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This was an exceptional year for video game music, and when Marvel s Guardians of the Galaxy would come out later this month, there was a strong bet that the score and licensed songs will be an integral part of the epic history Ubisoft. I had the chance to speak with the audio director of the game, Steve Szczepkowski, of all that concerns Guardians and the sound and musical design of the game.
Comics fans know that the person s character Peter Quill takes his nickname Star-Lord of his favorite hard-rock group of the 80s. Originals of the fictitious rockers with Szczepkowski as the main singer, channeling the vocal power of Van Halen and other metal groups of the 1970s and 80s. In addition to being marketed with the game, the album will be fully playable in play on a jukebox on the Milano, the ship of Guardian, and in good place on The omnipresent Walkman of Peter Quill.
Of course, the main attraction of the original guardian band must be dozens of licensed songs. The list of pieces comes from a surprisingly wide range of artists, who all allowed their original (or remastered) recordings for the game. Styles range from Power Pop and rock pillars like Mötley Crüe, Iron Maiden and Kiss In New Wave and the top 40 groups like Flock of Seagulls, Club Culture and A-Ha and everything else. Szczepkowski said that even if there were some songs that they could not get, the vast majority of artists were delighted to lend their music to the game.
Even playing the demo a few weeks ago, I was struck by the importance of licensed music and the original partition for the game, just like for live action movies. Pop and Rock of High Energy Arena Emphasize the battles of the game like motivational music, and when Star-Lord entails his team in a huddle - a gaming mechanism that gives the guardians an extra power in a fight - that Starts and ends with music, with peter even referring sneakly to lyrics (for all those who pay attention). Szczepkowski says there are even puzzles in the game that are based on music, and that most of the time, the way the songs appear in the game is random, so when players have to try a segment several segments times, they hear different tracks. The original bands of movies were huge success and it is not difficult to imagine the same thing for the licensed tracks of the game.
That said, the licensed music is only part of the story and Szczepkowski and I have talked a lot about the original partition of the game by Richard Jacques. Jacques has been chosen from a talented group of composers that Szczepkowski auditioned for the post and one of the first pieces of music created was the theme of the guards, who recalls the experience of being upset by a large partition of movie. Action played by an epic. orchestra. Although the partition has themes for several characters or events, Jacques and Szczepkowski decided to use the guardian theme as a conductive thread that connects everyone, using changes in hardware to create specific emotional rhythms. One of the reasons why the galaxy guardian partition seems so impressive is that it has been recorded over a period of two weeks by live orchestra musicians in the Abbey Road studios. While of course, some game partitions use small groups of real players, pandemic and tighter budgets often mean that digital samples replace live and breathable musicians.
In addition to the licensed and original music, the sound design plays a major role in the effectiveness of any game. Environmental audio, weapons sounds and creature effects are all part of a team s responsibility audio design. Szczepkowski stated that the extraterrestrials of the game had not only well-constructed languages, but that they were expressed by the society manufactures monsters, a virtuoso screaming stable of the Heavy Metal who specialize in the use of their voice instruments. creative.
I was impressed by the Guardians demo and much of that came from the exciting and creative use of licensed and original music. Between the Star-Lord group of Szczepkowski, the large number of pieces of the 80s and the score of Richard Jacques, the players have a soundfall in reserve on October 26 at the exit of the game. Find a review here to Cogconnected.
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