Year: 2010
Type: Original Soundtrack (OST)
Composer(s): Mike Morasky
Number of tracks: 5

★★★★★

Too alien

People who have never heared of Alien Swarm can be assured at this point that they have not missed anything. The isoperspective shooter programmed by an original mod team for Valve is only worth mentioning insofar as it was one of the first freeware titles to appear exclusively on Valve's own (and at the time still relatively new) sales platform Steam. Apart from that, there's really nothing more to say about the game: it's enjoyable, fun and hardly worth mentioning.

Fortunately, the same cannot be said about the OST, which was composed by Valve composer Mike Morasky. There are good approaches to be heard, which we already know from previous titles such as Left for Dead or Portal kennen. Besonders Timor Battle könnte in dieser Form auch in einem Action-Piece aus Gordon Freemans zweitem Auftritt stammen. Insgesamt fehlt es dem Score jedoch an nennenswerten Tracks, was bei einem Umfang von fünf Stücken wohl kaum überraschen sollte. Wer Lust auf treibende Technobeats und ein wenig Future-Wa-Wa hat, kann gerne mal reinhören – ein Meisterwerk sollte man nur nicht erwarten.

No.	Title	Artist(s)	Ratings
1	Elevator Battle	Mike Morasky	4
2	Timor Battle	Mike Morasky	4
3	Briefing Main	Mike Morasky	2
4	Ryberg Battle	Mike Morasky	4
5	Adrenaline	Mike Morasky	3