NEWS - Friday, February 20, 2004
Danny Elfman Scores Fable Theme
Elfman Contributes to Fable Soundtrack February 18, 2004—Microsoft Game Studios announced today that music celebrity Danny Elfman has composed the theme for the upcoming Xbox roleplaying adventure Fable™. Elfman, three-time Academy Award® nominee and front man for the eighties new-wave band Oingo Boingo, is best known for his unique musical style. Movie-goers have heard his work in the soundtracks of dozens of popular films, including Chicago, Batman, Spider-Man, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Beetlejuice. For Fable, Elfman’s first foray into the world of videogame soundtracks, he worked with a hand-picked orchestra and recording team to produce a magical theme in full 5.1 Surround Sound. In Fable, the groundbreaking roleplaying adventure from game designer Peter Molyneux, players’ actions determine their characters' skills, appearances, and moralities. Characters' life stories are created from childhood to death. They can grow from inexperienced children into the most powerful beings in the world, choosing the path of righteousness or dedicating their lives to evil. Muscles expand with each feat of strength. Force of will increases with each work of wit. Obesity follows gluttony. Skin tans with exposure to sunlight and bleaches bone-white by moonlight. Players earn scars in battle and lines of experience with age. With each person they aid and every creature they slay, they change the world forever. In Fable, gamers decide: “Who will I be?”Source: http://www.xbox.com/en-us/fable/pressrelease.htm
