Best Ever In-game Music

[moonwhistle]

erm.... HALO anyone? i've never heard a more atmospheric and better fitting game score in my 3 decades of gaming. truly a timeless masterpiece! there's also great use of surround sound and great attention to detail.

I agree, Halo's soundtrack is absolutely superb. I'd say "Perilous Journey" is my favourate. It's such a pity that none of the music in Halo 2 and 3 can match the excellence of the first game.

[BeyondJumpFish]

Bare Knuckle
Mushihimesama
Silent Hill 2
and strangely FF8...i think, and i know i'm going to get killed here, its better then FF7, though not as iconic.

[hudson]

Phantasy Star Online - Pioneer 2 music

[Brad]

Toss up between the first Metroid Prime and Halo. The music made Halo what it was IMO.

[MikeRox]

I guess I must have been the only one who was underwhelmed by most of Halo's music there is 1 track though that was used for one of the original Halo teaser vids, and was just phenomenal, if all the other tracks were half as good as that it'd have been my candidate for best game music too.

[Leon Retro]

My favourite music is from F-Zero on the SNES.

Most gamers know the Mute City theme - but each track has very memorable music that boosts the overall atmosphere of the game.

Big Blue is good - White Land is also excellent. In fact... every tune in the game is great.

I'd say it's the Best In-Game music ever. Actraiser, CastlevaniaIV, ContraSpirits, Wave Race 64, are very close.

[Vince]

Theres loads of stuff i like, but the ones that are the top for me would be Out Run, Thunder Force series, Gradius games, Y's series (pretty much anything Falcom is good) and some of the Final Fantasy soundtracks. I guess the biggest problem with FF is that the best pieces of music are from the Nintendo era, ie I-VI but these aren't so great in game due to the hardware, so i prefer the arranged CDs, Piano colletions etc.

[Silvergun X]

Chase HQ - Theme

Damn that brings back memories.

On the theme of simular arcade jingles, for some reason the Name Entry music to Salamander has always stuck in my head, I don't quite know why.

Roadblasters has to be my favourite little bit though, whenever you reached the end of the stage and the drums suddenly kicked in to let you know you were almost there, then you cross the finish line and the full song breaks out.

Really, really good.

[MikeRox]

I'd say it's the Best In-Game music ever. Actraiser, CastlevaniaIV, ContraSpirits, Wave Race 64, are very close.

Wave Race 64 has a legendary soundtrack. Love it to bits, was absolutely gutted when the GC update went to guitar rifts

[NemesiS]

Wave Race 64 has a legendary soundtrack. Love it to bits, was absolutely gutted when the GC update went to guitar rifts

Totally agree..i'd forgotten all about that. The lake music was great if i remember. Might have to dig it out

Also if i remember. Pacmania had some really funky tunes when it hit the arcades, the 3D version where Pacman could jump.

[hush]

i am loving the GTA4 muisc right now

[idfei]

Top Racer (Top Gear)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT0cyCSXNIM
Terranigma
Final Fantasy 4&6

& any music compose by Akira Yamaoka, Yasunori Mitsuda & Yuzo Koshiro

[Leon Retro]

Wave Race 64 has a legendary soundtrack. Love it to bits, was absolutely gutted when the GC update went to guitar rifts

The GC version is a travesty - there is nothing nice about it.

All the music tracks in WR64 are excellent. Very much like F-Zero on the SNES - all the tracks are synth style, and suit each level.

Here's the excellent intro theme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TkH3...eature=related

Top Racer (Top Gear)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT0cyCSXNIM

That is a great example of a catchy old-skool style tune. All this putting licensed songs into games and Hollywood style crap - just pisses me off. Give me tunes that suit the games - and make them hummable.

[Phar]

Most of the good ones have been mentioned, a few others I like:

Burning Rangers
Snatcher
Parappa the Rapper
Um Jammy Lammy
Trizeal

Under Defeat, especially the final stages track, tears that died I think it's called, love the build up to that tune.

[Leon Retro]

The SNES - despite having the some astonishing pieces of music, gets a hard time from some people, who say the soundchip doesn't allow for much variety.

I give you Plok:



When I first heard that - it really impressed me, not only because it's great, but it sounded fresh.