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It’s one of the most iconic musical themes in pop culture history: a plucky guitar riff that explodes into a symphony of brass. You probably know it well, even if you’ve never seen a James Bond movie or played a 007 game. And now the iconic Bond theme is back in the spotlight thanks in no small part to video game music veterans The Flight. I spoke with the duo, composed of bandmates Alexis Smith and Joe Henson, ahead of the release of IO Interactive’s 007 First Light to talk about the challenges of building a new score around such a classic theme and the surprising lack of rules they encountered while scoring the game.
“The main thing from IO Interactive was to hold back those [big orchestral] moments to give it to the player when he’s earned it,” Henson says. “Other than that, we weren’t being pushed into any boxes. There definitely wasn’t a style guide that came in from outside saying, ‘This is how you should use this.’ Sonically, how we used that main theme, there weren’t really any rules.”
“The game is split into different locations, and we gave each of these locations a sound,” Smith says. “Bond
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