Outstanding music in games

Joint Strike Fighter.

The soundtrack won awards, it truly is awesome. It's a pity I don't have my disk anymore, or I'd rip the soundtrack to mp3's.

I recommend you all try and get hold of this game, if only for the audio cd it came with! :)
 
Midnight resistance on C64
All the sonic games on the megadrive
Road rash on the megadrive
Streets of rage 1&2
Golden axe
Street fighter 2
Final fantasy 7 (espesily the boss music:) )
GTA Vice city (love all the cheesy 80s songs :D)
Command and conquer/Command and conquer red alert
Double Dragon
Cannon Fodder
Castlevania 4
Gain Ground
Wipeout 2097
Unreal tournament
Bioshock
Teenage mutant ninja turtles on the NES

I could go on but i would be here all day, those are just some that came to mind straight away.
 
BigRoger said:
ive always loved the music in wow some of it is very good
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Blizzard games in general have great music. Diablo 2 stands out for me.

Blizzard aside, there are so many games with top music its hard to list them all, but some of my favourite musicians involved in gaming include:

Frank Klepacki - did the original C&C music
Eric Brosius - I loved his ambient beats in Thief: The Dark Project
Rob Hubbard - the master!
 
The music for DM-HealPod on UT99.
The opening video music to BF1942.
Any track in C&C95 or Red Alert 1.
Opening music to Hitman: Blood Money.
Timesplitters 2 track: Streets.
Goldeneye on N64 (Goldeneye Source remakes of the tracks aren't bad either).
Ace Combat series have some cracking themes.
Deus Ex ambient music.

All winners in my book :D
 
For atmospherics it has to be Doom on the PS1. The soundtrack was simply frightening and still stand up to anything today.

Also as mentioned before, Unreal Tournament soundtrack was awesome.

PS - Anyone remember the Yuzo Koshiro soundtracks on the Megadrive? Streets of Rage 1 & 2, Revenge of Shinobi etc. They were great stuff.
 
Teki187 said:
Any music done by Jeremy Soule is amazing. The Oblivion and Morrowind music are extremely atmospheric.

As an example of his music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiEAymHen9Q

Brilliant.
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Amazing stuff, really adored his work on Oblivion. The opening track for the outdoor environments was near on perfect, you really couldn't fathom anything else that would suit the environment better.

I also thought the Akira Yamaoka's work on the silent hill soundtracks were truly exceptional.
 
Well, Unreal Tournament has got a mention but no one has mentioned the original Unreal.

It takes a bit of work to get the tracks played in all their glory as they were .mod files and several tunes are layered in one track but some trully awesome music there which combined briliantly with the atmosphere of the game.
 
Deus Ex menu music.
Most of the UT soundtrack.
C&C' 95.
Red Alert.
Supreme Commander battle\menu music.
Final Fantasy 7.
Medieval Total War menu tune.
 
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Zefan said:
Final Fantasy 7/8, Metal Gear Solid 1/2/3.
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Like this man says.

The music in FF is beyond brilliance.

And the orchestral score to MGS2 is one of the (actually make that just THE) best piece of music in a game for me. Harry Gregson Williams did an amazing job on that. The music worked with the game and gave an atmosphere that seemed to charge the game.

Infact I might have to stick that on later and just give it a test.
 
I realise this is in PC Games, and I'm about to talk about a console game, but....

Xenon 2: MegaBlast. Specifically, the title tune "MegaBlast" by Bomb The Bass. Utterly awesome track, made even more awesome by the fact that the rendition the Sega Master System got was limited by the 8-bit nature of the console.

I still have a Master System II. Sonic 1 built in, and various game cartridges. Most of them take an awful lot of effort to get working these days, but Xenon 2 works straight off the bat, every time. Which is useful, since the game and the music are wonderful :D
 
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