TERA composers discuss musical themes

by Jef Reahard on Jun 20th 2011 3:30PM

Fantasy, Culture, MMO industry, New titles, News items, TERA

As game budgets grow, production values usually do as well, and this is pretty apparent in the spate of high-quality musical scores surrounding many modern MMORPGs. Titles as diverse as Guild Wars, Age of Conan, and Lord of the Rings Online boast cinema-style ear candy and instantly recognizable theme music, and TERA is gearing up to become the latest MMORPG to follow suit.

Renowned composers Inon Zur (Dragon Age, Fallout 3) and Rod Abernethy (RAGE, Dead Space) have been working on TERA's score since 2009, and the duo has made use of the Northwest Sinfonia Orchestra and world-class production and mixing facilities to bring the music of Arborea to life.

Zur and Abernethy are interviewed in a new piece over at ZAM, and clicking on the link will bring you discussion on regional and racial musical content as well as personal insights from both men regarding their work on Bluehole Studio's action MMO.

Source: ZAM

Tags: bluehole, bluehole-studio, en-masse, en-masse-entertainment, fantasy, inon-zur, interview, music, rod-abernethy, score, soundtrack, tera

Reader Comments (3)

I wish they would discuss variations on the theme of "release date" :)

"Star Wars: The Old Republic is gearing up to sound nice and I am glad to see that Tera is doing the same. ;)" Ugh, fixed.

Anyway, one of the reasons I buy the collectors edition of games is because of the soundtrack. And its funny how sometimes the music in games sound better than what you hear in movies. Starcraft, Warcraft, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Lord of the Rings Online, Mass Effect, to name a few are some of my most favorite soundtracks.

And Jeremy Soule is by far on of my most favorite composers I have ever heard.

Note: I am sorry if this comes up twice, stupid browser at work ;(

People are going to be tired of waiting for this game before beta even starts much less release. Enough with the Advertising fluff info Bluehole Studio and En Masse, give us some timelines. yeesh.