Still catching up on all the Silent Hill news I missed reporting on last week while I was away in the UK (btw I’m finally back home today 🙂 ) I was able to get a couple of E3 related news posts up during my last few days in Scotland since we had internet access where we were staying but now think I’m almost done playing catch up! *phew*
Last week Downpour Senior Associate Producer, Tomm Hulett answered some recent hot button Silent Hill topics to Joystiq such as the reasoning behind the inclusion of Korn in Downpour and the HD Collection’s current PS3 exclustivity.
On Korn Tomm says:
Hulett was sure to point out that longtime Silent Hill contributor
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn will also create music for the game. The reasoning behind Korn’s inclusion depended on “a lot of factors,” according to Hulett. “We had our licensing department put feelers out” for groups that would be interested in contributing to the game, he noted. Konami apparently had a few choices, and Korn “made the most sense” to the publisher. “If people don’t like it, they can hit start and skip it,” he said, adding that
the song isn’t “thrown down your throat” and that Konami isn’t trying to turn Silent Hill fans into Korn fans.
I mentioned that fans seem to be upset about the song, with some even going so far as to sign a petition for its removal. “I’m a big Silent Hill fan. I can pretty much guess how [fans] are going to react to everything we do,” said Hulett, “I wasn’t wrong on this one, in how they’d react, but I think they should hopefully calm down a little bit.” To further assuage fears, he noted that the song isn’t “an integral part of the gameplay” and won’t be forced on players. “You know, Murphy won’t be listening to Korn, or Korn won’t be playing over a cutscene. It’s nothing like that.”
So there you go! Korn in Downpour isn’t going to be the end of the world, it’s easily skipable and won’t potentially to ruin hours of enjoyment in game. 😀 I know when I first heard the news it made me raise an eyebrow but I’m willing to see what they come up with before I make any final decisions on how I feel. This is mainly because I remember thinking “WTF” when Marylin Manson was chosen years ago to score the first RE movie and in the end I was pleasantly surprised and really dug the main title theme!
It’s also nice to also have a firm confirmation that Mary Elizabeth McGlynn will also create music for Downpour. I can’t wait to hear what she does!!!
Moving on to the upcoming Silent Hill Collection, Hulett offered a tiny bit of hope for an eventual multiplatform release for the currently PS3 exclusive compilation. “It’s always been a primarily Sony platform series, so right now we’re just aiming at a Sony exclusive, which isn’t to say in the future it won’t be available anywhere else, but right now it’s Sony exclusive.”
Yay! I hope they also bring it to Xbox 360, it’s a shame it’s a PS3 exclusive at the moment 🙁 but hey I had to buy a PS3 at some point lol!
Source (Joystiq)
