Everyone always moans when I mention anything like that, but seriously, it hampers this. The problem is there’s so much of it – there are animals that have gestation periods shorter than this album. Even when it does take a breather there’s still quality: I love the raw emotion of the pared-down “Fare Thee Well”. The entertaining music is largely action-based, only occasionally pausing for breath, and it’s very enjoyable stuff. The jaunty main theme isn’t that far away from the lively jig in the first Pirates of the Caribbean score another theme (introduced in “In This World or the One Below”) has a bass pattern not unlike that in the second Pirates score’s “The Kraken”. As often seems to be the case with his music these days, Tyler’s score is essentially a brilliantly-orchestrated, expensive-sounding version of the Remote Control sound. The first three games in the mainstream series were scored by Jesper Kyd and he was joined on the fourth by Lorne Balfe this time round, the ever-busy Brian Tyler provides the music (does the guy ever sleep!?) Perhaps not surprisingly, its high seas musical inspiration comes not from Erich Wolfgang Korngold but from Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer. Despite its title, it’s actually the tenth game in the franchise (different games having been released for different consoles). The latest instalment in the popular video game franchise, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag sees the player travel back on the high seas to the time of the pirates (Caribbean, not Somali).

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