Dynamedion contributes soundtrack to Runes of Magic
by Brenda Holloway 
Jul 5th 2008 at 10:00AM
Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Video, New titles, News items, Free-to-play, Runes of Magic
What would a high fantasy MMO be without an accompanying orchestral soundtrack? The themes to EverQuest, World of Warcraft, Dark Age of Camelot and so on bring weight and importance to the adventure, and nobody can listen to the theme to the game they loved without having all the memories of close calls and fun times immediately come to mind.Runes of Magic publisher Frogster has asked renowned German soundtrack composers Dynamedion to compose just such a soundtrack for their upcoming free-to-play fantasy MMO. Managing Director Pierre Langer (pictured) says about the soundtrack, "We see Runes of Magic as an amazing challenge. It is [...] our first Fantasy-MMO, one of our preferred genres." Dynamedion has contributed music to games such as Spellforce, John Woo's Stranglehold, Anno 1701, Drakensang and Die Siedler V & VI, and movies such as 10.000 B.C. and The Bourne Ultimatum.
We've set the pictures from yesterday's peek into the starting zone, to some of the newly-composed music to Runes of Magic, after the break.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mia said on 2:34PM 7-07-2008
Music is one of the most important and most often overlooked components of an MMO... so many times the developers get a big "theme" done for their initial release, then they never go back and add with expansions. Blizzard really fell down on the job with Burning Crusade, re-using a lot of old music and, in many areas, not using any music at all. (Think about how much creepier your first few forays into Karazhan would have been with appropriate music and sound effects!)
I chalked it up to the fact that BC was obviously unfinished when it was released. But I'm still mystified about why it took 2 years to release an unfinished expansion. And for the entire 15 months I played in Outlands it was still jarring to hear the AQ theme music played in Outlands instances - that music fit AQ perfectly but not Serpentshrine.
Music in the Bourne movie was well done, I remember commenting on it at the time - it's nice to see a gaming company using talented composers and going for good stuff!
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