Condemned is a grim, grim game. So our only option was to make it even grimmer. Thankfully, we had the music to do the job horribly well.
Susumu Yokota - Tears Of A Poet
Fabio Frizzi - Zombie Flesh Eaters Theme
Of course, if you want to go really grim, you have to look to the European horror movie soundtracks of the '70s. There was something nightmarishly oppressive and jarring about those scores, and few were better at that sound thanFabio Frizzi, composer on City Of The Living Dead and The Beyond, amongst others. His title theme for Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters is beyond ominous, with a slow, regular drum beat which fits the plodding pace of Condemned 2 flawlessly. When it does lighten up, it still maintains an air of creeping, inevitable tragedy, and immediately after that brief 'respite', it plunges youstraight back down into the doomy stuff again. Brilliant.
Goblin - Strive After Dark
Goblinare also synonymous with horror, having composed music for the films of everyone from George Romero to Dario Argento. Strive After Dark, from Joe D'Amato's Buio Omega is a fine example of their work. Delicately sinister but increasingly intrusive, it's a brilliant piece for exploring dark and unknown places to. Particularly when those dark and unknown places are full of horrible, violent things that want you dead.
