Overwatch: Collector's Edition Soundtrack

Recently, when we talk about the most popular game, Overwatch must have a role to play. Released in June 2016, It has appealed over 20 million "members of Overwatch" until now and brought huge profit to the developer, Blizzard Entertainment. As a whole new first person shooting game, of course, it does have better graphic and sound effects. However, compared to other FPS games in the gaming market, which more characters, more strategies, and more team works are the highlights of Overwatch. Each characters has its own abilities and own story, which makes the gaming experience much more interesting while playing with different characters in different battlefields. 

Screenshot of "Overwatch Cinematic Trailer"

Still, despite Overwatch is famous for its gaming experience, it also has much to talk about the soundtrack. The whole music in the album could be divided into three parts, music of preview animations, maps, and interludes of the game. For preview animations, the music of them usually includes multi-oriented features which related to the animations' plot. Take "The World Could Always Use More Hero (Cinematic Intro)" for example, it was used in the "Overwatch Cinematic Trailer" as a commercial advertisement before the game release, briefly illustrated the structure of Overwatch's story and maybe the motivation of two kids to become a hero that fight against villains.

Beginning of the game in "Route 66"

End of the game in "Hollywood"

The music of maps are varies since there are a pile of maps with varies style. "Hanamura", "Temple of Anubis", "Hollywood", "Route 66", and even "Nepal" have their own features of Japan, Egypt, LA, Midwest, and temple of Nepal. These music would be played in the preparing period of game before having a exciting battle in these delicate maps. Finally, the highlight or the play of the game would be showed after having a fierce fight, which every player would like or even eager to get the MVP of the game. "Victory" is the most essential part with inspiring and exciting mood, which is very impressive that we would think of the play of the game whenever we hear it.

We all want to be the MVP of the game, since there would be a replay of your excellent performance.

Watching the play of the game feels quite good if you are the MVP and got lots of kills.

Album Information:

1. Overture - Sam Cardon
2. Rally the Heroes - Derek Duke
3. Temple of Anubis - Derek Duke
4. The World Could Always Use More Heroes (Cinematic Intro) - Neal Acree, Sam Cardon, Derek Duke & Cris Velasco
5. King’s Row - Derek Duke
6. Legacy - Cris Velasco
7. Prepare to Attack - Neal Acree & Derek Duke
8. Hanamura - Derek Duke
9. Old Soldier - Derek Duke
10. Watchpoint: Gibraltar - Derek Duke
11. Numbani - Derek Duke
12. Situation Critical - Derek Duke
13. Hollywood - Derek Duke & Adam Burgess
14. A Future Worth Fight For - Derek Duke
15. Volskaya Industries - Derek Duke
16. Dorado - Derek Duke
17. Victory - Neal Acree & Derek Duke
18. Route 66 - Derek Duke
19. We Are Overwatch - Neal Acree & Derek Duke
20. Nepal - Derek Duke
21. …And Overwatch for All - Sam Cardon, Cris Velasco & Derek Duke

Ref:

1. Overwatch Soundtrack Review - Soundtrack Geek

2. Overwatch Game Audio Review - The Sound Architect