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Halo 3 ODST OST Samples: My Two Cents
vexed alex | 3:33 AM on 09.17.2009 8 comments



Say what you will about the Halo series’ gameplay and story. I can understand when people tell me that they don’t like it, but I will not have someone speaking negatively of the game’s music. It has been some of the most spectacularly memorable stuff I’ve heard in a long while. Halo 3 ODST hasn’t changed this.

With each sequel, Bungie’s audio team has always given that well known theme a slight twist. Marty O’Donnell, however, has dropped the monks in favor of a more noir jazzy theme to fit the game‘s slightly new direction. It sounds smoother and a bit eerie at times. Though Marty hasn’t given up on those grandiose compositions there is a more personal feel to the score. It’s a nice mix of “epic” and ominous loneliness.

Don’t believe me? Check it out for yourself. Bungie released a few samples for your listening pleasure around 3 days ago. I thought you'd enjoy them. Just please don’t make a mess of things once your ears orgasm.

ODST Theme
Rain
Traffic Jam
Neon Light

Rain and Neon Light are my personal favorite of the four. They’re the two that encapsulate ODST’s new that noir lonely theme that Bungie’s Joseph Staten has been going on about. I do really enjoy the wailing guitars in Traffic Jam, though it does feel a bit montage "let's get pumped". Not that it's a bad thing. The subtle snare drums giving way to the aggressive violins and then transitioning to the savage electric guitar -- fantastic. Is that Steve Vai again, Marty?

So, what do you think? Dig the new music?



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vexed alex's Destructoid Blog
This will be my last pre-ODST release post. I don't want to annoy people. I may give my impressions of the game once I finish it. We'll see. I'm lazy.
Dexter345's Destructoid Blog
When you get it, bring it over to my place. We can play split screen.
DaedHead8's Destructoid Blog
Marty has never let me down with Halo's music, it has consistently been among the best and most epic video game music ever since the original Halo. I rank it right up there with Uematsu and the Final Fantasy soundtracks that he did.

And please, keep writing about ODST, you're doing more to keep me excited for Tuesday than Bungie themselves.
sickNasty's Destructoid Blog
I always download music from limewire, but I always buy the Halo soundtracks. They are just that good.
vexed alex's Destructoid Blog
Split screen?! You savage!
MechaMonkey's Destructoid Blog
Not gonna lie, Traffic Jam sounds a little like a Bond song.

And that's a good thing.
Jon B's Destructoid Blog
I think the Halo series is excellent.

But Marty is a fantastic composer, and I'm not sure he's being used to his potential working on FPS after FPS after FPS. His music could be applied to other genres with more affect, I think.
vexed alex's Destructoid Blog
@ Jon B: I don't understand what that means. I don't see it making a bigger impact on some RPG than another shooter.


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The original Robocop was fantastic. It was funny, violent, and it had some things to say about society (though not intelligently). The movie bordered on a thin line of acceptable ridiculousness, and was rather enjoyable cyberpunk flick. Robocop 2 and 3 on the other hand, were awful pieces of shit.

Everyone seems to place the blame on poor old Frank Miller for the dreadful sequels, but he says otherwise. According to him, Hollywood took his screenplay and made drastic changes. Producers of the film claimed that most Miller’s vision was “unfilmable”. Nevertheless, it left a bad taste in his mouth. Miller wasn’t too happy with the way Hollywood worked.

From 2003 to 2006 Avatar Press published nine issues of Frank Miller’s Robocop, now deemed to be the real Robocop sequels by nerds across the globe. The book follows Miller’s original Robocop 2 script, and bit off of Robocop 3 as well. He didn’t write it though. The adaptation was written by Steven Grant, but was looked over by Frank Miller.

With all that said, I don’t know if what Miller had written in his original script was worth all of the drama. The outlining story is practically the same. Detroit is still shitty, OCP still replaces the cops with a private military of criminals, and there is still a “Robocop 2” that Robocop has to battle.

I won’t tell you what differences there are between the movie and comic specifically. What I will say is that they make very little difference towards the end quality. Lewis still has no character, as well as everyone else in the book. Nothing is explored -- a generic and tired formula that begs to be ignored.

Grant does inject a bit of that satire found in the original film, and while it isn’t as good, he still manages to land a few on the bullseye. What is landing one hundred percent is the violence. Some of you could have fun with watching a woman’s burning, melting corpse slam against a wall.

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I can’t recommend this to everyone. I can’t even recommend it to most Robocop fans. You gain nothing from reading it. If you’re looking for something violent, or just want to rinse out some of what you saw in Robocop 2 and 3, then this could be for you. Everyone else should just…



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