#NEED FOR SPEED SHIFT SOUNDTRACKS SOFTWARE#

Their software development alter ego, Heavyocity, had made a big impression on Deenen when he heard the Evolve and Mutations virtual instruments in action - it wasn’t long before he wanted the men behind the machines to be in on his game scores. The Heavy Melody squad – Dave Fraser, Neil Goldberg, and Ari Winters – was first paired with Black Box Audio Director Charles Deenen to score Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit for Wii. Ramin Djawadi, Troels Folmann, and Mick Gordon were selected for Heroic (Epic, Hybrid Orchestral), and Stephen Baysted joined Djawadi for the Surreal set (Ethereal Orchestral, dreamy). Here in NYC, it was the composer/producers at Heavy Melody that emerged as the top choice to give the songs the “dirty” flavor (read twistedly gritty electronica), joining them with what would be one of the largest composition teams Black Box had ever hired to score a game. Next step: get seven top game composers on the case to create a multi-genre slew of remixes, making “heroic”, “surreal” and “dirty” versions of each song to play out at various stages of gameplay. First, EA’s famed, Vancouver-based Black Box Studios got the rights to 10 killer rock songs: “Night Of The Hunter” by 30 Seconds To Mars, “We Owe This to Ourselves” by Anberlin, “Mountains” by Biffy Clyro, “Ours” by The Bravery, “Issues” by Escape the Fate, “Levitate” by Hollywood Undead, “Action Needs An Audience” by Jimmy Eat World, “Help Is On The Way” by Rise Against, “Take A Load Off” by Stone Temple Pilots, and “The Sound (John M.

'Shift 2: Unleashed' took game scoring to intense new places.Īvailable on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC since the end of March, Unleashed intentionally messes with the standard notion of licensing tracks for video games.

Need for speed shift soundtracks