WILBERT ROGET, II is a veteran composer in the video game industry. He joined LucasArts as a staff composer in 2008, where he scored several games in the Star Wars universe, including Star Wars: The Old Republic and Star Wars: First Assault. He later became a freelance writer, scoring Call of Duty: WWII, Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris and the most recent entry into the Mortal Kombat game universe, MORTAL KOMBAT 11 is among his most recent projects. His scores have earned him several awards and nominations from the Game Audio Network Guild, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (D.I.C.E. Awards), and others.
Mortal Kombat 11 was released in April 2019 from NetherRealm Studios for the Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Windows. In it, the story continues as Raiden’s defeat of the evil Elder God, Shinnok, has drawn the ire of Kronika, the Keeper of Time, and upset her desired balance between good and evil. To restore stability in the realms, Kronika has only one option – rewind time to its beginning and restart history. Through the immersive story mode, players take on the role of various fighters from past and present Mortal Kombat eras, who must join forces to defeat Shao Khan’s Outworld armies and solve the temporal crisis at stake.
In this episode, Wilber Roget opens up his score for Mortal Kombat 11 and shares how he helped to define the protagnist forces versus the antagonist by utilizing acoustic East Asian instrumentation versus electronic performances of Middle Eastern influenced music respectively. He also delves into exactly how he reflected the crucial narrative element of time in his original score. And throughout this episode, Roget spotlights a number of the talented musicians that he helped to bring his score for Mortal Kombat 11 to life.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:31 - A Matter of Time
06:22 - Time Quake
08:21 - Sins of the Father
10:47 - Kitana Kahn
13:03 - Ad Agnorsis
15:26 - Showdown
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for Mortal Kombat 11 was released on June 28, 2019, by Water Tower Music and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes or streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER
You can find out more and hear more music by Wilbert Roget, II at his official site,
http://www.rogetmusic.com/ and you can follow him on Twitter @wilbertroget
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