Hi 343i, how you doin? OMG this is soooooooooo freaking Super Amazingly Awesome!!!
Omg, Halo 4 is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Awesooooooome! I mean in a scale of 1 to 10 its probably a 100, thank you 343i for bringing Halo Back, its beyond words!!! The graphic is mind blowing, the lighting is epic, the sound is soooooooo freaking Orgasmic litherally, the physics are incredible, the vehicles are awesome, the weapons are soooo realistic, gratifying and leathal, the campaign is mind blowing in scale, design, spectacularness, epicness, mind blowingness, vehicle friendlyness, environment change and scale again, really Braaaaavo for a Halo of such magnificence. Yeah, and the music is adequate!!!
Now on the not so good parts, I want to see Cortana again, periode, also I wanted to point out that the music is adequate but not mind blowing and Iconic like what Marty O’donnell use to make for Halo, except for a few of the track that Neil Davidge did, like ‘Haven’ which is epic, specially in that high melody notes of the violin in that track which is very memorable, also the ‘belly of the beast’, & legacy are superb track specially ‘Legacy’ with the hungarian chanting which is kind alike what was use in the ODST launch trailer which is very memorable & Halo Iconic, there is also the track ‘117’ which has a very great Halo Feel to it with its High strings melody and drum patterns, also the track ‘to Galaxy’ & ‘Arival’ are also great additions to the Halo theme music for their feel, iconic and relation to the Halo univers because the fit well in the narrative and experience of the game. Specially ‘Revival’ is a great addition because of the Monk chanting style which is a total Halo flavor that we need to use and abuse sometimes!
Also why does the Halo Theme Song was not use & redesign as it always do, its the core of what Halo was, is, and will always be!
Now those soundtrack music that I just mention 2 paragraphs ago are superb addition to the Halo music theme but I find myself half the time in the game playing campaign being unexcited or utterly indifferent or unconcerned about what going on in the situation of the game in the campaign due to a lack of emotion in the music, lack of music littherally in some little key moments or more specially techno style music or addition to the music that aren’t in any way Halo themed and most of this techno music is quite arsh to the ears and can be associated with ‘‘white noise’’ in some way, I would recommend instead using pads, melodic sound envelopes with patches that are using different soft sound waves(u know sound envelope, ‘‘Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release’’), accoustic instruments in all kinds, with an abuse of the ‘‘Chorus’’ effect for these experimental sounds when mixing kind alike in the music of Halo 2 but you should use less of your digitally process techno gizmos Neil Davidge!
Notice: In these little times where the is no music I would recommend using the same music formula as in multiplayer where in the last moments of a game the music seems to spike up & pump everyone into an adrenaline rush to go & kill everyone with ‘a’ feeling of invincibility like superman, use that same style of music to pump everybody with a great emotion at stake in a musical performance that will define that periode of time & push everyone to unite to your cause that your trying to bring out & translate! And make sure that there is no moments in the game where there is a musical silence unless it is a really specific, unique, intended & super intense moment, but in that case bring a special sound FX that will intensify the moment, but in conclusion Neil Davidge, I like your style of music and I would gave you another try for the next Halo encounter but make sure that ALL your music & sound are Halo themed with lots of emotion, high melodic stance, feel & spike that are memorable with lots of rythmic Halo style drums & not a rock style drums kind alike Marty use to do, with lots of strings, violins, trumpets & any of the brass, (because trumpets announce a presence, V.I.P or majesty) and know that each instruments have a feel, a presence and a meaning to them and a section of the same instruments amplifies the same feeling, presence and add a greater meaning to them, and each instrument represent & announce different messages or stories and make sure to use and abuse Monk chanting because its total Halo style, pianos because its a prime instrument in the Halo univers specially in its lower register and also Hungarian chanting because just like in the ODST Launch trailer, it announces a tragedy or a sad moment, something epic, and in all I like your style but make sure that everyone looove it at all time and make it more Halo Awesome, Iconic and Epic Neil Davidge!
PS: Its very important 343i, please do a patch to enable game saving and recent game played available in the theater because I couldn’t save my first game and its super frustrating not to be able so save our game with unlimited saving capabilities, thank you 343i for such an awesome Halo 4!
