Outstanding music in games

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Good to see Rob Hubbard being mentioned. That guy churned out some amazing tunes back in the day.

As for PC games, C&C:Tiberian Dawn and Commando's 2: Behind Enemy lines contain some incredible tracks.
 
Off the top of my head....The beginning of Mafia was pretty epic and memorable. Some of the zones in EQII had nice music, until you heard them an million times of course :p The X series space sims (X2, X3) have some nice chillout ambient music.
 
Any IO interactive game; so the Hitman series and Freedom Fighters, iirc Jesper Kyd does the music for them.

Off wiki, here's a list of all the games he's done/doing:

* The Club
* Assassin's Creed
* Unreal Tournament 3
* Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
* The Chronicles of Spellborn
* Hitman: Blood Money
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (cinematics)
* Robotech: Invasion
* Hitman: Contracts
* Unreal Engine 3 Presentation
* Todd McFarlane's Evil Prophecy
* Freedom Fighters
* Brute Force
* Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
* Minority Report: The Video Game
* MDK2: Armageddon
* Hitman: Codename 47
* MDK2
* Shattered Galaxy
* Messiah
* The Nations: Alien Nations 2
* The Nations Mission Pack/Gold Edition
* Soldier
* Reaction Quake 3
* Time Tremors
* Scorcher
* Amok
* Adventures of Batman and Robin
* Red Zone
* Subterrania
* Pro Moves Soccer
* USS John Young
* Dance Dance Revolution ULTRAMIX 2 (songs .59 -remix-, Istanbul café, and Red Room)

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I don't usually like sountracks ingame, but I love 3:

Loading theme in bf1942.
Aoe 2 music.
Command & conquer RA2 sountrack :). (!!!)

And I suppose I like some ( not all, some are annoying...) civ3+ ptw+ conquests tracks.
 
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Well you're all wrong, the best music ever made in games was by Rob Hubbard on the Commodore64... :D

Those were the days, classic 8bit SID music... Can't beat it... :)
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To true, to true:D

One of the best (non Hubbard games) I came across was a game called Savage, On one of the 2 tapes ( :eek: ) a whole side was dedicated to an intro/dem for the game consisting of one of the best uses of SID I ever experienced, it even included digitized speach (well it screamed the word Savage in a white noisey way!!). How I miss C64 and Amiga dems :(

Another great piece of music was The version of Chaos Engine released for the Commodore CD32 that was top class.

Finally the soundtrack for the very first Broken Sword game (Shadow of the Templars) on PC and PS1 was really top class, it was composed by Barrington Pheloung who wrote the theme and all the incidental music for the Inspector Morse TV series.
 
As already said Rob Hubbard was the master, but I can't believe nobody mentioned Martin Galway for outstanding c64 music. The original Tomb Raider I thought had a fantastic orchestral soundtrack in its time. Michyru Yamane's Castlevania soundtracks too are some of the best game music ever. And last but not least Uematsu's Final Fantasy scores are imho the most beautiful game music ever created.
 
Some of my favourites include:

Super Mario Bros. 3
Any Konami Super Nintendo game from the early 1990s.
Squaresoft titles, not necessarily just Final Fantasy, notably Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger.
Doom 1 and 2.
Warcraft 2.
World of Warcraft has an amazing score, pity about the game itself.
Street Fighter 2.
Red Alert 2's music will be permanently etched in to my mind for as long as a live.
Zelda series.
 
final fantasy 7 is the most memorable soundtrack for me. i love every song from that game. my favorite though is Interrupted By Fireworks. Always liked that tune.
 
fools, all of you!

hasn't anyone played the MOHAA series? its easily got the best ingame music :D Like when in the 2nd exp pack you're in a tank with a sandstorm around you and that classy err classical music start playing... awesome :)
 
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