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Unreal Anthology Soundtrack Is Totally... Unreal

- Some of you may have spotted that Midway has recently released Unreal Anthology for PC, a great big bundle of Unreal-ness which includes Unreal (including Return to Na Pali expansion pack), Unreal II: The Awakening, Unreal Tournament (Game of the Year Edition), and Unreal Tournament 2004 (Editors Choice Edition & Mega Bonus Pack).

Well, former Game Developer audio columnist Alexander Brandon, who has contributed to multiple Unreal titles and is now an Audio Director at Midway, passed on great info about the Unreal Anthology Soundtrack, which is included in Unreal Anthology as a separate audio CD in a somewhat 'stealth' form - bet you didn't know about it!

A bunch of the early Unreal music was in .MOD-like form (that takes me back!), and the CD itself "...features twenty three classic tracks from the Unreal franchise including hits such as “Razorback”, “Mechanism 8” and the Unreal Tournament menu theme, which has had more commercial remixes than any original game piece."

So, if you like classic or newer Unreal music, here would be the tracklisting for the whole set, which is a decent reason to pick up the Anthology - it's collectively composed by Alex Brandon, Michiel Van Den Bos, Peter Hajba, Kevin Reipl, and Andrew Sega:

Unreal-

1- Flightcastle (0:51)
2- Shared Dig (2:34)
3- Dusk Horizon (2:31)
4- Bluff Eversmoking (3:57)
5- Isotoxin (4:09)
6- Unreal Temple (Crypt) (4:12)

Unreal Addon-

1- Black Wind (3:10)

Unreal Tournament-

1- Unreal Tournament Menu (2:00)
2- Foregone Destruction (4:11)
3- Go Down (3:00)
4- Botpack Nine (4:49)
5- Mechanism Eight (6:12)
6- Skyward Fire (4:56)
7- Razorback (4:49)
8- The Course (4:28)

UT 2004

1- UTMenu Redux (4:14)
2- Ghost of Anubis (2:01)
3- Infernal Realm (1:59)
4- Assault (1:59)
5- Arena (0:53)
6- From Below (1:59)
7- Sniper Time (2:00)
8- Onslaught One (3:48)

Total- Approx 73 Minutes

Comments

Shame they can't drop unreal II from the package and drop $5-10 from the price. That game nearly put me to sleep.

It might be worth it to have unreal work properly with D3D in xp.

The best shooter franchise just became the cheapest!

And of course, for those who might now them by other names:

Andrew Sega == Necros
Peter Hajba == Skaven

Oop, and since we're going there, Alex Brandon = Siren/Kosmic - I was also in Kosmic back in 1995 or so, very briefly!

I remember I played the tunes from Unreal using a program called ModPlugPlayer (it could also play other tunes in the same format, like the ones from Age of Wonders and Deus Ex). I wonder if the european version of the Unreal Anthology also ships with a music cd...

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