PC game with best Soundtrack?

I was just browsing Youtube when I came across some UT tracks and decided to see if I could dig up some of the old Unreal soundtracks. As soon as I started listening, its like the thousands of hours I spent playing that game in years past started shooting through my head in a montage. Almost brought a tear to my eye, especially some of the more melodic song that put todays trance artists to shame.

My vote: Unreal

Frank Klepacki is god!

- C&C TD, TS, RA 1, RA 2 and Universe at war.

Also, Devil may cry 3(for pc), it's sound track is epic.

Frank Klepacki is god!

- C&C TD, TS, RA 1, RA 2 and Universe at war.

Also, Devil may cry 3(for pc), it's sound track is epic.

gogators4life

Hell March!

Half Life 1 and 2 and System Shock 2 all have great soundtracks - but the timing on the music is perfect, too. It starts just when it should, and it always gets me pumped for whatever's about to come next.

Chaos Theory deserves a mention, too, for having ingenious music. There are three different versions of of each song for your stealth status, hidden/alert/alarm, and the music is layered and it blends between each layer seamlessly depending on what is happening. It's not the best actual music ever, but it's some of the most amazing use of music I've ever seen anywhere, and I'm not just talking about in games.

Half Life 1 and 2 and System Shock 2 all have great soundtracks - but the timing on the music is perfect, too. It starts just when it should, and it always gets me pumped for whatever's about to come next.

Chaos Theory deserves a mention, too, for having ingenious music. There are three different versions of of each song for your stealth status, hidden/alert/alarm, and the music is layered and it blends between each layer seamlessly depending on what is happening. It's not the best actual music ever, but it's some of the most amazing use of music I've ever seen anywhere, and I'm not just talking about in games.

fatshodan

Similar to what they tried to do in UT3? It was a nice attempt but the music just wasn't up there with the original Unreal/UT.

[QUOTE="fatshodan"]

Half Life 1 and 2 and System Shock 2 all have great soundtracks - but the timing on the music is perfect, too. It starts just when it should, and it always gets me pumped for whatever's about to come next.

Chaos Theory deserves a mention, too, for having ingenious music. There are three different versions of of each song for your stealth status, hidden/alert/alarm, and the music is layered and it blends between each layer seamlessly depending on what is happening. It's not the best actual music ever, but it's some of the most amazing use of music I've ever seen anywhere, and I'm not just talking about in games.

Av177

Similar to what they tried to do in UT3? It was a nice attempt but the music just wasn't up there with the original Unreal/UT.

I've only played the Demo of UT3 - I don't remember anyrthing about the music, so I doubt it impessed me so much...

Unreal Tournament...hands down the best soundtrack of any PC game ever. I absolutely love the electronic score, which mixes techno, trance, atmospheric and even heavy metal flawlessly. I loved it so much I ripped it off to my MP3 player for use at the gym.

Frank Klepacki is god!

- C&C TD, TS, RA 1, RA 2 and Universe at war.

gogators4life

Frank is a LEGEND! I love his music, I must admit I listen to C&C, Red Alert & Univers At War soundtrack in my car - damn I'm a nerd :D

So yeah his games gets my vote!!!

MX vs. ATV Unleashed I love about 80% of all the Soundtracks it has and really fits to the Game.

All Blizzard Games have great Music.

And ofcourse pretty much everything from Frank Klepacki.

Gun

Halo

The Club (Jesper Kyd + Richard Jacques, it sounds like The Prodigy)

Assassin's Creed

Heroes 5

Fallout

Sins Of A Solar Empire

Medieval 2

Warhammer: Mark Of Chaos (this one's very creepy, it's made by Jeremy Soule)

outcast.

anything by jeremy soule is also very good.

Unreal Tournament...hands down the best soundtrack of any PC game ever. I absolutely love the electronic score, which mixes techno, trance, atmospheric and even heavy metal flawlessly. I loved it so much I ripped it off to my MP3 player for use at the gym.

Diamhea

"Course", "Forgone" and "Go Down" were some of my faves.

Nine Inch Nails in the Quake games, and Tool in Doom 3. mismajor99

Hehe, is this a joke? Tool was never in Doom 3, that was tweaker's ripoff of Tool. And I'll go with the NIN tracks in Doom 3 that were never released, but had to be downloaded as an add-on. Didn't know he did the Quakes though...

POP:WW especially the Godsmack track........lol.....joking

im surprised no one has said portal!Dr_Brocoli

Oh yea, portal has a cool OST too. My favorites is the Half life 2 ost and the episodes as well.

Crysis has a good soundtrack. I listened the OST before I even played the game and I was pleasanlty surprised. I promplty added my favorite tunes to my ever growing video game music collection. When I played the game the music kicks in nicely getting me pumped.

I loved the music in the latest prince of persia games

godsmack FTW

[QUOTE="mismajor99"]Nine Inch Nails in the Quake games, and Tool in Doom 3. TheCrazed420

Hehe, is this a joke? Tool was never in Doom 3, that was tweaker's ripoff of Tool. And I'll go with the NIN tracks in Doom 3 that were never released, but had to be downloaded as an add-on. Didn't know he did the Quakes though...

Wrong.

The introduction song to Doom 3 is by Tool, a song called lateralus

Here's the original news story, and here's the song: Lateralus

Recognize it yet? Skip ahead to the first minute mark.....great friggin song

As for NiN, Id Soft even put the NiN logo on the boxes of the ammo. Trent did lots of stuff for them....

Here's the Quake Theme by NiN

Here's the ingame video

Make sure to check out all the related videos if you're interested, he pretty much did all the music for Quake....

Oh, and here's a pic of the ammo box for the Nail Gun, as a tribute of course:

http://www.ninwiki.com/Quake

Google could have answered all of that for ya...I've played way too many of these games to lie man, lol

Yes ProudLarry, I completely forgot about Homeworld, excellent music. Those songs had the perfect climax too and really fit the game well.

I loved this in Homeworld

Yes ProudLarry, I completely forgot about Homeworld, excellent music. Those songs had the perfect climax too and really fit the game well.

I loved this in Homeworld

mismajor99

One of my favorite soundtracks has to be Age of Mythology. However, my favorite single track is Baba Yetu by Christopher Tin from Civilization IV.

The musical score from Bioshock. You would expect a score of that quality from a movie rather than a game but there you have it...

Medal of Honour: Allied Assault.

Deus Ex

Hitman series.

Painkiller.

Go watch some vids of it on youtube now.

Max Payne

S.T.A.L.K.E.R for it's depressing ambient score.

As for classics, Fallout 2 and Diablo 2. They both have absolutely beautiful scores.

Honorable mention, of course, goes to Half-life 1&2.

Splinter Cell Chaos Theorymiladesn2

good shout. great subtle soundtrack, perfectly complementing the location and scenario. the panamanian bank level i thought was particulalry good.

Half Life 1 and 2 and System Shock 2 all have great soundtracks - but the timing on the music is perfect, too. It starts just when it should, and it always gets me pumped for whatever's about to come next.

fatshodan

Agreed.

World of Warcraft and Warcraft series easily

Frank Klepacki is god!

- C&C TD, TS, RA 1, RA 2 and Universe at war.

Also, Devil may cry 3(for pc), it's sound track is epic.

gogators4life

for sure! although, I didn't think Universe at wars soundtrack was as good as hes previous ones.

I'm really not sure but I'm going to go with HL series. The music always strats just at the right time to get you ready for a fight.