Hi,
Why is there always so much frustration around? Everybody has his own music style. Ok. But lean back a second and think about it. The producer of your favourite game informs you first hand (before doing a press release!) about new marketing projects - and even more speaks out an invatation to participate and be part of the show.
First, I understand that everybody has his own style of preferred music and I can easily accept this. And even if I think that this licensed song isn't more then a cheap commercially optimized mix up from what we heard a thousand times before, and that naming such namby-pamby "Let it rock" is an insult to any real rock musician/ fan, everybody is entitled to love it/ buy it/ sing it all day long.
No problem, as long as I'm not forced to hear it ;-)
But there's another thing:
For me one of the most important parts of PE/ EU was the music. It was actually one the very few games where I always had the music playing, where I didn't cancel it very fast after a short first try.
For me, the music of PE/ EU was was an important part of the gaming experience, and still is. It was perfectly suited to create the mood for immersion, and I still love it.
For sure, I could replace it with my favorite playlists. For sure, I wouldn't hear it outside EU - it's not really "my style". But for sure, too, it is the perfect music for this game.
This new song hit me as a shock. If I'd imagine to have to hear this while fighting robot warriors on a distant planet, in a distant future - the same soft washed "la-la-la" that terrorizes me today on every other radio station? It would have survived? Time for suicide, all hope is gone, the end is near, the skies are falling ...
I understand that is not necessarily meant as in game music, and that it will never make it to it maybe. But even as a song for a promotion campaign it's completely wrong in my humble opinion. It has exactly nothing in common with PE/ EU, and using instead a song from the game (or another one from this great musician), maybe even the "gamerchick" oldie, would have been much better.
And I fear that the decision for this song isn't coincidentally. It could be another sign of what direction this game takes. It could be just another brick in the wall.
Have fun!
or one could be CND but CP is a space station so shouldnt really look like a planet, anyone know the name of our moon?
