The publisher of High Voltage’s hardcore-hugging shooter The Conduit has yet to be revealed. But today’s revelation that the game will be scored by Diego Stocco, composer of Soul Calibur IV’s dramatic soundtrack, leads me to predict that the game’s secret publisher could well be Ubisoft. Of course, my educated guesses have been known to go horribly awry, but this makes a lot of sense to me. After all, The Conduit was only snapped up relatively recently, and Ubi’s recent work with Stocco would obviously make him an ideal candidate to score the game.

Stocco has previously worked as ’sound design composer’ on a number of Hollywood films including Transformers, Crank, Jumper and Lady in the Water (but don’t hold that last one against him). The developer’s Michael Metz enthuses that Stocco’s first piece captured “exactly the mood and mix of sound design and music we were looking for”. Sounds exciting.

The Conduit will be released in the first quarter of next year, and will hopefully lead more developers to invest in first-person shooters on the console.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 at 1:10 pm by Chris Schilling
(possibly faulty) predictions, Forthcoming titles, Music, Wii.