The Gaming Music Needs To Be As Good As The Movies Before It Gets The Nod
Friday, April 16th, 2010The games market is huge there is no doubt about that and year on year it is on the rise so look out CD and DVD sales. Music in video games was just thrown in to make the game sound cool when you are playing it but now it takes just as long to make the soundtrack as an artist takes to record an album if not longer. Why on earth is this happening?
Would films such as Star Wars, Jaws, Avatar be so great without the music in them, I highly doubt it? Although there is no doubt that Star Wars would have made a great film without the music from John Williams it has to be said that it helped to tell the story. So many game soundtracks are being given time and more thought and of course more budget because they know it will make a difference.
Think of games like Halo and Call of Duty, music is activated when you get to a certain point in the game to help boost your reaction along with what is happening to the character at the time. This is exactly what happens on the high budget films.
Another important thing to take into consideration is the amount of artists that want to work with games nowadays, instruments that wouldn’t work in a film work perfectly in a game, takebanjos as an example for the much loved Banjo Kazooie franchise.
Albums of the game soundtracks are being released and even better they are being purchased and the soundtracks are made from all kinds of instruments from electro acoustic guitars to the simple electric guitars.
It would certainly seem that the music we hear in video game is becoming more and more important as the years go by. So there you have it, lets hope that games see better music in the near future.