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Nile Rodgers produced both volumes of the soundtrack, in addition to writing and performing the track "Never Surrender" in collaboration with songwriter/remixer Nataraj. Rodgers himself is a video game player, noting in an interview that "30% to 40% of the budget was spent in downtime playing video
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effect"; players would go to buy the game and get the soundtrack and other merchandise by association. The first several million copies of the game sold all contained promotional inserts for the soundtrack. The soundtrack was seen as an integral part of the marketing and merchandise push Microsoft
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approach to music", O'Donnell wrote "sad music for sad moments, scary music to score the scary bits and so forth." Recurring themes developed more by accident than planning. Recording of orchestrated music was completed over several sessions with the Northwest Sinfonia orchestra at Studio X in
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s score was generally positive. Reception for the two soundtrack releases, however, varied. Volume 1's inclusion of other artists in addition to original music received both praise and criticism. Mike Brennan Soundtrack.net's review claimed that the inclusion of
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s music in two distinct volumes. The first volume would contain the game's themes that were finished and mixed as well as "inspired-by" offerings from other artists. The first volume was released alongside the video game as
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Nuketown.com declared that Volume 2 was the soundtrack that fans had been waiting for; other publications agreed, saying that it "feels like the real soundtrack to
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sound" of the previous game as well as introduce new sounds and influences to the music. The music was based on what was happening in the game, rather than using
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on November 9 of the same year. As the soundtrack was finished before all the in-game music was completed, none of the tracks written by O'Donnell appear in
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games. Since all that money was going to that part of the recording session, I decided to figure out what was so compelling about it, and I got hooked ."
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s success was pointed to as a sign of increasing legitimacy of video game music in the entertainment industry, which had graduated from "
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found the soundtrack ultimately enjoyable, but felt that the more traditional orchestration that appeared in
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Saltzman, Marc (2004-11-11). "Believe the hype: Master Chief's sequel sets a new gaming standard Halo 2".
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clashed with the ambient and electronic sounds that had appeared before, making the album "divided".
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made the soundtrack "more harsh" sounding but overall lacked cohesion. On the other hand,
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was specifically timed to coincide with the launch of the video game, to cash in on the "
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or theme repetitively. The music was recorded in pieces with a fifty-piece orchestra at
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were promotional in nature; O'Donnell scored the cinematic announcement trailer for
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was released on April 25, 2006, and contains all the game music arranged in a
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Waslh, Christopher (2004-11-13). "Audio Pros See Opportunity In Videogames".
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sold more than 100,000 copies, and peaked at the number 162 position of the
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O'Donnell, who had previously composed the music for Bungie games such as
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Nussenbaum, Evelyn (2004-08-23). "Video games get Hollywood makeover".
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is the only video game that ever inspired us to write a whole suite ."
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on November 9, 2004, contains arranged instrumental pieces written by
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on August 2, 2002, and followed up with interactive music for the
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jam the likes of which haven't been recorded since the 1970s."
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for all the different characters in what O'Donnell called a "
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s music has since been played in concert settings, including
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was natural because the overall story and atmosphere of
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Kharif, Olga (2005-05-19). "From Beeps to Billboard".
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The piece used to accompany the 2002 announcement of
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demo. O'Donnell confirmed that the chanting monks of
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found the four-part Odyssey by Incubus comprised "a
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Vol. 117, no. 7. pp. 43–45. 1694: 318:decided it would be a good idea to present 2185: 2171: 2077:"Video-game melodies are going mainstream" 2052: 27: 2141: 2030: 1740:. Vol. 116, no. 46. p. 54. 1921:Andrews, Stuart (2005-01-09). "Games ". 693:" to complex melodies with big budgets. 2055:"Halo 2 Original Soundtrack Volume Two" 1896:"Halo 2 Original Soundtrack Volume Two" 1573:Simon James – concert master/contractor 2676: 1649:"Halo 2 Soundtrack Bolsters Game Push" 1621:Halo 2 Original Soundtrack: Volume Two 1611: 1609: 1607: 1507: 1482: 1451: 1160: 1137: 1121: 1098: 1075: 1052: 1036: 1013: 990: 967: 951: 928: 827:"Follow (1st Movement of The Odyssey)" 271:was declared the "real" soundtrack to 2166: 2150:Halo 2 Original Soundtrack Volume Two 1955:"Soundtrack.net: Halo 2 Volume 1 OST" 1753: 1703: 1535: 1433: 1405: 1374: 1360: 1329: 1315: 1287: 1256: 1228: 1176: 908: 885: 862: 839: 823: 800: 777: 757: 730: 582: 526: 1998: 1594:Lorraine McLees – album art director 1207:Halo 2 Original Soundtrack: Volume 2 734:"Halo Theme MJOLNIR Mix" (featuring 709:Halo 2 Original Soundtrack: Volume 1 16:Soundtrack for the video game Halo 2 2033:"Halo 2 Soundtrack Volume 2 Review" 1604: 547: 13: 1968: 1673:"Halo 2 Recording Sessions report" 1579:Marcie O'Donnell – choir conductor 412: 14: 2710: 696: 2656: 2655: 2005:Newquist, Kenneth (2007-11-03). 1822:Sinclair, Brendan (2007-11-21). 1786:"Retailers Chase Gaming Dollars" 566: 561: 556: 551: 546: 506:Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock 462:Due to legal issues, the second 449:Problems playing this file? 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Soundtrack album
Studio X
Genre
Rock
post-grunge
video game music
Label
Sumthing Else Music Works
Producer
Nile Rodgers
Bungie
2004
video game
Halo 2
Martin O'Donnell
Michael Salvatori
Incubus
Hoobastank
Breaking Benjamin
suite form
Myth
Halo: Combat Evolved
leitmotifs
Studio X
Seattle, Washington
video game music
Play! A Video Game Symphony
Video Games Live
Martin O'Donnell

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