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"If the music gets very intense for several seconds, then cuts off, duck! Even after the cat or dog comes out of whatever’s rustling, stay down and remain alert and ready to run."

In Dead Space 3, I never counted a single time when a monster pretended to be dead and lay in the path like an unsprung mousetrap, they all just kind of show up to the sound of an entire orchestra pit being simultaneously tazed.

It has been mentioned before (most recently by Gareth Roberts in a hilarious article in DWM) that if you described the music in Mawdryn Undead as incidental that you would be arrested under the Trades Description Act. It is attention-grabbingly present in every scene it appears, and it occasionally shits all over the action as Paddy Kingsland has a heart attack whilst attached to an electric guitar.

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