As a result, we get substantial tracks featuring the 'Hong Kong' themes, 'Hotel' themes, 'Hospital' themes, etc. For this release, Kyd has placed together the themes for different settings into single suites, making for a less disjointed listening experience.

There is the standard give and take between ambient music and percussive action sections. The sounds here are all well-created electronics, mixing between a Euro-techno sound and occasional string-based sections. Hitman: Codename 47 is the premiere game in the four part Hitman series. In this two-disc set, La-La Land has pulled together substantial selections from the first two games in the Hitman series, Hitman: Codename 47 and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, including a re-mastered disc devoted to music from the second installment in the series. Before the Hitman series, he was the composer for the Minority Report videogame and has begun to write for films, such as the Daniel Hess directed thriller Stranger. The award-winning Danish composer Jesper Kyd will be no new name to fans of these soundtracks.

It was through this series that I first heard Michael Giacchino's music and that of award winning game composer Richard Jacques. One of La-La Land's services to score buffs is its Video Game Collection which is introducing some composers many may never have heard of before.

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