Memorable game music

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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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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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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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.

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

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

also megaman x

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

and Contra

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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.

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

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Interstate '82 (DEVO)
Tyrian (Alex Branton)
Duke Nukem (Lee Jackson)
DooM + DooM ][ (Robert Prince)

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Anyone else have fond memories of Hellmarsh from Red Alert and<span style="font-style: italic;"> Mechanical Man</span> 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 :biggrin: ?

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

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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yoshis island

super smash bros

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. :smile:

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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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%

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

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

Does that make me a bad person?

The entire Final Fantasy series has some of the best music. I've got all the music for FF2, FF3, FF7 and FF8 in MIDI format. Also Chrono Trigger. :smile:

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Easy:

Final fantasy: Legend 2 (for Gameboy)

Zelda

Zelda 2

Zelda: A Link to the Past

Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Zelda: Links Awakening

Lemmings

Oh No! More Lemmings

Lemmings Revolution

Lemmings Paintball

The Halo menu music is pretty good, too bad the rest of the game is nothing special.

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The Halo menu music is pretty good, too bad the rest of the game is nothing special.

Halo's music was situational. If you played rambo, it would play fast
music, if you played stealth, it would have soft sonic beats. So
hearing the music for everyoe is different.

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Also, I just remembered, the music in the UT series is pretty good.

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Yeah, I liked Halo's music. Anyone knows who made it?

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The metroid series had some nice music to it

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Nice Music to listen to :

Halo

Halo2

Burnout 3

Burnout 4

Halflife 2 (some of them)

Splinter Cell 3

C&C:Generals

C&C:Generals Zero Hour

Turok 2

Rune Halls of Valhalla

JetSetRadio Future

DukeNukem Gold Edition

AVP2

AVP2:Primal Hunt

Hmm, shall i continue? lol...No im serious, those games have really nice music, from soft music to punkass heavymetal music lol

:biggrin:

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Total Annihilation - straight up orchestral

Spiderman in Maximum Carnage (music by Green Jelly) - awesome rock instrumentals

Unreal Tournament series - I don't know how to describe the genre, but it's good stuff.

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[quote}Spiderman in Maximum Carnage (music by Green Jelly) - awesome rock instrumentals</div></div>

I loved playing as Venom in that game.

Yuzo Koshiro was the man for Genesis games. He did the music for Revenge of Shinobi and Streets of Rage :smile:

Addicted to Morphine said:
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<DIV>[quote}Spiderman in Maximum Carnage (music by Green Jelly) - awesome rock instrumentals

I loved playing as Venom in that game.
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yeah thats a good classic