Going for a Song - Classic Musical Interludes in Gaming

[acrobat]

Best music I've ever heard in a game:

Go to this link and check out the song titled "Kelethin" (probably best to just get the "Alternative" version which is more modern with better instruments - although the original has a bridge in it and is a bit longer I think). Click it and then click again to download the midi. It runs in Windows Media player. It will download in about 1 second. Well worth it:
PC Games Music! Free Midi Downloads!

I'm not sure whether it would translate to you just sitting here looking at a Hexus page and listening to that. Its a brilliant piece of music, but what made it extra special, is how well it fit where you were at that point in the game.

Besides that and some others, I was really impressed with the music in Monkey Island 2 (the song titled "?"). And I noticed someone mentioned Red Alert, I really liked the music in Tiberium Sun (the old game, not the modern Tiberium Wars).

[Knoxville]

Rez takes it for me, hands down.

Honorable mentions have gotta go out to MGS3, Jet Grind Radio, late goodbye from Max Payne 2, Theory of a Deadman in Farenheit, Trent Reznor for the original Quake soundtrack and one winged angel from the FF7: Advent Children, technically not a game I know but an amazing piece of music if you ask me.

[directhex]

Rez takes it for me, hands down.

Honorable mentions have gotta go out to MGS3, Jet Grind Radio, late goodbye from Max Payne 2, Theory of a Deadman in Farenheit, Trent Reznor for the original Quake soundtrack and one winged angel from the FF7: Advent Children, technically not a game I know but an amazing piece of music if you ask me.

crapcakes, another forgotten one.

Fear - Adam Freeland
Rez (Dreamcast) by United Game Artists

The only non-porno game released with a USB vibrator

[roorooroo]

Manic Miner's classical beeps and bleeps are a fave..more up to date music i enjoyed is the Gothic 3 soundtrack..very symphonic and professional.

[BlackDwarf]

Dune: Emperor
-Ride the worm (Multiplayer music for House Atreides) - Don't know the artist
One of the best fitting music tracks for a RTS game I've come across. Not only did it give a sense of speed, it gave you a feeling of the desert too.[/QUOTE]

Frank Klepacki

Every single Red Alert song... I have all the albums, they're all great, Frank is a genius.

[MadduckUK]

big blue from f-zero

edit: SoundClick song info: f-zero - big blue by NESkimos - Song info page with free MP3 music downloads oooooh, its still good!

[Optical668]

Thunderforce IV

YouTube - Thunder Force 4- Gargoylediver Battle

YouTube - Thunder Force 4- Fomalhaut boss

[acrobat]

Gothic 3 soundtrack..very symphonic and professional.

I thought that too

[Agent]

one winged angel from the FF7: Advent Children, technically not a game I know but an amazing piece of music if you ask me.

Was in the game too mate - Last battle against Sepphy
Not that I finally completed it last night or anything....10 years too late....

[Ferral]

I still to his day love the theme music from Turrican on the Commodore Amiga :

YouTube - ExGad Adeptus Musicalis #002 - Turrican Main Title Theme

Also loved Shadow of the Beast pipe music also on the Amiga :

YouTube - AMIGA Shadow of the Beast by Reflections / Psygnosis

[JimNastics]

I've been whistling the Little Big Adventure 2 song for about the last 12 years

YouTube - Little Big Adventure 2 - Music Video

Great soundtrack for a sublime game.

[Raz316]

Yes to Unreal - Shared Dig! I had just installed a new graphics card and when that music came on I had to stop and look around. It's difficult to explain, but it certainly made me feel part of something.

Yes to LBA2 as well : D If you had to ask me what came first, the game or the music I honestly wouldnt know, because both suit each other perfectly.

YouTube - shenmue music: shenhua
Shenmue (Dreamcast) - Sega-AM2
This track still sends a shiver down my spine. It makes me think of Yamanose (your home 'village'). The game felt huge. Working as a fork lift operator felt a million miles away from home. This theme always made me wonder what the place would have been like when my priority wasn't to avenge my fathers death.

[M0nkeyb0Y]

I know it's not an original soundtrack, but the music collection fo Civilization VI is outstanding from 'middle ages' onwards. Plenty of Bach and Dvorak

[666moe666]

Does Go With the Flow by Queens Of The Stone Age on Gran Turismo 4 count as classical =/