MechWarrior 2 Soundtrack
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The Mechwarrior 2
soundtrack is the score to the second installment of Activision's
Battletech
-based sci-fi strategy/simulation Mechwarrior
series. It received near universal praise from game reviewers and has been described as one of the greatest game soundtracks of all time. It is generally considered to be a cult classic of game music.http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov98/articles/jeehun.htmhttp://getluky.net/2005/05/20/mechwarrior-2-soundtrack-tribute/
The music was stored as standard audio CD
tracks allowing the music to be played on a standard Audio CD player. Track one contains the program data and should be skipped.
The Soundtrack was composed by Gregory Alper & Jeehun Hwang, who has composed music for numerous PC games. A remix version of the song entitled "Labrea, Circle of Equals (Trial of Grievance)" (aka "Arkam Bridge") was used later in Civilization II
in the Hoover Dam
Wonder
video.
The track listings below reflect the original 1.0 DOS PC-releases of the games. Some variations of the games have the same music while others deviate. For instance, the Titanium version of the original game has the same tracks arranged in a different order, the Titanium version of Ghost Bear's Legacy has five tracks replaced with new material, and the Titanium version of Mercenaries has roughly a minute truncated from the end of most every track; the 1.05 standard DOS/Win95 version of Mercenaries also does this.
The PSX
release of the original game borrows the heavy metal
tracks from Mercenaries.
MechWarrior 2
MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat is a 1995 video game produced by Activision. It is part of the MechWarrior series of video games. It separates itself from the original board game BattleTech by placing the player inside the cockpit of the BattleMech....
soundtrack is the score to the second installment of Activision's
Activision
Activision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles...
Battletech
BattleTech
BattleTech is a wargaming and science fiction franchise launched by FASA Corporation in 1984, acquired by WizKids in 2000, and owned since 2003 by Topps. The series began with FASA's debut of the board game BattleTech by Jordan Weisman and L...
-based sci-fi strategy/simulation Mechwarrior
MechWarrior
MechWarrior is the title of a series of computer and video games set in the fictional universe of BattleTech-Games:In these games, players take control of a single BattleMech and combat other BattleMechs, tanks, infantry, and more, from within the cockpit of their machine. A third-person alternate...
series. It received near universal praise from game reviewers and has been described as one of the greatest game soundtracks of all time. It is generally considered to be a cult classic of game music.http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov98/articles/jeehun.htmhttp://getluky.net/2005/05/20/mechwarrior-2-soundtrack-tribute/
The music was stored as standard audio CD
Red Book (audio CD standard)
Red Book is the standard for audio CDs . It is named after one of the Rainbow Books, a series of books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.The first edition of the Red Book was released in 1980 by Philips and Sony; it was adopted by the Digital Audio Disc...
tracks allowing the music to be played on a standard Audio CD player. Track one contains the program data and should be skipped.
The Soundtrack was composed by Gregory Alper & Jeehun Hwang, who has composed music for numerous PC games. A remix version of the song entitled "Labrea, Circle of Equals (Trial of Grievance)" (aka "Arkam Bridge") was used later in Civilization II
Civilization II
Sid Meier's Civilization II is a turn-based strategy computer game designed by Brian Reynolds, Douglas Caspian-Kaufman and Jeff Briggs. Although it is a sequel to Sid Meier's Civilization, neither Sid Meier nor Bruce Shelley was involved in its development.Civilization II was first released in...
in the Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President...
Wonder
Wonders of the World
Various lists of the Wonders of the World have been compiled from antiquity to the present day, to catalogue the world's most spectacular natural wonders and manmade structures....
video.
The track listings below reflect the original 1.0 DOS PC-releases of the games. Some variations of the games have the same music while others deviate. For instance, the Titanium version of the original game has the same tracks arranged in a different order, the Titanium version of Ghost Bear's Legacy has five tracks replaced with new material, and the Titanium version of Mercenaries has roughly a minute truncated from the end of most every track; the 1.05 standard DOS/Win95 version of Mercenaries also does this.
The PSX
PlayStation
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...
release of the original game borrows the heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
tracks from Mercenaries.
Track | Mission Name | Track Name | Length |
---|---|---|---|
1 | (Data Track) | N/A | N/A |
2 | Umber Wall | Mission X | 2:17 |
3 | Silent Thunder / Rust Heart | Anomaly | 2:23 |
4 | Bone Machine | Left to Die | 1:55 |
5 | Plum Wine | The Thrill of the Hunt | 1:43 |
6 | Rogue Chariot / Bronze Anvil | Routine Mission | 2:21 |
7 | Golden Spade | Kill or Be Killed | 1:49 |
8 | Bouk Obelisk | Against the Odds | 2:14 |
9 | Arkham Bridge | Race Against Time | 1:45 |
10 | Iron Piston / Wolf Trial 2 | Ambushed | 2:16 |
11 | Armor Veil | Confrontation | 2:27 |
12 | Pyre Light | Recon | 2:15 |
13 | Sable Flame | The Art of War | 2:15 |
14 | Mirror Cage | Happy Fun Battle | 2:27 |
15 | Burning Chrome | A Walk in the Park | 2:19 |
16 | Temper Edge / Wolf Trial 4 | No Surrender | 2:06 |
17 | Jade Falcon Trial | To The Death | 3:10 |
18 | Velvet Hammer | The New Challenger | 2:01 |
19 | Aquiline Fire | Unknown | 2:40 |
20 | Flame Tongue | The Predator and the Prey | 2:20 |
21 | Silver Staff | Death is Imminent | 2:09 |
22 | Title Theme | A Second Chance | 2:07 |
23 | Blade Splint / Cold Crescent / Wolf Trial 3 | The Turn of the Tide | 1:58 |
24 | Wolf Trial 1 | Die With Honor | 3:03 |
25 | Redemption | Retaliation | 2:09 |
26 | Scorching Sand | This is It | 1:59 |
27 | Splash | Unknown | 2:05 |
Track | Mission Name | Length | Track Name | MW2 Mission Name |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | (Data Track) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
2 | Moritz, Gnesta Valley (Strike) | 2:07 | Kitty, Kitty, Here I Come | N/A |
3 | Garstedt, Space (Defend) | 4:20 | 'Mech Dance | N/A |
4 | Alshain, Polotmy Mountains (The Blooding) | 3:44 | Ghost bear 3 | N/A |
5 | Thun (Strike) | 2:04 | Searching Forever | N/A |
6 | Moritz, New Coffton (Strike) | 2:03 | Sneak Sneak | N/A |
7 | Wolcott (Strike) | 2:25 | Morning Raid | N/A |
8 | Moritz, Orbit (Destroy Orbital Platform) | 2:07 | Silent Predetor | N/A |
9 | Mannedorf (Defend) | 2:03 | One Chance Left | N/A |
10 | (Unknown) | 2:10 | 'Mech Chant | N/A |
11 | Mannedorf (Patrol) | 2:16 | Underwater Run | Iron Piston |
12 | Chandler (Defend) | 2:21 | Search and Destroy | Rogue Chariot / Bronze Anvil |
13 | Chandler (Strike) | 2:17 | Ghost bear 12 | Umber Wall |
14 | Garstedt, Cordivas Grotto (Trial of Possession) | 2:15 | OmniFun | Pyre Light |
15 | Alshain (Defend) | 1:49 | Jungle Jive | Golden Spade |
16 | Jeanette (Raid) | 2:23 | Under the Sun | Silent Thunder / Rust Heart |
17 | Alshain, Polotmy Mountains (Trial) | 1:43 | Heated Blast | Plum Wine |
18 | Alshain, Polotmy Mountains (Trial of Position) | 2:14 | Smoke Jag Scum | Bouk Obelisk |
19 | Labrea, Circle of Equals (Trial of Grievance) | 1:45 | N/A (Listed as track 18) | Arkham Bridge |
20 | (Unknown) | 1:55 | N/A (Listed as track 19) | Bone Machine |
21 | Cinematic Opening | 1:12 | N/A (Listed as track 20) | N/A |
Track | Mission Name | Length |
---|---|---|
1 | (Data Track) | N/A |
2 | Scalpel | 2:05 |
3 | Snake City | 2:04 |
4 | Dawn Watch | 2:04 |
5 | Final Strike | 2:10 |
6 | Phoenix Dawn | 2:10 |
7 | Homestead | 2:10 |
8 | Freedom Fight | 2:01 |
9 | Glittering Gold | 2:04 |
10 | Back Door | 2:12 |
11 | Exodus | 2:04 |
12 | Trojan Horse | 2:04 |
13 | Tick Tock | 2:04 |
14 | Crystal Storm | 2:10 |
15 | Night Wolf | 2:08 |
16 | Leg-Breaker | 2:03 |
17 | Dust River | 2:03 |
18 | Dragon’s Teeth | 1:57 |
19 | Berserker | 2:06 |
20 | Götterdämmerung | 4:17 |
21 | Starlight Hunt | 1:25 |
22 | Intro | 1:40 |