Eight unlabeled tracks from the music sampler for Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter — a 2003 FPS that tried to seamlessly blend on-foot shooting with spaceship combat. Developed by Eurocom and published by Vivendi Universal, it was one of those mid-2000s sci-fi shooters that aimed high and landed somewhere in the bargain bin.
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The music, though, had ambition. The score drew from cinematic sci-fi traditions — orchestral bombast for space combat, tension-building ambient work for the on-foot stealth and combat sections. Eight tracks on a sampler CD means this was a promotional release, likely bundled with the game or distributed at retail.
The lack of track names is typical of sampler discs from this era. Mace Griffin featured voice acting from Henry Rollins as the titular bounty hunter, which tells you something about the game's tone — gruff, no-nonsense space noir.
Eight anonymous tracks preserving whatever orchestral-electronic hybrid score accompanied Mace through prison breaks and deep space bounties. A sampler for a forgotten game, but promotional soundtrack CDs from 2003 are exactly the kind of artifact collectors hunt for.