Halo 4: 'We really want to re-define what multiplayer is' Photograph: Copyright, Microsoft, 2009.
FINALE DVA BOTANICULA SOUNDTRACK MOVIE
It isn't just about scoring the movie snippets between each mission, the music is the undercurrent, it illustrates the emotional context of the scene." With a game, because there's a lot of chasing around, a lot of action, it's often difficult to tie the different aspects of the plot together music can play a hugely important role in helping the player understand the journey they're on, too feel that journey, so that the story hangs together and is less disjointed. "You'd also be scoring to the subtext of what's being said – the hidden intent. "With a film score you can cue music to specific moments, the way a character looks away, a shift in the eyes," says Davidge. "I've got a lot of processing devices in my studio – I delve through huge libraries of raw, organic sounds and process those, record them, process them again – I've been doing that for many years with Massive Attack, but this experience has been amazing, it's incredibly inspiring."Īs with Max Payne 3, this was all about using music not as an accompaniment to story, but as a story-telling device in its own right. "As a fan of the game, I didn't want to revolutionalise the sound of Halo, I wanted to progress it, to take it to places it hadn't been before" he says. For Halo 4, developer 343 Industries called in Massive Attack producer and film soundtrack composer Neil Davidge to totally redesign the game's distinctive choral soundtrack. Rockstar isn't alone in handing over a whole soundtrack to one artist, capable of truly understanding and interpreting the action. We had to come up with so much music! Our sound is based around tricks, effects and any weird stuff we can find, and we discovered a ton more while doing this game." "We were inspired by the mood of each level, and where the story was going. "We recorded it all while watching video captures of gameplay – everything we did we put up against that footage and said, is this working? Does it make sense? "Everything has to loop indefinitely," says the band's bassist and resident gamer, John Famiglietti. In Max Payne 3, Health's distorted guitar feedback and pummelling drums swell to savage crescendos as soon as any shootout starts, like some bloody post-punk opera.
Unlike a movie score, the audio has to be able to respond in real-time to the movements of the player, so it is usually chopped up into separate instrumental tracks and stems, which are automatically combined during play to match the on-screen action. The key challenge for musicians is to understand and exploit the non-linear nature of game music. To me, Health has taken the whole concept of the score and given it six big blows to the ribs. I can't tell the difference between movie and game soundtracks anymore. "You had these composers sitting in their studios with orchestral software. I've been a fan of soundtracks for a long time, but I feel like the whole genre was getting boring. "They bring a different perspective and I think we learn from each other. "We like working with bands and musicians who aren't strictly composers," says Ivan Pavlovich, Rockstar's soundtrack supervisor. And in return, music is becoming part of the design process. But we're now entering an era of close co-operation game developers are employing musicians who love games and understand them.
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