A Look Into The Music Of The Vertigo Video Game
One of the more unusual video games coming out this December is Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo — yes, a game based around the movie, though it won’t follow the plot exactly. The game’s story follows three different characters and switches between them at various points, such as Ed Miller, lone survivor of a car crash that took his family. The stress of the experience is giving him the title malady, and a psychiatrist has been hired to probe his memories and figure out what truly happened.
Vertigo is being developed by Pendulo Studios (Runaway, Yesterday Origins, Blacksad: Under the Skin). They’ve been releasing a string of behind-the-scenes videos detailing the development of this unusual project, and the latest is about the creation of the music score. The challenge is to get as close to the movie’s soundtrack quality as possible, a tall order when you consider it was done by Bernard Herrmann, who was good enough to be used on ALL of Hitchcock’s most iconic films: not just Vertigo, but Psycho, North By Northwest and The Birds. Herrmann scored every one.
Pendulo decided to hire one of their own reliable talents to tackle this one: Juan Miguel Martin, who’s provided the music for Runaway, The Next Big Thing, Yesterday, Yesterday Origins and Blacksad. Can he pull it off? The video below tells you more.
- An exclusive, original story about obsession, memory, manipulation and madness, freely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Vertigo
- Live a powerful narrative experience paying tribute to the visual and storytelling techniques of the thriller genre
- Investigate through the vision of three characters: everyone has a different story to tell
- Explore several timelines to cross-check the events and separate reality from deceptive memories
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo will be out this December for PC, followed by a console release sometime in 2022.