Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance [Soundtrack]

Duane Decker (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 14, 2000)
• Original Release Date: November 14, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B000051Y18
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #486,719 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Aftermath

2. Daggers

3. Mystic

4. Push

5. Indecision

6. T1

7. Mech Warrior 4 Opening Video

8. Ominous

9. Kick It

10. Action Pack

11. Campaign Opening Video

12. DFA

13. Eeirie Theory

14. Emmity Road

15. Closing Video A

16. T2

17. Rockque

18. Slow Burn

19. Vista

20. Wednesday 7

See all 32 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Half decent score., February 23, 2003

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Inspector Gadget "Go Go Gadget Reviews" (On the trail of Doctor Claw) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance (Audio CD)

Too many excellent video game scores are overlooked these days. The day of the midi-based level music is well in the past. And Mechwarrior 4 has one of the cooler video game soundtracks outside of techno/remix albums.

Duane Decker has created a score that sounds like it's the above average score of a trashy action movie. Seriously, many parts of it echo Frederic Talgorn's score for Delta Force 2. The rest sounds like Terminator 2 and Star Trek. Of course Decker does have some original stuff in there and manages to create some awesome moods and feelings outside of the action tracks.

The action tracks are actually very, very cool but still not classy enough to be worth more than 3/5 I'm afraid (there is not much in the way of innovative orchestra use). And I must disagree with the other reviews here that say the score isn't MEANT to be listened to and only heard during the game. This isn't true and Decker and the Varese Sarabande executive even mention this in the (relatively extensive) liner notes. Mechwarrior 4 has some great themes and for a keen soundtrack collector it's well worth buying.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff for gamers, January 28, 2002

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robin brown (toronto, ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance (Audio CD)

This is a great CD for role-playing games or the like. It is also, as a friend of mine put it, "Drive Faster music" if played in a car. Most of the individual tracks have a feeling of grim purpose to them and others are actually quite peaceful.
There's a lot of short and sweet tracks and a few good longer pieces as well. I disagree with the reviewer who said that it was not meant to be listened to. I've been enjoying it in my walkman for the last few days, enjoying every minute.
Some of the music is derivative of other soundtracks. The opening track contains enough elements of star trek themes that my friends swore that they were listening to star trek when they heard it at first, and the track ends with a petty blatant rip of Terminator 2's theme. Having said that, it is a very good derivative!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Game Soundtrack Since MW 2, May 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance (Audio CD)

While not a worshiper of the MW series, I do have an appreciation of good Theme music, and MW4 V soundtrack is with out a doubt one of the best game soundtracks ever produced. This has everything form Orchestration to screaming metal guitars. Two words Buy it.