EB Music Preview

**Geoffrey S** · 07-21-2006, 10:01

Very nice. Who did which culture set? It sounds like one person did Roman, the other Eastern Hellenic.

Also, which factions fall under Eastern Hellenic? I'd assume it's Baktria, Seleucids, and Ptolemies.

Edit: though it has to be said, I prefer the Eastern Hellenic themes to the Roman ones. Roman ones just sound a little too sedate and repetetive to me, with one particular theme being overdone. Still amazed that this music suddenly turns up out of the blue, superb work!

I wasn't so keen on the original RTW music, especially compared to the more suitable MTW themes. These new compositions are definitely on par with the MTW music, the Eastern Hellenic themes sound even better! Just perfectly suitable to the region and the place in the mod; my personal favourite is still the nomad theme.

Is there also going to be some kind of EB theme for the main menu? And is there any chance of the voiceovers being replaced, the annoying ones after a battle?

**Cybvep** · 07-21-2006, 10:05

Originally Posted by Geoffrey S

Very nice. Who did which culture set? It sounds like one person did Roman, the other Eastern Hellenic.

Also, which factions fall under Eastern Hellenic? I'd assume it's Baktria, Seleucids, and Ptolemies.

Morgan Casey - Roman music
Nick Wylie - Eastern Hellenic music

And you are right about the factions...

**Darkarbiter** · 07-21-2006, 11:23

I liked the MTW music loads and the RTW music not quite as much but thought it was still really great. Not too keen on the roman music but the hellenic music sounds pretty nice. I personally dont really like the nomadic music though but thats just my opinion. Also i think maybe at least 3 main "themes" need to be added as i cant really see myself listening to that 1'51 of music looped indefinitly for an hour. Take MTW for example i think they had like 3 bits of music for each religion like putting rain into the background of one kind of in time to the music sounds really cool imo opinion too like in mtw.

**Ptolomey** · 07-21-2006, 13:04

Awesome theme`s ,now EB is the first Mod with a really good soundtrack ,that
would be accepted by me without adding much movie stuff myself

great job from the composers

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 07-21-2006, 15:11

There is a main theme of course but we aren't releasing it till 0.8 is out. Some themes will be grouped so that you won't hear the same single song over and over looped endlessly. Some are more naturally grouped than others (e.g., the eastern culture can also have the eastern greek and the carthaginian and maybe the nomad - not sure yet - looped on the campaign map and all sound pretty natural). Some cultures are harder, but we aren't going to have anyone listen to one track looped endlessly.

**Birka Viking** · 07-21-2006, 18:38

Realy nice music EB. This is truly the best mod ever to RTW. I have only played EB since the release and will keep on doing that lol. Realy great work EB team.