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Posted by Captain P on Fri Oct 7th at 9:13pm 2005

I know most of us here are all more graphics-oriented than music-oriented, but music and sounds are important aspects of games.

Not going for an argument about that (though if you want to rant about it, go ahead), I just wondered what music you still remember from what game.

For me, I like Frank Klepacki's music a lot. He's the one behind the music in the Command & Conquer series. Especially Pharotek is really nice - it mixes up the athmospheric feeling of the game with a technical sound and beat really good for me.
I also still remember that impressive music from Freedom Fighters. The game itself didn't really do it for me, the music was superb. It fitted the theme with it's Russian voices and techno-like sounds really well.
And to end this little list, I really like the music in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit: 2. It's that sort of tunes I like while racing against my friends. Tracks like Sphere, Wall of Shame and Going Down On It really do it for me. They're fast, hard and inspire me to take action, to take initiative.

So... what tracks did you remember, and how do you think they contributed to that game?



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Posted by Crono on Fri Oct 7th at 9:21pm 2005

I really like Jesper Kyd. He did all the Hitman music and pretty all of IO entertainment's game music (Freedom Fighters).

I loved Freedom Fighters, it was cheap too ($10 USD), but I also played it on computer ... I know most people played it on console, and I couldn't stand those horrid controls.

Um, All the Quake games used NIN music, so that rocks.

Doom 3's theme was by Tool = awsome. (Yes, that's Tool)

Call of Duty and MoH series have fantastic music, it's all just epic orchestraded music, but it's very nice.

I can't really think of much else. There's everything Yo-Yo Ma has done. (Chrono Cross was some of the best, I think ... that was him, right?)

Then there's all the other music from a long time ago that was MIDI stuff.


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Posted by satchmo on Fri Oct 7th at 9:26pm 2005

I remember the original "Tron" on the arcade machine used the Beatles songs as background music. I always felt that it's very strange and inappropriate, but of course the music was memorable.


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Posted by MisterBister on Fri Oct 7th at 9:30pm 2005

The music I remember the most is the music from command and conquer. I still listen to them from time to time and when my friends are around we use to listen to the music and talk about good old times.

Secondly, we have duke nukem, I really dont know why, but the intro music is simple, tough and easy to remember.

Thirdly, there is Rome: Total War. The music seemes to be taken straight from the movie Gladiator and it works incredibly well I think. I often catch myself as Im singing along in the songs sang by a woman in latin (or whatever it is).

The music in battlefield 2 is really great and i enjoy listening to it, but it isnt present in the battles, only in menus and during loading times. Which I think is a shame, sort of.




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Posted by mazemaster on Sat Oct 8th at 12:15am 2005

The music for Unreal Tournament was top notch. They basically got a bunch of the top guys making music in the demoscene and hired them to make tracks.


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Posted by Nickelplate on Sat Oct 8th at 12:21am 2005

UT2003 had good music. Half-life did too. As well as Star Wars: Galaxies.


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Posted by FatStrings on Sat Oct 8th at 12:27am 2005

all the quakes had good music i think all by Sonic Mayhem 2's was for sure
also megaman x




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Posted by Nickelplate on Sat Oct 8th at 12:38am 2005

MARIO!!!! I made a techno loop of it. Maybe I'll post it on the site...

and Contra




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Sat Oct 8th at 1:38am 2005

? quote:
Doom 3's theme was by Tool = awsome. (Yes, that's Tool)


Actually, while Tool was mentioned as a possibility for doing the theme song, the theme was actually done by a band called Tweaker.

http://www.tweaker.net/home.php

As far as other games... the only music I have from videogames are (like others have stated) a few songs from Command and Conquer (namely Hell March, Act on Instinct, and Industrial), and then the opening song from Lucas Arts' classic Full Throttle. The whole soundtrack was done by the Gone Jackals, and the first song (the one in which we see the Polecats riding their bikes over the floating limo) "Legacy" is damn good.




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Posted by Crono on Sat Oct 8th at 3:23am 2005

Yeah, a lot of people said it was Him. But, then again, Tool, Trent and Tweak are all close to the same cirlce ... (sort of)

I wouldn't be surprised if either Tool or Tweaker did it. But then again, Tweaker was always the untalented part of NIN <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">


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Posted by Foxpup on Sat Oct 8th at 5:11am 2005

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Duke Nukem (Lee Jackson)
DooM + DooM ][ (Robert Prince)


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Posted by Andrei on Sat Oct 8th at 8:58am 2005

Anyone else have fond memories of Hellmarsh from Red Alert and Mechanical Man from C&C?

I also liked the Wolfenstein 3D soundtrack. One of the songs, I remember, was a techno version of the Horst Wessel Lied which was the anthem of the Nazi Party. Wonder how they got away with that ?




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Posted by Pegs on Sat Oct 8th at 9:05am 2005

No one has mentioned LOTR(either battle for middle earth or the slahs and hack one)......., that had good music in it lol.

Half - Life did have some good music in there, as did UT2004.




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Posted by moonracer1313 on Sat Oct 8th at 1:26pm 2005

System Shock 2 had great music. There is even a fan site with remixes. I still listen to that stuff.






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Posted by ReNo on Sat Oct 8th at 1:31pm 2005

Its an obvious and cliched one to mention, but Nobou Uematsu has done some excellent stuff over the years for the Final Fantasy series. While not exactly a game, the FFVII film Advent Children had a really nice soundtrack that I've been listening to a lot lately - a fair bit of variety in there if you ask me.

Beyond Good and Evil has a few really memorable tunes across a wide range of styles. From the rasta rhino's at "Mammago's Garage", through the suspicious sharks of "Akuda House Propaganda" and lounge lizard "Funky Bar 100", to the crazy racing tunes of "Slaughterhouse Scramble". Unfortunately the soundtrack for the most part is full of ambient tunes that fit in the game but feel a bit empty and flat without it.

Jet Set Radio and its sequel Jet Set Radio Future both have excellent soundtracks. My first reaction was "WTF? Mute!, but once you settle in to the game's unique style, the game and soundtrack become inseperable. Some of the odd experimental hip-hop tunes (Here's looking at you, Latch Brothers) are kind of a weak link, but songs like "Funky Dealer", "Concept of Love", "Oldies but Happies", and "I Like it Like That" make up what is probably my favourite game soundtrack ever. Hideki Naganuma makes some of the most interesting and unique music in the games industry, and together with some well chosen licensed music such as "Birthday Cake" by Cibo Matto and "Statement of Intent" by BiS, the Jet Set Radio series of games are worth owning for the music as much as the gameplay.




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Posted by FatStrings on Sat Oct 8th at 7:47pm 2005

yoshis island
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Posted by Captain P on Sat Oct 8th at 8:39pm 2005

I noticed quite some people like CnC music. Well, they're all there on Franks site so if you want to hear them you can check them out at any time. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

I liked some of the BGaE tracks too, especially Propaganda.

Also, the tune of Prince of Persia is still a very good one. That's one of the tracks that holds most emotion for me somehow, even though it's a midi tune. Just... wow.



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Posted by Crono on Sat Oct 8th at 9:54pm 2005

Yoshi's Island. That brings back memories. Oh if only I could get that last red coin in the secret level of world 6 I would have had 100% <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_cry.gif">


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Posted by omegaslayer on Sat Oct 8th at 10:07pm 2005

Final Fantasy 7. Then hearing the same themes in advent children was kinda cool to listen to.



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Posted by French Toast on Sat Oct 8th at 10:46pm 2005

I'm addicted to the music from BF2...






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