A mid-2000s MMO score that actually bothered to differentiate its factions. Each colonial power gets its own travel themes and port music, so the French ports carry a different flavor than the British ones, which sound distinct from the pirate harbors.
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The pirate travel tracks lean on fiddles and rolling percussion, properly salty. "Tides Of Fire" from the E3 trailer goes big and cinematic, all brass and drama. The port music scales with town size, small ports getting intimate arrangements while capitol ports swell into full orchestral territory.
It's functional game music done with real craft. Worth hearing if you've ever wondered what an age-of-sail MMO actually sounded like when the genre was booming.