While Marilyn Manson may have been the soundtrack for Dragon Age: Origin's early marketing, BioWare looked elsewhere when bringing the rock to the final game.
Electronic Arts has announced that 30 Seconds to Mars' title track from its upcoming album, This is War, makes its debut in-full in the game, which just released today. The band's new album is set to hit stores on December 8, so consider this a world premiere. Of course, Jim didn't know this when reviewing the game because he may or may not have ever heard of 30 Seconds to Mars.
You can have a listen to the song by watching the video above, which was co-produced by the band's front-man Jared Leto. Might I add that it's totally bad ass? The trailer, not the song. The song's okay. The imagery plus the song kind of makes me want to buy the game though, even if it doesn't feature any gameplay. Mission accomplished, I'd say.
There's so many reasons why this game is shit, and so many reason why it's great. Those who never played Buldar's Gate 2 don't know why it sucks. Those who have played Mass Effect probably don't know enough of BioWare to know any difference. At the same time that it has lost some of it's spark that can be found in classics such as BG, SW:TOR it has a high production value, but with anything that has gone hollywood it just loses something. Something I don't think BioWare can ever recapture honestly. Maybe it has something to do with joining EA or moving towards consoles.
There's definitely something missing from BioWare these days.
I like "The Kill" but I can't stand most other 30 Seconds to Mars songs and the music totally doesn't fit with the rest of the trailer. But "This is the New Shit" was an even worse fit, who the hell is working on the marketing of this game?
Wow, with a game like this you would expect a totally different song. But I like this, it works. Makes me wanna buy the game a bit more. However with Jim's review I'm still thinking about it.
Yaaaaaa, this song doesn't sound right for a fantasy theme. Probably would have fit more if they used this song for a Mass Effect 2 trailer, but even then that's iffy. New 30 Seconds to Mars is pure shit. I miss the original 30 Seconds to Mars. Their music was so much better before they went mainstream. Their original album is a personal favorite of mine just because it's so original and out there. But this new shit of theirs is........ well shit. I can only imagine what this third album is going to sound like.
That singer....It's like hearing the Backstreet Boys sing that they'll kick my ass.
I feel like I'm trying to watch a trailer to a game I want, yet someone has the MTV on too loud somewhere else in the room.
It sounds vaugely like the baby that would result if 'Toad the Wet Sprocket' fucked 'the Killers' and if that baby were on meds, and doing a soundtrack tune for a vampire movie aimed at tweens.
Or like someone lifted everything that Jimmy Eat World has been doing successfully for years, and proceeded to water it down. I'm not anti-emo at all, but I feel that some bands certainly do it better than others.
Also, anthemic choruses should stay away from my dark fantasy.
Yeh, that was seriously awful. "Dragonage: The Twilight Saga"?
But hey, alsmost nothing that's been officially shown to us up to this point resembles actual gameplay, so why buck the trend..
If you play the game expecting a true old school experience you will be dissapointed. Fortunately the games of lore were not much my taste and this game mixes the best of Action, and Tactical RPG with an experience more epic than their other later games (like KOTOR, MAss Effect, Jade Empire).
The origin stories are all different and it shows. Even your gender is tightly wound into the story. No matter what you choose you will feel as if the game could not be any other way.
I think it was Jared Leto who was in the movie "The Professional", he was a guy with dreadlocks who worked for the crooked cops. That was such an awesome movie. Oh, yeah, um, Dragon Age looks okay. It doesn't have the creativity that came with the completely unique world of Mass Effect, but it seems to be very deep in terms of gameplay and story matters.
Enjoyed the song, enjoyed the video. Some of the comments above just make me realize how many people need to choke on a knife. The amount of negativity out of something like that is absurd.
They should have just used the Conan theme composed by Basil Poledouris. It's an oldy but goofy and it pretty much embodies the musical essence of "gritty skull splitting swords and sorcery fantasy dudes taking out the trash once and for all".
Oh my god this is terrible. I don't mind 30 seconds to mars, though I've never really been a fan, but that seemed more like teenager music video than anything resembling professional quality. The song itself is pretty boring, and when they're putting more attention on the song than the video footage and game itself, that's just a recipe for disaster.
Why can't every game just feature the music these shitiots enjoy, I'm guessing Disturbed and Slipknot. I hate seeing people bitch for no reason about music when 30 seconds to mars is most likely 9000% better than anything most of the internet listens to.
@Danielzilla
Regardless of the quality of the music, it doesn't fit the game. Much like when EA filled up the sound track of burnout revenge with the same kind of songs.
Burnout is a racing game, cheap techno goes with racing games like chocolate goes with peanut butter.
Dragon Age is a medieval/fantasy setting. Music that fits with these kinds of settings generally involve acoustic instruments that aren't often found in modern music. Wood flutes, Lutes, Harps. Oh and chorus' that pretend they are speaking latin. They go together again like Peanut butter and chocolate.
These kinds of songs are fish. Fish goes well with many things. Neither chocolate, nor peanut butter happen to be one of those things.
For further proof feel free to compare the soundtrack of Lord of the Rings to that of A Knights Tale
The realization that you hold an opinion does not mean that it is fact. It doesn't fit the game -to you-. Disregard the fact that you clearly didn't listen to the lyrics that do fit with it, but realize that an opinion is like an assh... yeah, you know the saying.
Also, the Burnout statement -in my opinion- is complete garbage. Not to mention the weakness of that statement considering custom soundtracks are available for that title.
I seriously hate music that starts out like it might have some possibilities and then breaks into some horrid pop dripping, slag that sounds like it was written for a "hip" TV commercial...
It certainly didn't go one bit with a Swords & Sorcery battle scene...at all.
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4:40 PM on 11.03.2009
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But that is a fucking AWFUL choice of music for that video. It's practically Youtube "LEET DPS LOL" quality music choice.
There's definitely something missing from BioWare these days.
No thanks.
Though this kinda song would work for a Modern Warfare 2 montage video in the same vain. Ya know?
And what's wrong with Jared Leto? I like him.
I feel like I'm trying to watch a trailer to a game I want, yet someone has the MTV on too loud somewhere else in the room.
Or like someone lifted everything that Jimmy Eat World has been doing successfully for years, and proceeded to water it down. I'm not anti-emo at all, but I feel that some bands certainly do it better than others.
Also, anthemic choruses should stay away from my dark fantasy.
Don't know the band, but by the 52nd second I knew this was a type of music I just can't stand. As Syn said, even Manson was a better fit.
Please to be melodic death metal time? Or more obviously power metal? Or even 'generic fantasy score by Howard Shore'?
At any rate, why god why, etc..
But hey, alsmost nothing that's been officially shown to us up to this point resembles actual gameplay, so why buck the trend..
The origin stories are all different and it shows. Even your gender is tightly wound into the story. No matter what you choose you will feel as if the game could not be any other way.
Regardless of the quality of the music, it doesn't fit the game. Much like when EA filled up the sound track of burnout revenge with the same kind of songs.
Burnout is a racing game, cheap techno goes with racing games like chocolate goes with peanut butter.
Dragon Age is a medieval/fantasy setting. Music that fits with these kinds of settings generally involve acoustic instruments that aren't often found in modern music. Wood flutes, Lutes, Harps. Oh and chorus' that pretend they are speaking latin. They go together again like Peanut butter and chocolate.
These kinds of songs are fish. Fish goes well with many things. Neither chocolate, nor peanut butter happen to be one of those things.
For further proof feel free to compare the soundtrack of Lord of the Rings to that of A Knights Tale
after it has a;;been said and done...
AND PLAYED...
what do you have to say now...
BRETHREN?!!?
Uhm. No?
The realization that you hold an opinion does not mean that it is fact. It doesn't fit the game -to you-. Disregard the fact that you clearly didn't listen to the lyrics that do fit with it, but realize that an opinion is like an assh... yeah, you know the saying.
Also, the Burnout statement -in my opinion- is complete garbage. Not to mention the weakness of that statement considering custom soundtracks are available for that title.
It certainly didn't go one bit with a Swords & Sorcery battle scene...at all.