Bear Likes to Fly
games music
A common ramble of mine is to go off on some tangent about how big-budget games are drifting more and more away from what made them great, and how game composers in the west are more and more being drafted from TV composers, film composers, and existing recording artists.
Well, please allow me to retract that statement just a little bit and make a sole exception.
Ever since I started watching Battlestar Galactica, I looked at the credits and thought “hee, the composer’s name is Bear”. But then as the seasons went on, I realized just how awesome the music was. There are certain key episodes where the soundtrack just wowed me beyond anything I’d heard for a TV show before.
That said, when it was announced that Bear McCreary was writing the music for an upcoming game I’m looking forward to called Dark Void, I was torn. In the same way I was for my other favorite TV composer Greg Edmonson being called on to write Uncharted. However, seeing Bear’s announcement blog post about it all totally shed any of that away. The guy knows games, and their history.
Not only is he not totally alien to the concept of games, he’s a huge Megaman nut, even naming and labeleing all his hard drives as characters from the series! And then, to seal the deal, he goes and creates an 8bit Megaman-style version of the Dark Void main theme. You’ve sold me, Mr. Bear. Write for as many games as you please!
Also of note are three samples from the actual game… one of which features an Ondes Martenot! Doubly sold.
