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Offline Dr.Zer0

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best sound track, uhh, Linkin Park - Reanimation and KoRn - Untouchables

best GAME sound track... uhh.... err, uuuhh, err Half Life!!(there I sayed it)

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And GTA 3 gets the best and worst music award.  Its good the first time you here it, but after a week straight you just want to rip out the speakers.


thats why I kepts it on Chatter box, bet even then I wanted to rip them out!!! but then I just switch to that msx station or something like that
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But no ICEWIND DALE? Just listen to that. It's...it's beautiful. (even the cookie monster said it's beautiful :D )

 

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Battleforce 1942 has a good couple of tracks in the menu and mission loading screens... it's a shame you can't have them playing during the mission although it would doubtless be a little unrealistic.

And Ice is right, the Unreal tracks have all kicked ass (especially the menu track in the original Unreal).

 

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Hmmmm, my list is quite different....

1) Romancing Saga 3 tied with Final Fantasy 6 (both for SNES)
2) Descent: Freespace tied with Final Fantasy 8 (8 mainly because of "The Man With The Machine Gun")
3) Sacrifice tied with Freespace 2

SNES music == 1337 :D
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Here's a few.

Outcast
Full Throttle
Star Wars games (J.W. bits anyway)
No One Lives Forever
Mafia's not bad.
(GTA3 radio stations :D )
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Final Fantasies... Freespaces... Chrono Trigger/Cross... Lunar:SSSC... Deus Ex...

Actually RPG's have allmost allways good soundtracks
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We had one of those a few months ago, fyi.

1: Heroes Of Might and Magic 2
2: Heroes Of Might and Magic 3
3: Freespace 2
4: Star Trek: Bridge Commander

And the special, "Best Music in a game I have never played" goes to: ICEWIND DALE!
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Bridge Commander? It has MUSIC?

 

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and very good music.
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1st Place:  System Shock 1

Reason:  This is a hauntingly great example of how good the much maligned "techno" genre can be if its worked out properly.  Go to a sshock fan site and download it all - NOW!
medical suite, reactor level and intro tune are all must-haves.

2nd Place: Unreal

Extremely good sampled music done in the DOS Screamtracker!  I havent found any other tunes by Straylight - they seem to have disappeared but the Unreal 1 soundtrack was a real work of art.

3rd Place:  Descent 2

With the likes of NiN and Type-0 negative working on tracks for this game it couldnt fail to impress, however the track that stands out for me is "cold reality" - top notch industrial stuff.

4th Place: Half Life

Half life boasts some excellent electronic/industrial tracks and although Opposing Force only has 3 half decent tracks they are still pretty good - get hold of them.

5th Place:  Deus Ex

Great signiature tune, generally good atmospheric music throughout the game

5th Place:  Freespace 1 & Freespace 2 breifings

The freespace music I have to say was rather bland, but well produced and I escecially liked three of the brieifing tunes - although they're too damn short!

 

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ELITE (Blue Danube)


really?
music apart, to think I could never get a chance to play elite when it came out... :(
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Speaking of all this - does anyone know where I can find me some Unreal music on mp3 or WAV? I say I like it but I used to resort to just leaving the game running in the background to hear the music... having it on MP3 would be better, and I can't find it on Kazaa...

 

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Freespace 2, Re-Volt, Unreal Tournament.

 

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Speaking of all this - does anyone know where I can find me some Unreal music on mp3 or WAV? I say I like it but I used to resort to just leaving the game running in the background to hear the music... having it on MP3 would be better, and I can't find it on Kazaa...


theres a utility to rip out the Unreal music to screamtracker files somewhere.

UT is a different matter - that might use Mp3.

 

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3rd Place:  Descent 2

With the likes of NiN and Type-0 negative working on tracks for this game it couldnt fail to impress, however the track that stands out for me is "cold reality" - top notch industrial stuff.


Were NiN actually involved with the D2 soundtrack? I though it was just Type O Negative and Ogre from Skinny Puppy?

NiN did the Quake 1 soundtrack, which if I didn't mention it before I like a little bit of as well, but I don't think they had a hand in D2...
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Gran Turismo 3(I think) on the PS2 has some decent tunes.  So does WRC, although Ionly palyed the demo.

The title track on the original Grand Prix game for the PC was class. :)  (the old f1 track on the BBC ;) )

 
My top 3 game soundtrack are:

3) Freespace by :v: olition

2) Homeworld by Sierra

And the prize to the best game music ever goes to:

OUTCAST by Appeal

No other game has ever had such a great soundtrack.
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Speaking of all this - does anyone know where I can find me some Unreal music on mp3 or WAV? I say I like it but I used to resort to just leaving the game running in the background to hear the music... having it on MP3 would be better, and I can't find it on Kazaa...


You can use ModPlug Player to play the umx files directly or convert them to a number of other formats. (including wav) I know that Unreal, UT and DX use these files and it is probable that other Unreal-based games also have them. (actually I think that, at least for these three games, the music was made by the same two people) UT2003 uses ogg vorbis files though.

These mod-based music files are somewhat hard to compose but space-wise they are certainly the most efficient sound system around. This mod system combined with some good sound compressor (mp3, etc.) would make the ultimate audio format.

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3rd Place: Descent 2

With the likes of NiN and Type-0 negative working on tracks for this game it couldnt fail to impress, however the track that stands out for me is "cold reality" - top notch industrial stuff.


These were also quite nice. Actually, one of my personal favorites was an unused soundtrack that appeared on the Vertigo CD only. (track 7)
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Here is a few:

Some of Final Fantasy Series
Homeworld
Free Space :v:
Command & Conquer Games
Some of Need for Speed games
GTA 3
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