Beau Travail opens with that amazing prelude:
we hear orchestral music under the credits, then a snippet of a soldiers» chorus before cutting to the legionnaires, who are dancing to pop music in a club.
Not exact matches
«We started by going back to the original sheet
music used for the recording sessions, tracked the edits made to these cues as
heard in their final state in the film, and then re - edited / re-orchestrated the sheet
music to reflect the changes and account for the live
orchestral forces.
There was absolutely no
orchestral music in that, it was all electronic, and I'd never
heard anything like it.
For Revenge, which is very
music driven, iZLER uses a live orchestra that he conducts for each episode, whilst most of the non
orchestral instruments
heard on the show are played by iZLER himself.
The
orchestral music is stunning at times, and the sound effects from the combat are great to
hear.
The aural quality and presence of Killzone 2 is evidently
heard in every action you perform, be it reloading your weapon, firing said weapon, slashing your trusty knife, the crunch of the soil underfoot or the tapping of your boots on cold and hard pavement, the distinct sound of a rusty old Helghast assault rifle being reloaded from behind cover 10 yards away... regardless whether it's voice, sound effect,
music (an
orchestral style which hearkens back to Michael Giacchino's Medal of Honor days), or environmental audio, all of it was created and put to use in such a top - notch way that there is no ignoring the fact that you surely are jacks - of - all - trades, Guerrilla Games.
The
orchestral music, which sounds very similar to nearly every other tactical shooter already on the market, is great but it is repetitive and nothing we haven't
heard before.
Regardless, the actual
music you
hear is a great mashup of
orchestral tracks that add a lot to the the short occasional videos you'll see from relics and opening videos.
Sure, it's easier to appreciate it in a sweeping
orchestral arrangement like Dragon Quest VIII, but even as a chiptune in the original game, the
music and especially the theme is perfect: epic, heroic - sounding, and passes the important test of being able to be
heard a billion times throughout the game on repeat and not get annoying.