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Assassin's Creed composer on the franchise's evolution, and scoring larger, more adventurous worlds
Listen carefully to the finale of last week's Assassin's Creed Shadows trailer, and a familiar musical theme can be hea…
We're chatting over Zoom a couple of days after the Shadows trailer drops, and ahead of the theme being played in London at another tour of the ever-popular Assassin's Creed concert series. Kyd recalls initially being wowed by the series' early focus on open-world gameplay - and its feeling of discovery, something that seems a key feature again in the upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows. Patrice [Desilets, Assassin's Creed co-creator] wanted this music to be electronic, and the idea was the Animus was being pushed to the absolute maximum when you're in those moments - it's why you see screen-tearing and so forth.
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