Progressive music - Akuji the Heartless and Transformers

Ranged Weapon

11-27-2007, 10:08 AM

Akuji the Heartless (PS1) and Transformers (PS2) These games had some great tunes that mutated as you played and scaled the tension up and down depending on the in-game action.

Not many games have done this so successfully, but i’m guessing there must be others out there that i’ve not heard

Does anyone know of any more, and has anyone ever had any luck ripping or mixing this kind of music?

cRookie_Monster

11-29-2007, 07:47 PM

Akuji the Heartless (PS1) and Transformers (PS2) These games had some great tunes that mutated as you played and scaled the tension up and down depending on the in-game action.

Not many games have done this so successfully, but i’m guessing there must be others out there that i’ve not heard

Does anyone know of any more, and has anyone ever had any luck ripping or mixing this kind of music?

I loved that Transformers game score. You can actually unlock a player in the game that lets you play each of the different action levels.

My favorite was the boss music for ahhh hell….memory failing….the helicopter dude.

Anyway, there’s lots of other games that do that.

Some examples that used DirectMusic(a tech I used to work with) to acheive this:

No One Lives Forever games
Sanity
Tron 2.0
Empires Dawn of the Modern World
Empire Earth
Die Hard Nakotomi Plaza
Kiss Psycho Circus
Drakkon
Gothic
Unreal 2
– WormsBlast
– Prisoner of War
– No One Lives Forever
– Asheron’s Call 2
Hitman
Dogs of War

Ranged Weapon

11-30-2007, 08:39 AM

Might have been Star Scream. Was that the fight in the jungle that started on top of the pyramid? cool fight, cool tunes 🙂

Thanks for the list, i’ve not played any of those games yet.

I’ve have played quite a few games that just fade between exploring music and battle music but only a few that have lots of stages inbetween. A classic example is Akuji where extra intruments get added to the mix as you solve puzzles and get further into the levels, or in Transformers where you zoom in with the sniper rifle and the music gets just a little bit more dangerous.

I feel it really adds to the whole gaming experience.