That Lorne Balfe was an essential part of Hans Zimmer’s team with additional music on THE DA VINCI CODE, THE DARK KNIGHT and INCEPTION (a score that he also co-produced) says much for the epic orchestral element that distinguishes SOULS – not to mention Balfe’s own music for such propulsive action games and films as CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2, ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS and TERMINATOR SALVATION. By virtue of its length, BEYOND: TWO SOULS just might have had the most complex and involving plot of any of them as it explored the link between hunted government operative Jodie (Ellen Page) and her lifelong relationship with “Aiden,” a seeming alien symbiote closely watched by her scientific father figure Nathan (Williem Dafoe). But where the ambition SOULS ended up being more like watching a movie with some passive play than the fully interactive experience it intended to be, Balfe’s score truly elevated BEYOND into a spectral, mind-bending musical realm that proved itself to be the genre’s answer to INCEPTION when it came to expanding the melodic consciousness of game scoring. Now finally after three years, listeners will finally get to dive into Lorne Balfe’s terrific score for the 2013’s BEYOND: TWO SOULS. Game creator David Cage’s attempt to break down the line between movie and controller by having the player make choices that would creates fateful ripples across the rest of his experience – a la Cage’s seminal detective-themed HEAVY RAIN, as now given a sci-fi veneer. Good, if not excellent things can come to those who wait, which can be especially frustrating when it comes to a world where instant, visual gratification always comes first before music that can be equally as gratifying (if not more so) than the game it’s attached to. BEYOND: TWO SOULS soundtrack | ©2016 Lakeshore Records
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