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Star Wars: Jedi Survivor composers reveal secret George Lucas influence
18.04.2024 - 17:35 / radiotimes.com / George Lucas
Star Wars: Jedi Survivor was one of our favourite games of last year (here's our five-star review to prove it), so we couldn't resist the opportunity to ask a few questions to its composers at the BAFTA Games Awards.
Musical maestros Gordy Haab and Stephen Barton, who collaborated on both 2019's Fallen Order and 2023's Survivor, were nominated for the Music award at this year's gaming BAFTAs. We spoke on the red carpet prior to the event, and you can see the full interview below in video form.
Items discussed include the secret influence of George Lucas on the project – with Haab and Barton reusing a piece of Lucas's direction during Survivor's development – and the current status of Star Wars Jedi 3.
If you're more of a written person, we'll spell out some of the key quotes after the video.
So, what's it like stepping into the musical legacy of John Williams (composer on the Star Wars films)? Given that the music of Star Wars is so memorable, and carries so much emotional weight for fans, it must be a challenge trying to work in that space.
Haab told us: «It's always a challenge, and I've had the fortune of working on quite a few Star Wars gaming titles, starting back from The Old Republic and the Battlefront series as well. And over my time working on that franchise, I've slowly progressed to sort of putting my own aesthetic in it a bit more.
»And I think, with this game, we've really been able to sort of stretch out, and not necessarily move away from what makes Star Wars so great, but enhance it and bring our own voice to it, so to speak."
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One thing we've noticed in Jedi Survivor recently, having revisited the game to polish off those bounty hunter side missions and collect some trophies, is that even the most incidental music in the most obscure corner of the galaxy is caked in emotional swells.
Barton said: «That was one of the things at the very outset that we wanted to do. We wanted to make sure there were no unloved children. Because, you know, there's games where you go off and do side quests and stuff. And you can sort of tell, you know, this was just off-cuts or just some stems from something else. It doesn't really work.
»So we've tried to make sure that there's loads of stuff you can find, and loads of stuff that's unique. There's one area called the Funky Cabins, and there's one piece of music, it only plays there. If you never go there… or if you never do the Rancor, you'll never hear the Rancor music. But that's up to you."
As for George Lucas, the secret
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