On the other end of the spectrum, that score's more ambient moments and creative manipulation of sounds are recalled on "Gris Gris". The opening track "Abducted" right away builds a stylistic bridge to the Blue Soundtrack's combat cues through its mix of action-focused components and melodic elements that combine rock and orchestral sounds. There's still a genre-bending, if now altered, mix of musical styles that's pulled off effortlessly an abundance of creative instrumentations and playing techniques a gritty, uneasy undercurrent to the music that grabs the listener attention from start to finish a supreme sense of atmosphere that permeates every shady corner of this soundtrack and a perfectly engineered, vivid album recording that perfectly realises the composers' ambitions. Most of the virtues that characterised the earlier inFamous2 soundtrack album benefit this score as well. Instead, the Red Soundtrack turns out to be the best kind of companion album: cut from the same cloth as its counterpart, but still featuring a distinctive personality of its own. After this slightly wobbly start, however, inFamous 2 - The Red Soundtrack hits it stride and emerges as much more than just the B-side to the Blue Soundtrack. They're all more than satisfactory compositions, bt action tones of "Abducted" don't flow quite as elegantly as similar moments on the Blue Soundtrack, while "Junction" and "Tasso" start to meander a bit during their running time. Suffering from the same issue in a less intrusive way are opening track "Abducted" and following pieces "Junction" and "Tasso". "The Flood" is one particularly jarring case whose enthralling first two thirds are followed by sparse string material that doesn't have anything to do with what preceded it. The first handful of tracks share similar qualities with the cues on the commercial release, but they feel a bit like diamonds in the rough that would benefit from a bit of polishing and tightening.
It takes a little while for inFamous 2 - The Red Soundtrack to find its footing and shake off the feeling that it's a collection of odds and ends that didn't make onto the Blue Soundtrack. This review refers to the Red Soundtrack. A companion album, inFamous 2 - The Red Soundtrack, was released only days later as part of the game's "Hero Edition".
Promoted by an online making-of featurette of the soundtrack, the music for inFamous 2 hit stores first in May 2011 in the shape of inFamous 2 - The Blue Soundtrack, available as a regular digital download. Ultimately, over the course of a year, four hours of music were created for inFamous 2. The involvement of such a colourful team of composers promised an eclectic score, and developer Suckerpunch's instruction to the artists to keep on improvising and experimenting only increased the intriguing nature of this project. They were joined by two newcomers: Bryan "Brain" Mantia, a prolific session drummer with an impressive list of credits (including Tom Waits, Guns N' Roses and Primus), and New Orleans band Galactic, coming from a background of blending funk, hip-hop, jazz and R&B on their own records. As a result, only the game's music manager Jonathan Mayer and composer Jim Dooley would return from inFamous. Consciously moving towards more organic sounds, the game's soundtrack would take its cue from the rich musical tradition of New Orleans. This also prompted a natural change in the developers' approach to inFamous 2's score. Enforcing the liberating sense of roaming Empire City was an electronic score spearheaded by knob twiddler extraordinaire Amon Tobin.įor inFamous 2, the game's narrative moved to a new location, New Marais, based on the real-life New Orleans. The adventures of bike courier-cum-son of Zeus Cole MacGrath saw the thunderbolt-throwing protagonist battle Reaper gangs and make Empire City his own, climbing up drainpipes, surfing power lines and sprinting across the city's rooftops with adrenaline-pumping abandon. Playing god has always been one of gamers' favourite pastimes and the original inFamous gave them a exciting opportunity to live out these fantasies.
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