Underrated Enslaved missed big box offices and public success but it is still early to bury the game. Its soundtrack, which was written by Nitin Sawney, have been nominated on prestigious British award Ivor Novello Awards. The winner will be announced on May 19th. Enslaved’s competitors will be Richard Jacques’s James Bond 007: Blood Stone and Napoleon: Total War, soundtrack of that one was written by Simon Ravn, Richard Birdsall, Richard Beddow and Ian Livingstone.

This is second Ivor Novello Awards event for game soundtracks. The first one was held year ago and the winner was Killzone 2.

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Highly awaited Shogun 2 and Napoleon: Total War at last got own soundtrack releases on iTunes.

Shogun 2’s soundtrack composed by Jeff van Dyck. A long time ago he was big fan of electronic music and wrote techno-soundtracks for Need for Speed series. Then he met Creative Assembly team and began to compose ethnic soundtracks. So, it’s clear for everybody Shogun 2 soundtrack is ethnic one. It has strong East influence and if we go into details we can talk about Japan traditional music recreated for game. Release contains 28 tracks with duration about an hour.

Empire: Total War trio of composers (Richard Beddow, Richard Birdsall and Simon Ravn) worked on Napoleon: Total War with additional help of Ian Livingstone. Considering Empire: Total War had live recorded symphonic soundtrack we suggest Napoleon: Total War have it too. Soundtrack is pure epic symphony, no ethnic. There are 35 tracks with summary duration about 50 minuts.