Year: 2017
Type: Original Soundtrack (OST)
Composer(s): Grant Kirkhope
Number of tracks: 12

★★★★★

Drip drop, the sound of flop

What is DropzoneIf you ask the internet this question, you'll initially be directed to a storage app. YouTube videos with the title refer to unspectacular gaming collages, aftermovies of a festival, or excerpts from the 1994 film of the same name. Wikipedia? There's a game called Dropzone, but it's almost 40 years old and was released for the Atari 8-Bit and C64. But this Dropzone is from 2017! Luckily, I found the Steam page for the game ; otherwise, I would have seriously doubted my research skills.

Dropzone appears to be a sci-fi MOBA, even though the product page promotes it as a top-down strategy game with 3vs3, 2vs2, and 1vs1 game modes. A bit of DOTA meets StarCraft. According to reviews, however, it's a rather mediocre fusion. The fact that the game is still in Early Access since its release on February 15, 2017, doesn't bode well. So why am I wasting my valuable life on it? Because the soundtrack comes from a composer who knows his craft.

Grant Kirkhope should be familiar to readers of this website by now, as he created true classics like Donkey Kong 64 and GoldenEye 007 . Did he achieve the same with Dropzone ? Well... no. For anyone who has played a futuristic action-focused game, familiar sounds will be ringing in their ears. Less entertaining than Overwatch and less spectacular than Supreme Commander, the twelve-track score sounds like it's borrowed from any run-of-the-mill superhero movie: suitable in the heat of battle, the OST, for me, falls somewhere in the middle, surrounded by Titanfall, Warhead , and Wagner frozen pizza.

No.	Title	Artist(s)	Ratings
01	Dropzone	Grant Kirkhope	4
02	Orbiting	Grant Kirkhope	2
03	Core Hunting	Grant Kirkhope	4
04	Core Rush	Grant Kirkhope	4
05	First Drop	Grant Kirkhope	3
06	Bug Crushing	Grant Kirkhope	4
07	Gear Up	Grant Kirkhope	3
08	Landfall in 10	Grant Kirkhope	3
09	Juggernaut	Grant Kirkhope	4
10	Poachers	Grant Kirkhope	4
11	The Beneath	Grant Kirkhope	4
12	Welcome to Europa	Grant Kirkhope	4