One critical aspect of a game that is often overlooked is its score. While sports games and games like Saints Row and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas typically opt to use licensed soundtracks, epic action/adventure games rely heavily on original scores to add to the atmosphere.
Read the Q&A while listening to the Lost Planet main theme.
Composer Jamie Christopherson was asked by Capcom to score the world of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, an Xbox 360 sci-fi shooter set on an alien world with subzero temperatures. Christopherson previously wrote music for Electronic Arts' Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Capcom's Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams, and the film The Crow: Wicked Prayer, but says scoring Lost Planet was his biggest project to date.