Wrong turn

When the time came to score the music for the Firestorm expansion pack, Klepacki and the producer decided that the music should be more upbeat and a return to the original style of the music of Command & Conquer.

That's what the corresponding entry in the CnC-wiki. However, anyone expecting a complete departure from what they heard in the main game will hardly be satisfied. In fact, most of the eleven tracks in the add-on are not lacking in gloomy tones - despite the absence of Jarrid Mendelson. Rain in the Night 2, Infiltration, Hacker or Elusive continue the tradition of the main game and present a mixture of anxiety and excitement.

Games from the Command & Conquer-series

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn (1995)

Command & Conquer: Red Alert (1996)

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (1999)

Anomalies, on the other hand, are tracks such as Slave to the System, Killing Machine or Initiate, whose style we would rather expect to find in a Red Alert . Here, Klepacki shows off his usual hard rock repertoire by hammering away at the guitar and combining it with driving beats. As a fan of the Tiberian Sun-OST, I can understand these attempts at diversification, but for me the music in the expansion unfortunately doesn't reach the quality of the main game. Conversely, it is perhaps more for fans of the 'historical' spin-off.