Dragon Age: Origins - Soundtrack Available

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Dragon Age: Origins - Soundtrack Available

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The music in Dragon Age: Origins is some of the most enjoyable game music that I’ve heard. And now the soundtrack is available for purchase (from [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... W:2kjoz3dd]Amazon[/url:2kjoz3dd], [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dragon-Age-Orig ... 1:2kjoz3dd]Amazon UK[/url:2kjoz3dd] and [url=http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dragon ... 5:2kjoz3dd]iTunes[/url:2kjoz3dd] (and probably other online stores such as other local Amazon stores).

The soundtrack has 35 tracks and costs about $8 for the entire album ($10 at iTunes) or $1 per song.

For those of you who, like me, bought the Digital Deluxe Edition (or the physical Collector’s Edition) there are a few thing you probably need to know. The collector’s editions included a soundtrack as well, but it’s not entirely the same soundtrack. To begin with, the soundtrack with the collector’s editions is (only) eighteen tracks, so to start this soundtrack already has 17 more tracks. But secondly there are seven tracks in the collector’s edition soundtrack that aren’t in this one (such as the “I Am The One” Dj Killa Remix). Considering that buying the 24 new tracks separately comes down to about $24 it is much cheaper to just buy the entire album (if you’re like me and want [i:2kjoz3dd]all[/i:2kjoz3dd] the soundtrack music). The 35 songs plus the 7 songs unique to the collector’s editions comes down to about 80 minutes of wonderful fantasy music (I could just barely fit it on one CD).

Buying the album from Amazon I also first used their mp3 download application, which indeed makes downloading the music fast and easy. The application will create a folder in your “My Music” folder for itself and in that will create another folder for the mp3s. As it finishes downloading songs it’ll add them automatically to Windows Media Player’s library, which I was less enamored with since I don’t use Windows Media Player at all if I can help it, but it’s a minor annoyance (and I haven’t looked at options yet; the application is very minimal in your taskbar’s icon tray) and you can play the mp3s just fine in whatever application you choose (including copying them to whatever mp3 player you use or burning them to cd).

Anyway, if you love the Dragon Age music (by composer Inon Zur; possibly his best work yet) then I can definitely recommend the soundtrack.

For a few bits of other news, it seems that Dragon Age: Origins has moved more than one million pieces of DLC, [url=http://www.vg247.com/2009/12/09/dragon- ... /:2kjoz3dd]as VG247 reports[/url:2kjoz3dd]:

[quote:2kjoz3dd] More than 1 million pieces of Dragon Age: Origins DLC have now been sold, EA boss John Riccitiello’s told [url=http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/research/le ... /:2kjoz3dd]NBR[/url:2kjoz3dd].

“We said that Dragon Age… sold really, really well, and actually did a million pieces of downloadable content already, which is an astonishing outcome,” said the exec.

Dragon Age, BioWare’s latest fantasy RPG, shipped globally in early November.[/quote:2kjoz3dd]
Of course you can interpret that statement two ways; either they sold one million DLC (as VG247 seems to interpret it) or one million DLC were downloaded. It’s an important distinction considering that every new copy of the game came with a piece of free DLC that you had to download (namely The Stone Prisoner). The first interpretation is far more impressive than the second.

And finally, not entirely Dragon Age: Origins related, EuroGamer is having a [url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/reade ... y:2kjoz3dd]top 50 games of 2009 survey[/url:2kjoz3dd]. Here they ask you to give your top 5 games of 2009 across all platforms (and from all games that have been released). So I’d say get in there and vote Dragon Age: Origins your number one; that might teach them to 'lowball' the game’s score. ;)


[[url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... W:2kjoz3dd]link[/url:2kjoz3dd]] to soundtrack at Amazon.
[[url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dragon-Age-Orig ... 1:2kjoz3dd]link[/url:2kjoz3dd]] to soundtrack at Amazon UK.
[[url=http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dragon ... 5:2kjoz3dd]link[/url:2kjoz3dd]] to soundtrack at iTunes.
[[url=http://www.vg247.com/2009/12/09/dragon- ... /:2kjoz3dd]link[/url:2kjoz3dd]] to 1 million DLC news at VG247.
[[url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/reade ... y:2kjoz3dd]link[/url:2kjoz3dd]] to top 50 games of 2009 survey at EuroGamer.


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