best music track you've ever heard in a game

Tellox

mine would be "shattered galaxy" or battlefield 1942... what bout you lot?

Pugsley

ALl of the tony haws games have some great music in them.

Littletinyman

I'm gonna exclude tracks that were done by mainstream artists and then licensed for games (a la Tony Hawks and Gran Turismo) for this one... which means I'll have to go for anything from the Final Fantasy series really, spine chilling stuff all round there. If I had to pick one track I'd go for "One Winged Angel", the final battle music from FFVII. The MGS soundtrack was excellent as well actually... Psycho Mantis' mind reading music and the background music to Rex's layer etc - VERY atmospheric stuff.

DiscoStu

Chrono Cross, sheer class with Xenogears and Final Fantasy 7 a close second.

Dragons Breath on the amiga has an amazing background tune.

On the pc the best music has to be Hong Kong Streets from Deus Ex

/me digs out chrono cross sound track

Shinji

Mostly agreeing with DiscoStu here... "Time's Scar", the Chrono Cross theme music, is superb, and FF7 has a whole range of excellent music. "Liberi Fatali" off the front of FF8 isn't half bad either, and Eyes on Me is a really nice song - as, indeed, is FFX's Suteki Da Ne.

I quite like the Hikaru Utada track on the front of Kingdom Hearts at the moment, its very upbeat and reminds me a bit of Ayumi Hamasaki - rest of the music is quite unremarkable though.

Kairo

Chrono Chross' soundtrack is very nice, I must admit, but they do the celtic theme throughout...some diversity would be nice.

Final Fantasy OSTs (FFIX's in particular) win across the board.

Another soundtrack worthy of mentioning, and one of the few FPSes where you can leave the bloody music on, System Shock 2's pumping, techno beats had me gunning down The Many's Minions in rhythm.

Tony Hawk's games were 50/50..get rid of all the bloody hip-hip/rap ****e!

Now where'd I leave that Doom Midi...

Wossack

Quake II.

Although Carmageddon has got to get a mention too though
I suppose...

jaggeh

Choir of voices
from Homeworld

or

FF7 final battle (have to agree with par on that one)

Hip

The music from the underwater level on Donkey Kong Country on the SNES - best chillout tune ever.

Bard

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

tman

interstate '76... wakka wakka

Wook

cannon fodder, 'war has never been that much fun'

Lawnkiller

"Mr. Death" - the 11th hour



For all u kids that can remember back that far.

and the duke nukem main theme - legend!!!

tman

Originally posted by Hip
The music from the underwater level on Donkey Kong Country on the SNES - best chillout tune ever.

damn right!
is there a way of ripping music from snes roms??? (prolly not)
i used to love funky kongs music in the same game (i think that was his name anyway...)

DeadBankClerk

Originally posted by Wook
cannon fodder, 'war has never been that much fun'

Yes!

and...


Xenon II - Bomb The Base: Megablast
Wipeout64 - Proppellerheads: Bang On!

GoneShootin

Redneck Rampage 1 : The entire soundtrack is a laugh

Earthworm Jim : The Salamander level

Retr0gamer

Zophar.net have tons of music ripped from snes roms and an application you can use to listen to them through winamp.

I love Squaersofts soundtracks. At the top would be Chrono Trigger and FF7.

A worthy mention goes to Rocket Knight Adventures.

Asuka

FF series all the way baby... but i agree that Quake 2 should be given an honourable mention.

A

Retr0gamer

Quake 2's music sounded like it was done by a head banging monkey with a synthesiser. Instead of atmosphere we got ear melting noise.
Half-life and MOH. Now thats how you do a fps soundtrack. The beach landing was great. No soundtrack required just a brilliant use of sound.

DiscoStu

mohaa, great msic in that. its sounds a lot like john williams

LoGiE

I loved the music in the Amiga version of Turrican II particularly World 2 round 3 "Metal Stars"
The Last Ninja remix (Cart Version for C64) from system 3 has an excellent soundtrack

Littletinyman

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention 'Goalscoring Superstar Hero!!11' from Sensible World of Soccer on the Amiga

Quigs Snr

With you on that Turrican thing Logie.

Also liked the loading music (C64) for the original turrican.

Ditto Myth on the C64.

Also that scene we don't talk about in FF7 on PSX.

Therapy? teethgrinder on Road Rash (PSX) - shame bout the game.

Some of the NIN stuff on Quake 1 (PC also).


Edited in case some of these PEONS haven't played FF7 yet -S.

Clintons Cat

Biodeck Level in Startopia.

Quigs Snr

Oops, sorry Shinji, nearly ruined one of the best games ever, for whoever is mad enough not to have played it yet !

nesthead

Rock n' Roll Racing on SNES, brilliant midi (or whatever the snes used for sound) recreations of greats such as "Highway Star" by Deep Purple, "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath, "Bad to the Bone" by i cant remember right now (it was in Terminator 2) and "Born to be Wild" by Steppenwolf, its all pure class

tell me if i forgot one.

also "the grand theft auto song"(dunno what its called) that was in, you guessed it, GTA3 and i think in GTA1 aswell is brilliant (its on the "Lips106" station)

kaimera

Tony Hawks 2 & 3 [haven't played one so I canent comment]

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

GTA3

CombatCow

All the radio songs from OUTRUN the arcade version, and also hidden & dangerous ( pc )


COMBATCOW >:^)


Ps.All the songs from GTA3 ( pc ) on the flashback station are kool.

spooky donkey

Well i Loved the misuc to lotus turbo challange on the `ol Amiga.

But at the moment I'm really enjoying the sound track to Morrowwind, elder scrolls 3, even though I'm not even playing the game. I listen to the missus playing it in her PC while i play Colin Mcrea 2 on mine! Very relaxing!

Praetorian

Starcraft

Wolfenstein and MOH

Outcast

Street's of Rage 1 [the beach level (5?)]

Dark Reign (never played the game :eek: )

Some of the tracks from MDK 2

Theme from Cannon Fodder lol @miga

Jedi Knift II (cheats)

Some of the MGS1 tracks weren't bad MGS2 also

Castlevania on GBA

Homeworld was v v good

Command & Conquer track "industrial" i think

i could go on forever.....ive got 2 gigs of game mp3'z

Earthhorse

Praetorian must have read my mind.

The Streets of Rage soundtrack kicks butt from start to finish. Me and me mate even made up a dodgy song for the Stage 2 music.

Command & Conquer (original) is also excellent - Fight! Win! Prevail! and Mechanical Man - the only ST I know the names of songs on.

Must give an honourable mention to the title screen of Beast 2 on Amiga, it really is quite classy.