Hideo Kojima intended a largely cinematic soundtrack for
Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty. In order to achieve this, he hired Harry Gregson-Williams, a British Hollywood composer of the Hans Zimmer school of film music. While Gregson-Williams was not as well-known as he is now, he had eight years experience behind him on hit films such as
The Rock, Enemy of the State, The Replacement Killers, Armageddon, and
Chicken Run. He was to create a dark, futuristic, and dramatic sound to the series through fusing electronic beats with orchestration. He was joined by Berklee-trained jazz musician and new Konami employee Norihiko Hibino, who maintained the Hollywood feel of the
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While the 2005 soundtrack release for Kameo: Elements of Power contained an hour of Steve Burke's music, but it wasn't enough to satisfy fans. Typically, at this point, nothing more would be done until a diehard fan arranged a gamerip, but Rare has always been generous with its fans. Rather than forcing them to extract the music themselves, or releasing a second album of music, Burke and Rare instead released the music for free.
Gradually updated and expanded over the course of three years, the website tracks represent nearly two additional hours of Kameo material. Some of these songs expand on the heavy battle themes present on the CD; "Water Temple 
Speed Racer was positioned as one of the tentpole blockbusters of 2008, with merchandizing and tie-ins galore. Despite that, the film was a tremendous disappointment, and will probably go down as one of the most costly bombs in history. As with most major Hollywood releases, a video game was released alongside Speed Racer; for the score, producers turned to composer Winifred Phillips, who has gained notice with past efforts in the movie tie-in genre.
The game represents an interesting situation: Michael Giacchino, himself a video game composer, wrote the original score for Speed Racer, and many compared the garish film to a game itself. Phillips was thus confronted with the challenge 
In 2002, the late American-based subsidiary Capcom Studio 8 successfully revived the classic Makaimura / Ghosts 'n Goblins series with the PlayStation 2's Maximo: Ghosts of Glory. Lacking in-house composers, they decided to hire experienced video game composer Tommy Tallarico to lead the music production. Tallarico opted to arrange and orchestrate Ayako Mori's iconic Ghosts 'n Goblins first stage theme in a variety of methods rather than produce entirely new music. Assisting Tallarico were orchestrators Todd Dennis, Shane Kneip, and Chris Rickwood, though none of them were keen on scoring the cinematic music for the game. Instead Capcom turned Taito employee Tamayo Kawamoto returned to the series after a 15 year 
There have been endless demands for a thorough 'best of' music compilation and a fully fledged arranged album by Metal Gear series fans. Produced by Norihiko Hibino, the Metal Gear 20th Anniversary ~ Metal Gear Music Collection aims to fulfil both requests with a mixed compilation / arranged album. Given the series has evolved spectacular over its 20 year — from the MSX's humble Metal Gear to the PlayStation 2's cinematic Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater — a difficult task was to create an album that didn't clumsily vary in musical maturity and sound quality. An even more difficult task was to reunite the requests of casual fans wanting 
The score to Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater develops what was introduced on the 'Metal Gear meets Hollywood' score to Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Cinematic composer Harry Gregson-Williams returns to produce music mostly for the cutscenes of the games and uses the score to experiment and develop his compositional range. Symphonic jazz musician Norihiko Hibino both complements Gregson-Williams and helps to define the 1960s setting of the game. The result is a stronger effort than its predecessor with respect to both the compositions themselves and their presentation in a soundtrack release.
With the opening vocal theme "Snake Eater", composer Norihiko Hibino offers a James Bond parody that