IGN has posted up a new article today taking an in-depth look at the music behind Battlefield: Bad Company. Here's what they had to say:
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This story naturally called for accompanying music, but what results is far from an ordinary game score. Though there are a few comparatively traditional orchestral cues in the game, players may increasingly find that war sounds more like classical chamber music infused with African rhythms and percussion.
"It makes sense if you think of how isolating a battle really must be," composer Mikael Karlsson, explaining the reasoning behind the game's signature string quintet sound. "Sure, you rely on your company, but when you're in a situation with such enormous costs on the line, in the end there's only you."
"Orchestral music for war games, as well as for action movies, is so very formulaic that it almost becomes a gesture or a symbol more than an actual musical statement," he continues. "If you want to be heard as a composer in that genre – if you want to affect the audience and push the story – you better do something that's out of the ordinary. We didn't want to completely go against all expectations, but we didn't want it to be just another flawless but pointless action score either."
"It makes sense if you think of how isolating a battle really must be," composer Mikael Karlsson, explaining the reasoning behind the game's signature string quintet sound. "Sure, you rely on your company, but when you're in a situation with such enormous costs on the line, in the end there's only you."
"Orchestral music for war games, as well as for action movies, is so very formulaic that it almost becomes a gesture or a symbol more than an actual musical statement," he continues. "If you want to be heard as a composer in that genre – if you want to affect the audience and push the story – you better do something that's out of the ordinary. We didn't want to completely go against all expectations, but we didn't want it to be just another flawless but pointless action score either."
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To check out the rest of this new four page article on the music, click here.