Since EA Sports has grown into the continent's leading brand for sports video game software, Electronic Arts has worked up more information regarding their fall lineup of franchise games. Since EA Sports has their main programming hub in Burnaby, B.C., you would expect them to know how to produce the best hockey game imaginable. So compared to the other franchises out there, EA Sports is able to deliver the NHL action to it's full potential."Hockey is an amazingly visceral sport and we wanted the soundtrack to be every bit as powerful. We are really proud that the line-up of artists in the game are all true hockey fans from major hockey towns," said Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive of Music and Music Marketing at EA.Particular to the hockey game, since 2000, EA has used in-Game music with their franchise titles and have painstakingly brought in bands from NHL cities. Minneapolis, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal and yes, even Pittsburgh has a band in this latest edition. They even went exotic to include a Swedish and Australian band. Bad Religion didn't make the cut.
It's possible for the kind of exposure for bands to get a boost in airplay. I've been able to identify bands featured on the pro football games in the past and enjoy their work.
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(Disclaimer: I am not a compensated endorser of EA Sports)
2 comments:
I didn't like alot of the music on NHL 06, so hopefully this soundtrack will be better.
The last great EA NHL game soundtrack was 2002, IMHO. A lot of the songs on there were good, and I dug that the Barenaked Ladies had an original (AND AWESOME) song in there. As a matter of fact, whenever I put together my own hockey psyche-up CDs/playlists, I almost ALWAYS include "It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland)" AND go as far as saying that is the best damn song the Ladies have ever done.
Is EA still including rap on the hockey soundtracks? I know they are for the Tiger Woods golf games...*very needless* to say, DMX and golf do not mix. o_O
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