company of heroes opposing fronts soundtrack

Zur’s “We Came in the Night” occasionally hints at a larger musical theme, but the piece ends with jarring, erratic string movements before any theme is fully realized. Most of the pieces that are written by Soule or Zur sound very similar the constant percussion and dissonance combined with the short length on the tracks make the listener struggle to hear where one track ends and the other begins. Inon Zur scores very similarly to Soule on these tracks (no stranger to succeeding Soule, having scored the sequel for Icewind Dale).

The pieces continue like this - short, choppy, mood-inducing pieces without any significant development. This one phases out the brass in favor of snare drums, keeping the rhythm steady for one minute and five seconds. All of this takes place in one minute and seventeen seconds, and seamlessly flows into the second track, “Surveying the Enemy”, by Jeremy Soule. Finally, the piece ends with some low brass beating out a military march. The track begins with soft, dissonant strings rising in pitch until they are met with an eerie choir. It begins with “Twilight on Approach”, written by Inon Zur. The album Company of Heroes: All Heroes Rise is the most action-packed of the two, but also the least inspiring. A few of the tracks have hints of themes running through them, but because most are about a minute in length, they are too short for any serious development, in contrast to Cris Velasco’s work for the sequel. Almost all of the tracks are tense, mood-setting pieces meant to evoke an unsettling feeling instead of creating a continuous score.

While most of the music for Company of Heroes and its expansion works in the game, it rarely makes great stand-alone listening. I ended up was a little disappointed after hearing the final results. Being a huge fan of Soule’s trademark epic, sweeping, cinematic scores, I was particularly curious to see what he had contributed to this score Company of Heroes seems to be an unusually realistic game for Soule, who is most well-known for his scores to fantasy RPGs like The Elder Scrolls, Guild Wars, and Icewind Dale.

The games were scored by an impressive trio, consisting of Jeremy Soule, Ian Livingstone, and Inon Zur, with Soule working on the original game and the other two scoring the expansion. The music for this game and its stand-alone expansion Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts were eventually packaged together in two digital soundtracks freely released through Steam. Relic Entertainment and THQ’s Company of Heroes proved a hit among military video game fans with its World War II setting and real-time strategy gameplay.

Company of heroes opposing fronts soundtrack