I’ll come right out and say I haven’t played MGS4. In fact, I just found out today via wikipedia that the game doesn’t take place in the distant future, as I thought the fact that Snake had aged so much was because the setting of the game. Oops! That doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the music though.
We’ve been talking a lot about some of the composers behind Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, but we never got around to publishing a review of the game’s 2-disc soundtrack. That ends today! We’ve listened to the thing countless times through, and although it’s a monster of a soundtrack, we’re going to try our best to avoid writing a novel about it.
Composed by a massive team headed by film composer Harry Gregson-Williams along with Konami’s Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori, Kazuma Jinnouchi, Sota Fujimori, Akihiro Honda, and of course our friends at GEM Impact, Norihiko Hibino, Yoshitaka Suzuki, Takahiro Izutani, and Takehide Ayuzawa (as an uncredited arranger), it’s a miracle that any of this music fits together, but it does! It’s time for some gritty, war-time ambiance, so brace yourself for a unique listening experience.
Hit the jump for our full impressions of the game’s official soundtrack. (more…)
