Halo 3 is out, and it seems like it's selling alright so far. While everyone is talking about how it looks and plays, we haven't heard much about how Halo 3 sounds. The Halo series of games have always been amazing-sounding titles, but the third version seems to be the most accomplished of the scores. Music4Games interviews composer Marty O'Donnell to get some insight into what it was like to create the score for what could be one of the biggest console games of all time.
O'Donnell talks about his scoring process, Bungie’s proprietary adaptive music system, and the pressures of writing music for one of the most popular game series. He also touches on the massive amount of work that went into Halo 3's score.
When asked about how much music he composed for the score, O'Donnell said, "That’s not easy to say. In terms of pure musical data in the engine, I’m around 7 hours. I’m not using everything, and that includes lots of different mixes and arrangements of some of the pieces. I can say this much, Mike Salvatori and I are now working on trying to make a Halo 3 Soundtrack and I’m certain we’ll need two CD’s."
When asked about his involvement with a Halo theatrical release, O'Donnell said, "Ask Peter Jackson, and let him know I’m available."
Check out Music4Games for the full interview.
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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10:57 PM on 09.26.2007
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Halo OST would be very nice indeed.
I don't really agree with you, simply because Halo was hyped before Bungie was even bought by Microsoft. PC and Mac gamers was touting it as the next big thing in FPS gaming, and then the hype machine got in full speed after Microsoft started advertising like hell. And Halo 1 was a pretty good game, both single and multiplayer (a lot of people really liked the co-op for example, which is something that is often missed in FPS games). I am not saying it is as good as all the hype etc, but another FPS at the same time as Halo wouldn't have changed much IMO.
Nice, Marty.