Good Game Soundtracks

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This is the thread to list some of the game soundtracks that you really liked.

My favs:
1. Quake II - Muscular Exodus-style guitar riffs with excellent drumming make for an adrenaline-pumped experience, even when you're just listening to it on your CD player.
2. HoMM 3 - In mp3 format, HoMM3 has some exquisite orchestral themes for the different town types and scenarios. Great stuff, especially love the darker themes - Dungeon and Necropolis.
3. DooM 1&2 - Some of the stuff done by Bobby Prince on these games is worth hearing again and again, incredible what he achieved in midi. My absolute favorite is the track for map01 in DooM 2, it has an gob-smacking good neoclassical keyboard solo.
4. Love the music for the Lucasarts adventures Curse of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango.

I've heard a lot about Jeremy Soule's work for the Black Isle AD&D games, but sice I don't play that sort of stuff I haven't heard it.
 
Good choices there, I love the HoMM3 music and Dooms.

Some favourites of mine include Dreamweb, Mystic Towers and Elvira 2: Jaws of Cerberus. Old titles, but great atmospheric music.
 
Quake - Sonic Mayhem did the music. Great soundtrack.

The Longest Journey - by Bjørn Arve Lagim and Tor Linløkken.

Also, Megadeth did a track for Duke Nukem, and NIN did one Q2 track. :)
 
NIN, or Megadeth? I'm not sure of either's title, actually. But I can pass you some samples of both, if you wish.
 
Hypes said:
Quake - Sonic Mayhem did the music. Great soundtrack.
Also, Megadeth did a track for Duke Nukem, and NIN did one Q2 track. :)
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A couple of corrections there...
Sonic Mayhem did the ST for Quake II and Trent Reznor (not NIN) did the ST for Quake. Rob Zombie did one of the tracks on the Quake II ST, track no.10 I think.

And knivesout, I think the Megadeth track for Duke Nukem was called Grab Bag, I could be wrong on this. The main score for Duke was done by Bobby Prince.

Oh amongst other things, I also love some of the stuff done by Alexander Brandon and Michiel van den Bos for Unreal (the tracks used for Nyleve Falls, Rrajigar Mine, Dark Arena, Terranieux, Bluff Eversmoking) and UT (SaveMe, Strider, Suprfist, Razorback)
 
Thank you, Ravenus. Quake II was on my mind, but I thought they were involved in QI as well. Listening to them now, in fact- brilliant music.

And I have a NIN file here that tells me otherwise... But perhaps it's simply been mis-labeled.
 
I believe ravenus is right on this score - I used to keep up on NIN related news and I more or less recall that it was Reznor per se rather than the NIN identity that was credited with the Quake st.
 
Hypes said:
And I have a NIN file here that tells me otherwise... But perhaps it's simply been mis-labeled.
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Reznor worked on the music and sound effects for Quake. Curiously, the nailgun ammo box in the game bears an NIN logo.
Reznor also worked on the sound effects for the screened demos of the upcoming Doom 3 game, but it's unclear as to whether he has been involved in the making of the final product.
 
Oh amongst other things, I also love some of the stuff done by Alexander Brandon and Michiel van den Bos for Unreal (the tracks used for Nyleve Falls, Rrajigar Mine, Dark Arena, Terranieux, Bluff Eversmoking) and UT (SaveMe, Strider, Suprfist, Razorback)
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I agree. Unreal and UT had some of the best sounds around. My particular favourite was Nyleve Falls. Great music makes for great atmosphere :)
 
Anarchy Online had, in my opinion, the best and most evocative soundtrack.

It was synced so well with discoveries in the gameworld itself. Nothing beats coming over a hill to discover the sunrise illuminating the incredible terrain- no other game has ever matched that.
 
I like lots of RPG soundtracks, very moving and atmospheric. All the Final Fantasy games have great music, also Wild Arms (ancient PSOne RPG, but one of the first I played that will always hold a speical place in my heart :p ) had a beautiful soundtrack.

All the others I like have been mentioned, Tekken2, Duke Nukem, Quake, Doom...
 
i like most kind of soundtracks on games but i especially like the final fantasy games and a game called hearts of iron soundtrak. But i lyk the need for speed underground music also
 
ravenus said:
Reznor also worked on the sound effects for the screened demos of the upcoming Doom 3 game, but it's unclear as to whether he has been involved in the making of the final product.
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He was originally onboard to do the entire games score, but has since pulled out. Unfortunately the game will not be featuring NIN and that demo track will become a rarity, I am unsure as to the reasons for this though.
 
Shenmue I & II soundtracks are absolutely amaizing and can be bought in the shops. These games actually have several soundtracks with the full orchestral score and even the odd pop song.

I also love the soundtrack for Max Payne 2, it really complimented the story.
 
I also love the soundtrack on Need For Speed 2. It's the best I've heard in the series, although I haven't played Hot Pursuit 2 and Underground. Heady mixture of guitar rock, electronica, world music elements. And the interactive music mixer they had was a marvel, it could mix riffs seamlessly and make you feel like you were hearing a new track. If only I could hear the music outside of the game...ahhh.
 
Well I was going to start my own thread - but this one already exists, so it seems a waste to waste the thread!
and it somehow manages to go on for 2 pages without mentioning RED ALERT! greatest music ever written for a game!
And then there is no mention of the atmospheric music for Homeworld - or Starcraft!
for shame!
so any newer games with worth music?
 
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