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Sound Byte Radio Episode 2: Hitman: Blood Money, FF XIII, Mass Effect

Jonathan Toyad
By Jonathan Toyad, Associate Editor

On GameSpot's next music podcast episode, we check out the music of Hitman, FF XIII, and even a little bit of a Mass Effect tribute.

GameSpot Sound Byte

Greetings and salutations, fellow music listeners. Welcome to the second episode of Sound Byte Radio, your biweekly dose of video game music all in one listenable pseudo-mixtape podcast.

This week's offering will take you to modern times where electronica and orchestra combine into one smooth melding, as well as a piano rendition of a Final Fantasy theme. Today's show will also show off a sample of a concept album, which is a compilation of songs which never made the final cut of a game, as good as they are. In this case, the game in question is the Mass Effect trilogy.

Sound Byte Radio Episode 2: Hitman: Blood Money, FF XIII, The Neverhood

If you like what you hear, leave a comment below or PM me with your two cents. Hope you enjoyed this week's offering.

Music From Today's Show:

Hitman: Blood Money Original Sound Track


Song: Vegas
Composer: Jesper Kyd
Buy at Sumthing Digital.

Yakuza 3 OST


Song: End Point
Composer: Hidenori Shoji
Buy from Play-Asia.

Final Fantasy XIII Piano Collection


Song: Fang's Theme
Performer: Aki Kuroda
Composer: Masashi Hamauzu
Buy from iTunes or Square Enix's music store.

MAG: Valor (Original Soundtrack from the Video Game)


Song: A Soldier's Pride
Composer: Tree Adams
Buy at iTunes Store.

Imaginarium: Songs from the Neverhood


Song: Klaymen's Theme
Composer: Terry S. Taylor
Buy from Amazon.

Legacy


Song: Shepard of the Galaxy
Composer: Jimmy Hinson a.k.a Big Giant Circles
Buy from Big Giant Circles.

Missed the first episode? Check it out here, or download it here.

Jonathan Toyad
By Jonathan Toyad, Associate Editor

Born and raised from a jungle-laden village in Sarawak, Malaysia, Jonathan Toyad has been playing games since the early 90s. He favors fighting games, RPGs, and rhythm titles above every other genre, and occasionally spaces out like Pavlov's dog to video game music on his iPod.

26 Comments

  • julianozuca

    Posted Apr 23, 2012 8:49 am GMT

    Nice acoustic guitar in that MAG theme. Cool stuff...

  • Frame11

    Posted Apr 8, 2012 10:39 am GMT

    HUh intersting ! Though not every game has music that can be listened to outside of it's game content. Outside of it is just pure embarrassing geekness.

  • true_gamer007

    Posted Apr 6, 2012 11:09 pm GMT

    Jesper Kyd Rules!

  • XeonForce

    Posted Apr 6, 2012 8:08 pm GMT

    Can't believe I missed this earlier. Nice variety!

  • Deadly_Nemesis

    Posted Apr 6, 2012 8:06 am GMT

    So happy to hear they brought back to ME2 music in 3

  • ps2fatboy

    Posted Apr 6, 2012 7:02 am GMT

    nima_metal90 fair point : )

  • nima_metal90

    Posted Apr 6, 2012 4:31 am GMT

    Blood money soundtrack is great, @ps2fatboy I think hitman is not kind of game tht needs multiplayer, maybe co-op Is better anyway I never wanted in whole series Play it online.

  • ps2fatboy

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 7:07 pm GMT

    the new hitman game should be great ,is there a multiplayer on this one??

  • Deadly_Nemesis

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 2:25 pm GMT

    Yep favourite piece of music from Blood Money

  • zanelli

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 12:32 pm GMT

    I loved the music in The Neverhood games. Really big props for taking me back to my childhood with that.

  • AuronAXE

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 12:00 pm GMT

    I need to find the Hitman Soundtrack.

  • Savoritias

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 12:00 pm GMT

    this show proves games are art.

  • Madball357

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 9:51 am GMT

    Jesper Kyd is from another world...

  • kakashi552

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 9:01 am GMT

    that hitman piece was really good. and the mass effect one was nice, too. but i really didn't like the theme they used in ME3, with the soft piano intermixed with the blaring trumpets (the one that plays in the beginning when the little kid dies in the shuttle explosion in vancouver) i thought it didn't flow at all and was really just kinda cheesy. anyone else feel this way? anyways, great show.

  • PeterDuck

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 8:51 am GMT

    fudge yeah, the "Vegas" soundtrack at the beginning...

  • Mrityunjaya

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 8:17 am GMT

    really good

  • 4-Legged-Shark

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 8:00 am GMT

    actually no i think the Hale version was used for that crappy movie. I think something different was used in the game.

  • 4-Legged-Shark

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 7:58 am GMT

    @gamerxzx lol Ave Maria doesnt sing the song, Ave Maria is the name of the song. There are many variations of that song. The version in Blood Money was sung by Christina England Hale.

  • VaanXPenelo

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 7:27 am GMT

    Piano Collections for Final Fantasy does it again! Games aren't great but goodness, the music is superb.

  • gamerxzx

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 6:15 am GMT

    I was expecting the song that ave maria sings in the starting of hitman blood money

  • NightLord47

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 5:46 am GMT

    Listening to Blood Moneys music again makes me even more sad that they dumped Jesper Kyd...

  • bigevil1987

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 4:29 am GMT

    Super cool idea for a podcast, I miss 1UP's game music show. It has probably been asked a million times but is it coming to iTunes?

  • vivalatour

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 4:11 am GMT

    melody of a madman ....

  • d_khan

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 4:02 am GMT

    Great music, I really love the music from Final Fantasy XIII, since the composer also worked on some of the music for my all-time favorit game, Final Fantasy X.

  • Whitebloodsun

    Posted Apr 5, 2012 3:56 am GMT

    Among all of the songs featured here, I can only say that A Soldier's Pride is a good song. It has that reckless feelings in it. Although it is much better if they change the title to A Mercenaries Pride because the song didn't have the rule obligation and self control atmosphere that a soldiers must have.

  • nophilip1

    Posted Apr 4, 2012 11:20 pm GMT

    Always great to hear piano versions of FF music. And I'm glad to see Big Giant Circles get some love. His stuff is always great.

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