Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood now available for pre-order at Amazon.com, also as its 20-tracks sampler, which you can listen to on our album page.

As we wrote early, album style varies from mix of electronic and neo-classic with choral parts to east ethnic motifs with heavy percussion. In general, soundtrack is more darker than Assassin’s Creed II music.

Album will be available on November 16. Composer is Jesper Kyd.

25-th time Golden Joystick ceremony happened just a few days before. Games, which were released between August 2009 and August 2010, were competing for rights to be called Best of the Best. 1.543.309 people submitted their voices.

Well, Mass Effect 2 is the best of the best of the best. It is win not only RPG of the Year, but the Ultimate Game of the Year too. Guitar Hero 5 become Music game of the Year and Final Fantasy XIII has Soundtrack of the Year. That’s a strange. There are many good nominees, which you can see below:

• Assassin’s Creed II
• Brutal Legend
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
• Final Fantasy XIII
• GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City
• Halo 3: ODST
• Heavy Rain
• Mass Effect 2
• Metro 2033
• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

As you see, nominees are worth every penny, so we are a little bit surprised.

"Assassin's Creed" franchise has only two full-fledged games so far (versions for portable platforms do not count), but for a progressive video games composer Jesper Kyd it has already become not less important than a series about Hitman, which has made this Danish electronic musician an icon of modern game music. Like Hitman, Assassin’s Creed is a game about a killer though very ancient one. A medieval setting for Kyd is not a barrier but vice versa it’s an incentive. It’s not just a stimulus to step into a territory of unusual for him creative directions, simply to do something new but to reinvent a particular music style, to deconstruct music, take all familiar elements to pieces so as to reconstruct them later to his own taste, gracefully ignoring standards and authenticity. For the composer who has long gone beyond the framework of electronic sound and pure genres, in whose career there was both cold IDM, organically woven into the disturbing orchestration, and choir of the Hungarian Radio, performing pseudo-Soviet patriotic songs in broken Russian to the accompaniment of techno rhythms and vintage synthesizers, there are no obstacles and nothing is impossible. Each new Kyd’s work is not similar to the preceding, it has no analogues in the game industry and sometimes no analogues at all.

Read review here