Castlevania: Lords of Shadow wins best original game score from Film Music Critics

[Chaos Raiden]

The Oscars still haven't deigned to give awards out to video game creators, but the International Film Music Critics' Association is much more open-minded. In among their awards given out this past week was a "Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media." And the winner goes to...

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Congratulations to composer Óscar Araujo, who got to take home the "Iffy." No, we just made that name up -- we don't really know what it's called. Probably just the IFMCA Award. His score beat out the music in Dark Void (by Bear McCreary!), James Bond 007: Blood Stone, Lego Universe, and the Legend of the Guardians games to win it all.

And apologies to composers Bill Elm and Woody Jackson. Why? Because their Red Dead Redemption score got robbed! Robbed, we say!

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/27/castlevania-lords-of-shadow-wins-best-original-game-score-from/


Congratulations to Oscar Araujo. I personally think that Castlevania: Lord of Shadow's soundtrack definitely deserves that award.

 

[Vergil'sBitch]

Re: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow wins best original game score from Film Music Critic

I agree.
I think its the best Castlevania soundtrack that I've heard in ages.

 

[ToCool74]

Re: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow wins best original game score from Film Music Critic

I may be the minority but i still prefer Michiru Yamane's castlevania soundtracks over Oscar's in a MAJOR way.

Its good he won the award but in my eyes he isn't better then Yamane when it comes to composing CV music.