BioShock Composer Scoring Dante's Inferno

09 Sep 2009 at 16:14:26 by Tim McDonald

Electronic Arts has announced that Garry Schyman is scoring forthcoming third-person action-adventure, Dante's Inferno.

Composer Garry Schyman is probably best known for his work on BioShock, for which he won rather a lot of awards, but he's also worked on scoring film, TV, and other games, the latter of which include Resistance: Retribution, Destroy All Humans, and - amusingly - Voyeur, which you hopefully won't have heard of. For Dante's Inferno, he's been working in the Abbey Road Studios with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Metro Voices Singers, we're told, with the score soundtrack due out in early 2010.

Dante's Inferno, of course, is the game which takes the first part of the classic epic poem The Divine Comedy and translates it into a hack-and-slash action game in which Dante is more a soldier than a poet.

"Scoring Dante's Inferno was one of the most interesting and challenging projects I have ever tackled," said Schyman. "Literally being asked to score hell was fantastic especially once I saw the surrealistically frightening world that Visceral Games had developed. I thought long and hard about every piece of music I wrote to create something new, surprising and fitting. It has turned out to be one of the most creative experiences in my career."

Exec producer on Dante's Inferno, Jonathan Knight, who we spoke to awhile back, elaborated a little. "Our primary goal with this project is to bring Dante Alighieri's vision of hell to a new audience and a new medium, and that goes beyond the visuals. The sound and music are equally critical to the experience, and Garry's epic score will add layers of power and tension, as gamers descend through the nine circles of hell."

"We are incredibly fortunate to be working with talent of his caliber," he finished.

It's been awhile since we got our hands on Dante's Inferno, but the title was shaping up extremely nicely back then, and now that it's only half a year away from launch we're getting a wee bit more excited. The game is due out in Europe on 12 February 2010 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PSP.

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