Halo Infinite hasn’t been released yet, but it’s already drawing a lot of highly positive and highly negative opinions. Despite the ongoing negative reaction to the Halo Infinite graphics, there is one thing that most fans agree is top quality about the upcoming game: its music. 343 Industries recently dropped the game’s first full track, titled Reverie.
343 Industries took to the official Halo YouTube channel to release the first track from Halo Infinite, “Reverie,” which had been previously featured in the Xbox Games Showcase Halo Infinite gameplay demo. It’s a lot more subtle and slow than some of the other installments in the franchise have been, but fans can recognize the clever use of musical themes from other Halo games.
Twitter users are loving the new music, with words like “incredible,” “epic,” and “superb” filling most posts in the topic. User @CyToxic_ summed up people’s sentiments well with this statement: “Something Halo Infinite hasn’t done wrong so far is the music.” There are a lot of complaints about the graphics quality, although a free Halo Infinite multiplayer mode is exciting a lot of people. There have been good and bad reactions to the content released so far, and the music seems to be getting a lot of the good ones.
The composer, Curtis Schweitzer, is known for scoring other sci-fi games like Starbound, Earthlight VR, and Interstellar Rift. His scores are cinematic and soaring, and he has a knack for adding atmosphere to games set in space. “Reverie” sounds a lot more peaceful than one might expect a war game to sound, but it also sounds like something that might be in an epic sci-fi movie. Players want to feel awesome and powerful while they play a game like Infinite, so this track fits right in with the franchise.
Schweitzer says 343 Industries’ Music Supervisor, Joel Yarger, contacted him in 2019 about composing for Infinite. The composer says he’s a huge Halo fan who’s been heavily inspired by “Never Forget” from Halo 3, and that as he composed he made sure to respect how “special” and “nuanced” the game is to many fans, especially those who’ve stuck around with the series for a long time.
Another Infinite composer is Gareth Coker, who scored the critically acclaimed Ori and the Will of the Wisps, coming to Xbox Series X alongside Infinite. Coker composed “Set a Fire in Your Heart” for Infinite, which was similarly well-received and a great addition to the Halo franchise’s tradition of stellar music tracks. Halo fans can hope to see more tracks from Coker and Schweitzer released in the future, and enjoy them in their entirety in the game itself when it releases.
Halo Infinite launches Holiday 2020 for PC and Xbox Series X.
Source: Halo Waypoint
