The main concern of the article by Matthew Mirapaul is the digital sound used in the games to amplify the gameplay and the entertainment itself. The author speaks about the music that every gamer hears while playing this or that game. There were times when music was not polyphonic but still it was fascinating. Nowadays Games Soundtracks are very emotional and colorful. The sound is clear and real. Nothing reminds me of the times when the tunes were simple. Today Soundtracks play a very important role so it is a must to create a worthy soundtrack. As an example, the author of the article provides a series of games that include music of such kind that it feels like a movie. Professional musicians as well as the whole orchestras are involved in the process of creating a soundtrack. People working on music for games nowadays are much more sophisticated.
The main problem a lot of games faced 5 years ago was the lack of the budget and the technology that could help them to produce a high-quality sound as stated by Mr. Thomas the music director of the Vivendi Universal.
The technology is said to help to develop the sound as new powerful computers and game consoles can support multiple audio streams.
As for the playback process, it should be said that it has become much more pleasant as a great number of tracks for each scene are mixed in an unnoticeable way which gives the gameplay special emotional coloring in each scene. A special track is written for each scene, which in comparison to the “old times” when small tracks were looped or a number of them simply played randomly is absolutely fascinating.
Music becomes more and more important in the games. It doesn’t just entertain gamers but also involves them in the gaming process. Mr. Bajakian, a game-music composer in San Rafael, Calif., whose credits include Escape From Monkey Island, said he was working on a fantasy-game project, which he declined to identify, in which clues will be sung by a group of musicians within the game.
The games Soundtracks have made their way from simple short melodies up to movie alike serious and fascinating soundtracks.