Sheet music to Killer Instinct 3 makes the internet rounds
Proof towards existence of the title?
Ah, Killer Instinct 3. For years, fans have clamored for the title. With every mention of it, our hopes rise, only for Loveday to continually shoot them down. As mentioned in the past, it’s Rare’s unintended version of the boy who cried wolf. Teasing as recent as Rare’s Christmas card plus the tour of Rare earlier this year with “Death! Destruction! Doom!” has only fueled the desire. What you’re about to see might not help things any more.
Recently, MundoRare was contacted by someone at Microsoft (whose privacy will be protected) and sent us this. Click on it for the full resolution.
As you can see at the very top, it’s labeled “Killer Instinct 3 -Main Title-” as it then goes into notes. Despite the first reaction in your heads being “Oh, here we go, Rare’s teasing us again”, there might be some form of legitimacy to this. A few months ago, EGM’s Quartermann reported rumblings of a Killer Instinct 3. Not only that, but Nick Burton slyly hinted on Rare’s future offerings possibly being both new and old IP.
Regardless, if the game is actually in development right now, what we’re going through at the moment is a hell of a pre-release promotion. MR will keep you updated as news breaks. In the meanwhile, musicians, why not play this yourself and confirm whether or not it actually sounds like KI, or if it’s music-speak for “You’re not ever getting this game?” Bonus points if you upload it on YouTube and you don’t sound crap.
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19 Comments
I’ll have to upload a sound clip onto youtube this week..Maybe.
At any rate, the rhythm on bars 1-22 seems a little off, and too slow. It’s looks like it’s written for an electric, distorted guitar due the staccatos on bar 1.
The lead lick from bars 24-29 is VERY KI-esque. With a little bit of polish, this track could indeed be the intro for KI3, as most of the music matches the overall theme of the KI theme from the arcades back in the day.
Comment by BenS — 02.Sep.08 @ 8:11 am
You know, The Killer Instinct games never got me that excited. Sure, the combo system was refreshing, but aside from that it wasn’t anything special and characters were dull as h*ll.
I’d much rather see a new Perfect Dark see the light of day instead of this.
Comment by Perfect Dark 0 — 02.Sep.08 @ 9:00 pm
http://midishrine.com/midi/24439.mid
Thanks to your sheet I was avaible to transcribe it. I’m not sure if it’s 100% accurate but I hope so.
Comment by basemonkey — 04.Sep.08 @ 12:42 am
Hey guys. I transcribed what is most likely the violin part and made a synth mockup of it.
http://www.christilton.com/blogs/KI3_theme_violin.mp3
Based on that violin line though, I extrapolated on what the final thing will probably sound like. That line implies a very typical “epic” chord progression that is used, so I filled it out.
http://www.christilton.com/blogs/KI3_theme_full.mp3
Comment by Chris Tilton — 04.Sep.08 @ 1:10 am
http://www.nerdiestkids.com/?p=640
We have a friend of ours who transcribed also.. check it out on our website.
Regular MIDI:
http://www.chrisallenluke.com/nerdiest/KI3-midi.mp3
ChrisAllen Mix:
http://www.chrisallenluke.com/nerdiest/KI3-guitar.mp3
Good job on trumping my work… Just joking, you’ve done very good, and the full theme seems plausible. Not sure if it’s supposed to play like that, since I’ve never really played Killer Instinct, but it really sounds great.
Comment by basemonkey — 04.Sep.08 @ 12:55 pm
Great work on the guitar stuff. I added combined his guitar track with my orchestral track for ultimate epicness!
http://www.christilton.com/blogs/KI3_theme_fullepicness.mp3
Be sure to let the guitar guy know in case he wants to hear it 
i just made a rave version that could be on Orchid’s stage!!!
http://chrisallenluke.com/nerdiest/ki3-rave.mp3
Comment by chrisallen — 05.Sep.08 @ 5:42 am
yea the song of chris tilton sounds like a tipycal rare sound.
Maybe that not is a fake
Hahaha, that’s great Chris Allen. Funny stuff. This is almost becoming a small meme amongst music dorks.
Comment by Chris Tilton — 05.Sep.08 @ 7:59 am
Holy shit, Chris Tilton. That’s very good. But the theme is a bit cheesy for my taste. That chord progression is getting a bit.. over-used.
Comment by Erik Schröder — 05.Sep.08 @ 7:43 pm Look at the table of the first picture on this page: http://www.music4games.net/Features_Display.aspx?id=284
It’s the same type of table.
“Holy shit, Chris Tilton. That’s very good. But the theme is a bit cheesy for my taste. That chord progression is getting a bit.. over-used.”
Yes, that is the point! Of course it is over used, and the sheet music implicitly implies that progression. The theme is absolutely ridiculous! It’s Hans Zimmer style cheese all the way, but then, so is Killer Instinct.
And you are right about the table. It’s the same one!! So, they must have recorded it, either for a real game, or just for fun.
Comment by Chris Tilton — 05.Sep.08 @ 9:39 pm
Um… we’ve made dance mixes of your song more. Can’t help it, it’s pretty damn good. Enjoy~!
http://www.nerdiestkids.com/?p=728
Comment by FLItz — 06.Sep.08 @ 12:26 am
I don’t see why it wouldn’t just have a remix of the classic KI theme. This is obviously fake.
Comment by Rake — 25.Sep.08 @ 8:40 pm
“I don’t see why it wouldn’t just have a remix of the classic KI theme. This is obviously fake.”
You know, maybe they have the classic theme come in later on. The classic theme could also be playing along with it.
Personally, I dunno if this is gonna be the actual main theme. I’m not saying it’s fake, but it could be a rough draft or something. If KI 3 did come out, I would much prefer it had the classic theme over the “new” theme.
TheAndySan
http://www.theandysan.com
This is great!, Finally KI3 is in development, no more piñatas for now
Comment by Elias R — 01.Sep.08 @ 8:47 pm