Original GoldenEye and Perfect Dark composer “would’ve loved” to work on the reboot, but the studio “chose someone else”
Jun. 11, 2024The Initiative and Crystal Dynamics are revisiting Perfect Dark after nearly 20 years
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Perfect Dark’s original composer, Grant Kirkhope, writes onTwitterthat he “would’ve loved to have scored the new Perfect Dark,” but “alas, it wasn’t to be.” The former Rare composer previously worked on the British developer’s 1997 FPS GoldenEye 007, one of the world’s first-party games.
In fact, Kirkhope is responsible for several of video game history’s memorable soundtracks, including the springy tunes in 1998’s Banjo-Kazooie and 1999’s Donkey Kong 64, home of the supernaturally groovyDK rap.
But the Perfect Dark reboot’s developers, The Initiative and Tomb Raider’s Crystal Dynamics, decided to pick a different composer for whatthey calltheir novel blend of “first-person shooters, immersive sims, and stealth-action.”
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Ashley Bardhan is a critic from New York who covers gaming, culture, and other things people like. She previously wrote Inverse’s award-winning Inverse Daily newsletter. Then, as a Kotaku staff writer and Destructoid columnist, she covered horror and women in video games. Her arts writing has appeared in a myriad of other publications, including Pitchfork, Gawker, and Vulture.
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