Favorite soundtracks for games? (actual songs by artists)

[Fiberawptic]

So what are your guys' favorite soundtracks for games, as in actual music by actual artists that can be heard in-game. So this will mainly apply to sports games, racing games like need for speed. that kind of thing. The score for Halo doesn't count because thats composed music, im thinking of best compilation of songs from actual artists. half life also doesn't count...

Heres mine

1. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City : While the really poppy 80's music on the radio isn't something you would find on my ipod, it really sets the tone and mood for the really 80's Miami theme in a perfect way. Any time i hear that music playing outside of the game, i right away think of vice city. Plus some of those songs were pretty catchy.

2. Shaun Palmers Pro Snowboarder: A game with awesome manuvers and breath-taking rides on snowy mountains should definitly have some awesome tunes to listen to while doing it. This game really succeeded at that, and i personally really love most of the songs. its just a terrific compilation of industrial/nu metal and pretty muc 90% of the songs are simply awesome.

3. Need for Speed: Most Wanted: Yes, the soundtrack for this game is predominately hip-hop, but there are actually some incredible metal/rock songs from bands who weren't even that famous or well-known, while of course some of the other bands are well-known (ie Disturbed). But even some of the hip-hop music isn't too bad, especially the rap-core music which really gives you groove while driving in a nice-ass car. In this game, your style of music wont matter, whether you like rap or rock, you'll still be driving that Lambo at 140 mph with great music to go with it.

whats yours?

[Acepilotf14]

Portal.

[Nitre]

Half Life 2, durr.

[Sledgehammer]

No songs in Half-Life 2.

Bioshock's songs fit the atmosphere very well. And they're good too.

[Blackthorn]

Not in the actual game, but the use of this song in the Far Cry 2 trailer was perfect.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=p7688ZyX5JE

I mean DAYUMN, how awesome is that?

*rocks out appropriately*

[swan_song1973]

nothing beats vice city.

[Dalamari]

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 & 2

[Nibwoddle]

I'm going to agree with you on Most Wanted. Also, Rayman 3. The soundtrack included lots of Groove Armada's older stuff, which was completely awesome.

[Barnz]

I love Fat Man Larry's song in Vice City.

[Polaris]

WipEout Pure and Pulse soundtracks.

Mason - Exceeder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJLQuPsT0es

CoLD SToRAGE - Onyx

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

[Hectic Glenn]

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 & 2
I love you dude, oh yes.

[kazsymonds]

No songs in Half-Life 2.

Bioshock's songs fit the atmosphere very well. And they're good too.

Hell yeah!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oH6mw2Rc3DQ

[Darkside55]

Road Rash, Apocalypse, thirding Tony Hawk.

DDR Max 2. ;)

[Barnz]

Road Rash 3D has Mean Machine.

[swan_song1973]

Bioshock's songs fit the atmosphere very well. And they're good too.

ya, that and fallout 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp-uP6sT_Dg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ivDW_BU94

[nipples]

Any skateboarding game in general will have a kickass soundtrack.

[Cornerstone]

Quake 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv5Jvr2Fp48

Fallout 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkBNKa2KXZE

Fallout 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3PXiV95kwA

Planescape: Torment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArMpHw0hYHA

Baldur's Gate II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U88zyFLzIXQ

Wing Commander II (I can remember being amazed by this when it came out)

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

[Ennui]

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 & 2

Dingdingding, these two games were a big musical influence on me back in the day.

[Reginald]

Generally all the GTA games. Mainly Vice City though. I have all the radios on my iTunes and sometimes wap them on and jam. Often on long journeys.

Like the music on some of the EA Sports titles too just because it's often hugely inappropriate. Like Keane being on Madden 07. WTF.

[TollBooth Willie]

Battlefield: Bad Company

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8gRi3CN-MQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVjCZZWnKBA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5HqlYBowvg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU4Y_eedhuk&feature=related

Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT1Rjpnozow

Gears of War 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3JgF5p9mC4

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBXd8xQlSOo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTDR0y12CXE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bBK--hhCXc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVaI1SffYBw


The Darkness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt5f649fZ6A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g8JZ6TEqGs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRF_BLQ5SQ8&feature=related

[jimbo118]

Fifa Road to the World Cup 1998 and Blur - Song 2.

[Fiberawptic]

I think some people are a little confused. I was mainly asking about actual songs with lyrics made by actual artists, and which game had the best compilation of songs.. No, portal, and half life dont count. They are scored by a single person that works for the development team.

[bam23]

Castle Crashers. I don't care what the rules of this thread are. Castle Crashers soundtrack is epic.

[Nibwoddle]

How could we forget Guitar Hero?

[swan_song1973]

Castle Crashers. I don't care what the rules of this thread are. Castle Crashers soundtrack is epic.

i love the shop music! i think the songs called spanish waltz?

and yeah, im suprised nobody's said rock band or guitar hero yet.

[Ennui]

How could we forget Guitar Hero?

Shit, you're right. Guitar Hero 2 has the best soundtrack of them all, although the new one (World Tour) has some Tool songs (also Creedence, Allman Brothers, and some other good ones).

Also, seconding the GTA series. Not just because of the HUGE selection of tracks, but also because their radio shows are so goddamn hilarious.

Trent Reznor's Quake soundtrack is also excellent in a lo-fi NIN kind of way.

If we're talking about soundtracks that AREN'T made of popular music, which some people seem to be doing despite the OP... Starcraft, Starcraft, Starcraft.

[Sliver]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6NaZrPQGfY

Sonic Adventure 2 "City Escape"

ROLLIN AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND

[mchammer75040]

All of you are loosers, I can't believe no one even mentioned the silent hill soundtracks.
(all with lyrics)
composer- Akira Yamaoka
singer-Mary Elizabeth Mcglynn :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZmWuyqnhk8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPOgyd6p1NA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WUxlXpZ5eM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuAWYzXmiiI&feature=PlayList&p=2808EB209EF7BF1A&index=1

[hool10]

Doom3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHAqT0XOog8

The Halo 3 press conference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIgqk2QmXFk

Left 4 Dead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdKwwWJ2VkU

God of War music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrGUlRJ4f-U&feature=related

Those are just some. I absolutely love the Half Life series though such as these from Episode 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOGhNuOGr9Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swM2fWu9cnA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yapk7PTNDw

I mean that last one sends shivers down my spine as I still remember the gunship video from E3 way back when.

If I ever to go to Valve I will really thank Kelly Bailey and give him a box of donuts or something. A HL game isn't a HL game without that man.

[Absinthe]

Seems a bit narrow to only allow compiled commercial music. How many games have only those? Just seems like an endless spiral down sport and GTA-like games. It's quite limiting.

Of everything here, I'd basically have to go with the Quake soundtrack. You'd think a soundtrack from NIN (at least during that era) would be smashing you in the face constantly, but no. It's those wonderfully dark, ambient drones that do it for me.

[Acepilotf14]

I really liked the Rock Band soundtrack.

[Bad^Hat]

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x111/bad_hat/05-godsmack-161007.jpg

[Dalamari]

Thought I'd go along with all the cool kids and post some youtubes of some THPS music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfwsxoo_FL8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl3rg8CLJPs&feature=PlayList&p=8F190A6D08DBB30D&playnext=1&index=3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv3xM3v4-rI&feature=PlayList&p=8F190A6D08DBB30D&index=12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Ta0oXRtxo&feature=PlayList&p=8F190A6D08DBB30D&index=16

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsD6zUkXy4o&feature=PlayList&p=8F190A6D08DBB30D&index=21

For games, they had some pretty ****ing deep tracks in them for the time.

[Sedako]

Watching people continue to ignore the OP's actual request is hilarious.

[Wanted Bob]

Most Wanted for sure has one of the best. Fallout 3 was really good too, as was any Guitar Heor or Rock Band game.

[TollBooth Willie]

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.Had some kickass combat music.

[Absinthe]

watching people continue to ignore the op's actual request is hilarious.

oh hay u noe that trax from tony hawx?!?!?!..!?!?

[Saturos]

Vice City, Vice City, VICE CITY!!!

A distant second would be The Darkness for the 360 and PS3.

I like Duskfall's "shoot it in", for some reason even though I had to look up the lyrics over the internets. I really can't understand most metal bands although the solo was awesome.

Also, True Crime:NYC for Blue Osyter Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" alone. Don't really care about the rest of the soundtrack, or the game for that matter.

Blue Osyter Cult really should have been in GTA IV's soundtrack instead tbh.

[kupocake]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oH6mw2Rc3DQ
Sinatra Fail. It's Bobby Darin :P

But yeah, Bioshock's soundtrack was nigh on perfect. I'd go to bed with the Andrews Sisters' version of Bei Mir Bist Du Schon but bits of it would probably fall off. Even the newly orchestrated music was decent enough, if nothing to celebrate about. The presence of similar music in Fallout 3 was actually a significant selling point to me as a result (though I could hardly resist once I heard Anything Goes was on there as well). That said, F3's OST just goes to show how you shouldn't just pick a bunch of good period tunes and pat yourself on the back. They messed a couple of things up in my opinion:

1) Three Dog is no Laszlo. True, no one character in the game is X to any decently voice acted Y in some other title, but it's not just his charisma-less delivery. If you're going to write dialogue that is endlessly repeated, you need to make it something approaching decent. "What the hell is going on down there? Revolution? Vacation? Somebody Fart?!". Good game Bethesda. A non-ironic fart gag in an 18 rated title. Mark my words: Primary Schoolers are going to hear Fallout 3's dialogue and get their mums to buy the game. It's the game-humour equivilant of Joe Camel.

2) You can't shake the feeling that they've searched some tagged database of old tunes for the phrases "social decay" and "fire". Every single track has some overt reference to either of the two. By contrast, whilst Bioshock's various themes (Undersea location, Social Decay or Change, Children) come through, they're usually tucked away in some obscure verse, and the tracks fit the setting before they fit the game's themes (what has Papa Love Mambo got to do with anything apart from awesome?). So when they go and pull something in your face obvious like Under the Sea, it isn't so jarring (and the Reinhardt Jazz Guitar version from the beginning was just beautiful too).

Others:
Singstar (I like to think that I'm better at Material Girl than all of you but would be overjoyed to be proved wrong).
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Beautiful beeps and electronic wahs. Probably the best stuff written for such primitive chips).

[ĐynastҰ]

Loved Bioshock's and Fallout 3's music.

But this just nails it for me, one of THE greatest songs ive EVER heard, from Mirror's Edge of course.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T1zF62uUVGA

Yes yes yes the game may be 'crap' by usual standards, but come on, you cant deny the awesomeness of this epic song. Its just fits perfectly with the game somehow.

And oh yeah, Lisa Miskovsky is hot.

http://www.luger.se/uploads/imgArchive/LisaM-Changes-3.jpg

[Sandspider]

Best soundtrack ever was the "We got hostiles" music that kicked in the the elevator to the surface on HL1....

Then again all the HL2 music is pretty sweet too!

[hool10]

Loved Bioshock's and Fallout 3's music.

But this just nails it for me, one of THE greatest songs ive EVER heard, from Mirror's Edge of course.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T1zF62uUVGA

Yes yes yes the game may be 'crap' by usual standards, but come on, you cant deny the awesomeness of this epic song. Its just fits perfectly with the game somehow.

And oh yeah, Lisa Miskovsky is hot.

http://www.luger.se/uploads/imgArchive/LisaM-Changes-3.jpg
No everything in that game sucked, even the music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwSkDhyd40k
Seriously I don't want some green tea drinking, green car driving, yoga, faggity ass game. Face it that woman doesn't have a strong voice as she just yodels.

[stemot]

No everything in that game sucked, even the music:
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Your wrong about the game and it's music.

[AHA-Lambda]

I would say that you are wrong about the music.

For me i would say:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1zF62uUVGA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbZM6ZSlvvY

(not actually in gears of war 2 but was in the trailers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

(not actually in gears of war but was in the trailers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wPo993nWGw

(again not actually in game but was used in the prince of persia trailers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI

[Shakermaker]

My favourite original game song would be Still Alive by GLADOS. Best soundtrack would be Battlefield Vietnam. Some great 60's songs in there, but riding across the map on a scooter with Ride of the Valkyries blaring out loud was the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf-qrA4TxfI


Fifa Road to the World Cup 1998 and Blur - Song 2.

I strongly concur on that one. Although that was the last FIFA game I ever bought.

[swan_song1973]

My favourite original game song would be Still Alive by GLADOS. Best soundtrack would be Battlefield Vietnam. Some great 60's songs in there, but riding across the map on a scooter with Ride of the Valkyries blaring out loud was the best.


yeah, i think that was the only positive feature in that game.

[Nomad]

Umm, how to post videos or the link to the thread that tells?

[Berto]

Poets of the Fall - Late Goodbye (Max Payne 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atKv1JyQgV8

[i am HOLLYWOOD]

anyone that says Mirror's Edge doesn't have a good soundtrack has no soul.

and for me

Jet Set Radio/Jet Set Radio Future has one of the best sound tracks of all time.
Katamari games always have lovely soundscapes.


and hahahaha Sonic Adventure 2. . . i totally forgot how wince inducing that soundtrack is. yet somehow its kinda enjoyable.

[Bob_Marley]

Beyond Good & Evil, the entire sound track by Christophe Heral. Fantastic music all round, my favorates probably being:

"Propaganda" from the Akuda Bar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxKBCLPP20s

"Spanish Bar" from the Race Track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtOEjGHR9oo&feature=related

and

Mammagos, from Mammagos!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KQJ0u5Yf8o&feature=related

[Lone Wolf]

WoW: wrath of the lich king soundtrack, very Celtic sounding.

[Nibwoddle]

It still amuses me that nobody is posting according to the thread.

[Jintor]

Indigo Prophecy had a punch of good Theory of a Dead Man tracks on the radio in the apartment. That shit was ace.