best music track you've ever heard in a game

Tellox · 15-10-2002 10:21pm #1

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

Pugsley · 15-10-2002 10:45pm

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

Littletinyman · 15-10-2002 11:05pm

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 · 15-10-2002 11:11pm

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 · 15-10-2002 11:27pm

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 · 15-10-2002 11:56pm

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 · 16-10-2002 12:40am

Quake II.

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

jaggeh · 16-10-2002 1:59am

Choir of voices
from Homeworld

or

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

Hip · 16-10-2002 7:35am

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

Bard · 16-10-2002 8:21am

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

tman · 16-10-2002 8:54am

interstate '76... wakka wakka

Wook · 16-10-2002 9:11am

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

Lawnkiller · 16-10-2002 9:19am

"Mr. Death" - the 11th hour

For all u kids that can remember back that far.

and the duke nukem main theme - legend!!!

tman · 16-10-2002 9:38am

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 · 16-10-2002 10:31am

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 · 16-10-2002 11:04am

Redneck Rampage 1 : The entire soundtrack is a laugh

Earthworm Jim : The Salamander level

Retr0gamer · 16-10-2002 12:09pm

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 · 16-10-2002 12:14pm

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

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Retr0gamer · 16-10-2002 12:19pm

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 · 16-10-2002 12:57pm

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

LoGiE · 16-10-2002 2:25pm

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 · 16-10-2002 2:31pm

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

Quigs Snr · 16-10-2002 3:48pm

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 · 16-10-2002 4:20pm

Biodeck Level in Startopia.

Quigs Snr · 16-10-2002 4:36pm

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

nesthead · 16-10-2002 4:53pm

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 · 16-10-2002 5:10pm

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

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

GTA3

CombatCow · 16-10-2002 6:13pm

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 · 16-10-2002 9:02pm

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 · 17-10-2002 5:44pm

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 · 17-10-2002 6:27pm

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.

Cake Fiend · 17-10-2002 7:17pm

F-Zero X soundtrack

'widdly widdly wreaaarrrockawockawreeearrr' etc

Greenbean · 17-10-2002 9:23pm

Outcast deserves a mention (not jedi knight outcast).

Always liked shadow of the beast 2 on the amiga, very moody.

Balfa · 17-10-2002 9:43pm

First of all i'd like to say i'm impressed by the vast array of music all you folks have suggested. I agree with a lot of them, but my favouritest are the following:

Best music designed specifically for the game:
Winner - In-game music, Manic Miner, ZX Spectrum
Runner Up - Theme music, Secret of Mana, SNES

Best music already in existence and used in the game:
Winner - Title music (can't remember what it's really called), Manic Miner, ZX Spectrum
Runner Up - Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, PC

Best overall collection of music in a game:
Winner - Secret Of Mana, SNES
Runner Up - Rock'N'Roll Racing, SNES

Honourable mention goes to the GTA series, especially GTA3, which does a flawless job of faking a radio station unlike, say, gotham racing, which does a fairly pants job of faking a radio station.

~Balfa

PS - There's music in Quake2 and half-life?? I can't say i've ever noticed!

daveirl · 17-10-2002 10:24pm

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Lafortezza · 18-10-2002 12:48am

Best music I ever did hear was in Outcast on the PC,
apparently they got the Moscow Symphony orchestra and Choir to do all the music, and its bloody good, lots of sweeping violins and orchestra-style impressiveness,

the game isn't too bad either

Wossack · 18-10-2002 7:20am

Orchestral music is excellent too in Total Annihilation, very well
implimented. Different music to match your actions, exploring,
fighting, building... um... fighting.. etc

Ryo Hazuki · 18-10-2002 10:11pm

Z.O.E had very good use of Music like when you did certain things like guarding the music changed to suit the situation.

Ive grown fond of Deus Ex NYC battle music.

One Winged Angel, Otherworld or the song from the Spring in FFX.

Shenmue has some great music.

I know someone whos compliling an Ultimate game music tape, he may tell you about it here if hes online.

entropi · 19-10-2002 12:56am

Originally posted by Shinji
"Liberi Fatali" off the front of FF8 isn't half bad either, and Eyes on Me is a really nice song

Gotta agree totally with ya Shinji, "Liberi Fatali" is the best i've heard in any game and the boss battle music from FF7 is nice and up-tempo.

If it was a song from a commercial band in a game, it would be that song that Ash have in Gran Turismo.. u know.. No.2 on the list.. forget the name.

DiscoStu · 19-10-2002 1:05am

almost forgot about city of the ancients from ff7. another classic song.

TinCool · 19-10-2002 10:43am

The in game music for Rambo First Blood Part II on the C64, and to a lesser extent the loading music from the same game.

Check out remix.kwed.org for remixes of the all time great C64 tunes in mp3 format.

azezil · 19-10-2002 11:06am

can't believe noone said it, Wipeout 2097

ondafly · 19-10-2002 11:22am

commercial music would have to be SSX tricky and non commercial music my g/f's favourite of course goes to the Bubble/Puzzle Bobble series but my personal favourite is Hitman

DrizztIE · 19-10-2002 11:31am

Mine is Blur onFifa 98 for thePS. I know it's an old track or song... but it's rocks!

byte · 19-10-2002 12:38pm

Final Fantasy VII - OST

Grand Theft Auto - Grand Theft Auto (call out the boys, let's go for a joyride...)

orangerooster · 20-10-2002 1:40pm

Hmm its hard but i really like the title screen music for deus ex especially the orchestral thing at the end.Max payne has some nifty music fits in with the games theme well.Most ff games have good music but then you listen to "otherworld" from ffx to many times (ryo knows what i mean).

spooky donkey · 20-10-2002 8:05pm

oh and i love the music for the last level om serious sam 2!

Venom · 21-10-2002 9:01pm

Shadow of the Beast on the Amiga.
Super Robin Hood on the Spectrum.
Last Ninja on the C64.

Balfa · 21-10-2002 11:21pm

oh my god. i have to change my choice... tincool made a good suggestion (i only ever played it on the spectrum - but i remember the tune was great), but ondafly knocked it right on the head with bubble bobble... how could i have forgotten the hours of the same catchy tune over and over???

Squall · 23-10-2002 10:33pm

I always liked the soundtrack from warhammer 40k chaos gate. Love the whole not knowing what the hell the latin means but it sounds good and they were damn catchy.

Liked the homeworld sountrack too. Some very good mood music. The music in the level when you go back to your destroyed planet really makes me feel like my planet was blown up, or something like that, yunno what i mean.

Ahhh Salvage Corvettes the chariot of thiefs, how i love them(sry couldnt resist)

tman · 24-10-2002 9:35am

lazy jones, sampled for zombie nation

best music track you've ever heard in a game

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