The opening track, “Clash of Destiny,” serves as the game’s title screen music. Both are LucasArts veterans, with Griskey having scored the two “Force Unleashed” titles (both very good soundtrack, in my opinion). The notable composers here (in my mind) are Mark Griskey and Peter McConnell. The music is fantastic, and though Williams himself didn’t work on the soundtrack, his music is referenced more than once. The 17 songs found on here are as follows: 3 super-important over-arching themes, the 8 character/class themes, and then 6 bonus tracks (used primarily in the Cantina / social area jukeboxes, mostly alien-language vocal tracks).
Just no-space, ProperCase song titles in mp3 format. Note that some additional music is actually available, for free, on the SWTOR official site: however, it’s not labeled, organized, or cataloged in any kind of way. Sadly, those songs don’t get any love on the soundtrack, a CD-only bonus that came with the $150 Collector’s Edition package. I’ve heard at least 50 original melodies, many of them making absolutely zero references to John Williams’ motifs from the six films. At this point, I’ve reached endgame with one character on the Republic side, and am near the end with one character on the Imperial side. Being an MMORPG, that’s sort of what you have to do if you really want to “complete” it. You see, I’ve invested a good chunk of time into The Old Republic. Could you just please, please put together some semblance of a complete soundtrack? And if you’re going to have DLC, maybe just wait til it’s all out and then release one –and only one– follow-up album for all the new music?
Take note: I hate this method of distribution. If you’ve followed BioWare’s other soundtrack releases, you’ll notice a trend: they release one “OST” followed by a number of add-on soundtracks, mostly for DLC and to release some b-side music that didn’t fit on their official soundtrack. So good, and at the same time, so unsatisfying.
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