The pulse pounding brass and percussion of "Pursuit" plays wonderfully against staccato strings and nasal double-reed melodies. In this department, Edmonson delivers more quality and variety than one would think possible. Yet if there were any lingering doubts, the beautiful and beautifully integrated vocals of Azam Ali first featured on "As above, so Below" and highlighted in "Science and Magic" will help transport the listener to Edmonson's vision of the desert.īeing an action game, it stands that Uncharted 3 would, like its predecessors, feature a good number of action tracks. Sweeping, broad pieces like "Badlands" which feature cinematic orchestral music supporting featured ethnic elements firmly establish the Arabian quality of the album. As an opening piece, this sets the tone of the album perfectly: the music you'll hear is undeniably Uncharted, but it will be interpreted through a different lens this time. "Nate's Theme" returns to begin the soundtrack and although it is more or less unaltered from its earlier incarnations with its swelling, triumphant horn melody and tribal percussion backbeat, it is more polished and developed this time around. Thankfully, Greg Edmonson is not a typical game composer and rose to the challenge of Uncharted 3 with the finished product being an exciting action piece that frames and is not hindered by ethnic instrumentation and vocals to help establish setting.
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Unless they are given free creative reign over the score, and a sizable budget, the result will almost always sound like the nasal droning of Mega Man 6's Flame Man stage. I imagine that most game composers shudder when they're asked to compose music for a desert level or, worse, a game set in a desert. This review refers to the two disc album. The soundtrack was released in three forms: a short promotional release through Piggyback, a full-length digital release through Sony, and an extended two disc album through La-La Land Records.
Switching from the mountains of the Himalayas to the deserts of Yemen as the backdrop for the action, Edmonson does an impressive job of adding new ethnic elements into the score which somehow remains faithful to its two predecessors.
After winning a pair of BAFTA awards (and a host of other accolades) for his scoring of Among Thieves, Greg Edmonson was brought back to score Drake's Deception in a new studio across the Atlantic with a new team of musicians. Two years after the release of the critically praised Among Thieves considered by many sites to be the Game of the Year in 2009 Naughty Dog returned with the third installment in the Uncharted series, Drake's Deception.