Gaming News - February 2005
Edison, NJ (February 8, 2005) - Majesco today announced that it has
gathered an ensemble of musical talent to provide the video game soundtrack for
Advent Rising.
From Majesco:
Recorded at Paramount Pictures, Hollywood, CA, the Advent Rising soundtrack
is a completely original musical score that incorporates live orchestral and
vocal elements to create a variety of musical themes utilized throughout the
game. The soundtrack is also planned for retail release to coincide with the
game.
"Our approach with Advent Rising was to create a game play experience similar to
that of an epic film," said Ken Gold, vice president of Marketing for Majesco.
"Creating a powerful soundtrack was a key component to evoking a higher level of
player emotion and allowing the player to feel completely immersed in the Advent
universe while playing the game."
Majesco contracted a 70-piece Hollywood union orchestra, which was led by Emmy
Award-winning conductor Mark Watters. The score was then mixed and recorded by
Armin Steiner, the Grammy Award-winning mixing engineer best known for his work
on such blockbusters movies as “Finding Nemo,” “Seabiscuit,” and “The Matrix”
trilogy.
Composition and sound design was created by award-winning composer and video
game sound designer Tommy Tallarico, who enlisted the talents of a world famous
operatic choir and their complimenting children’s choir united to perform the
music’s extraordinary chorus. Emerging RCA recording artist Charlotte Martin
co-wrote and performed lead vocals and piano for the song “Greater Lights,”
which is featured on the soundtrack.
Coinciding with the announcement is the release of an all-new game play trailer,
specially edited to one of the soundtrack’s orchestral scores. The official
Advent Rising trailer can be viewed at: http://www.adventtrilogy.com/images/movies/1_21/AdventGameplayII_sm.mov
and additional game information can be found at www.adventtrilogy.com.
About Advent Rising
Scheduled for release in May, Advent Rising is the first of a planned trilogy of
action/adventure games for the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft and PC. An
intergalactic saga created with award-winning science fiction author Orson Scott
Card, the Advent series thrusts gamers into a continuously evolving series of
sequences and events, where they are forced to make decisions that will affect
not only the outcome of the first game, but the entire trilogy.
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