Year: 2002
Type: Original Soundtrack (OST)
Composer(s): Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan
Number of tracks: 17

★★★★★

Age of methodology

If I had been able to create the game of my dreams as a child, gods and legends surely would have been a part of it. I simply love the supernatural, the fantastic. Combined with wisdom and teachings, these stories always have a facet that goes beyond mere entertainment. So it's all the more surprising that I never played Age of Mythology , which transports the Age of Empires-gameplay into a mythological setting and lets us send centaurs, giants and famous heroes from the various cultures like Odysseus onto the field. However, I will probably not give it a go, because the leap to 3D means that the ravages of time, as with Empire Earth or Age of Empires III have not been kind to the graphics.

Be that as it may, this is not about the game but about the music. It comprises 17 tracks composed by Stephen Rippy and Kevin McMullan, all of which are in the vein of their Age-predecessors and definitely worth listening to. With the exception of "Eat Your Potatoes", there are no real missteps. Connoisseurs of Age of Empires and Age of Empires II will recognize certain instrumentations, especially tracks such as "Suture Self" and "Flavor Cats (In the Comfort Zone)" waving overtly from the neighbouring table at a family dinner.

Newcomers can expect a nice mixture of low-fi ambient droning, heroic moods of departure ("A Cat Named Mittens"), cultural tropes such as "The Ballad of Ace LeBaron" and "Behold the Great Science Fi" (oriental) or "In a Pile of Its Own Good" (Far Eastern). All in all, a good continuation of the familiar, albeit a little experimentation beyond the reggae excesses towards the end ("Gary's Reserve (End Credits)") would certainly have been interesting. The only thing that can really be said is that Age of Mythology in terms of gameplay is something completely different from its siblings, but musically it can pass as a twin.

Nr.	Title	Interpret(en)	Ratings
01	A Cat Named Mittens	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	4
02	Eat Your Potatoes	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	2
03	Chocolate Outline	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	3
04	Never Mind the Slacks and Bashers	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	3
05	Suture Self	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	4
06	Flavor Cats (In the Comfort Zone)	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	5
07	(Fine Layers of) Slaysenflite	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	3
08	Hoping for Real Betterness	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	4
09	Adult Swim	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	3
10	The Ballad of Ace LeBaron	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	4
11	In a Pile of Its Own Good	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	3
12	Behhold the Great Science Fi	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	3
13	Have Yoo Met Her Thunder (Trailer)	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	3
14	If You Can Use a Doorknob (Victory Theme)	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	4
15	Ma'am...Some Other Sunset (Defeat Theme)	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	3
16	Gary's Reserve (End Credits)	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	3
17	Eat Your Potatoes [Quiet Mix]	Stephen Rippy; Kevin McMullan	2