{"id":82371,"date":"2026-05-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82371"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:37:18","slug":"007-first-light-composers-reveal-the-one-rule-they-were-given-for-scoring-the-new-bond-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82371","title":{"rendered":"007 First Light Composers Reveal the One Rule They Were Given for Scoring the New Bond Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>It\u2019s 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\u2019ve 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&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/007-first-light-review\">007 First Light<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main thing from IO Interactive was to hold back those [big orchestral] moments to give it to the player when he&#8217;s earned it,\u201d Henson says. \u201cOther than that, we weren&#8217;t being pushed into any boxes. There definitely wasn&#8217;t a style guide that came in from outside saying, \u2018This is how you should use this.\u2019 Sonically, how we used that main theme, there weren&#8217;t really any rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe game is split into different locations, and we gave each of these locations a sound,\u201d Smith says. \u201cBond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 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\u2019ve never seen a James Bond movie or played a 007 game. And now the iconic Bond theme is back in the spotlight thanks in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":82373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82375,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82371\/revisions\/82375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}