Lineage II: Oath of Blood Music Interview
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Q: For the benefit of readers who aren't familiar with Inon Zur, how would you summarize who you are and the highlights of your career, both in general and related to games?
A: I was born in Israel and came to America in 1990, where I studied music at the Grove School of Music and UCLA Music for Film program. In 1993, I got my first break in the industry, scoring episodes of the late night TV show Valley of the Dolls. Later on, I started working as a staff composer at the Fox Family Channel. There, I composed over 300 episodes of youth entertainment programming like Power Rangers, Beetle Borgs, Escaflowne, Digimon and many other shows.
In 1997, I composed my first score for a video game, Star Trek: Klingon Academy. Since then I have composed the scores for close to 40 games, including Lineage II: Chronicle 5 - Oath of Blood, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, SOCOM II, Champions of Norrath: Realms of EverQuest, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, Icewind Dale II and many more. I really enjoy the creative freedom of scoring games. In them, the music is allowed to breathe and develop much more than in linear forms of entertainment such as film and television.
