Shadowrun

Music 4 Games has the scoop on Shadowrun’s soundtrack. FASA Studio Audio Director Tobin Buttrum shares some background information about some of the sounds in Shadowrun.

We had several ancient prophecies about the Return of Magic to the world written in various languages in the single-player story and Stan set them to various themes and recorded them in a choral session. In the opening cinema during the Artifact/Volcano sequence you can hear a chorus singing one of the Mayan prophecies, in the Yucateq language. I believe the line in the sequence is something like, “It has returned.”

I had to admit that this stuff has been off my radar even though I’m looking forward to the release of the game. The Barbatuques music from the E3 2006 trailer was very cool. The whole trailer was cool.  I wish FASA would release it to the XBOX Live Marketplace and shadowrun.com.  (By the way, watch Barbatuques perform the Baiana song from the trailer here on YouTube.)