'Star Wars Outlaws' Composer Wilbert Roget II Talks About Scoring Games And Now Anime
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We can all agree videogames would be a completely different thing without their soundtracks and songs. Today, legend-in-the-making Wilbert Roget II gives the world an insight into the video game scores world.
Roget joined LucasArts in 2008 as staff composer and 3 years later he scored for Star Wars: The Old Republic. He left LucasArts to pursue a freelance career; as a freelancer, he scored big titles such as Call of Duty: WWII, Mortal Kombat 11 and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris.
Most recently, Wilbert scored for two major titles: Mortal Kombat 1 and Star Wars Outlaws. The first one serves as a second reboot to the successful fighting game franchise which serves also as a sequel; this title follows a new timeline created by Liu Kang after the Mortal Kombat 11 finale. The latter is a spin-off for the Star Wars Universe, in Roget’s words: “(…) Star Wars Outlaws, a title that features an angle previously unexplored in Star Wars games: the criminal underground.”
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He elaborates on his take on the music for this project, following what he thinks John Williams would have done for the project: “So instead of writing in a strict John Williams style, I tried to imagine how he might approach this new setting and augmented that with my own modern take on stealth heists and scoundrel characters.”
“To compare Star Wars Outlaws to my Mortal Kombat scores, both make heavy use of leitmotif, though my Star Wars Outlaws score has more fully developed character and faction themes,” Roget ends, giving a little insight on his composing decisions regarding the characters and the complexity represented by them in this new project.
The composer ends the interview hinting towards his next project: “I’m also excited to announce my first anime score, Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance! I’ll have more to say about this in the coming months, but it’s been a decades-long dream of mine to work on Japanese anime (…).” He emphasized the influence of various Japanese composers, such as Nobou Uematsu, Kenji Kawai, and Yasunori Mitsuda, inspired him to follow a musical career and become a composer himself.
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Star Wars Outlaws release date is still a mystery. However, with the work of someone like Wilbert Roget II, even the background music will be worth the wait.
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