Games Thirst – Amazing Life
A dose of Red Dead Redemption.
Armed with 15 radio stations, two talk radio stations, 240 licensed songs and around 20 movies’ worth of soundtrack score, Grand Theft Auto V ups the ante everywhere.
Rockstar has never before amassed such a big list of songs, and it’s also the largest self-composed score, as Ivan Pavlovich, GTA V’s soundtrack supervisor, told Rolling Stone.
The soundtrack will be kicking in dynamically whenever you’re exploring the vast world of GTA V, online or offline, and not unlike Red Dead Redemption, it will allow for elements to blend into each other and mirror what your character is doing, and where.
Woody Jackson, the composer behind Red Dead Redemption, is back to compose for GTA V’s countryside of Los Santos, while German electronic band Tangerine Dream are taking care of another section, with DJ Alchemist and Oh No giving their music to another section of the world.
Pavlovich said:
“Each of these composers is used to define a character or an environment.”
This might hint at each of the three characters having their own musical background.
“[But] even though you may be triggering one score with a particular character or within a particular area in the world, you’re always hearing elements from the other composers. The first time you come into the country you’re blown away by Woody Jackson’s rock score, but within that you’re still hearing elements of Tangerine Dream, and Alchemist and Oh No. So you’re never too far away from this core sound that we’ve established for the game.”
GTA5′s full tracklisting leaked last weekend after early copies pre-loaded from the EU PlayStation Store had their encryption cracked. We won’t spoil it here, but the huge line-up is available to view elsewhere online.
