UPDATE (Sept 18, 2012): It looks like Uelmen and Runic had a plan all along. Two days before the game goes retail, they released a digital form of this soundtrack completely free, no strings attached. Get on it!
It seems like it was only yesterday I was lamenting the lack of a full retail release of a game music album I really enjoyed.
Oh wait, that *was* yesterday.
Right now, I hold in my hands the full orchestral soundtrack for a game that’s not even out yet. And while I assume the full soundtrack will have, at least, a retail digital release (if not a physical release as well), right now the soundtrack exists in the form of about 100 CDs Runic Games had printed. Of this small lot, 25 were given away to fans of the first game via Facebook, and the rest were distributed at E3 (and perhaps some other conventions since E3) by Uelmen and the Runic team themselves.
I personally missed E3, but Jayson was able to snag a handful from Uelmen so that he (representing Destructoid) *and* we at OSV could provide early coverage of Uelmen’s groundbreaking soundtrack.
Is it really *that* good? Does it exceed Uelmen’s work on the Diablo series? Or am I just adding to the hype? I’ll defend my stance after the jump, and then you can leave comments to let me know whether or not I’m crazy. (more…)
