Awesome Music/Seventh Generation

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I don't care if you like Black Ops or not, you've got to admit that some of it music is damn good. For example, the spawn themes are really good at pumping you up for a game! This, or maybe this, and and for sure this all stand out in my mind. The full factions themes are as good.
- Also, the zombie soundtrack is especially nice. [1], the main theme, does a good job of setting the mood for your 30 minute zombie killing marathon. And who hasn't gone to the extra trouble of picking every meteorite fragment to hear this while blasting zombies? [2]
- The Kowloon level "Numbers" had this as good background music, especially from 8:17 onwards.
- Escaping Vorkuta, and The Pentagon Theme.
- There's a certain campaign mission where you pilot a boat down a Vietnamese river at night, shooting a combination of rockets and gunfire at the Vietcong on the shoreline. Treyarch could've just put in orchestraic music in the background to reflect the action of the level, but what do they play instead? The freaking Rolling Stones .

Brutal Legend, Lionwhyte's Pleasure Tower, stage load-out event. Crap falling down? Check. Invincible monsters chasing you in the Deuce and knocking MORE crap out of the way? Check. Nitro fire? Check. Something epic to play alongside it? Well, we have Dragon Force (video game).Just Dragon Force (video game)? How about the fact that the first song you hear is the opening bass to Children of the Grave, and it erupts once Eddie picks up the axe. That is class.
- Cry of the Banshee during the fight with the Metal Queen. Just... this.
- What, no mention of the use of Painkiller during the final boss? Seriously, final boss + Judas Priest = one of the most awesome boss fights in video game history.
- Ozzy Osbourne's Mr. Crowley goes perfect with the sad cutscene that shows us what happened to Ophelia.
- The cutscene where Eddie dreams of seeing normal Ophelia again, the two of them lying underneath a tree, and slaying demons while running along the shore, all while Scorpions' Holiday plays.
Scott Pilgrim The GAME has some great songs from Amanaguchi, a composer who uses a style that mixes real guitar and chiptune stuff. Some examples:
Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions has several AMAZING themes.
Your Mileage May Vary regarding Blue Dragon, but if God Himself decided to compose a song to be blasted during the Apocalypse, He would be hard-pressed to create one more Armageddon-heralding than The Seal Is Broken. That is all.
The absolutely beautiful main theme from the exceptionally beautiful game Valkyria Chronicles
- Also Rosie at Isara's funeral, in both English and Japanese
The music for the first Gears of War was composed by Kevin Riepl, who also wrote most of the music for another game series of Epic Games. Said awesomeness is still intact, but instead of techno-rock asskicking tracks, we have orchestral asskicking ones.
- Attack of the Drones from Gears of War.
- You can't leave out Armored Prayer by Steve Jablonsky from Gears 2.
Ah, No More Heroes... Let's just give you a sampler pack, since otherwise we'd be here all day. Here's one of the stage tracks, "Cashmere Cannonball"; Rank 3's theme, "Mach 13 Elephant Explosion"; Rank 7's theme, "Stop Hanging DJs"; and Rank 2's theme, "Pleather For Breakfast". We'll stop here or else we'll end up posting the OST.
- But how can we stop without mentioning "The virgin child makes her wish without feeling anything"?
- The theme of the True Final Boss, Henry, "We Are Finally Cowboys", deserves special mention.
- Don't forget the Rank 1 battle against Jeane, "Rocket Surgeon".
- The theme from the arcade shooter sequence, "Pure White Giant Tiny Glastonbury".
- The Sequel amps things up with some remixes from the Darkside album, and fresh, new tracks. Sample Phillistine, Subuta.2, and New Destroyman's theme Kill U 2wise Over.
- While it may not be extraordinary, you're gonna have a pretty damn hard time getting Cloe Walsh's theme, Bondage Cake out your head.
- Skelter Helter's theme, Sling Shot is pretty awesome.
- Twilight's theme might just be the best boss theme in the game, minus the Jasper Batt themes listed below.
- You neglected to mention the beautiful, downtempo Tooth Paste, which leads wonderfully up to Travis' Heel Face Turn, or Convulsive Madness, the theme for Batt's second form, which makes the fight itself more tolerable. And the Beatles-esque Dose of Innocence is basically the perfect theme song for Yanderes everywhere.
- The theme for Batt's first form Dynamite Rocket is just as good. And then there's Kill or Be Killed. There's something about making the NMH theme more funky, complete with sassy black Engrish vocals, that's just AWESOME.
The whole damn soundtrack of Tom Clancy's Endwar. (Note that the latter links weren't featured in the soundtrack release. A fan combined the game's stinger tracks into consistent suites. That's dedication.)
Elite Beat Agents + The Rolling Stones = Awesome incarnate. The way it's pulled off manages to simultaneously drive the point home for how ridiculously Badass the Agents are, and why the Rolling Stones are considered to be among the best of the best in rock'n'roll music (or perhaps music in general).
- This is our fight! Without a doubt! Time to ignite! We're not going down! (Without a Fight!)
  - This Troper wishes they'd released a CD, as some of the covers are in his opinion even better (maybe just because they were burned in his brain by massive doses of awesome, but nevertheless) but hey, that's what the internet and audio utility is for.
    - No CD, but how's a Youtube playlist of every song but YMCA? (Grr, copyright!)
- Ready steady, can't hold me back. Ready steady, give me good luck. Ready steady, never look back. Let's get started, Ready Steady GO!!
It's difficult to pick one from the Guitar Hero series. Some choice selections from Guitar Hero II:
- The build-up to Freebird. Having finally confirmed five times that you want to play the song, a UFO appears to beam away most of the stage decoration, leaving just you, Stonehenge, and some awesome lighting. And then you get the epic intro to the actual song.
  - Don't forget that afterwards, your guitarist gets abducted by aliens and the message "LIVE AND LET ROCK" is written in the sky. If that's not awesome you're lying or don't know what the word means.
- But the real highlight of a setlist dominated by painful shredding solos and divebombing fretboard run after divebombing fretboard run? The sheer, unadulterated fun of Freezepop's keytar spectacular Less Talk More Rokk.
- Through The Fire and Flames may be super hard but it's still awesome. Also Guitar Battles vs. Lou is amazing as well.
- Hell, this series brings us a (sorta) original awesome piece in the form of Guitar Hero 5's special version of "Bring the Noise," with Zakk Wylde on guitar.
Plants vs. Zombies has a bunch of cool songs including:
- Brainiac Maniac and The Roof
And then you have Guitar Hero's sister-series, DJ Hero. Where to start?
- Well, just for the sake of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band fans, let's start with Sabotage vs. Monkey Wrench.
- You Can't Touch Ice Ice Baby (You Can't Touch This vs. Ice Ice Baby), We Will Robot Rock You (We Will Rock You vs. Robot Rock), plus other great combos are in store.
- Groundhog (Beat Juggle) is one of the more popular tracks in the lineup. This is either because it's an awesome mix of an awesome track, or because it repeatedly taunts the player in a British accent. "This is no time to kotch!"

"So, you wanna be a DJ?"

- As I'm starin' thought the Red Mist/Red Mist
  - And my mind feels like it's ABOUT TO ERUPT.
- What about freakin' WOLFGANG'S FIFTH?
- Fix Up Look Sharp vs Genesis is one too, especially in the game's intro video
- Just Dance by Lady Gaga vs. Ghosts N Stuff by Deadmau5. Listen and be amazed
- Let's just say Activision's ad agency knew what they were doing when they put this one in the commercials.
Rock Band deserves mention for making Boston's already-awesome Foreplay/Long Time even more awesome. First, after the instrumental Foreplay section finishes and the band goes quiet, the stage goes dark, then lights up the members of your band, one by one, before the band comes in again. Then, at the end, rather than the fade-out from the original song, you get to experience the true awesomeness of the full ending, capped off with a 23-second-long Big Rock Ending that finishes one of the most epic songs in the game.
- I'd say "Green Grass and High Tides" is the most epic song in the game. What better way to end a game than play a song even longer and almost nearly as awesome as Freebird. It's an epic 9.52 minute struggle and if you're on meddium or higher there's some pyrotechnics.
- On the AC-DC LIVE Track Pack, For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) is the most epic ending to a setlist I can think of. It really captures the feeling of a live concert, and after the final notes past the Big Rock Ending, the game screams "WE SALUTE YOU!!!". It's just like a mini-CMOA.
  - Or Let There Be Rock. It's 10 minutes of punishing notes, topped with the longest Big Rock Ending ever.
- Anvil's "Metal On Metal" isn't a particularly hard song, it's true. But from the opening chord, it becomes one of the most fun songs to play, simply because it's so darn catchy that everyone gets into it.
- Remember The Ultimate Showdown, it just got an upgrade.
Who could forget Heaven's Mirror, the ending theme from Eternal Sonata?
- Taking in account how many musical references were through the game, it would be a sacrilege if Motoi Sakuraba couldn't produce a jewel like that song
- Although "A Relaxing Place", "Reflect the Sky, Blossom of Life", "Dive Into the Vast Expanse" and "Conduct the Breeze" are standout tracks.
- And especially "Leap the Precipice".One of the best battle themes this troper ever heard.
- Not to mention "Scrap and Build Ourselves", the final boss music. The piece is a remix of Chopin's Revolutionary Etude. Listen to it in high quality here.
BioShock (series)—Come on, people! All those creepy strings all over the place? The mournful/disturbing main theme is brilliant, Cohen's piano scherzo is magnificent, but for sheer bombastic awesome, you can't beat "Welcome to Rapture". Some people on YouTube seem to like this soundtrack, also. Then there's all that wonderful Soundtrack Dissonance...
- BioShock (series)'s soundtrack consists of many old 1940's/50's songs, including "If I Didn't Care" by the Inkspots and "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window", mostly playing in the background on scratchy records as you crawl about in the darkness being attacked by psychotic mutants. The Soundtrack Dissonance escalates further when Sander Cohen unleashes a horde of splicers on you while Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers" plays in the background.
Crackdown. Agency radio. [3].
- Speaking of Crackdown, this troper has been playing the Crackdown 2 demo, and kind of likes the "Main theme" that pops up here and there. In particular, the version that plays when you detonate a Sunburst beacon is just epic, if a bit on the short side.
MadWorld is exceptional for having original tracks produced for the game by licensed artists (with the backing tracks made by the developer's composer. More here), the combination of which leads to some of the best hip-hop tunes in a videogame. You gotta "Get It Up"!
- Let's add that there are lots of people who deeply hate Hip-Hop and yet can't stop themselves to hum the songs. Yes, they're that good.
- While most final boss themes go for Ominous Pipe Organs, equally Ominous Latin Chanting, and general epic scale (with varying levels of success), MadWorld has Look Pimpin!, a smooth, upbeat boast song sung from the boss's perspective. Once the boss Turns Red (and yet... stays black) it switches to So Cold. Still awesome.
- RIDE!! is a very upbeat and cheery for a rap song, and the chorus is so damn catchy that you will find yourself going "Can we go riiide?".
Mirrors Edge not only takes place in a timeframe and makes use of visuals similar to Ghost in the Shell:Stand Alone Complex, it also features an equally amazing soundtrack that transports similar moods, while still being distinctly unique.
- The main theme (by Lisa Miskovsky) leaves this troper awed. If you don't get chills, you're a robot! View it here: Still Alive
The ending theme from NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, Dreams Dreams. Doubles as Crowning Music of Heartwarming, especially after the way its remix was used in the final stage, Bell Bridge.
- Also from that game, there is the Sky Concert mission. For that mission, you essentially fly through the sky hitting musical notes on your way, and the better you do, the more beautiful the song becomes. This is what a perfect score sounds like.
- Growing Wings, for that matter, a triumphant instrumental version of "Dreams, Dreams" used in Twin Seeds in Into Dreams and Bellbridge in Journey of Dreams. Goes with a pretty awesome segment of each game, too.
- What? No mention of Drifting Donbalon? The sheer awesomeness of its haunting male choir and creepy circus music made this troper wish the music didn't stop after pressing pause.
- Crystal Choir is very soothing.
A lot of the soundtrack of Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz qualifies, but fans generally agree that the Ultra Heaven stage music is the crown jewel of the game.
- Smooth Sherbert, Cobalt Caverns, and Pirates Ocean are also standout tracks.
  - The former is by Hideki Naganuma, mentioned above for his Jet Set Radio and Sonic Rush soundtracks. And it shows.
Boss themes from Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu.
- One interesting thing to note that usually final boss or final forms of a boss in Bullet Hell shooters usually have dramatic choral music. It's completely Inverted in this game.
- The boss themes for the Hibachi's second and third forms in Dodonpachi Daioujou. The third form's music is remixed in Daifukkatsu as well.
- Daifukkatsu Black Label takes the final boss themes and makes them... different. Taisabachi (aka "The Supreme Weapon of Extreme Hellish Annihilation: Golden Disaster") gets Desperado, while Hibachi gets the utterly chaotic Mercilessness.
- And then Hibachi's music from Daioujou got turned Up to Eleven in Ketsui (whose soundtrack was composed by the same guy) as Evacaneer DOOM's music: No Remorse.
- Why stop at boss themes? How about the stage tracks as well?
  - DFK ver. 1.5 opens up with 2008 AD, Tokyo.
  - From Daifukkatsu Black Label, Flotage, the music for Stage 3. Here's a slightly different version for if you unlock the Bonus Boss.
  - Jake Kaufman, known for his video game remixes as well as some soundtracks like that of Contra 4, worked on the soundtrack for Daifukkatsu Black Labels Arrange mode (aka Ketsu pachi). You know you're in for awesomeness when you start the game with this remix of Ketsuis stage 1 music.
The theme song to Time Hollow, the only good thing about that soundtrack, but really powerful.
Plenty in Takeharu Ishimoto's nearly all-vocal soundtrack to The World Ends With You, particularly Rush Hour (and "Twister" if you're into that kind of thing).
- Also, "Three Minutes Clapping". (Note: Version linked is slightly different from the game.)
  - "Detonation" is another example of good rap in TWEWY.
- "Give Me All Your Love" - "Give me all your love, give me all your love, don't give it to someone else..."
- "Psychedelic" and "NOISY NOISE", the former of which isn't even in the game—apparently Ishimoto found it so awesome he decided to put in on the soundtrack CD.
- "Hybrid", "Someday" and "Amnesia" are all great, as well.
- "Fighting For Freedom", "O-Parts", "Transformation", "Long Dream", "Calling"...you know, it's probably easier to list the songs that aren't awesome in this game.
  - It is a very short list.
- "Calling" gets kind of annoying after you've heard it the first million times.
- Beat's CMOA plot twist has an equally awesome music twist. Just after he betrays the Reapers to save Neku and they escape to the station, SHIBUYA plays for the first time and it's incredible.
- The game's ending theme, Lullaby for You by JYONGRI, definitely qualifies.
- All of the remixes on the extra soundtrack album, Subarashiki Konosekai + The World Ends With You.
Banson's Aria from Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure. Lyrics in a DS game are rare (especially this one, in which all of the characters speak Simlish), and this song not only fits the boss well, but it just sounds really good on the DS' speakers. Helps that the guy can sing, too, even if it is all nonsense.
- Go, Go, Goldren Robo Q! too. Two words: TEA TIME.
  - Cole himself has a rather awesome version of this with Heavy Metal, the final boss theme.
    - "Rather awesome" is a bit of an understatement.
Mark Griskey's soundtrack for The Force Unleashed is especially great because it incorporates a balanced mix of original elements, such as General Kota's Theme and homages to John Williams' themes from the movies, which pop up to great effect in songs like "PROXY and the Skyhook".
- Don't forget the awe-inspiring menu theme.
Disaster: Day of Crisis main theme is indeed pretty awesome, complete with Ominous Latin Chanting and such.
[[Star Ocean: The Last Hope]] has a fairly awesome soundtrack, but the battle music in the final dungeon is especially good for getting the blood pumping.
The NXE intro theme is pretty frakkin' awesome, even if it is really short.
Universe At War: Earth Assault. Another Klepacki production, it features such gems as Damage King, Mechanical Brain, Bass Case, Roots, Display of Power, and the GOD of Crowning Music of Awesome, Divine Intervention.
Advent Rising, a great game that should have had a sequel, had "Bounty Hunter" a.k.a. "Koroem", the most epic Space Opera theme ever complete with Ominous Latin Chanting (grab the MP3 from the official site), and "Stolen Transport" (weird name I know, but your life will NOT be complete without listening to it at least once).
- Even Gamespot, which gave it a 6.3, said that the musical score was one of the greatest ever put into a video game.
The Team Fortress 2 fan made video Ignis Solus is amusing by itself, but the music makes it for this troper. The high quality MP3 version of that tune is even better if you can buy/find it.
- The Art of War, from meet the soldier, is the Rule of Three applied to Awesome.
- The main theme is catchy, too.
- And with Meet the Spy we have been introduced to Right Behind You, an absolutely chilling piece of music which perfectly underscores the Spy's mysterious and sinister nature.
- And with a recent update, the action packed, 60's bank-robbery film-esque song, "Intruder Alert" definitely fits into this trope.
- "More Gun" seems to continue the trend of the soundtrack topping itself with each addition.
- Feak Rocket Jump Electro. That is all.
You think the repetitive "music" for Space Invaders can't be awesome in any sense? Space Invaders Get Even took it and made it epic for the Stage 1 theme, "The Battle Begins". Here's a gameplay video with the song in action, since the soundtrack itself isn't uploaded to YouTube yet.
- This troper's friend was generious enough to upload the Space Invaders Extreme Stage 1 music, Invade You.
- My favorite music from Extreme has to be stage 5-B "Executor". From Extreme 2 is the music in normal 5-D, a high-energy J-core song. What makes that over the top is the sound effects for the stage, some of them voiced by a typical J-pop shrill: "Ret's Pray" for the spawn sound, for example. Extreme stage 5-C in the same game goes the extra mile and changes the firing sounds to girly Kiai. Good lord.
Death Smiles has a few good ones too.
The Conduit has an awesome menu theme.
Overlord II has a pretty neat soundtrack, with the Main Title song being an epically villainous Leitmotif accompanied by the Minion's singing. The soundtrack gets particularly great when the Overlord is about to engage in a big battle with Overlord Combat 2 or in a destructive Crowning Moment of Awesome with Overlord Wrath.
The "Opponent Down" music for Mr. Sandman, particularly the way the knockdown punch seems to sound like a guitar riff to lead into it.
[[Muramasa: The Demon Blade]] has a beautiful soundtrack. Take, for example, this track.
- A different troper representing the same 60 song soundtrack. For example, the Battle Theme of The Road to Heaven
Banjo Kazooie: Nuts 'N Bolts features a Crowning soundtrack of awesome. Take all the music from the previous Banjo-Kazooie titles, along with other Rare franchises, throw it together and orchestrate the whole thing, and you've got a game that's virtually orgasmic with sheer nostalgia and beautiful arrangement skill. Don't believe me? Listen to this.
- Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing With Banjo-Kazooie gives us this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N 8 OYO Eew T Tk
The soundtrack to the Uncharted series on the Play Station 3 is done by Greg Edmonson, known for his work on Firefly. The standout piece is "Nate's Theme," which plays in the main menu screens for both the original and the sequel (referred to in the latter as "Nate's Theme 2.0"). Oddly enough, there is an actual "Uncharted Theme" on the soundtracks, but it's not as cool.
Wet has what could easily be called a Crowning Soundtrack of Awesome. The developers really outdid themselves looking for, and in some cases, composing music for this game. There is not a single song that does not fit the places they use it. You really owe it to yourself to check this game out if for nothing other than the music.
- Including: "She's lost control..", "Switchblade kiss comes close", and my favourite: "Insane" These are only a few songs of the WET soundtrack.
The "Bayonetta" soundtrack is just epic, high energy jazz. [4] if that doesn't get you hyped, what will?
- There's also this theme. What about a cover of a pretty famous song? Or Bayonetta's own theme? Then there's the opening playable sequence. Hell, just listen to the entire soundtrack!
- The final boss theme is extremely epic and perfectly fits who you are battling.
Nostalgia, the game, has a very nice boss battle track to it.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Some standout themes include:
- The themes for the USMC in all their levels (especially "Shock and Awe").
- The Op For theme, played out in full in "The Coup" is epic evil.
- "Sins of the Father", which plays when chasing Zakhaev's son through the suburbs and when defending against the Ultranationalists' reinforcements while on the destroyed bridge.
- "Loyalists", played after you finally stop Zakhaev and his bodyguards, is a somewhat sorrowful track that perfectly fits the Loyalists' rescue scene.
- Just about everything Hans Zimmer did for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is awesome. Control Room is a standout track, if only because it's the best use of a fiddle since, well, Fiddler on the Roof!
  - "Boneyard FlyBy" and "Whitehouse EndRun" are also top notch tracks from the MW2 soundtrack.
- MW3's soundtrack, courtesy of Brian Tyler (of Transformers Prime fame), has some excellent tracks as well. "Russian Deliberations" lends an awesome sense of gravitas to the Russian President's entrance, while the Main Theme carries an epic feeling of finality, fitting for the end of the trilogy.
- Arabian Endgame, the music for the final level, is pure epic in musical form.
In addition to being one of the hardest game series this troper has ever played, Bit.Trip has some of the best chiptunes you'll ever hear. Also, here is a PERFECT run of one of the easier levels
The theme for the Svatgol Mountains in Suikoden Tierkreis.
Each Psychopath from Dead Rising has their own theme song - and in general each one is more than Badass enough to be worthy of being themes of Crazy Awesomes. It's be easier to list which pieces aren't Crowning Music of Awesome, but perhaps instead we'll just direct you to Carlito's, Isabela's, Paul's, Sean's, Cliff's, and if it's your cup of tea the Convicts' themes for now. The ending theme, Justified by Drea, is also pretty awesome.
- The sequel's got some cool themes too, for an Expy of Larry, Antoine's theme is fairly good.
Not only is Prototype amazing in bed, the music is great too.
- A Dream of Armageddon is amazingly epic and totally fits the game theme.
- Alex's Theme is a haunting and beautiful orchestral piece.
- And Men Like Gods is also amazingly haunting, and manages to cause this troper's hair to stand on end despite playing an amazing two-legged engine of destruction.
The music played during Wolverine's battle with Deadpool in X-Men Origins Wolverine. What's the name of the song during that battle by the way?
The Wii's Weather Channel's evening and night theme is a wonder for dissolving stress, it actually becomes an addiction.
Raiden IV, in addition to awesome original tunes like A Stormy Front and Advantageous Development, features arranged versions of several tunes from previous games, such as Flap Towards the Hope(Raiden II Stage 7) Tragedy Flame(Raiden II Stage 2), Repeated Tragedy (Raiden II Stage 1), All or Nothing (Raiden II Stage 3), and Go to Blazes! {Raiden I boss} .
The better portion of the Knights in The Nightmare soundtrack by Shigeki Hayashi is quite awesome as well.
- Examples: Clash with the Imperial Princess Arlie, Clash with the Dark King Zolgonark, Clash with the Black Knight Ganzer, and Clash with Cursed Pische.
The Last Remnant gives us Reversal! If that doesn't get you in the mood for pulling off a crowning moment of awesome, I don't know what does.
It's easy to say "The entire soundtrack to Loco Roco" and leave it at that, but that's not really fair. Despite having no real lyrics to speak of, it's hard not to sing along with these songs:
- "Bu bu poruche", the Yellow Locos' theme, will just cheer you right up.
- "Panguraratta", the Red Locos' theme, brings some swingin' island flavor.
- "Bucho Mio", Green Locos' theme, has a snappy, almost J-pop-y flavor to it.
- "Zappudo Geron", the Black Locos' theme, is ridiculously infectious. And funky fresh!
- And proving that the villains always get the best song, ladies and gentlemen, "Kuttetekaruna." Now that's what a villain song should sound like!
- To add further proof, "Merure Merure" is the song that plays in the last level of both games and it's usually associated with Bon Mucho, the Big Bad. The fact that it is genuinely unsettling and it's the only song that the Locorocos seem to be afraid to sing makes for a really kickass Womb Level!
- And of course there's a very catchy theme song of Loco Roco - Midnight Carnival.
From Fatal Frame 4 comes Noise and ZERO no Chouritsu (Just Call My Name).
Being a Retraux Rhythm Game, the Bit.Trip series naturally has to have fittingly awesome music. The first level theme for Beat, "Transition", is quite catchy. Additionally, each game in the series so far features menu and credits music from guest chiptune artists. "The Information Chase^{[dead link]}" by Bit Shifter, in particular, is very fitting for a credits sequence, especially that of the aforementioned Bit.Trip Beat.
Alan Wake presents us with Children of the Elder God by the Old Gods of Asgard. It plays during the single most awesome moment in the game. The entire set piece is incredible. Just listen to it! Your partner even comments on how awesome everything was after it's done.
- Also The Poet and the Muse is an equally amazing song that plays at the end of Episode 4 where everything starts to come together, and the song's lyrics explain the backstory and what Alan must do next.
- "Balance Slays The Demon" from 'American Nightmare is amazing.
On the Call of Duty side, World At War features some truly amazing tracks, such as the powerful "Red Army Theme" and the frantic "Zero Alt."
- Not mentioning "The One" from the new "Shi no Numa" DLC. Creepy Crazy Awesome.
  - As is its successor, "Beauty of Annihilation" from the new "Der Reise" DLC.
- And don't forget the old school "Taking Stalingrad" from the first game. Badass epic song, coping with screens from Enemy at the Gates and you as Vasiliy Zaitsev's twin brother, taking on the German machine-guns with just some ammo bullets. Wa W and MW 2 is probably one of the best games in history but nothing beats the good old fashioned COD 1.
"Nanashi no Theme" from Nanashi no Game. You're never going to hear a more melancholy and, after experiencing the moments it's linked to, terrifying chip tune in your life.
- The increasingly warped version that plays as you progress is even worse.
Battlefield: Bad Company has some particularly awesome music. There's the absolutely kickass cello rendition and an appropriately epic orchestral version.
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 continues the tradition, with awesome tracks like the main theme, titled The Storm, and the tense, powerful Snowy Mountains.
The Taiko no Tatsujin series, being a drumming game with cute graphics, actually had some great music. Who knows a song about a pair of talking drumsticks could be this awesome.
Those badass or suicidal enough to try Contra 4 on Hard mode get treated to a rockin' remix of the origina l Contra's Stage 1 music on the first stage.
- Harbor is another cool track from this]]
Tekken 6 adds Gargoyle's Perch, the song that likely drove Jin to evil.
- Who doesn't want to hear some YODELING in Meadow Hill??
Your Own Miracle, the opening theme and Bonus Boss of DJ MAX Portable 2.
- Son of Sun, the That One Boss of DJ MAX Technika and Black Square 's Bonus Boss.
- Ready Now from DJMAX Portable Black Square, a eurodance song with some moderate Intercourse with You overtones.
- DJMAX Portable 3 brings us "Hanz Up!" by Mr. Funky, used as an Image Song of sorts for Portable 3.
World of Goo: Great gameplay, great humor, great music.
- Get the full soundtrack FOR FREE here.
  - Worth mentioning are the tracks: Tumbler, Burning Man and Are You Coming Home, Love MOM.
    - And Regurgitation Pumping Station, Best of Times, and Red Carpet Extend-o-matic.
    - Plus, it's one of the few soundtracks I've found which is really good to listen to as an album in itself. A lot of other ones aren't really suited to listening to on their own...
The Castle Crashers main theme is real sweet.
- As is the battle with the main villain's Dragon. A heavy metal tune, combined with something you've been waiting for since he first summoned any enemies at all.
  - Castle Crashers main theme full version released.
  - The man responsible for the main theme seems to have a habit of crafting jaw-to-desk music; note the battle music from the flash game Sonny at the very least.
- Let's add Colony to that. Holy...
- Dark Skies is a downright awesome piece from beginning to end.
- Archetype, the theme that plays when the players have to duel one another, is amazing.
Wario Master of Disguise has some, notably Count Cannoli's awesome boss music.
- And Carpaccio's epic boss music.
- Allergia Gardens.
Access the Animus. Nine minutes of exactly why Assassin's Creed wins so very, very hard. A steady progression from quiet and deadly atmospheric ambience to stealthy evasion to outright incredible action music.
- And let's not forget the sequel.
  - Oh hell yes on the sequel. So much awesome music. There's Ezio's Family, played during the gorgeous, wistful opening sequence of the game. Not to mention,Flight Over Venice and Part 2, Back in Venice, Heart, which plays when Ezio finds his father's iconic Assassin's robes and suits up for the first time. And of course, the electric Venice Rooftops, which makes racing a heck of a lot of fun
  - Although only an advert, the music to the Assassin's Creed: Revelations trailer was just brilliant.
  - Try playing Venice Rooftops at the same time as Ezio's Family. It works surprisingly well.
- Also from Revelations comes The Forum of the Ox, which plays while you're jumping across ruined ledges to chase a boat over deadly rapids. Truly an Assassin's Creed moment.
DBZ Burst Limit's main theme: "Kiseki no Honō yo Moeagare!" or "Fire it up!" is JAM Project-tacular in of itself, but play it when you have Bardock fighting Goku? Yes, thanks, that will do nicely.
Dead Space has the perfect music to go with its sheer horror. But the creepiest goddamn piece? "Twinkle, Twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are". Truly a great use of a nursery rhyme to wring sheer terror out of us.
The first Mercenaries game had some great dramatic music, but the sequel? The extremely catchy tune "Oh No you Didn't!"
Yosumin! Live has a downloadable story(-ish) mode. For the most part, it makes use of the same happy-sugar music as you progress. Then you reach the final "boss" level... and are greeted by a blast of hard rock with the "villain" rapping on about his awesomeness and geometry in an oddly high voice. IT ALL WORKS. Mindblowing stuff.
Half Minute Hero, known in Japan as Yuusha 30, has a soundtrack that's maybe 30% orchestral themes, while the rest has a progressive rock/heavy metal style that fits the game's tongue-in-cheek motif quite nicely. Definite highlights include the title theme, "Scatter the Enemy!", "Desperate Strike", "The End of the Agony", "The Demon Lord's March", and "The Princess Running Through the Grasslands".
Vertical Upshift From Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 is like the official soundtrack for "You are kicking ass!".
- All For One, which also serves as the Theme Music Power-Up for certain boss fights, instantly makes your fight a hundred times more epic.
- Dead End, Musha Gundam's befittingly awesome theme.
- Knight Gundam's Theme is pretty damn good.
Speaking of Gundam games, Gundam Extreme Vs not only has lots of incredible music from the various series, but also the EXTREME Gundam's three themes: Divine Act -The Extreme-, Divine Act -The Extreme- Revised, and The End of Authority.
From Ratchet and Clank Future A Crack In Time, there's "Heroes Collide", which plays over the final battle with Azimuth.
The PSP entries of the franchise had the same composer as the original PlayStation 2 titles. Take Secret Agent Clank for example.
Infamous
JakAndDaxter: The Lost Frontier doesn't disappoint as well.
Killzone 2, with such pure win as Helghan Forever, and the music that plays during the intro (with extra ham).
- The theme song for Killzone 3 is also quite great in a different sense than the KZ 2 one. It conveys both the desperation of the main characters, their will to keep fighting aswell, as sounding somewhat prophetic towards what awaits the people of Helghan in the end.
Patapon, despite having minimalistic and incredibly catchy music, has some great melodies played during fever more like Gorl's theme or One of the boss themes.
- Patapon 3 is likely surpassing them with their themes.
Arc Rise Fantasia has an excellent soundtrack. Two especially noteworhty pieces are the boss theme "Unexpected Fight" and "Now is the Time of Conclusion" (which may or may not be a boss theme).
Dark Void. Middling game, Bear McCreary soundtrack. That is all.
Split Second's Elite Race theme. It's a piece that gets you pumped to race the best of the best, especially when the main riff kicks in.
Thought it's still very far away from actually coming out, the music of the debut trailer for Shadows Of The Damned is pure awesome. Not a surprising, since it's coming from Akira Yamaoka.
The underrated Play Station 3 gem, Folklore is filled with great pieces such as The Fairy Waltz, Where the Soul Goes and the ending theme Nephilim to name a few.
Anything on Vladivostok FM.
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West deserves recognition for Nitin Sawhney's fantastic works of art. Notably: Cloud Surfing, The Hero's Journey, Rhino Chase, and Monkey Sunset.
Warriors Orochi boasts a whole slew of great tracks, most borrowed from previous Dynasty/Samurai Warriors games, but the high-energy anthem Alliance 1 takes the cake.
Even though it's not advisable to pursue Lu Bu, his arrival is always a good time to ROCK THE &#*! OUT!!
NieR's OST is made of awesome. Regardless of whether you like the game, the soundtrack is up there with the best, to the point that the creators were frustrated at the music being more popular than the game. It has a lot of vocal work, including both choral and beautiful, haunting solos by vocalist Emi Evans. All of these are in made-up languages based on current ones except for the theme song, Ashes of Dreams. The entire soundtrack deserves to be on this page, but to list a few highlights: Ashes of Dreams / New. Grandma, and Songs of the Ancients / Fate.
- Shadowlord is AMAZING
- Hills of Radiant Wind
- Escape is beautiful and full of energy, being one of many versions that are considered to be Kainé's themes, like Salvation and another simply called Kaine/Duet Version.
- The soundtrack was so well received that they released more, with remixes and new versions of beloved songs, such as an 8-bit version of several songs that are very popular and a gorgeous a capella of the song The Wretched Automatons
Since the music of Batman: Arkham Asylum is very low key, it actually is not that suprising that it has not been mentioned yet, however, it fits the mood of the game perfectly and... well, just take a listen here!
The boss battle music for "The Mailman" Karl Malone, Shaq Diesel, and Dr. J on EA's NBA Jam are really awesome to listen. Too bad no one's uploaded that song on to YouTube. :(
Super Meat Boy has some. This one in particular.
- Battle of Lil' Slugger
- Dr. Fetus's Castle
F.E.A.R.'s soundtrack, while being terrifying, is also quite epic.
Say what you like about Fable, but you cannot deny that the theme music is the best thing to happen to mankind.
- Fable II's main theme would like to have a word with you.
  - No love for Fable III?
Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories with Phil Colins singing a classic
For a game about killing opponents in the most brutal and imaginative ways possible, with characters that swear like sailors and don't even take the own story they're in seriously, Bulletstorm has an excellent main theme.
Resident Evil 5 had an unusually awesome song from nowhere in this. It comes at one of the most epic parts of the game as well, sealed inside of an exploding engine room on your way to stop a stealth bomber from taking off.
The War Room from Sam and Max Save the World. Great horn and drum combo here
Crysis 2 has quite a lot of awesome tracks, but two that really stand out are the unnamed menu theme and Burning Night. Chills.
The latest Alone in the Dark, despite being notoriously buggy with controls up the arse, has downright outstanding music composed by Olivier Deriviere, who has also composed for Obscure II.
Every episode of Sam And Max Save The World has at least one of these. For an example, World of Max.
Street Fighter IV/ Super Street Fighter IV gives you some of the character themes and remixes:
- Guile's theme was already godly, but this game kicks it up a notch or 20.
- El Fuerte's theme is just so asskicking, it makes you want the fight to go on forever.
Joss Stone's theme for the James Bond game James Bond 007: Blood Stone.
- Athens Harbor Chase. And played live? Mother of GOD, I want to drive something that goes fast RIGHT NOW.
Elebits has one of the most underrated soundtracks of this generation (and in general too). A lot of the songs are relaxing yet catchy.
- For example: Me and My Little War almost sounds like a relaxing version of J-E-N-O-V-A from Final Fantasy 7
- The Search
- Even the Title Screen is pretty catchy
An indendant game on X Box Live called I Made A Game With Zombies In It features this as the main theme. It plays during the entire play through of the game, and the game ends when the theme reaches it's epic conclusion. Many players consider just the song itself worth the experience to play it, never mind that visual effects.
How come nobody has mentioned yet The Sky Crawlers? Here is a excerpt.
This list cannot be considered complete without mentioning the end credits theme of Transformers: War for Cybertron. It also has a longer version.
The trailer for Deus Ex Human Revolution brings us Icarus.
Ready Aurora, the menu theme of HAWX.
This troper would like to mention the Drawn to Life series' vocal songs. Though there are only three of them. The End Light of My Life and Real Life do sound quite awesome and have quite an effect on the emotional moments that they play during in the games.
Say what you will about Full Auto 2: Battlelines, but the music is damned awesome irregardless of opinion of the game in question, with some of the best themes such as Messij Lost, Burning World, Warlord, and Diesel and Destruction.
Pretty much the entire soundtrack from Xenoblade Chronicles is excellent, with a broad mix on genres and several different composers, it's music perfectly suiting the epic scale of the game. Just some of the best include You Will Know Our Names, One Who Gets in Our Way, Mechanical Rhythm, Tragic Decision, and The God-Slaying Sword, which are all battle themes at various parts of the game; Engage the Enemy, which makes a perfect accompaniment to some of the more tragic cut-scenes; and Guar Plains, which plays on the expansive Bionis' Leg.
- To say nothing of Satorl, the Shimmering Marsh, which is half the reason nobody goes through the Satorl Marsh during the day if they can help it.
And following up to the Arcana Heart series, the third game adds up with the Lust SIN-esque White Valkyria, probably the theme of the new heroine Weiss. The rest of the soundtrack are also kickass.
Awesome Music abounds in Grand Theft Auto IV. Take the main game's theme, The Lost and Damned main theme and The Ballad of Gay Tony's main theme.
Dead Space has a knack for remixing NURSERY RHYMES into disturbing music. Examples are Twinkle Twinkle and Ring Around The Rosie
In Saints Row 3, you undertake a mission to seize a penthouse crib from the Syndicate. The Boss opts to do so by parachuting into the penthouse's pool and killing everything that moves... while "Power" by Kanye West plays in the background.
- The Awesome is matched by the background music for the finale, wherein the Boss has to choose to either track down the Big Bad or stop the army, and "Holding Out for a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler starts playing.
- Of course, with a game as crazy as Saints Row The Third, they had to make the opening perfectly encompass the true nature of being the boss of an international crime syndicate. And, oh GOD, did it ever.
- There's also the song that plays during the mission Air Steelport.
Serious Sam 3: BFE has a retooled version of the original "War" song which is just as epic if not better than the original. Doubles as a Most Wonderful Sound because it's generally cued by a War Sequence.
Catherine. Classical musical remixed by Shoji Meguro. Awesome. Really awesome. Awesome to the max.
Fossil Fighters has King Dynal's battle theme. Easily the best track in the entire game.
Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force has Gary's Theme and The Robot Trio's theme. The sequel, Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force: Herbert's Revenge has the song that plays when Club Penguin floods.
Perfect Dark Zero has "Limelight" by Kepi And Kat for the Nightclub Stakeout mission http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy Vmrw R 3 I Ek
* The Xbox Live Indie game The Deep Cave has an incredible 8-bit soundtrack by 'Fear Of Dark'.
Michiru Yamane probably didn't expect to score a fighting game within her lifetime, but Skullgirls gave her the perfect opportunity to flex her musical muscles with a swanky jazz and swing infused soundtrack:
- "Pedestrians Crossing" - the main menu music. It just gets better from there, including. . .
- The "Medici Tower" backdrop, and its groovy bassline.
- "New Meridian: Moonlit Melee", perfect for getting you in the mood for some fisticuffs.
- "In Just a Moment's Time", which caps everything off during the closing credits.
Ghost Recon Future Soldier has "Nemesis", a orchestral piece with a Gothic twist which introduces the Bodarks and one of the game's most intense firefights.