After many game replays, racing games had the best music 4th and 5th gen.

After playing many many games for each console over and over, I believe I can conclude at least to me, that racing games had the best music 4th gen definately and debatably the 5th as well.

I had made a list of many musics except racing games I found good, and many replays had to be done during this frustrating experiment, and then I put racing game music on a seperate plane, and 4th gen racing game music wins hands down with an actual gap in between.

On the 5th gen side, it's a back and forth switch thing, I believe in the end It will not be the same result as foruth, but for right now as I am continuing the experiment, racing games are higher. but for fourth which took forever btw, racing games win. They have the best and most relistenable soundtracks. IMO.

What do you think of racing game soundtracks? (Note, unless changed for the game, real songs or parts of real songs do not counts as a racing game soundtrack because it's not a game soundtrack.)

I was going to say that I love Burnout 3: Takedown and Burnout Revenge (also Burnout Paradise has some cool songs) soundtracks, but they're real songs :P. But the only ones that can fit your description of not being real songs would be the original Road Rash. That music is memorable to me and it is just a classic :). What do you think of those songs? I can think of a few of the songs in my head right now, and if I heard 2 seconds worth of the rest, the rest of the songs would come flooding back to my head :P.Ashley_wwe

When it comes to licensed soundtracks, racing games had some great ones. I loved the soundtracks of Burnout 3: Takedown, Gran Turismo 3 & 4, and Midnight Club II. Though when it came to original orchestra music, my choice goes to JRPGs.

:EDIT: Read the topic more carefully. Ehhhhh? Licensed songs don't count? I don't remember playing racing games without licensed music

It's just a matter of taste. Racing games tend to feature whatever is popular at the time. There are still a few games today that have somewhat decent music.

I just turn it off anyway.

lol Another48hours no one ever seems to read your post too well. First you mention 4th and 5th gen and then no licensed soundtracks and everyone is talking about 6th and 7th gen racers with licensed music and even RPGS.

I always was partial to the North American Manufacturers themes of Gran Turismo. They were much better for hyping you up than the jazzy stuff on the original Japanese release and ever other GT since.

Of curse I could never skip F-Zero SNES man I loved that soundtrack.

I also am partial to Road Rash II the Hawaii them being my favorite.

Also not a huge fan of the Music overall, but the main theme for Stunt Racer FX fit the cartoony atmosphere of the game perfectly

Because of gran turismo 2 on the ps1 I became a Rob Zombie fan.

But there are the custom made soundtracks that always had their charm.

Examples

Gran Turismo 1 Menu Screen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADkiLVm49ME&feature=related

And Daaayyyyytooooooooonnnaaaa!!! Lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RUmqwK3Xdk

>And Daaayyyyytooooooooonnnaaaa!!! Lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RUmqwK3Xdk

NodakJo2010

Id have to agree with Nismology RRT4 has THE BEST soundtrack of any racing game.

I agree with ashley and was going to bring up Burnout-Takedown before I even opened up this thread. Racing games do tend to have good music because it fits the racing theme nicely. However, I don't see any music comparing to God of War 3 awesome symphony music. That is the best music I have ever heard and is so fitting for kratos battling the gods.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILUMFISGm8s

A few of my favourite game soundtracks come from racing games. I'm not into licensed soundtracks at all, possibly cause no music on there interests me :|

Tokyo Xtreme Racer/Drift, Kaido Racer/Battle (DC/PS1/2 era)

F-zero (SNES/N64)

Wipeout (PS1/2)

Fallout 3 has the best soundtrack ever :Prilpas

[QUOTE="rilpas"]Fallout 3 has the best soundtrack ever :PNismology

F-Zero X had pretty cool music to me. The F-Zero series in general have some nice sounds. And OutRun, of course.