He sells luxury packages to souls on their four-year journey to eternal rest. Meet Manny Calavera, travel agent at the Department of Death. Something's rotten in the land of the dead, and you're being played for a sucker. Shadows of the Empire (1996), Nintendo Co., Ltd.***Voted one of the Best Games of 2015 by the Apple's editoral team***.Star Wars: Yoda Stories (1997), LucasArts.TIE Fighter: Balance of Power (1997), LucasArts Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (1997), LucasArts.
He is also known live-action music performer, playing the electric violin. McConnell is one of the founding members of G.A.N.G., the Game Audio Network Guild. Since then, McConnell has composed scores for Psychonauts, Sly 2: Band of Thieves, Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (about which McConnell says that he was influenced by Henry Mancini works), and Kinectimals.
McConnell left LucasArts in 2000, but contributed to Escape from Monkey Island and special edition of The Secret of Monkey Island. While composing music for these two games, McConnell worked closely with Tim Schafer, who later hired him to compose scores for the titles Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, and Costume Quest for his company Double Fine Productions.
Notable titles from this time include Grim Fandango, scored with unique Mexican influenced jazz, klezmer and traditional film score style, and Full Throttle, featuring rock soundtrack which McConnell scored with rock group The Gone Jackals. While beginning his career in the Sound Department at LucasArts, Land needed someone who would both compose and implement music into his second project Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge and McConnell stepped in. McConnell and Land co-invented iMUSE, LucasArts' patented interactive music system.ĭuring his time at LucasArts, McConnell composed many soundtracks for games such as those in the Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and Star Wars series. In Harvard McConnell befriended the future LucasArts composer Michael Land, who composed many of the company's titles, and worked with him at the audio company Lexicon.
Peter studied music as an undergraduate at Harvard University in the 1980s under Timothy Vincent Clarke, Curt Cacioppo and Ivan Tcherepnin. McConnell was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. McConnell (born 1960), also known as Peter Mc, is an American video game composer and musician, best known for his work at LucasArts and for composing the soundtracks for every Sly Cooper game since the second installment.