Crysis 2's soundtrack was nothing to write home about. "Wow, Hans Zimmer!!" ...but he only wrote one miserable track, and it's not even that good considering his talent. I think they just wanted to tack his name onto the box as a marketing gimmick. It reminds me how so much was made of Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean voicing characters in Oblivion, like it somehow made up for the fact that the other 90% of the voice acting was downright atrocious.
I sure hope the new Mirror's Edge game has the same composer. The music isn't really my style, but it fit so beautifully with the game that I can't imagine them being able to re-capture the same atmosphere otherwise.
There was nothing close to "atrocious" about Oblivion's voice acting. On the contrary, it was quite good.
The problem was that there were literally hundreds of voiced NPCs, and a couple dozen voice actors, leading to too many characters sounding like the guy you just talked to.
But that's not the voice talent's fault. And honestly, it was on par with (or better) than much of Skyrim's talent.
I'm willing to cut it some slack when
every single NPC can be spoken to, rather than many you just walk by and they say the equivalent of "Oh hey...sup?" ...and that's all.
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