Medal of Honor: Frontline Soundtrack Review (Part 3 of 3)

The tracks are harder to review as standalone songs because many of them are connected to next track and the track after that. All the tracks are good, but here are a few tracks that are the best ones.

Operation Market Garden: This is track opens on a strong drumbeat and gives us our first introduction to the young male soloist. His voice is haunting as he sings the MOH series theme. A muted trumpet and strings take over with a new theme. Giacchino does a wonderful bit of foreshadowing with the ‘Panzer Attack’ theme being played on the Timpani drums. We also get a sad theme on the clarinet, and the rest orchestra joins in. It keeps building and building. We then hear the proud MOH theme build to a nice finish with the ‘Panzer’ drum solo ending the track. This leads to…

Border Town: I like how this track opens up with the same Panzer drum solo, and the track already uses one of the new themes in this score. There is a great trumpet solo here.

After the Drop: This is probably one of the best tracks on the score. The young boy returns for another solo, hitting very high notes. You have to listen to it feel the passion in this piece. There are some amazing chorus parts in here. Again, Giacchino writes the chorus section as he would a pipe organ. I also like his strong use of the French horns as a counter melody. The track ends on the child again and an uneasy MOH theme. Simply beautiful…

The Rowhouses: Okay, I really love this track a lot. My favorite theme from the first game, Panzer Attack, makes a grand appearance. There’s a powerful tuba solo and cool use of a freaking anvil. Yes, they use an anvil. The Panzer theme gets louder and louder. Damn I love this theme. The track starts to get interesting around the 2:00 mark.

Arnhem: What can’t I say about this track? This is the reason to get this score. This track alone is single-handily the best track period. The child singer returns and this is pretty much his song. The rest of the chorus comes in both the boy and adult groups and it builds until it reaches it peak. (Around the 4:13 mark listen for a restrained group of male voices, you can almost miss it.) You will have to hear this one.

Sturmgeist's Armored Train: There are two tracks that are before this one, and they are combined to make a suite. The one will remind people of some of the chase themes Williams used for Superman: The Movie.

Overall Grade: A-