Ok I have to say something about this.
The game itself was lazy, just lazy. I have never seen a more phoned in attempt as a video game in a very long time. I mean it's just......Blegh!
The word mediocre is too good for it. I wont reiterate or bore you with what's already been said. Everything that is wrong with this game has already been commented on, but I will talk about one thing that really bugged me, that no one seemed to really talk about.
The music, Now dont get me wrong, The music in itself was pretty good, but some of the choices were just lazy and not thought out.
Like Mutt's theme showing up or the many instances where Irna's theme plays in some of the cut scenes. I can forgive the usage of the Ark theme when Indy finds the Journal in Panama just barely, but then they used Irna's theme right after that, UGH!! That irked me.
Dont even get me started on the use of Marion's theme at the end.
I hate it when they do stuff like this. Lucasarts does it a lot with Star Wars games. The Ewok theme, Jabba The Hutt's theme or Yoda's theme showing up when your no where near any Ewoks or Jabba or Yoda.
I mean Composer Gordy Habb did a pretty good job with the original music he did compose for the game and I do want to get my hands on it as it's really good, but I don't understand why Lucasarts did not go all the way and had him compose an entirely new music score using The Raider's March like Clint Bajakian did for ET.
He wrote an amazing score for ET. Full of great original themes and still used the Raider's March plenty of times to keep a film score buff and theme fanatic like me happy.
I think you can all now see that I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to film scores and thematic continuity and appropriateness.
I mean it makes no sense to me why They would not have him compose an original score. It's like the satchel thing. It makes no logical sense Every time I heard a theme that did not belong it irked me.
The Only theme I should be hearing on a regular basis during cut scenes and within the context of the game play itself is the Raiders March.
This is by now means ment as any sort of insult to Gordy Habb, His music was amazing in it. But what puzzles me the most is why they did not just have him score the whole game, cutscenes and all with an original score still using the Raider's March.
There was no reason to have Irna's theme or Short Round's theme or Marion's theme or even The Ark theme to show up at all. Again it was just lazy and showed a complete lack of effort.