The music really pulled off that sense of the eery hostile stillness of space. Of course when you are fighting alien encounter #12314 the thrill of anticipation has worn off long ago. Computer games can't build tension like the movies.

 

System Shock 2 disagrees.

So who's in charge of sound design for the game? Gots to have them sound effects!

It would also be nice if they get Jack Wall & Sam Hulick in to rearrange the original scores and compose some new Alien tracks.

 

Their style would be perfect for this, for those that do not know them, they composed the music to Mass Effect.

Perhaps, should they be left without orchestral samples. Frankly, the less bombastic tracks were the shiny goody fancy thing in the ME sondtrack. All in all though, Jack Wall is a great composer and it's nice to see him taking some distance to Myst adn Jade Empire with tracks like Eden Prime, Virmire Ride and for instance Criminal Elements.

Much of ME's soundtrack was too Star Trek for my tastes. It had some good tracks though. I'd rather hear what Alex Brandon can come up with.

I will concede to the fact that some tracks in Mass Effect are slightly "Star Trek" but songs like what Musopticon mentioned are definitely not and songs like Feros or Sarens Base are full of tension. Also the Alien soundtrack is actually fairly orchestral, especially the first movie, it is finding a musician that can give new tracks that right tension and sci-fi edge. I think the likes of Jack Wall & Sam Hulick has potential.

 

Daniel Finney has sci-fi/tension in his previous work, but perhaps not quite orchestral enough, that said good composers craft their music to what is needed. Jeremy Soule for instance always sounds like Jeremy Soule, his sci-fi work always sounds like his fantasy work, just with some military marches used as a base. Inon Zur is another composer I would avoid, he is also best suited for fantasy, the Fallout 3 soundtrack is ample proof of this, it pales in comparison to Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics.

 

What is they teamed up Jack Wall with Daniel Finney?

The first Alien soundtrack is primarily diegetic. The orchestral stuff is only really prominent in the intro and end credits sequences.

There's a long ochestral sequence in Aliens during the fight between the Loader and the Queen. The music sequence is then heavily used in action movie trailers from then on.

 

So I guess bombastic ochestral sequence has its place.

I think Mass Effect's music was the best part about it, but it reminded me of non-Aliens sci-fi like Blade Runner.

Blade Runner instantly came to mind the first time I started up ME. I loved the music.

Jack Wall ain't no Vangelis.

Mass Effect ain't no Blade Runner. All rather beside the point really, clearly they were going for a soundtrack reminiscent of sci-fi films from the 70s and 80s, and in that they succeeded.

Mass Effect ain't no Blade Runner. All rather beside the point really, clearly they were going for a soundtrack reminiscent of sci-fi films from the 70s and 80s, and in that they succeeded.

 

Really? 'Cause I'm gonna go out on a hunch and say that the soundtrack didn't sound anything like the soundtrack for Flash Gordon.

I didn't say all films from that period.

Great, now I've got the Flash Gordon theme stuck in my head.

 

♫ Flash! A-ah...savior of the universe! ♫

Edited December 15, 200817 yr by Amentep

 

Jack Wall's Mass Effect song at Video Games Live !

I'm here to lobby for including Bowie's songs Warszawa and Subterraneans from Low to game's soundtrack

 

They'd be perfect for some sad scene

 

 

Thank you

Subterraneans is one of my favorite DB songs. Just sayin'.

Flash Gordon music was fantastic, Mass Effect I can't even remember what it sounded like.

Only one or two soundtracks from Mass Effect really stood out for me. And it wasn't the techno ****.

Sometimes you guys appall me. *sigh*

Sadly the best choice for a "Aliens" franchise soundtrack composer (Jerry Goldsmith aka the guy who did the soundtrack for the movies) died in July 2004. The best two game composers that Obsidian/BIS have worked with in the past have been Jeremy Soule & Inon Zur and both would be good choices. There is another not so well known Canadian composer known as Sean McLean (aka Zaranyzerak) who's been known to do game music in the past.

The best two game composers that Obsidian/BIS have worked with in the past have been Jeremy Soule & Inon Zur and both would be good choices.

The guy that did the Kotor2 music makes both Soule and Zur look rather old and dull by comparison. It might not be the right type of music for an Aliens game though.

Mark Griskey is pretty good, though going by resume composers like, for instance, Alexander Brandon and Mark Morgan would be a lot better fits.

 

 

Soule, pffft.

Hire Mark Griskey again, he did a very good job on KotOR II.

 

Zimmer och Horner would really do the trick, but since they are famous/professional composers I think that would cost a bit - so it's not an option. Too bad

Edited January 3, 200917 yr by Lord2