There's also another format called yellowbook, which works kinda like dynamic music but still streams off the cd. For some reason nobody really knows about it but we are looking into it. We believe that an mpg3 real-time player would be the best solution for both worlds. We are working on this as well. We would ve maybe liked to put a couple of more real Sonic Mayhem vibe tracks in q2 but again id was very specific in terms of music style and that s not really a bad thing.
Music is already an important element of the whole experience.
Soon there ll be no difference between making music for movies or games. There ll be music mixed in 5.1 surround sound and 24-bit. Whether you want music or ambience it really depends on the game and the story. The NIN albums definitely had an influence on us. Even though you might say q2 music doesn t sound anything like NIN, it still had the biggest influence on us.