Medal of Honor: Airborne (Game)

[Pieter Boelen 633]

Every few days I will post a thread on a random score from my collection that we can discuss and rate. I made a playlist on my computer with one track of each score I've got, so by using the random play option, I'll be able to post a truly random score each time. Hopefully this will allow us to discuss some scores that would otherwise never be discussed. Also we can record the rating so that we can create a full list of the ratings given to scores by JWFan.com.

Since my thread on Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb by Clint Bajakian isn't really taking off and I didn't post one yesterday, here's another one that hopefully will generate some more discussion: Medal of Honor: Airborne by Michael Giacchino. Are you familiar with it? What do you like about it? What don't you like about it? How do do you think it works in the game? What are your favourite tracks?

So far JWFan has rated:

Zathura by John Debney: 3,17 stars - 17 votes - 11 unfamiliar

Rambo III by Jerry Goldsmith: 3,57 stars - 22 votes - 8 unfamiliar

Star Trek X: Nemesis by Jerry Goldsmith: 3,03 stars - 38 votes - 9 unfamiliar

The Sea Hawk by Erich Wolfgang Korngold: 4,58 stars - 39 votes - 13 unfamiliar

Independence Day by David Arnold: 4,21 stars - 57 votes - 5 unfamiliar

Krull by James Horner: 4,31 stars - 45 votes - 10 unfamiliar

Quigley Down Under by Basil Poledouris: 3,63 stars - 16 votes - 8 unfamiliar

Judge Dredd by Alan Silvestri: 3,56 stars - 29 votes - 12 unfamiliar

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope by John Williams: 4,75 stars - 57 votes - 2 unfamiliar

The Mummy by Jerry Goldsmith: 4,12 stars - 41 votes - 8 unfamiliar

Kingdom of Heaven by Harry Gregson-Williams: 3,89 stars - 32 votes - 5 unfamiliar

Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb by Clint Bajakian: 3,50 stars - 3 votes - 1 unfamiliar

[Luke Skywalker 1,284]

4.5 Stars,

I missed a little (at 1st listening) the more melodic Williams sound of the others, but on the other hand Its great to have a medal of honor score with the Giacchino sound

Great usage of pecussion and strings.

Amazing tracks like 'Main theme', 'Unblocking Utah', 'Operation Varsity', 'End Credits' (with one of the best and more mature version of the MOH main theme)

Nice renditions of the Operation Market garden theme, the bombastic one of the Nazi theme and many more.

One of the best efforts for Videogame

[BurgaFlippinMan 7]

3.5 for me. I kinda liked Lennertz's European Assault much better

[Neimoidian 13]

Big 4. There are some less inspiring M:I 3 - like action cues, but the quality of the rest of material is considerable.

[Luke Skywalker 1,284]

3.5 for me. I kinda liked Lennertz's European Assault much better

good for you i suppose

[Miz 114]

Dark and frequently moody, deep orchestrations that reward 'listening in', thematic cohesion and development, and a rather well balanced album. 4.5!

Certainly his most mature Medal of Honor score, and very much 'his own' style. Nocturnal adrenaline-fuelled cycling music at its best! One day I might hear it in the game (and probably be disappointed at the contrast of complex score and generic subject matter).

[John Crichton 4]

Unfortunately I've yet to hear this one, I just have MoH, Underground, and Frontline. (All of which would be at least 4 stars)

[Docteur Qui 1,248]

Unfortunately I've yet to hear this one, I just have MoH, Underground, and Frontline. (All of which would be at least 4 stars)

I highly recommend you pick it up. It's a very different feel to his previous MoH efforts - much darker with more focus on percussion, rhythm and brute orchestral force. At first I had difficulty getting into it, but it's one of those extremely rewarding ones that if you give it a chance you can really appreciate and find more and more to like.

[Pieter Boelen 633]

I'll go for 4,5 stars on this on. Really good. Lots of enjoyable action music, but "Dropping into Nijmegen" and "Wreckage of Nijmegen" are good as well. And the end title is quite beautiful.

[Luke Skywalker 1,284]

One day I might hear it in the game (and probably be disappointed at the contrast of complex score and generic subject matter).

I was a little dissapointed.

Videogames must be scored by the composer watching some videos-cutscenes. So Unblocking Utah, sounds great for a glorious and non dangerous Normandy disembark, since the player has liberated the coast of enemies. But there is not such a sequence of that in the game, not you see any kind of disembark.

The Man down track is not used in the scene that should be.

The music matches sometimes, but there are also many reuses from other games.

[Ollie 859]

I love all of Giacchino's MOH music.

4 stars for me.

[Koray Savas 2,095]

(*****)

Maybe I voted a little too high, it's more like a 4 or a 4.5 However, it is the best score in the series since the original.

[Indiana_Fett 0]

I don't have this score. The one thing I loved about the MOH scores was the Nazi theme. Does he use this theme in this score?

[Luke Skywalker 1,284]

I don't have this score. The one thing I loved about the MOH scores was the Nazi theme. Does he use this theme in this score?

What do you think?

Of course....

not

There is only a 40 seconds rendition (the most magnificent of the whole series) bonus track for multiplayer, called 'Multiplayer Axis'

[Bryant Burnette 451]

Not familiar.

I enjoy games, but I just don't have the time for them. Therefore, even though I'm a Giacchino fan, I haven't heard this, and probably won't unless I win the lottery or a heretofore unknown relative dies and leaves me a vast sum of money.

[Luke Skywalker 1,284]

Not familiar.

I enjoy games, but I just don't have the time for them. Therefore, even though I'm a Giacchino fan, I haven't heard this, and probably won't unless I win the lottery or a heretofore unknown relative dies and leaves me a vast sum of money.

you dont need to have the game to hear the music.

the ost is cheaper than the game too.

[Pieter Boelen 633]

This score is really very good when you like action music. There's a couple of great emotional tracks, especially The Nijmegen tracks and the End Title, but it's the action music where this score really shines. There is a lot of it and it does suffer of a "more of the same" syndrome, but although the various tracks do stay within the same style, each track is pretty darn good and there's some nice thematic moments scattered over the lot of them.

[John Crichton 4]

Now that I do have this, I'll give it a 4. Overall it's the best since the original with great action writing and you can really hear Giacchino's maturation as a composer, but it loses half a star for no statements of the classic Nazi theme in the score proper.