![]() ![]() Unfortunately, Vaughan's "Song for Toomba" resembles generic cinematic music more than Van Dyck's creations with its rasping brass and pounding percussion however, the exotic vocals and ancient instrument solos still offer a degree of originality and are highly charismatic. ![]() Featured features on the Total War: Eras album, "Crack Your Head with a Tabia" previously more on ethnic female vocals and increasing crisis orchestration against thunderous percussion. Put simply, this is a masterpiece among Western game music. While the combination of forces is superficially interesting, it's how they're all blended across a cinematic 5:22 playtime to create such dynamism and drama that makes it amazing. In "The Duke of Death", listeners are greeted with bellowing strings and brass, bustling ancient instruments, epic chorus and organ passages, and furious earthy percussion throughout. The action themes are especially fascinating on this score. However, it's evident they're from co-composer Richard Vaughan since the novel musicality of the series' other music is left behind in favour of more typical emulations. The dark ambient soundscaping of "Bladegrass", tense tremolo strings of "Secret Sandals", or eerie electronic distortions of "Octli" are all well done and work wonderfully in context. Much of the rest of the develops the epic cinematic sound featured here, though not usually in such an original way. It's clear that Total War is back and even more exquisite and emotional than before. In particular, the authentic lute performance from 1:30 and the boy soprano solo are absolutely heartrending. However, it doesn't lose the characteristic personal and emotional touch of the series either. Van Dyck blends deep eerie chanting, haunting recorder melodies, gothic organ passages, and ritualistic percussion to breathtaking effect. The opening theme "Amen" gives a sense that an ancient epic is about to unfold. The results were released in a soundtrack that game with the Collector's Edition of the game. He was assisted by Richard Vaughan and James Vincent, though still produced the best contributions himself. ![]() However, for the first time in the series, he wasn't alone. Jeff Van Dyck, now far more experienced with orchestration and world music, decided to focus on hybridising epic orchestral writing with novel ancient and world instrumentation on this soundtrack. The game was more ambitious than its predecessor in several ways and one of them was its score. Medieval II: Total War brought gamers back to the medieval warfare of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East once more. ![]()
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