Call me before you’re dead; we’ll make some plans instead
The Underwater Cavern, by Michael Land. From Lucasarts and The Dig, the novel-soundtrack-adventure game crossover that didn’t work the way everyone thought it would.
You can’t fault it for its ambition, though, and it never hurts to have music that makes you feel truly like being lost on an abandoned, alien world.
So I'm done having killer mysterious headaches and surprising personal calamities and getting doubly suprising promotions. I Twitter now (peep that HA HA HA see what I did there) and I'm back to blogging, so it's now officially more than you can stand.
Chris
March 13th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Loved this game. I happen to also own the novel, and a copy of the soundtrack.
The opening cinematic is the best piece of music in the game, IMHO.
Ahh, memories. I miss the old LucasArts adventure games, particularly Monkey Island and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Good times.
Mike
March 13th, 2008 at 9:14 am
The opening cinematic is awesome, and I think that’s really where you get the Speilburgian feel from the whole thing.
The pity about the Fate of Atlantis music is that nobody ever modernized it — Monkey Island got a revamp treatment, but alas for the Indy games.
Too bad, too, because some of it was excellent.
“How many beads?”
“NO BEADS!!!”