Cover Art for the Soundtrack Album
The ZombiU Original Soundtrack (OST) is a compilation of soundtracks and music cues composed and scored by Cris Velasco for ZombiU and published by Ubisoft Music.
The album consists of 18 tracks. Velasco spent 10 days composing the music and assembled a string quintet of two violins, a viola, and two cellos to record it. Known as the Apocalypse Ensemble, it played "rawer sound" which makes the soundtrack menacing.
The soundtrack can be purchased from Amazon or listened to for free on Deezer, Spotify and Velasco's Youtube Channel. The album is also available as a Uplay reward for the game's remastered version on other platforms and is unlocked by beating the game.
Tracklist[]
- Zombie U
- Brick Lane
- Gatling vs Zombies
- Home Sweet Home
- Safe House Breached
- Buckingham Palace
- The Bunker
- Meet The Nurse
- Let's Go Shopping
- Tube Station
- Tower of London
- Escape The Tower
- London By Night
- Elevator to Raven's
- King Boris
- Anxiety
- Ending Credits
- Zombi 80's
Additional Tracks[]
In addition to the soundtrack album, three tracks that weren't composed by Velasco and don't form part of the album are also available online as non-album singles. These tracks were made by different artists, and are listed below:
- "Raven's Beat" by Freak My Zone, plays during the party room level in Brick Lane Flats. This track is available for free on both YouTube and Soundcloud. Note that the soundtrack version differs from the in-game version.
- "God Save The Queen" by Ronnie Qates, used in the E3 reveal trailer for ZombiU and also plays during the game's end credits. This track is also purchasable on Amazon and available for free on YouTube, Soundcloud and Spotify.
- "London Bridge is Falling Down" by Dezzaired, used in the reveal trailer for the remastered version of ZombiU on PS4, Xbox One and PC. While the original version is unavailable to the public, edited versions from the trailer have been uploaded by various users on YouTube and Soundcloud.
Trivia[]
- The last track on the album, Zombi 80's, is a remix of the opening theme from the original 1986 game Zombi.
- The tracks Zombie U, Gatling vs Zombies and Escape The Tower are considered to be the best tracks on the album due to their spooky upbeat theme. They are also the most listened to.
- The soundtrack has often been compared favourably to tracks scored by film composer John Murphy, who is known for his work on the soundtrack of the British zombie film 28 Days Later and its sequel, 28 Weeks Later.
- Cris Velasco, the artist who composed ZombiU's soundtrack, has scored tracks for several well-known video games, including the God of War series, Borderlands, Bloodborne, Mass Effect 3, amongst others.