Fun facts, after a bit of research: "Mainly Bulgarian lyrics were chosen for the song "Propaganda", which plays in the game's Akuda Bar, to allude to the Soviet propaganda of the Cold War. It uses a recording of a telephone conversation by Héral with a female Bulgarian friend to represent the government's control of the media. It also incorporates Arabic string instruments and Indian percussion. "
The team were also marked by the bush administration pro war propaganda for irak. The style was mauresque for architecture and Mediterranean because of the Arabic style of Heral in the music, in fact they used derbuka a North African drums, not Indian. The game is supposed to be multicultural input, Ubisoft Casablanca and Milan worked on the game… also Michel Ancel lived in Tunisia when he was young, so there a lot of North African influence, today Ubisoft Casablanca doesn’t exist anymore, and the team still work on BGE2. under great pressure and they have to redo bge2 since they changed chief project many times and the new one is incompetent (from a source who worked there) but the game is going to be release for sure (Yves Guillemot is producer)… I can only tell you it’s too much ambitious and they try to use the idea of the first one who use only 5% of what they had in mind… and even greater.
UBISOFT !! Please stop making Assassin's Creed they are already enough for 10 years and make some good games like this one thanks sincerely all the fans of beyond good and evil who are waiting since 12 years :)
+Szymon Sabat Shame, its an awesome game. Let's be real though they've exhausted AC beyond belief and now far cry is getting much the same. What other option do they have to keep up sales?
LOL yeah, thanks to piracy and not Ubisoft giving the game fuck-all advertising as well as releasing it right alongside their own Prince of Persia: Sands of Time ie the same exact reason Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends flopped. Fuck off.
The thing is, this is not just a banger. It perfectly fits the game's themes - Akuda Bar is the local hive of dissidents and intellectuals (that's why nobody's ratting out the resistance). If someone would bemoan actual state/planet's propaganda, it would be people in the bar. In addition, lyrics are primarily in Bulgarian - and Bulgaria has it's history with authoritarian rulers, both the Tzar and the communists. Every element in this game is perfect.
The soundtrack is so incredibly dense and diverse, incorporating all kinds of cultural influences, always fitting the mood and the same time conveying the basic matter of the game, which is that diversity and open-mindedness is the key for a successful living. For me, this is the most memorable soundtrack to any game ever. And really, this is a shame, if you look at it. As this game is over a decade old and given that nowadays there is much more money to be made in the video game business, there should be an sucessor by now, but obviously nobody ever dared to approach the soundtrack question which such an artistic spin since then.
@@GoldieTamamo The slaughtering of humans in such a way, is more descriptive of what demons do to people. The fallen ones can appear to us in what ever way they wish. If "Satan himself can appear as and angel of light", then so can lesser demonic entities appear to be "alien"! Whenever she encountered aliens, the "Propaganda" song came on. The aliens are the Propaganda used to hide the fact that demons exist....
Voros Patrik Or fucking buy it for 5$ on Steam... If you don't even have 5 bucks to spend on this masterpiece, you don't deserve the right to own a computer
It's occasionally on sale on gog.com. I recommend that site in general if you miss old games, they usually do a good job making them run on modern hardware. Oh right, and the GOG release includes the soundtrack in mp3.
This is how the lyrics go to my understanding: Deja, eta, eta (Fjutrataa tuote rerapjataa sikajazataja propaganda Rapata siaja liliputi eala siriputieala) Paraginjaa vonoginjaa za reptruje Haragimiaja hanazina serugebab Ende karke, morke venstunellava Andra kiavaja hellome kiavasaz Propaganda (jastu vit, man) Propaganda (jastu vit, man) Propaganda (jastu vit, man) Propaganda (jastu hit) Ravajeka havansekja tarjakani Havajakanava cetre ava kravenamenum Trono kivanama hamerez tonneiovov Ana knavae selotoe kovri ingma Ende killa (jastu vit, man) Ande killa (dont quitv, jatsu vit, man) Ande killa hia (jatsu vit, man) (Jon veit, jatsju hit) Propaganda ende cetre ende havre ende morgen Kende kaven ende shikaraja kenanaramov Ende ge kavan seere karkenamahav Ende ge vandegava vehinosso vendilavadot Tykyty viannna commo kiande kave ennesot Hataka kavva de morke i hannikverulo Tekede kissa en go, a rika, a mo Ande kivaho tusse terkemenemara Propaganda Propaganda Propaganda Propaganda (Ljusa vielevi tiavara zara zankkavietyöte Evetujawitch vára eve várar verutse vivala várar) Tala varsha en morgen kanda kandasen Etke kadakgavra moredende sevelevedad Tike takja motó anda sentre moroja Kinna shelove demma nekaha Ende goodenje settore ryzomono Ende kavakedje morgen ende sedulokovoi Enkelei hannato nykáne movovoo Den séda en kava vrianneledenji Propaganda kéda markenede sol Propaganda ende lauver en ingelavasha Propaganda ende laudi innikkovartesha Propaganda ende lajin notsusokje Gunno sevje kommurovosjo Etke maijam vörne banjunevesto Ende kerne shotter mainlaji Ende kava meli morge ende annasuteta Propaganda (jastu vit, man) Propaganda (jastu vit, man) Propaganda (jastu vit, man) (Jon veit, jatsu hit)
Oh hey this is extremely cool! I botched together some lyrics when I was a kid studying Japanese and Spanish, so I don't have much of an ear for Bulgarian or languages like it and what I came up with is totally different in a lot of places. Any chance you could throw in some phonetic support? I see this line is translateable if you ask Google Translate, but I can't make "vrianneledenji" fit with what I'm hearing as "byauderlinne" no matter how hard I try. (Thanks for "notsusokje" in particular, recently I was killing myself trying to figure out if that started with a "d" or a "b" or a "g" until I finally decided it must be "th." Like I said, bad ear lol.) Edit: Actually these appear to completely break Google translate? I was getting "Propaganda and work in English," and "Propaganda and human resources," and "Propaganda and non-public relations," which all seemed so appropriate to the theme that I figured it was probably intentional, but as soon as I individually search for those words in Bulgarian from other sources, they're totally different. Spooky.
@@SuperEvilMuffin I'm not even sure if this is an actual language, though if I remember correctly the composer based on Polish or some other East-European language. I just wrote what I interpreted the words to be based on my hearing.
@@HedonisticActor Polish here, I don’t think so it’s nowhere near to Polish or any other Eastern European language. It seems more like some Scandinavian language
I played this game 7 years back for an hour then uninstalled and this song was still in my mind, that made me install the game again and i am enjoying it still.
Ja na to czekam już 6 lat :-: ale ubisoft woli wypuszczać gry takie jak assasin’s Cred bo maja z tego dużo pieniędzy ale moim zdaniem beyond good and evil to jedna z najlepszych gier w jakie kiedykolwiek grałem
Man I just love everything about this game. The atmosphere, soundtrack, characters, design, gameplay, hovercraft and the open world. This shit was revolutionary back in the day and still holds up unbelievably well, they don't make games like this anymore, I can see the passion in every part of the game. The emotional impact this game had on me as a kid was unmatched, losing Pey'j in the factory like that fucked me up bro. Currently waiting on the 20th Anniversary Edition. I hope that when you read this it will have already arrived and if so, go play it now!
Just found the game in the back of my closet and decided to install it again. This song started playing and so many memories came back to me lol. Amazing game, can't wait to play again.
Remember installing this game on the PC many times and enjoying this song in the background. Damn...I just might go dust it off and play all over it again now :D
Random story time, I'm as old as this game, a 2003 kid. In I think 2008-2009 they did a random giveaway of this game and prince of persia sanda of time for pc with coca cola, my grandma owned a kiosk so she gifted the games to my brother and me. I remember bright as day booting this in my dad's 90s pc with windows xp, however I was kind of a scary cat so I never played past the part with the soul reaper in the factory because it scared the ever living shit out of me, I only beat it once and my heart was pounding so hard I just stopped playing. 1 week ago in class my brain suddenly decided to revive this song 14 years later out of nowhere and I remembered that I never beat it, but got tremendously good at everything before the reaper fight because I just kept replaying that part, I'm currently half way through my playthrough I believe, reaper defeated and remembering every got damn Pearl. Thanks for reading my trip down memory lane
My god, this song will always live rent free in the recesses of my mind, this and the Jamaican Rhino song and the race music! thank the gods for the PS2 classics you can download on PS plus!!! Me and my Ex played this to death!
I usually listen to technical death core/metal core/classical and reggae but when my hiphop friends come over and want to hear some rap, this is the only thing i can come up with. On repeat. The entire evening. All year long. Please bring out BG&E 2 soon.
Born in 1999 and played this game on my dad's Dell laptop, got the game out of a cheese strings package. Just did my latest playthrough last week. One of my favourite games ever.
I'm not entirely sure what language this is but it has some bulgarian in the beginning and around the middle there which translates to "Domz has the power. You must not listen to their propaganda which puts the people to sleep. We are subjected to the violence of the Alpha section." Otherwise I have no idea what the language is.
So the song it's self is all non-sense according to the creator. But there is a sample of him having a fake phone conversation in Bulgarian; which would be what you translated.
Mwahahah this song rocks! I remember firing up the game installation for the first time a long time ago and hearing this, I just thought:"Damn this game is already awesome" Cheers for this upload (:
Still thinking about this, i played the game in early 2004 and even though i kinda gave up for a sequel i can't deny the impact this game has had on me
I still remember when this game came out. I was like 8 years old walking round the house singing this and my dad was like ‘….are you saying PROPAGANDA?‘
The form of this song just perfectly shows it's point - you have a lot of information, words, facts, but only the "hidden message" is important, the word "propaganda". Just like in real propaganda with it's complex form and simple message.
