Right?īesides, Renegade is Westwood's/EA games first attempt.īut all the battle net images are visible. Yeah, but the same could be said about Dune. The official MP3 pack is essentially a high-quality version of the original MIDI soundtrack, and it also includes the unused "extended" version of the intro theme that was probably a leftover from the development stage when the intro was a slideshow, as in Orcs & Humans. Thus Tides of Darkness accommodates ten in-game themes in eight actual CD tracks, and Beyond the Dark Portal adds two more themes to the same number of actual tracks. The DOS version of the game (both vanilla and expansion) actually only plays through four CD Audio tracks during missions, so they had to cram two themes into one actual track on the CD to compensate for this. This track and this track however are present on the Tides of Darkness CD as well, although they have no MIDI counterparts and apparently have been added late in the game development. BtDP adds 4 more tracks 2 for orcs and 2 for humans.Actually, the expansion pack only added three tracks: one for the Alliance, another for the Horde, and a secret bonus track. The officially released soundtrack of Warcraft 2 is also missing the Beyond the Dark Portal tracks. The official MP3 pack Blizzard released some time ago (no longer available from FilePlanet, unfortunately) also uses the shorter versions of the tracks, and does not include the CD Audio-exclusive tracks that have no MIDI versions in the DOS release of the game. The tracks in Edition use the shorter MIDI versions (except they're recorded as WAV files either on authentic hardware or using soundfonts), however they play as if they were CD Audio tracks (i.e. Here's a comparison of the same track in both versions: The CD Audio versions of MIDI tracks are longer because they repeat their theme once and then fade out. The MIDI tracks were designed to loop indefinitely during a level, whereas the CD tracks played one after another. The WAV tracks in Edition are identical to the MIDI version of the soundtrack that was included with the DOS version (except for four tracks, two for each side, which were present in the CD Audio format but did not have MIDI counterparts). However, the music from Warcraft II has been performed with a live orchestra several times, such as this concert or this one. The DOS version credits make no mention of any orchestra, unlike the credits of Total Annihilation for example, which has a soundtrack that was recorded with a real orchestra. I heard they had a real orchestra playing the tune's back then.I think the CD Audio version of the soundtrack was synthesized, not recorded with a real orchestra.
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