Sumthing Else Music Works continue to show their Capcom partnership is a great thing for soundtrack fans with the release of the score to the video game Resident Evil 5.

Resident Evil 5 is one of the most talked about and critically acclaimed games of the year. Game Informer honored it with ‘Game of the Month’ status and an impressive 9.5/10 review score while PlayStation: The Official Magazine rated it with a perfect five-out-of-five score, remarking that “RE5 takes the co-op experience to a new level and reinvigorates the survival horror genre in the process.”

Lead Composer Kota Suzuki said, “As the look of the game has changed from the previous series, I spent many hours trying to figure out how to approach it with music. We tend to relate horror with darkness, but this time the game takes place in Africa with a blazing hot sun.  I contemplated on how I could stir the player’s emotion by music embodying two opposite elements? After much trial and error, the director came up with a key phrase ‘panic horror.’ And from there, I put my focus on panic-stricken music for the players. In fact, I did often get panicky while playing this game myself. I wonder what your experiences will be?”

Resident Evil 5 joins Street Fighter IV in in Suming Else’s long list of planned releases.  Also on their agenda are the scores to Bionic Commando, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop, Monster Hunter, Freedom Unite, Spyborgs and Battlestar Galactica composer Bear McCreary’s epic score to Dark Void. 

Resident Evil 5 is now available.  Click here to see it on Amazon.

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