Battle Music

**ArtillerySmoke** · 02-24-2009, 23:59

For those of you who have played the demo (I've been lazy. Haven't even installed Steam or DoW2 yet) - How is the battle music?

I've always thought the original MTW had the best battle music, although finding the soundtrack online has been difficult to say the last.

Any opinions on it, or links to samples?

Thanks

**quadalpha** · 02-25-2009, 00:01

I thought it was pretty unremarkable. Interesting feature: the music volume goes down (a lot) when you fast forward.

**ArtillerySmoke** · 02-25-2009, 00:03

Originally Posted by quadalpha

I thought it was pretty unremarkable. Interesting feature: the music volume goes down (a lot) when you fast forward.

meh.

Is it similar to M2's style, or is it some new unique flavor of it's own given the time period?

**Tellos Athenaios** · 02-25-2009, 05:55

It's very much unlike M2TW or RTW for that matter.

**Incongruous** · 02-25-2009, 06:26

could you describe it?
Is it period military music? Kind of like this by Lully https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81bxIH9uvhk, say from 00:49 onwards?

Or this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXml...eature=related

Or is it an attempt to convey the spirit of the period's battles through a more modern concept, aka the epic movie soundtrack style?

**Mailman653** · 02-25-2009, 06:53

The last two times I played I shut the music off, something about just hearing the envrioment, the birds, trees in the wind, musket fire and drums, was all I needed to get into the atmosphere.

**Hollerbach** · 02-25-2009, 09:39

Originally Posted by ArtillerySmoke

I've always thought the original MTW had the best battle music, although finding the soundtrack online has been difficult to say the last.

I can't remember noticing the music much when playing MTW, but I do recall the first time I played the MTW demo (I hadn't played STW before playing this). The thing that really struck me was how good the music was, not just the soundtrack itself but the way it adapted to what was going on in the battle. A mate of mine was watching me play the first time and we were both amazed.

Now that I think of it I don't know that I've ever noticed the music much since then in any TW game. Maybe I should pay more attention to it, as it was very cool!

I've played the ETW demo once (haven't had much time since downloading) and I didn't notice the music, but maybe it was subliminally enhancing the atmosphere?

**Vlad Tzepes** · 02-25-2009, 10:04

Music seemed okay to me, but didn't give me any thrill - but then, I assume it'll be more in the actual game.

As for the TW series music&sound combination, I find that nothing came even close to the phenomenal atmosphere in Shogun.

**BeeSting** · 02-25-2009, 10:12

I've been turning the music off on the demo...

RTW and MTW2 was much better.

**BeeSting** · 02-25-2009, 10:13

Originally Posted by Vlad Tzepes

Music seemed okay to me, but didn't give me any thrill - but then, I assume it'll be more in the actual game.

As for the TW series music&sound combination, I find that nothing came even close to the phenomenal atmosphere in Shogun.

Ah, shogun was the best.

**Hollerbach** · 02-25-2009, 10:42

The Shogun battle and campaign music was good, but the victory music got pretty annoying I remember. You know the "Bata Bata Boyong Boyong Boyong Bata Bata Boyong etc" one. The weird (and slightly un PC) 'my rord de enemy general has forsaken his onor and is fleeing like a whipped got' never got tired though!

**Sir Beane** · 02-25-2009, 11:58

I thought the ETW music was good. It's nothing very memorable but it fits the time period and does the job of providing atmoshpere for a battle.

It's a shame that Total Wa games don't have signature theme music like Age of Empires or the Elder Scrolls games do.