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I love the work of 'The Chinese Room' and truly appreciate their efforts to transcend gaming culture from mindlessly killing things to something more ethereal, empathetic and emotional. The game is good - it captures the atmosphere of my younger days and addresses the things that were going on in the 80's in an interesting way. The feelings of dread and impending apocalypse were tangible at that time – I seemed to spend most of my youth wondering when the nuclear holocaust was going to come or when the human race would be wiped out by an unstoppable disease.
Of course, with hindsight we are all older and wiser. We are no longer so easily led by the media and we are not so willing to swallow the propaganda perpetuated by a government trying to keep control by frightening the crap out of us… Aren't we????
This game addresses the ‘what if’ from those times. It starts when the apocalypse has already happened, which could have made for a very depressing experience. But ‘The Chinese Room’ have used the ‘game’ platform to try to involve the player at an emotional level and key to this is the inclusion of this wonderful music.
Some people will undoubtedly write the music off as ‘just a game soundtrack’. It is much more than that. All of the tracks stand out on their own merits and the only thing that gives away the ‘soundtrack’ design is that some are disappointingly short. The instrumentation, vocal performances, arrangements and production values are all of the highest quality and very deserving of the awards that it has been given.
Jessica Curry has an undoubted talent for the creation of emotional and beautiful music. The balance of intensity and drama giving way to moments of pure musical bliss is lovely. I have played this CD to various people and they have loved it – invoking tears on more than one occasion. When I mentioned that it is a soundtrack for a game, they looked at me in disbelief as though that somehow devalued the music... This is exactly the prejudice that ‘The Chinese Room’ are trying to address and they have done a brilliant job.
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Riccardo
Uno dei soundtrack più belli di un videogame
Reviewed in Italy on 24 April 2020
Riccardo
Reviewed in Italy on 24 April 2020
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AB
A far better soundtrack than this game deserved
Reviewed in Canada on 22 May 2016
