Resident Evil 2 Soundtrack - The Basement Of Police Station [R.P.D.] video free download


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Uploaded: 2011/04/23

It was a real thrill to finally get this album and hear it for the first time in my CD player. I knew the music very well from having played the game countless times, and the music has, from the first, been such a key part of what makes the game a slick movie-like experience.

More so than with the soundtrack album of the first game, this album sounds like a classy piece of film score. There is one composer in common with the first soundtrack, Masami Ueda, who went on to co-score Resident Evil 3 as well. Working with just one other collaborator this time, the Resident Evil 2 score has a more consistent style. It is influenced by Brad Fiedel's Terminator scores, with a lesser touch of Hans Zimmer and Nick Glennie Smith's The Rock, but his use of rich-sounding piano keeps it from sounding too much like a pastiche. The piano element, when used for the creepy effect, is perhaps a little obvious, but when it's used to convey softer emotions, it is quite elegant.

All the memorable tunes are here, including (best of all for me) the beautifully haunting save-room theme, which often makes me linger in save rooms when playing the game. Titled `A Secure Place', it unfortunately runs only 54 seconds on the album, though this is understandable as it is meant to be an indefinitely-looping piece of music. While this is true of most of the music, other pieces are admittedly more varied and justify longer representation on the album. It can be a little disconcerting, by the way, that some pieces come to an end by suddenly fading out.

There is an odd discrepancy in the track numbering at the beginning, so cue 6 in the listing is actually cue 9. A minor gripe is that the first section of the album features music from the end of the game. A much better way to listen is to order the cues as they occur in the story.

I am a lifelong fan of film scores, and Resident Evil 2 was perhaps the first game score to win my respect. Ueda's style may be derivative, but it is distinctive and he has here co-created a great score for a great game.

Comments

5 years ago

Ja Ja

When I first entered this area, the first thing I heard was the pat pat pat of the dog walking. I wasn't sure what it was, but had a strong feeling it was a freaking dog so I stood there for about 3 minutes, terrified not moving. When I finally grew some nuts and walked around the corner, the camera shifted to the hallway and the dog was walking straight towards my location. I immediately ran back upstairs.

5 years ago

TheKeeperx313

Dude when I was 5 I would hate this going down there

5 years ago

Tony

Original RE2 soundtrack will be back in the RE2 remake if you buy the exclusive version for 69.99. To me it’s worth it just for this theme alone. Can’t wait!

5 years ago

Extramediumplease

This better be in the remake

5 years ago

Ben Angel

tick-tick tick-tick tick-tick

5 years ago

Jeffrey Gibbons

There’s a reason why I still have my original RE2 game and RE3 Nemesis. I absolutely love and will always love RESIDENT EVIL. I grew up playing these games when I was a kid and it scared the shit outta me but still played it late at night regardless of how scared I was, I Loved It! So many memories with this game and Nemesis. It’s like opening your childhood all over again when you play it. It’s crazy I even remember where everything is, where to go, all the clues and secrets to the game. My friends now watching me play ask me how I know everything and I just laugh.

5 years ago

Jeffrey Gibbons

Lol I love the resident evil music! It’s so terrifying. When you first enter the basement of the RPD and you hear this music, your like wtf is about to happen.

5 years ago

John Jr Gonzalez

I heard this theme one of narration mr. nightmare good one

5 years ago

Joshua Foote

I guess you found out what Brian Irons has been doing to the women that were mentioned to be missing in the newspapers.

6 years ago

Patrick Dumas

I remember hearing this for the first time it gave me chills. Now these days whenever I'm in kind of a dark or night filled place, including basements, this creepy music just drones into my thoughts. I also remember I worked in a hospital with the maintenance group and sometimes we had to do some work in the basement as well, which is where the morgue was, and very spooky. Hearing this music makes me think of it.

6 years ago

Shotgun barrel nostrils

Shit evil

6 years ago

NoVA 06

"Let me guess you must be Ben GET UP NOW"

6 years ago

mariutunio

"Autopsy Room"It's locked. A club is etched under the key hole.

6 years ago

randy8483

oh so very 90s. nostalgia

6 years ago

RJ Macready

This song feels like a dank basement, Ueda is a genius

6 years ago

TestSubject Havoc

I remember listening to this and turning the TV down because I hated this theme because it always gave me an overwhelming sense of dread.

6 years ago

Mcnight Smith

fuck that music makes penny wise look tame

6 years ago

GameTest Meta

Alone in the House and overall light out and headphone with this theme

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