Black Swan Composer Takes Over Mass Effect 3

[wammnebu]

this will actually work really well. Clint Mansell's stuff is all very oppressing and you-against the world that hates you spine-chilling. and considering that the final mass effect is about Earth falling to the Reaper's and shepard's responsibility that would set the tone very well.

 

[OpiateChicken]

television...

"I'm doing a video game this year actually... Public Enemy... Requiem [http://www.amazon.com/Requiem-Dream-Directors-Cut-Blu-ray/dp/B00284BNKC/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1297361693&sr=1-2]... Black Swan...'

(Requiem for a Dream music)

film composers... Requiem for a Dream? The Fountain? Moon? MOON!?

film industry

Moon... films

Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream

...Do you guys see a common theme here? Yahtzee would be going insane. We don't want a film, we want a game. Wall/Hulick were some of my favourite game composers, along with Martin O'Donnell & Michael Salvatori (Halo franchise) and Christophe Heral (Beyond Good & Evil). I sincerely doubt Mansell can emulate the following music and accompanying feelings:

Do you remember the first time you got back from Eden Prime and saw the Citadel? Do you remember your awe that such a thing existed, this construction, this society? 0:23 brings you into all this full throttle. This song embodies the heart of the science fiction genre, I think.

Even this average in-game song is good. Discovering a remote, cold city and research factory nobody cared about and everyone forgot... driving through the cold and the geth to get there... seeing what its secret really was.
Mansell has extremely large shoes to fill.

 

[Diablo2000]

So good music this game have, let's see if Mass Effect 3 san deliver the epic ending that promise.

And I love Clint Manssel's musics, they are awesome.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Oh....that's a bit disappointing. Nothing against Clint Mansell, but I really didn't walk away from Black Swan or The Wrestler thinking how great the soundtracks were.

There is a reason for that. Those soundtracks are so well integrated into those films you don't even notice it. It flows so well, so natural. I'm looking forward to hearing ME3 soundtrack.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

The music in Mass Effect 1 & 2 was completely serviceable, but nothing sublime.

Blasphemy

I bought Jack Wall's soundtracks for the Mass Effect series and enjoyed them immensely; I thought they did an excellent job of capturing the moods of the scenes.

I'll reserve comment on Mansell's work as I'm not familiar enough with it, but I can't help but be a bit disappointed that the composer that did so well for the first two games won't be back for the third and (probably) final one.

-- Steve

PS: rassin'-frassin'-reCaptcha-[censored]

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Ignore, fail post.

 

[EnigmaticSevens]

The music in Mass Effect 1 & 2 was completely serviceable, but nothing sublime. The music in The Fountain, on the other hand, was mind-blowingly awesome, so this is excellent, excellent news indeed.


Seriously, listen to this and tell me that the potential greatness in integrating Mansell in Mass Effect 3 is not astoundingly fantastic.

YES! Good God in Heaven, the Fountain's soundtrack might be the most played series of music in my entire library, followed closely by Requiem for a Dream's Score. Personally, I though the music in Mass Effect 1 and 2 was decent, but nothing that really drove me to purchase the soundtrack, with Mansell... hell the man halfway owns my soul.

Now... they should just go make a little DLC for ME2 which lets you play Shepherd drifting into a planet's atmosphere after the destruction of the original Normandy. Let Darren Aronofsky produce and direct it... with Clint Mansell on soundtrack... and my life will be complete!!!

 

[Daystar Clarion]

The music in Mass Effect 1 & 2 was completely serviceable, but nothing sublime. The music in The Fountain, on the other hand, was mind-blowingly awesome, so this is excellent, excellent news indeed.


Seriously, listen to this and tell me that the potential greatness in integrating Mansell in Mass Effect 3 is not astoundingly fantastic.

I hope that's not indicative of his style, because that was boring as all hell.

Not gonna judge until I hear some of his work for ME3 though.

 

[lacktheknack]

Note: He also wrote this.

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ME3 is going to have the best music evar.

Dosent fit in with Mass effect, sure he makes good music, but if the usic dosent fit then in the game it is bad.

Stunningly, a good composer can write cross-genre.

Don't be a doomsayer, you'll just depress yourself.

Mass effects music was unique, sure he may be able to make differnt types of music, but that dosent mean he will be able to make music that fits like Wall did.

If a good composer has respect for the source material, then they will do a good job. End of. I'm willing to bet that only people who go "BAAWWW IT'S NOT WALL" will dislike it.

 

[Wharrgarble]

It's Bioware. I'm pretty sure they didn't just rush to the Yellow Pages and pick the first replacement composer they could find.

If they didn't think he could do a good job, they wouldn't have hired them. They have talent for picking... well... good talent. It sucks that Wall isn't returning, yes, but I'm sure Mansell is going to do wonderfully.

 

[lacktheknack]

Note: He also wrote this.

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ME3 is going to have the best music evar.

WHAT?!

That song is SHIT. Maybe because it's over-used everywhere for this fake ass dramatic tension for people's videos and/or news. If I hear something similar in Mass Effect III, I'mma go berserk. Really.

But, he is shit until proven otherwise on this project. Nothing beats the Vigil soundtrack yet!

The piece went memetic, yes, but it became memetic because it was GOOD. Sort of like Drowning Pool's "Bodies".

And he has proved otherwise. See: Everything else he's ever done.

 

[Arafiro]

If he can make something as soothing as this:


I'll be happy.

As will I. Wow.
I'd forgotten how good that was.

 

[Buccura]

As someone who has the soundtracks for ME1 and 2 and listens to them fairly often, this has me saddened, personally.

 

[cynicalsaint1]

A couple more awesome tracks by Mansell (sorry not sure how to do the embedded youtube thing):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa33P9A5iHs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtCpttsZiys&feature=related

While I'm a bit sad to hear that Jack Wall isn't going to be doing ME3, hearing that Clint Mansell is going to be his replacement has me excited. Really the only misgivings I have is with him taking over for the last game when Jack Wall has already established a pretty strong style for the series - but Mansell's stuff is awesome, so I'm sure whatever he does it'll be good.

 

[Zeraki]

It makes me very uncomfortable that they're changing composers. I seriously hope he doesn't change up the music too much. The music in the first game was incredible and was already getting watered down it 2. And I hope some of the more memorable songs such as the main theme(which wasn't used in the second game nearly enough) and Vigil's theme aren't going to be removed entirely with the change of composers.

It's like what happened with Gears of War, I loved the soundtrack for the first game(even though quality in story wasn't nearly as high as Mass Effect) but the second just didn't have the same feel to it.

EDIT
After listening to his work on Moon I'm more comfortable with it. I feel the soundtrack is in pretty good hands. I can't believe I forgot he did the music for that movie.

 

[Vykrel]

sounds good to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa33P9A5iHs Dead Reckoning is probably my favorite work of his