Music Clips from Avatar: The Game by Chance Thomas

While AVATAR continues to dominate the moviehouses around the globe, it's tie-in game, hasn't quite garnered the same level of success.  Still, there is at least one element of the game deserving of a greater spotlight and that is its original score.

Check out a couple of samples from CHANCE THOMAS' stellar work for AVATAR:  THE GAME below.  Unfortunately, there aren't any current plans for an official soundtrack release, and after you hear these bits, I'm betting your only going to want one all the more.

There.  Now isn't a full release warranted?  If you think so, then left Ubisoft know!  In the meantime, enjoy those clips as much as you like and check out our recent SoundCast-interview with composer CHANCE THOMAS here.

Gametime 2009 - Interview with Chance Thomas (Avatar: The Game)

Gametime 2009 - Interview: Chance Thomas (Avatar:  The Game)

Recorded December 16, 2009

Published December 19, 2009


Episode Highlights

00:33 - Introduction and Welcome
01:40 - Did you feel "extra" pressure working on Avatar:  The Game?
03:06 - How was James Cameron involved with the game music?
05:00 - Working with James Horner
09:05 - Finding "the sound" for the game.
11:15 - Comparing the game score and the film's score
16:55 - Freedom of the prequel
18:10 - Other 2009 projects:  LDS Church and United Way

Music Clips (Select music clips contained in this podcast)

00:05 - Virgin Flight (Avatar: The Game) by Chance Thomas
07:52 - Becoming One of "the People... (Avatar) by James Horner
15:25 - Aerial Combat Acrobatics (Avatar: The Game) by Chance Thomas
17:35 - Mystical Gatherings (Avatar: The Game) by Chance Thomas
24:36 - Virgin Flight (Avatar: The Game) by Chance Thomas

Download the interview here

Check out the full HIGH SCORE! feature here

3 Minutes of Avatar: The Game - Not Very Horner-like

You've probably seen the recent in-game footage released for the highly anticipated video game tie-in for James Cameron's AVATAR. Seeing this footage, I'm reminded of LOST PLANET 2 (a game I can hardly wait to play). Not only that, but the in-game music sounds more like the work of JAMIE CHRISTOPHERSON, composer for Lost Planet and Lost Planet 2, than it does anything James Horner would ever do. Now, I'm not saying it's bad at all. The music seems to fit into the mold of the first or third person shooter well enough...just nothing extraordinary.

Given Cameron's desire to "connect" the game with the film, I'd expect that to roll over to the music as well. So what to make of this 3 minutes, then? Perhaps it's not the finished game score? I bet that it is. Perhaps, then, it actually is something along the lines that Horner has done for the film? I'd be fraggerghasted, if that's the case.

So I'm betting this is the actual in-game music. All that is left is to find out who the composer (or composers) are. Ubisoft, we're waiting.