While the reasons may be obvious to some of you, allow me to illustrate with two youtube clips:

Mark Morgan. Great mood, great sounds, simply GREAT in all ways:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0UrrVfYLBc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tliHaaziI_Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDSb4EwQCPg&feature=related

And here's the composer from Fallout 3. Hollywoodish string arrangements that could have been taken from some major action/adventure movie.(Some parts of the music is really good, but PLEASE, it does not suit a Fallout game. This track kicks ass but it ruins the Fallout mood... I feel more like it belongs in a WWII game or a Batman movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN0AE9lEruY

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ agree, huge difference, listening morgan music while playing FO3 improved my gaming experience with 30%, it was the only way for me to feel FO3 more like fallout

I know there is a mod for the PC players to replace the FO3 with the FO2 music... can't remember where to find it right now but you can probably just google it.

The mood is more dark, its good but i think it didnt matches with the style bethesda developed.

I don't like either (for the game). I turn the music off, it takes me 'out' of the experience too much. Even the big music replacer mod (it's on the nexus, btw), bugs me. The radio stations are okay only because there's an explanation for them, and even then... Anyway, I really don't get the music thing. I feel much more in character and isolated with no music.

Mark Morgan is excellent. Inon Zur is not bad too, sir. Check out the work he did on Icewind Dale and Throne of Bhaal(now that is really EPIC!).

I agree Mark Morgan is great but i haven't heard any action tracks in the first two Fallout games. Maybe he should combine efforts with another composer. And just for the record, Fallout 3 doesn't sound anything like Batman. <_<

A Fallout game doesn't need "action" music IMO... I don't want it to be an action game. I want it to be a slow paced RPG and strategic combat game.

Zur's music is great.

The combat music and the concept of it is bad - Beth should abandon it and leave just background ambient music instead.


But yeah, I wanna hear Morgan's work in FO4, definitely.

I loved Fallout 3 but probably the biggest gripe I had about the game was the music. It wasn't that the music for Fallout 3 was bad, just that it didn't feel like Fallout. Hopefully for Fallout 2 Bethesda brings Mark Morgan back, or are at least brings in a composer who is able to do similar work. The great thing about Mark Morgan is that his tracks really set the mood for whatever area you were in. Fallout 3 wasn't able to do that.

Two of my favorite tracks from Fallout 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghYQd3h-7RM

That one played in the Den and also at the Raider Camp. Even the track comes across as being menacing as hell, and conveys that you better tread carefully.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teckDmaZf98

That one played in Modoc, a small and isolated farming town in the wasteland. It was peaceful, relatively safe and was in a small way an example of society rebuilding. It was growing crops which could be traded all around California, and to a wasteland wanderer must have seemed like an oasis in the desert. Once again the music conveys that perfectly and sets the mood.

Actually, i believe it is pretty easy to replace the soundtrack from Fallout 3 with the orginal scores. I recalled doing the same with fallout tactics/fallout1,2.

I just replaced the folder containing the fallout 3 music and dropped in the fallout soundtracks I liked... Fired it up and seemed to work fine.