The Command & Conquer games are loaded down with so many obedient soldiers under the player’s control, how could a game be made about any one of them? The answer’s easy: make a game about the one soldier you don’t see in the C&C games. A loose-cannon, gun-totin’ badass. And that’s what Westwood’s first-person blast-fest Command & Conquer: Renegade is all about.
For the music for Renegade, veteran Westwood composer Frank Klepacki goes in two directions at one: back to the original theme from Command & Conquer, and forward for some chunky, hybrid heavy metal/techno music befitting the baddest of the bad. When you have a track called “Got A Present For Ya” in a soundtrack from a game about a heavily armed rogue soldier, you can probably guess this won’t be the soundtrack from On Golden Pond. This isn’t to say that every cue is top-heavy with action, though – “Sniper” and “Beach” are a couple of good examples of this.
The reworkings of the original C&C theme are a welcome return, bringing the whole thing full-circle and giving it the feel of belonging to a larger saga.
- Command & Conquer (2:58)
- Got A Present For Ya (2:21)
- Sniper (3:18)
- Act On Instinct (3:31)
- Stomp (2:55)
- (Untitled Track) (3:57)
- Sneak Attack (3:50)
- Move It (2:04)
- Dogfight (4:42)
- Packing Iron (3:22)
- Industrial Ambient (4:00)
- Beach (3:01)
- Fight Win Prevail (3:36)
- Ammo Clip (3:18)
- In Line Of Fire (3:57)
Released by: Westwood Studios / Electronic Arts
Release date: 2002
Total running time: 50:50