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Prey: Video game music finally grows-up

This summer Prey will be unleashed on a public with burnt holes in their flak jackets and battle scars on their mice. A tale of gratuitous outer-space carnage and spiritual absolution that is one of the most anticipated video game releases of recent years.

Prey 's storyline follows Tommy, a young Cherokee and former soldier who has renounced his heritage and spiritual foundation. Kidnapped by aliens, bent on harvesting the Earth's peaceful inhabitants as a food source, he is imprisoned alongside his grandfather and girlfriend by their biomechanical captors. Breaking free from his confinement, Tommy is contacted by his late grandfather's spirit who urges him to re-affirm his beliefs as the only way to find salvation and rescue Jen.

Destined to shake-up the first-person shooter genre, this game won't be bursting onto the market in a hail of gunfire. Moreover it will be detonating a thermonuclear charge beneath its competitors and committing polygonal genocide. This is guns-for-glory on over-the-counter steroids with an orchestral soundtrack as revolutionary as its much-vaunted style of game play.

Written and produced by BAFTA® award-winning composers Jeremy Soule and Julian Soule, the music in Prey is being hailed as featuring the first movie-length soundtrack for a video game. With a running time of over three hours, the release of a two-volume soundtrack album looks set to demonstrate how high the bar has now been raised in video game scoring practice.

So high, in fact, that Prey is destined to effect industry-wide change: from defining a new standard by which music commissions for flagship interactive titles can be judged, to sounding a welcome death knell for the use of through-composed material. It is a key milestone and one that is the culmination of a decade's work spent to bring the true sound of Hollywood into the home.

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