Sound of Play: 240 - The Assassin's Creed special
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Sound of Play: 240 - The Assassin's Creed special
For this special, we place the focus on Ubisoft’s long (free) running franchise with a selection of tracks chosen from the Assassin’s Creed series of games.
Music featured in this podcast:
1. The Parting Glass by Sarah Greene – Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, 2013
2. Main Theme by Lorne Balfe – Assassin’s Creed Revelations, 2011
3. Markos by The Flight & Mike Georgiades – Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, 2018
4. Dreams Of Venice by Jesper Kyd – Assassin’s Creed II, 2009
5. United by Olivier Derivière – Assassin’s Creed IV: Freedom Cry, 2013
6. Chandeliers and Carnage by Chris Tilton and Sarah Schachner – Assassin’s Creed Unity, 2014
7. Main Theme by Sarah Schachner – Assassin’s Creed Origins, 2017
8. Underground by Austin Wintory – Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, 2015
9. City of Jerusalem by Jesper Kyd – Assassin’s Creed, 2007
10. Society Suite in 4 Movements by Winifred Philips – Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, 2012
11. I Am Shay Patrick Cormac by Elitsa Alexandrova – Assassin’s Creed Rogue, 2014
12. Rather Death Than Slavery by Sarah Schachner – Assassin’s Creed Unity, 2014
13. Legend of the Eagle Bearer by The Flight & Mike Georgiades – Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, 2018
14. Salvation of Forli by Jesper Kyd – Assassin’s Creed II, 2009
15. Fight Club by Lorne Balfe – Assassin’s Creed III, 2012
16. Through the Storm by Unknown, sung by Zakynthines Phones of Montreal and Messolonghi Cultural Centre Choir – Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, 2018
Sound of Play 240 was edited by Jay Taylor
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Re: Sound of Play: 240 - The Assassin's Creed special
Assassin's Creed: Black Flag
The Parting Glass by Sarah Greene
The Parting Glass by Sarah Greene
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Re: Sound of Play: 240 - The Assassin's Creed special
Expect a hefty post from me on this at some point soon, I love this series and it’s music especially. I think it’s one that people have mostly overlooked in terms of audio, they know the main theme from Jesper Kyd but not a lot else.
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Re: Sound of Play: 240 - The Assassin's Creed special
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
Assassins Creed Theme
I find it difficult to find as much time for gaming as I would like these days, but Assassin’s Creed is one franchise with which I have kept in regular touch. I think the central themes of well-researched and -executed historical fiction, and secret societies and shadow histories, have always appealed to me. I like playing these games slowly, looking up the real stories around the locations, events and personalities as I go.
And since gaming is a bit of refuge and distraction for me, I don’t mind sinking a lot of time into collecting items or completing peripheral quests just to tidy the map, though I can certainly understand this tendency towards padding as a source of frustration for some players.
Although I have been a consistent player of the series, I don’ t really specifically remember playing Revelations. However, in my subsequent listens of the series’ soundtracks, this version of the main theme by Lorne Balfe has become a real highlight for me and is now my track zero to begin an AC music session.
Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry
The Root
This game is set in Haiti, with our protagonist tasked with freeing slaves and recruiting liberated slaves known as Maroons. This song, which serves as the theme for this DLC, is a fantastic take by Olivier Deriviere on Haitian traditional music including Voodoo themes and lyrics mixed with familiar Assassin’s Creed tones.
Playing Freedom Cry on PS Plus, way after I initially played Black Flag, reignited my enthusiasm for that game, and also inspired me to seek a better understanding of Haitian history after I had done the barest minimum many years ago in history in my first year of uni. The game, and especially this wonderfully expressive soundtrack, got me reading CLR James’s The Black Jacobins and about the fascinating, proud, difficult history of the Haitian slave revolution.
I judge many games on their ability to not only draw me into their world, but open up to me a new or deeper experience in my own world. On that count, The Root was marvelously successful.
Assassin’s Creed: Unity
Rather Death Than Slavery
Many Sounds of Play ago, I recall Jay featuring the main theme to Unity by Chris Tilton, and noting that it, like much AC music, has more a science-fiction vibe than connection with the game’s specific historical setting. Tilton’s rendition is great, but despite being the game’s eponymous track, I rather wonder if it wouldn’t be equally at home anywhere in the AC canon.
On the other hand, I really appreciate Sarah Schachner’s contributions on Volume 2 of the OST, which make much more of the revolutionary French context of the game. For me, it is Schachner’s track Rather Death Than Slavery which better serves as the theme for this installation of the series.
The fading in this track at times does strike me as less nuanced - perhaps even a little on-the-nose - than some of the other tracks in the game and some of her other work, such as in the later game, Origins. But as a story-telling and framing device, I think it does a superb job.
Assassins Creed Theme
I find it difficult to find as much time for gaming as I would like these days, but Assassin’s Creed is one franchise with which I have kept in regular touch. I think the central themes of well-researched and -executed historical fiction, and secret societies and shadow histories, have always appealed to me. I like playing these games slowly, looking up the real stories around the locations, events and personalities as I go.
And since gaming is a bit of refuge and distraction for me, I don’t mind sinking a lot of time into collecting items or completing peripheral quests just to tidy the map, though I can certainly understand this tendency towards padding as a source of frustration for some players.
Although I have been a consistent player of the series, I don’ t really specifically remember playing Revelations. However, in my subsequent listens of the series’ soundtracks, this version of the main theme by Lorne Balfe has become a real highlight for me and is now my track zero to begin an AC music session.
Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry
The Root
This game is set in Haiti, with our protagonist tasked with freeing slaves and recruiting liberated slaves known as Maroons. This song, which serves as the theme for this DLC, is a fantastic take by Olivier Deriviere on Haitian traditional music including Voodoo themes and lyrics mixed with familiar Assassin’s Creed tones.
Playing Freedom Cry on PS Plus, way after I initially played Black Flag, reignited my enthusiasm for that game, and also inspired me to seek a better understanding of Haitian history after I had done the barest minimum many years ago in history in my first year of uni. The game, and especially this wonderfully expressive soundtrack, got me reading CLR James’s The Black Jacobins and about the fascinating, proud, difficult history of the Haitian slave revolution.
I judge many games on their ability to not only draw me into their world, but open up to me a new or deeper experience in my own world. On that count, The Root was marvelously successful.
Assassin’s Creed: Unity
Rather Death Than Slavery
Many Sounds of Play ago, I recall Jay featuring the main theme to Unity by Chris Tilton, and noting that it, like much AC music, has more a science-fiction vibe than connection with the game’s specific historical setting. Tilton’s rendition is great, but despite being the game’s eponymous track, I rather wonder if it wouldn’t be equally at home anywhere in the AC canon.
On the other hand, I really appreciate Sarah Schachner’s contributions on Volume 2 of the OST, which make much more of the revolutionary French context of the game. For me, it is Schachner’s track Rather Death Than Slavery which better serves as the theme for this installation of the series.
The fading in this track at times does strike me as less nuanced - perhaps even a little on-the-nose - than some of the other tracks in the game and some of her other work, such as in the later game, Origins. But as a story-telling and framing device, I think it does a superb job.
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Re: Sound of Play: 240 - The Assassin's Creed special
Assassin's Creed: Black Flag
Black Flag Main Theme
The Ends of the Earth
Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry
United
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Legend of the Eagle Bearer
Edit: Spoilered the YouTube videos, as they were taking up a lot of space.
Black Flag Main Theme
- Spoiler: show
The Ends of the Earth
- Spoiler: show
Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry
United
- Spoiler: show
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Legend of the Eagle Bearer
- Spoiler: show
Edit: Spoilered the YouTube videos, as they were taking up a lot of space.
Re: Sound of Play: 240 - The Assassin's Creed special
Syndicate was the first AC game set somewhere I actually know quite well, it was fun to explore places in the game that I’ve actually been to. The whole vibe of the game is quite Dickensian so it sort of makes sense that the end credits would get this wonderful piece in a ‘west end musical theatre’ style reminiscent of shows like Oliver!
Composed by Austin Wintory, performed by Tripod, this is ‘Underground’
Composed by Austin Wintory, performed by Tripod, this is ‘Underground’
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I’ll keep going...
This is ‘Salvation of Forli’ from AC2, but most people know it better as the piece that plays in the animated short ‘Embers’ that introduced fan favourite character Shao Jun as well as showing us how Ezio reached the end of his path.
There’s a really fantastic soliloquy that plays along with this in the short, the last words of a man who has given everything he has to give but has no regrets, but you’ll just have to go find that for yourselves.
This is ‘Salvation of Forli’ from AC2, but most people know it better as the piece that plays in the animated short ‘Embers’ that introduced fan favourite character Shao Jun as well as showing us how Ezio reached the end of his path.
There’s a really fantastic soliloquy that plays along with this in the short, the last words of a man who has given everything he has to give but has no regrets, but you’ll just have to go find that for yourselves.
Re: Sound of Play: 240 - The Assassin's Creed special
AC3 - Modern Assassin, Lorne Balfe
Desmond’s story comes to a close in this game, and for the first time you get several extended sections playing as him where you get to see just what all those years of Animus Bleed Effect does to a person.
I know not everyone liked him, or some of the weirder plot twists in the present day storyline, but he definitely gets his moment to shine.
Desmond’s story comes to a close in this game, and for the first time you get several extended sections playing as him where you get to see just what all those years of Animus Bleed Effect does to a person.
I know not everyone liked him, or some of the weirder plot twists in the present day storyline, but he definitely gets his moment to shine.
Re: Sound of Play: 240 - The Assassin's Creed special
I assume Ezio’s Family will be in there, it’s effectively became the series de facto theme tune, with versions of it being in almost all of the games. It’s a little like the Imperial March, which everyone immediately associates with Star Wars despite it not being in part 1 at all.
If you’re only going to put one version in, I’d recommend ‘Earth’, which was the title screen music for AC2, it’s quite an unusual version compared to the main game version of it.
Anyway, under the spoiler is the original followed by some of the variants I like the most. Take your pick
If you’re only going to put one version in, I’d recommend ‘Earth’, which was the title screen music for AC2, it’s quite an unusual version compared to the main game version of it.
Anyway, under the spoiler is the original followed by some of the variants I like the most. Take your pick
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Something a little more out there... this is the main theme from the mobile game Rebellion. It’s set after the movie, and follows the characters from that (yes, the movie is canon, were you not paying attention in AC Origins present day section?)
I don’t *think* this is actually lifted from one of the other games (most of the music in Rebellion is)
(I’m trying to find some of the music that was in the multiplayer modes of the various games as well, that doesn’t tend to end up on the soundtrack releases for some reason)
I don’t *think* this is actually lifted from one of the other games (most of the music in Rebellion is)
(I’m trying to find some of the music that was in the multiplayer modes of the various games as well, that doesn’t tend to end up on the soundtrack releases for some reason)
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Re: Sound of Play: 240 - The Assassin's Creed special
Hello folks,
Will add my AC suggestions in a bit, but couldn't help but notice that the Assassins Creed Symphony are touring this year and looks like it will be a great show.
Posting this here as you guys are most likely to be interested in seeing such a show.
You can find out more information at the following address.
www.assassinscreedsymphony.com
Will add my AC suggestions in a bit, but couldn't help but notice that the Assassins Creed Symphony are touring this year and looks like it will be a great show.
Posting this here as you guys are most likely to be interested in seeing such a show.
You can find out more information at the following address.
www.assassinscreedsymphony.com