With very few exceptions, movie-licensed games are terrible. They are often pandering, hardly competent, and masturbatory fan service wrapped up in a (usually) full-price package. The soundtracks to these games are usually just as lackluster as the games themselves taking known themes or motifs (usually iconic themes like Star Wars or – like here – Bond) and barely providing enough variation on them to sustain one level of action, let alone a full-game experience.
Christopher Lennertz, composer of the wildly successful Medal of Honor series (as well as the underrated, Western FPS Gun), was given the task to score what was sure to be another entry into the pile of bilge that is movie-licensed games in Quantum of Solace from Treyarch Studios. We’ve seen Lennertz’s flair for video game composing when creating his own themes. How about when he’s put in the thankless box of an iconic theme?
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