Year: 1999
Type: Gamerip
Composer(s): Mike Morasky
Number of tracks: 5

★★★★★

Nothing

Video games are great. Video games make you creative. And video games can bring in a lot of money. It doesn't always have to be the big development studio that creates something unprecedented. Sometimes it's also simple mods, i.e. small fan modifications that build on existing games. For example, the ARMA 2 mod DayZ and its further development PlayerUnknown’s Battleground (PUBG for short) founded the battle royale shooter genre. Or the Defence of the Ancients mod for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its addon The Frozen Throne, which IP owner Blizzard simply turned into its own MOBA called DOTA.

However, the undisputed king of such adaptations is probably Steam operator Valve. They achieved this success with two brands at once: First, they hired the developers of the Counter-Strike mod for the Half-Life - everyone knows what became of that. But it was similar with Team Fortress Classic , except that Team Fortress was originally a Quake-mod. Not only was it a modification of another game, but it also laid the foundations for the money-printing machine that years later became the great and (a little later) hat-infested Team Fortress 2 brand.

Team Fortress: Classic (1999)

Team Fortress 2 (2007)

Why am I telling you all this? Well, on the one hand, I found it intriguing to look at this subject in a little more detail. On the other hand, because there would be nothing else to talk about in this review. Because the soundtrack to Team Fortress Classic is a gamerip whose five tracks have a total duration of 32 seconds. That's right: seconds.

This means it even undercuts the standard of the gamerip for Counter-Strike: Source, which I actually only wrote as a stopgap at the time. But whereas there was at least something resembling music to be heard with the radio tracks, even that is missing here. Only "End Game" and the identical "End Game 2" are a dramatic, five-second-long rant. The rest are "Goal" (applause), "Party 1" (indefinable roar) and "Party 2" (fireworks), which sound as if they are coming from a neighbor's house due to their poor audio quality.

Composer Mike Morasky adds nothing to the history of video games here, even though this was presumably not the intention. Am I still disappointed? In a way, yes. It could have been something nice. Well, shit happens.

Nr.	Title	Interpret(en)	Ratings
01	Goal	Mike Morasky	1
02	Party 1	Mike Morasky	1
03	Party 2	Mike Morasky	1
04	End Game	Mike Morasky	1
05	End Game 2	Mike Morasky	1