Posted May 15, 2010
Hi everyone, I'm new here and just wanted to know what the difference is between "in-game soundtrack" and just "soundtrack"?
maxman43
THE BISHOP
Registered: May 2010
From United States
Wishbone
Red herring
Registered: Oct 2008
From Denmark
Posted May 15, 2010
I assume you're talking about extras for a specific game?
My guess would be that, if both are listed, then the one labelled simply "soundtrack" is an officially released soundtrack, which may not necessarily contain all tracks from the game, and may contain some tracks not actually in the game, while the "in-game soundtrack" contains every track played in the game, and only those.
maxman43
THE BISHOP
Registered: May 2010
From United States
Posted May 15, 2010
My guess would be that, if both are listed, then the one labelled simply "soundtrack" is an officially released soundtrack, which may not necessarily contain all tracks from the game, and may contain some tracks not actually in the game, while the "in-game soundtrack" contains every track played in the game, and only those.
Oh awesome thanks for clearing things up. And I'm talking about extras in general; I noticed that some games had soundtrack listed as an extra and some games had in-game soundtrack, and was wondering what the difference was.
Wishbone
Red herring
Registered: Oct 2008
From Denmark
Prator
Reasonable-ish
Registered: Oct 2008
From United States
Posted May 15, 2010
I'm not sure there is any functional difference, actually. I'm looking through the lists of games I own, and how the "soundtrack" download is labeled, and it seems to be slightly different for every game. Yes, many are labeled "soundtrack" or "in-game soundtrack" or "[game title] soundtrack," but I cannot see a definite pattern to the naming system.
For instance, "UFO tracks" has some of the musical scores from UFO: Aftermath, but not the ambient music tracks that play during actual missions. The "soundtrack" from Giants: Citizen Kabuto has ALL of the music that plays during the game, including some incidental things that you only hear during cutscenes, like the British national anthem. "in-game soundtrack" from Earth: 2150 also has every piece of music that plays during the game EXCEPT for incidental cutscene music.
For instance, "UFO tracks" has some of the musical scores from UFO: Aftermath, but not the ambient music tracks that play during actual missions. The "soundtrack" from Giants: Citizen Kabuto has ALL of the music that plays during the game, including some incidental things that you only hear during cutscenes, like the British national anthem. "in-game soundtrack" from Earth: 2150 also has every piece of music that plays during the game EXCEPT for incidental cutscene music.
maxman43
THE BISHOP
Registered: May 2010
From United States
Posted May 15, 2010
For instance, "UFO tracks" has some of the musical scores from UFO: Aftermath, but not the ambient music tracks that play during actual missions. The "soundtrack" from Giants: Citizen Kabuto has ALL of the music that plays during the game, including some incidental things that you only hear during cutscenes, like the British national anthem. "in-game soundtrack" from Earth: 2150 also has every piece of music that plays during the game EXCEPT for incidental cutscene music.
thanks for the info, it pretty much answers everything I was wondering about.