Very little information about Mass Effect 3 has come out yet, save for the fact that it will deal with saving Earth from an army of ancient machines. It has come out, though, that Clint Mansell will be scoring the third entry in the epic sci-fi shooter/RPG series.
“I’m doing a video game this year actually,” said Mansell casually. “Mass Effect 3.”
Previous scores for the Mass Effect series were done by Jack Wall, a veteran game composer who had also worked on Dungeon Siege II, Jade Empire, Unreal II, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Myst III and IV. Mansell is, by contrast, a veteran movie composer having worked on Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Moon and (most recently) Black Swan.
“As I was saying about Public Enemy and re-working old hip-hop tunes for Requiem, and kind of re-working old ballet tunes for Black Swan, with something like Mass Effect you’re more like a DJ, with all these elements,” detailed Mansell. “You’ve got the holding pattern, then the big explosion where you need the score to kick in. Then you need to take it off on a tangent. You’ve got all these different elements that change depending on what the player does. You have to figure out an overall symphony, but be able to break it down into component parts. You can bring the pain when required.”
Source: The Quietus
