Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Arrival: Luck
2. Medley: Sierra 117: Released/Wild Life/Another Walk
3. Medley: Sierra 117: Infiltrate/Move On
4. Medley: Crow's Nest: Honorable Intentions
5. Medley: Crow's Nest: Last Of the Brave/Cold Logic/Cool Temperament
6. Medley: Crow's Nest: Brutes/Lost/Dream Again/We're Done Here
7. Medley: Tsavo Highway: Out Of Shadow/Into Light
8. Medley: Tsavo Highway: To Kill a Demon/Ancient Dust/Punch Through/Underestimated
9. Medley: The Storm: This Is Our Land/To Turn a Tide/Innocents Of Voi
10. The Storm: This Is the Hour
11. Medley: Floodgate: Dread Intrusion/Black Tide/Old Friend
12. Floodgate: Follow Our Brothers
13. Medley: The Ark: Farthest Outpost/No Time For Sightseeing/Make Them Pay
14. Medley: The Ark: Behold a Pale Horse/Reconciled/Overcome/Small Victory
15. The Ark: Edge Closer

Disc 2:

1. Medley: The Covenant: Three Gates/Ascent/Leonidas Returns
2. Medley: The Covenant: Black Tower/Heroes Also Fall
3. The Covenant: One Final Effort
4. Medley: The Covenant: Gravemind/Fated Journey/Flee/Familiar Ring
5. Medley: Cortana: No More Dead Heroes/Watching
6. Medley: Cortana: Keep What You Steal/Escape
7. Medley: Halo: Halo Reborn/Guilt And Punishment
8. Medley: Halo: Greatest Journey/Flood Rising/Halo Finale
9. Ending: Tribute
10. Medley: Ending: Roll Call/Duty Bound/Price Paid
11. Ending: Wake Me When You Need Me
12. Ending: Legend
13. Choose Wisely
14. Movement
15. Never Forget
16. Finish the Fight
17. Bonus Track

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22394 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-20
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Soundtrack
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Amazon.com
In terms of mood (both martial and eerie) and structure (the score is divided into 10 suites), there's no major departure from the previous installments in the Halo series here. The biggest difference is that this time, composers Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori seemed to have had a bigger budget and were able to hire a large orchestra. Where the synthetic feel of the previous two CDs sometimes made them feel a little thin and cheap, Halo 3 has the means to match its ambitions: This music would not shame a big-budget Hollywood sci-fi/action movie. Tracks such as "To Kill a Demon" and "This Is the Hour" (both of which, typically, recycle the composers' own themes) illustrate well this expanded sonic palette. The second CD ends with a hidden track ("Love Your Friends") by a band called Princeton, a fairly run-of-the-mill pop-punk effort which won a competition to be included on the soundtrack and which feels jarring compared to the rest of the music here. --Elisabeth Vincentelli