Music (especially the main menu)

[Dilbert12]

Hi, I really love the intro/main menu music for CivIV...is there any way to extract that song from the data files?

[Kardinal]

From the game root directory:

\Assets\Sounds\Soundtrack

You are looking for:
OpeningMenu.mp3

[Raion]

That song is a version in Swahili of the Lord's Prayer -- 'Baba Yetu' and means loosely:

Our Father, I praise you!
Our Father, I love you!
Our Father, forgive me my trespasses!
Our Father, who Art in Heaven, Hallowed by thy Name!

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-swahili.html

or something like that when translated -- supposedly done by an 'A capella' choir and musicians from -- Stanford University!

Who it is done by, I really do not know, someone posted that about that song!

So you can pray before you start a game!

[Nikolai]

It's a great song indeed! And if it's a Christian song, that's another plus.

[Tiberius]

The main menu is awesome! The design, the colours, the music, everything!

(on the other hand the Spaceship victory movie is plain dull )

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Tiberius
(on the other hand the Spaceship victory movie is plain dull )

Indeed. But the diplo victory gets you no video at all.

[Dilbert12]

Originally posted by Raion
That song is a version in Swahili of the Lord's Prayer -- 'Baba Yetu' and means loosely:

Our Father, I praise you!
Our Father, I love you!
Our Father, forgive me my trespasses!
Our Father, who Art in Heaven, Hallowed by thy Name!

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-swahili.html

or something like that when translated -- supposedly done by an 'A capella' choir and musicians from -- Stanford University!

Who it is done by, I really do not know, someone posted that about that song!

So you can pray before you start a game!

Christian huh? Christianity sounds a hell of a lot better when it's not spoken in monotonous undertones of people going through the motions.

I just thought it sounded cool. It's inspiring in sort of a John Williams Superman March sort of way.

[khumak]

Didn't yours come with a soundtrack CD? Mine did.

[Nikolai]

I did only get a DVD with the game on. Works for me.

[Robert]

Originally posted by khumak
Didn't yours come with a soundtrack CD? Mine did.

That's only the special edition of the game.

[asleepathewheel]

love the opening song, makes it feel epic.

[Destroyer]

Anyone notice the music from Civ 1 when the game is generating a new world?

[LzPrst]

music and old civ1 intro. read by spock

unfortunately I find the music from after the middle ages rather crappy just industrial bonks and clonks is what I remember. no rock and roll when I build the jukebox, no metal, not even crappy popmusic. just... noise

[BleckLord]

I find that the modern music plays a great deal louder or quieter than the previous erras. I have to change the music volume up and down based on what song is playing.

[Dr,ape]

Yeah I was pleasantly surprised to hear that Civ1 intro, in full MIDI style, no less. That's a very nice touch, and a tribute to the original masterpiece. And the narratives are exactly how I had envisioned to be years ago. I am glad that they actually brought that back.