I'd forgotten how BIG this score is...huge orchestra! I can't rave enough about this score. If you haven't heard it FIND IT and listen. This was done before the MEDAL OF HONOR series and blows those away.

NIGHTMARE CREATURES: best heard at night. VERY moody and cool... Reminds me of when I first got a Playstation!

The score to ENTER THE MATRIX the game. I was able to isolate the music in order to listen to the music on it's own and it's great!!!! If you loved the Matrix films (or even just the first one) this music is pretty cool. Some reworkings of the film music and rerecording. The game was so kinetic and hearing the score music folowwed by a hard hitting rave or rock beat song is great!

Giacchino's JURASSIC PARK game score is great! The Playstation cd plays in any cd player and it was like a 2 for 1! Very much a moody melodic homage to Williams' themes.

So what are your fave Game Scores? Which ones have I missed out on? I really only have these and am curious about all the game scores that I see out there but havent heard.

Some classic favorites of mine are:
Streets of Rage 2 for the Sega Genesis
Magician Lord for the Neo Geo
Sonic CD aka (Sonic the Hedgehog as presented on the Sega CD)
Batman Returns for the Sega CD
Soul Star for the Sega CD
Silpheed for the Sega CD
Soul Blade for the Playstation
Nuclear Dawn for the Playstation

And the modern favorites:
Outcast
Call of Duty
Headhunters
Kessen 1
Kessen 2
Genma Onimusha
Advent Rising
Primeval
Secret Weapons over Normandy
Hitman 2
Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
Black
Gears of War !!!

In that case I have to say that I loved the music that played in SUPERNINTENDO's ALIEN3.

That was a FUN game!

So you all are mentioning a lot of titels I've never heard of. What are they like and would it be easy to find samples online to listen to like Amazon?

Most of the ealier scores don't have soudntrack releases unless they were composed in Japan.

But you can find sound clips of Headhunter and Hitman 2, Secret Weapons over Normandy, Mercenaries here. http://www.lalalandrecords.com/VideoGames.html

Gears of War clips are here http://www.kevinriepl.com/gears.htm

Black http://www.christilton.com/disc/black.html

Clips from Increditble Hulk http://www.billbrownmusic.com/musicG5.htm

Clips from Primal http://www.silvascreen.co.uk/master.cfm?SilvaCode=FILMCD366&id=3842

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Originally posted by TimT:
Well I'm a gamer way back from the dawn of the Console Wars! lol

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You were old enough when Atari was fighting Commodore? ;p

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Originally posted by Dinko:

You were old enough when Atari was fighting Commodore? ;p

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I didn't know about the Commodore, but I did have a Atari 2600.

Wolfenstein 3D

Jazz JackRabbit

Maui Mallard in cold shadow

Dune (the battle for arakis) - sega

Sonic - sega

Shore's SUN: Soul of the Ultimate Nation; pure amazement over the orchestral power of this thing. And it even has a theremin!

Harry Gregson-Williams', Norihiko Hibino's, and Rika Muranaka's work on the Metal Gear Solid series; some very solid action scoring.

The music from the first God of War; Zack Snyder should have used this as the temp for 300 that way many wouldn't be able to tell that Tyler Bate's can't be original.

The Devil May Cry series and many other by Capcom; some very cool design with synths and guitars. Good Japanese work.

As mentioned earlier, Gears of War; very brutal and epic. Some parts reminded me of Poledouris' Conan scores with thier boldness.

The Super Mario Brothers theme; 'nuff said.

Gears of War was a solid, well produced score, but beyond that I can't recommend it. The music is pretty generic and musically grey. Nothing memorable, to say the least.

God of War is fun; the scores for both games are very entertaining.

I'm a bit biased, but Prey's score was quite good. Soundtrack.net wrote up a good review: http://www.soundtrack.net/soundtracks/database/?id=4404

Supreme Commander is also worth checking out. http://www.gsoundtracks.com/reviews/supremecommander.htm

I've always got the Mario and/or Zelda theme stuck in my head. Koji Kondo rules.

Jeron

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SUN: Soul of the Ultimate Nation was a phone-in from Shore; uninspired in my opinion. It felt like all the stuff that didn't make it into LOTR, and for a reason.

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Obviously, I can't agree with you Mr. Moore; no love even for the wonderful theremin appearance! Hopefully you don't have the same feelings towards A History of Violence?

Just thought I'd let everyone know that the soundtrack to God of War 2 is now available on iTunes. It was recorded with a live orchestra and choir in London and Prague.

Cheers,

Great job, Cris and company!

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Originally posted by TimT:
SUN has some good bits worthy of a compliation but I would'nt call it may favorite, and I think anyone who would is just a crazy Howard Shore fan.

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Oh, it's no way my favorite and there are a few tracks I tend to skip over; but I do think it's a solid score. Thank you for the compliment, however.

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Why is it that whenever I mention Enter the Matrix I get NO responses on that one ever? I remember even when the game was freshly out nobody ever really gushed like I do.

Am I the only one that loved that game? I love the films, I loved the idea behind the game tie-in and I loved playing the game. Granted Reloaded and Revolutions and Enter had their share of problems but hey...I just think they're all still pretty cool!

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I didn't mean to ignore your mentioning of Enter the Matrix, but I can't acknowlege that score without critisim. Its a completly unmotivated knock-off of Don Davis' score.

"It was composed by Davis' assistant, It was supposed to sound like the original score ..." Bla bla bla, whatever! It was boring and unimaginative. And most importantly ...unlistenable.

Yeah I know it's a rehash...but still I think his "assistant" did a pretty decent job overall. It is derivative definitely...but still fun. And an interesting listen on it's own. As most film scores remind me of emotions I felt while watching it THIS music reminds me of when I was PLAYING it i.e. "that was that *#@% level that took me FOREVER!"

But I've moved onto my next-gen consoles and the only XBox games I have interest in revisiting are Half-Life 2 (currently beating it for the third time while I wait for BioShock) and 007: Everything or Nothing (another great video game score I forgot to mention).

What were other bugs you found?

I've looked.

Uematswho?

http://www.moviemusic.com/soundtrack/gearsofwar2

Debneys score for what? Did I miss something there? As far as I know, the last thing he did for games was Lair......is that the score you're refering to?