Los
Angeles, CA – June 6th, 2005 – Composer Garry Schyman
(www.garryschyman.com),
whose experience outside of videogames includes feature films,
television movies, and series television, has created the original
orchestral score for the upcoming videogame Destroy
All Humans!, developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ. The
musical score is written in the style of 1950’s sci-fi movies such as
the classic The Day The Earth Stood Still, using a Theremin as the lead
instrument. Schyman recorded his 60-minute cinematic score in
Los Angeles
with some of
Hollywood
’s top orchestral musicians.
Destroy
All Humans! turns players’ conventional expectations of playing
the human defending against an alien invasion to now allow them to play
the alien hell bent on infiltrating and taking over all of humanity. Packed
with non-stop action, advanced alien weaponry and abilities, and
humorous science-fiction mythology, Destroy
All Humans! uncovers an open ended world where the player can
unleash massive destruction from a UFO or land at any point to walk
among humans as the 3rd person alien.
Commenting
on his music for the game Garry Schyman said, “I never played the
humor of the game directly. Instead I wrote the score as if this
was 1953 and I was a working
composer
of that era.With that in
mind I played it dead serious, which led to an overly dramatic score and
the humor that comes from that approach.”
Greg
Borrud, Director of Production, Pandemic Studios, attested, “Garry
not only nailed the style for Destroy
All Humans!, he helped shape the game with his brilliant score. The
soundtrack takes the game to a whole new level.”
Destroy
All Humans! is scheduled to release for Xbox™ and PlayStation® 2
on June 21, 2005. For more information please visit www.destroyallhumansgame.com.
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Pandemic Studios:
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PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and the PC. Over the last seven years,
industry veterans Josh Resnick and Andrew Goldman have built the company
into one of the largest independent developers in the world, with
studios in
Los Angeles
,
California
and in
Brisbane
,
Australia
. Pandemic games have won numerous awards and have sold millions of
copies worldwide. More information about Pandemic is available at www.pandemicstudios.com.
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