Secret Weapons Over Normandy: http://www.lucasarts.com/products/normandy/

The Rising Sun site is playing what I assume is Lennertz's main theme, as well as a pretty cool, though short, action cue. It looks like Lennertz has done a good job of keeping up the standard of excellence in the MOH scores, and I think I even heard a little nod to Giacchino's original theme in there.

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun: http://www.eagames.com/official/moh/risingsun/en/timeline.jsp

I hope both these scores are still getting soundtrack Cds.

Is there any way to actually download these tracks to your HD though?

Cheers,

9 times out of 10 the music CAN be ripped from the game, despite what you will hear from people who say it is secured or encrypted.

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Originally posted by Joseph W. Bat:
In case you cannot get enough of Call of Duty and the others you mentioned.

9 times out of 10 the music CAN be ripped from the game, despite what you will hear from people who say it is secured or encrypted.

Joe

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Originally posted by Lancelot:
For any of who actually play games, sure--but for the non-gamers? Is there no relief?

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Yup Steve - when the CD comes out, you'll get to pay the standard price of a soundtrack album, rather than the $49.99 you'd have to pay in order to have it early. That's some relief if I've ever seen it.

Music4Games says "Call of Duty" soundtrack only released with game...(Again, I see this as giving the CD to someone who doesn't care all that much about the music.)

Where will you be able to get this CD?

"Medal of Honor: Rising Sun" - And this one? (Why is tracking down MOH scores such a pain...?)

Rising Sun has no score release at the moment, won't for a bit, but if you can't wait, try and track down the promo.

Best regards,

This is really frustrating!

Call of Duty
1. Call of Duty
2. Pathfinder
3. Countryside Drive
4. Approaching the Tirpitz
5. Below Deck
6. Stuka's and Flakvierling's
7. Eder Dam
8. Taking Stalingrad
9. Breaking Through
10. Red Square
11. Sewers Under Stalingrad
12. Tanks A Lot
13. Pegasus Bridge
39:07 Total Time

Medal of Honor - Rising Sun
1. Main Titles
2. Taiko Bridge
3. PT Attack
4. Deep in Guadal Canal
5. Stalking The Caves
6. We're Hit!
7. Engine Trouble
8. Requiem for the California
9. Saving Pearl Harbor
10. Singapore Docks
11. Passing the Nervada
12. Burma
13. Elephant Battle
14. March on the Temple
15. A Prisoner's Eulogy
16. Nazi Disguise / Shima's Speech
17. Natives are Restless
18. Carrier Deck
19. Tanaka's Death / The Hanger
20. Tank March
21. Philippines Zero Attack
22. Courtyard Strike
23. Yamashita's Gold
24. Incoming! / Aftermath
25. Jungle Swarm
26. They Got Donnie
27. Shell Shock
28. The Sewers
29. Shima Escapes
30. Take Off / Final
31. Hymm to Brothers Lost
1:01:01 Total Time

Best regards,

Joe

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Originally posted by BMikeJ:
I haven't played the single player game yet but I'm sure this disc is called the soundtrack sampler because it doesn't have all the music. Since the music was performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony, it probably would have cost a fortune to release the complete score.

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Actually, that is pretty much all the music written for the game.

There are only small portions missing from the sampler. Nothing worth while to want.

Best regards,

Joe

[Message edited by Joseph W. Bat on 11-09-2003]

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Originally posted by Dr Know:
What do you mean it is "lame of a release"? I don't understand. Is there a tracklist for the Call of Duty disc given away with the game? I have seen it referred to as a "sampler" somewhere... just how long is it? Will the later regular release be identical, or longer?

This is really frustrating!

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The cd is 39 min 6 sec. 13 tracks.

1. CALL OF DUTY (4:58)
2.PATHFINDER (3:09)
3. COUNTRYSIDE DRIVE (4:05)
4. APPROACHING THE TIRPITZ (2:41)
5. BELOW DECK (1:47)
6. STUKA'S AND FLAKVIERLING'S (3:11)
7. EDER DAM (3:24)
8. TAKING STALINGRAD (3:52)
9 BREAKING THROUGH (2:01)
10. RED SQUARE (1:38)
11. SEWERS UNDER STALINGRAD (1:53)
12. TANKS A LOT (3:25)
13. PEGASUS BRIDGE (2:51)

CALL OF DUTY is a wonderful score...very dark in style. However, SWON is the better of the two. I'm not writing that because La La Land is releasing the SWON cd early next month. I write this because, as a fan, I feel that SWON has much more going for it. It's much more grand in scope. It's very epic sounding with wonderful themes. When the choir kicks in it takes the score to an entirely new level. It's by far the best score I have heard all year. Both SWON and Medal of Honor: Rising Sun are the two best scores of 2003, and neither of them were written for films.

Hopefully MOH will get an official release early next year. We are currently looking into it, but the AFM costs might be too much for us at this time.

Just in case you were wondering I believe the 2 cd set of SWON clocks in at 85+ minutes. The cdrom material on disc two is fascinating and gives you a great insight on the scoring process and how Mr Giacchino's talents are put to good use. Retail price will be $16.98 for the 2 disc set and will be available early December.

Any music you have of that was taken from the games source. There wasn't much new material for Allied Assault.

Best regards,

HOWEVER....

The "soundtrack" is not a playable CD. The disc itself is a CD-Rom, which brings up a little window in which it played selections that you chose from a compilation of the other three MOH soundtracks plus two or three cuts from Allied Assault.

Still, you had to BUY THE $50 DELUXE EDITION, and OPEN THE BOX to discover this. Upon doing so, you negate your ability to RETURN THE ITEM when you find that it's a TOTAL RIPOFF.

I hate using the phrase RIPOFF, but in this case, TOTAL RIPOFF.

Main Theme 4:03
North Africa 3:19
Sniper Town 3:19
Stealing the Tiger 3:22
V2's at Remagen 3:37

It's a shame he didn't get an opportunity to do a full score for the game, but the small amount he did get to write is top shelf stuff. The main theme is excellent, somewhat similar to the work he did on Semper Fi, with a couple of snippets of the theme from the first game thrown in for good measure. I think the best track written for Allied Assault has to be Stealing the Tiger. Giacchino really knows how to write a tank cue, and this might be the best one he's ever done.

I have no idea why the Call of Duty Sountrack says "sampler" on it, but I was one of the people that shelled out fifty bucks on the game to make sure I got it, and though I would have preferred it coming in an actual jewel case rather than a cardboard sleeve, that doesn't affect the quality of the music, which is excellent in its own right, but when you hear it in the game, it is outstanding! The best part of both game and score is in the Russian campaign (tracks 8-12 on the CD), starting at Stalingrad, where Giacchino slowly builds a very ominous cue up into a full statment of the Russian theme. Red Square is the grandest statement of the Russian theme, coming in as the poorly armed Russians charge an army of German machine-gunners to take back Red Square. And when the Call of Duty main theme starts playing over the final charge into Berlin, it's quite possibly the best use of music I've ever seen in a video game. Even though it only took me two days to beat the game, I definitely think it was worth the $50 for both game and soundtrack.

NP: Swordfish (Christopher Young)