musical suite from Halo: Reach.
Missing from this set are songs that can be best described as "songs inspired by Halo" that appeared on the Halo 2 soundtrack. I am thankful for this as I don't feel these songs added anything other than filler to that set, BUT my opinion aside, if you are looking for music inspired by Halo: Reach on these discs, you will be disappointed.
Highly recommended to Halo fans and recommended for fans of decent classical style music.
Description of Halo: Reach [Original Game Soundtrack]
Halo Reach is the story of Noble Team, a squad of heroic Spartan soldiers, and their final stand on the planet Reach, humanity's last line of defense between the terrifying Covenant and Earth. Composed and produced by Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori.Pop CDs
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