Marvel’s Spider-Man is finally out and it’s a massive hit. Critics love it. Fans love it. Insomniac plans to continue to support it with DLC and updates, including a New Game+ mode coming soon. Here at PlayStation LifeStyle, we’re big fans of video game music, so when we got the opportunity to sit down with the Marvel’s Spider-Man composer, John Paesano, we were eager to hear what he had to say about his process of writing music for the game.
Paesano is an experienced composer with a number of notable credits under his belt. He’s done music for The Maze Runner series of films, Netflix’s Daredevil and The Defenders, and in video games, you can hear his work in Mass Effect Andromeda, Detroit: Become Human (Markus’ soundtrack), and now, of course, Marvel’s Spider-Man. We asked him about his work across all three mediums (film, television, and games), and how he uses music in order to make a superhero feel more relatable. PSLS: You did the soundtrack for the new Spider-Man game. Tell me a little bit about that. That’s pretty exciting, pretty big. When you’re looking at all the hype surrounding it, did you expect it to be this big of a thing"
John Paesano: It’s funny, when you get started on these things, it’s so early in the process you can’t really predict how big or how not big it’s going to be. It’s Spider-Man, you know, it’s always been a big property, but it’s been ...