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Resident Evil 3

Mal Cremin | Avignon, France | 04/18/2001

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Coming in at just seconds under two hours, this album is a good example of a `complete score' release. Some of the cues time at just five seconds, so completists really don't feel that anything is left out.This time working with Saori Ueda, composer Masami Ueda shines in this score. The style is recognisably a continuation of Resident Evil 2, and seems bigger due to the length of the album and the variety of material. Generally, the music is sombre and oppressive, which perfectly conjures back the game (and matches it when you hear it in that context). Jill's progress through destroyed nighttime streets of the city is vividly re-created in the music. Fear and suspense are evoked by use of sustained chords, punctuated by sounds such as bell tolls (a reference to the clock tower that will figure in the story's middle chapter). The clanking you can hear at times sounds much like Brad Feidel's Terminator scores. There is also a touch of Graeme Revell's The Crow in here. At the other end of the mood scale, the action-music is based on violent orchestral strings and blaring brass, imitating Nick Glennie Smith and Hans Zimmer's score for The Rock. As in his score for Resident Evil 2, Ueda uses piano to soften the general harshness, and again, the result is very pleasing, and keeps this score from being too much like the movie sources he draws from. Also like the Resident Evil 2 album, it's a little strange to have music fade out rather than come to an end, but this is due to the music being written for continuous looping. A piece will play in the game for as long as you are in a room or area, so it isn't structured to come to an end.If you listen to the album in the wrong frame of mind, its low-key character can make the music fall easily out of your notice. But in the right mood, it is quite enthralling. In all, a very good album if you're a fan of film scores and/or Resident Evil games."

A decent collection, but perhaps it could have been better

Mary Heazlett | Mercer, Pennsylvania United States | 04/07/2002

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This Nemesis CD is a great collection of the creepy musical score that fans have come to love about the videogame series, and I do recommend it to anyone whose trying to expand their RE soundtrack collection. However,I feel that this soundtrack could have been better. Although, Nemesis provides a decent amount of origional musical scores, there are a number of tracks that are remeniscent of the Resident Evil 2 soundtrack. Also, while the Resident Evil 2 soundtrack had a diverse collection of scores ranging from scary to soothing, this is not as apparent in the Nemesis soundtrack. Never the less, it is still a decent soundtrack worth purchasing if you're a die-hard fan of the series, or at least this videogame."

More scares from RE..

A. Griffiths | London | 01/20/2001

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Resident Evil 3 is another great game, but the musical compositions are starting to run out of steam a bit. Still, this massive Cd runs over 2 full discs, so you can't complain of a rip-off. The best tunes here are the opening, the save room theme (more sinister than previous tunes) and Nemesis's theme. Shame you don't get him grunting "Starrrrssss..." over the top! The mood of the destroyed city is impressively conveyed in some very dismal tracks, but a lot of this is too uniformly similar, and the closing theme is not on a par with those of RE1 & 2. Actually, there's almost TOO much music on here, I swear I can only remember about half of it. Don't get me wrong, it's still good, it's just the lesser of the three PSX soundtracks. (The game itself rocks!!)"