With the signing of Walter Mair, Hexworks’ game is sure to get a pretty strong soundtrack, so publisher CI Games has pulled a big one…

Walter Mair is known for his captivating scores, ranging from epic orchestrations recorded with 80-piece choirs to intimate, small ensemble and hybrid electronic pieces that have graced a diverse mix of feature films, documentaries, television dramas, narrative-driven interactive entertainment and video games. In 2020, he also won two Telly Awards for “Best Original Music” for his scores for the BAFTA “EE Mobile Game of the Year” Call of Duty: Mobile, as well as his score for the Netflix docuseries Formula 1: Drive to Survive, which won the Telly Award for Best Original Music, a BAFTA Award for Best Sound and topped the Netflix charts worldwide. Other credits include Oliver Hirschbiegel’s international Cold War miniseries for Netflix and ZDF, The Same Sky, which premiered at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, and Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, Lost River, starring Saorise Ronan, Matt Smith, Christina Hendricks and Eva Mendes.

Walter scored the 2021 survival thriller Till Death, directed by S.K. Dale and starring Megan Fox, as well as the psychological horror film The Unfamiliar, which won the 2021 Telly Award for Best Original Score and an award for Best Score at the 2020 NOLAHFF and was described by the press as “The Babadook meets Pet Sematary”. Other recent projects include the coming-of-age drama Iceland is Best and the action thriller Knuckledust, directed by James Kermack and starring Moe Dunford (Vikings), which won the 2021 Telly Award for Best Original Music. In 2022, he scored the Apple+ series Liaison, starring Ewa Green and Vincent Cassel, directed by Stephen Hopkins, and the action thriller The Bricklayer, starring Aaron Eckhard and Nina Dobrev, directed by Renny Harlin. The thriller Infinite, starring Asa Butterfield, Tanya Reynolds and Robert Sheehan, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022.

In 2023, Walter composed the score for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, which, after being nominated for a BAFTA and an Ivor Novello Award, is now up for 7 awards at this year’s GANG (Game Audio Network Guild) Awards at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Nominated categories include Audio of the Year, Best Cinematic & Cutscene Audio and Sound Design of the Year.

This brings an experienced and knowledgeable musician to the dark fantasy RPG, which CI Games says will be much more commercial, especially visually, to appeal to a wider gaming audience, and will be released sometime next year for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC.

Source: Gematsu