Топ-10 саундтреков из игр, которые можно послушать в spotify: need for speed, doom, cyberpunk 2077 и другие

Donkey Kong Country

There’s a reason people freaked the geek out when David Wise was announced as the composer for Wii U’s Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze: his SNES Donkey Kong Country soundtracks kicked ass, particularly the very first. Songs like “” blend ragtime piano with animal sounds, synthesized beats and clarinet into a jazzy new age morass that is Wise’s very own style. But Wise is never one note in Donkey Kong Country. Minimalist chill out tracks like “” couldn’t be more different than DKC’s more energetic jams, but they still feel perfectly suited to the game’s pre-rendered world and are beautiful just to listen to. 

Journey

Perhaps you didn’t know that a cello could simultaneously break your heart and put it back together again. Austin Wintory’s beautifully atmospheric Journey soundtrack positively soars. From the mournful “” and echoing “,” to the sand surfing joys of “” and the victorious “,” Wintory makes Journey a tour de force of strings-driven emotion. This was the very first video game soundtrack to be nominated for a Grammy for good reason and matched up with the sandy visuals of ThatGameCompany’s masterpiece perfectly. Layered on top of the ringing chirps of your be-scarfed adventurer, this is the beautiful and heartbreaking sound of video game music transcending anything that has gone before. Tears? No, that’s sand in my eye. Honest.

Cyberpunk 2077. Треки, которые сделали Сильверхенда великим

Как бы некоторые игроки ни ругали техническую составляющую игры, но закрывать глаза на отличный сюжет, крутые побочные квесты и отличный саундтрек никак нельзя. По радио в Найт-Сити можно послушать и драйвовый металл, и наивную попсу, и задорную электронику. Некоторые композиции надолго западают в голову. Например, Been Good To Know Ya умело доводит накал страстей в финале игры до высшей точки. Забывать не стоит и о треках группы Samurai, лидером которой был тот самый Джонни Сильверхенд. Он точно знал толк в хорошей музыке.

К слову, одним из ведущих композиторов выступил Марцин Пшибылович, ранее подаривший нам лучшие треки к «Ведьмаку 3». Даже удивительно, как маэстро пишет такие грандиозные мелодии и для средневекового фэнтези, и для неонового киберпанка.

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В какой игре лучший сандтрек?

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• Композитор Doom Eternal Мик Гордон провел музыкальный стрим, где показал как писал саундтрек

Street Fighter 2

The ambition of Street Fighter 2’s creative team is as inspiring today as it was in 1991. To make a game that gave players unprecedented control of eight different characters, each one with dramatically different physical characteristics, and then render those characters in animation and music as rich as what ended up in the game was unprecedented. That this was Yoko Shimomura’s first work out of college, her first stab at composing a wide variety of music, and her first time working with a technology like the CPS-1 soundchip makes it all the more astounding. Every track is iconic, rife with the international flavor of the game’s cast. “” with its rumbling percussion, the chiming bells and desperate tone of “,” the joyful pentatonic scale boogie of “:” every song is as evocative of its character and stage as it is pleasurable on its own.

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  Саундтреки из игр (ну очень похоже на Моцарта)

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  Саундтрек из игры Майнкрафт
  Музыка из игры Майнкрафт

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  Саундтрек из Игры COD:Modern Warfare 2

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  Мини-игра

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  Из 6-ой части

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  Саундтрек из игры Assasin’s Creed
  City of Jerusalem

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  Саундтрек из игры
  Мафия 2

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  Саундтрек из игры Кейн и Линч: Смертники
  K&L OST

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  саундтрек из игры Resident Evil 5
  Sad but true

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  Саундтрек из игры Мафия
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  Саундтрек из игры Готика 2
  Kai Rosenkranz — На пути в монастырь

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  Саундтрек из игры Космические рейнджеры
  Григорий Семенов — Музыка людей

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  Григорий Семенов — Музыка фэй-1

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  Саундтрек из игры The Fall
  Последние дни мира …

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  Саундтрек из игры «Ведьмак»
  Goodbye Leo

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  Саундтрек из игры Готика 2
  Kai Rosenkranz — Природа 2

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  Саундтрек из игры Готика 2
  Kai Rosenkranz — Природа 1

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  Саундтрек из игры Готика
  Kai Rosenkranz — Старый лагерь

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  Саундтрек из игры Готика 3
  Kai Rosenkranz — Vista Point

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  Саундтрек из игры Космические рейнджеры
  Григорий Семенов — Полетная 12

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  Саундтрек из игры Ведьмак
  Дорожка 10

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  Саундтрек из игры Цивилизация
  Civilization IV

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  саундтрек из игры mafia
  Без названия

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  Саундтрек из игры «Код доступа: «Рай» «

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  Саундтрек из игры Космические рейнджеры
  Полетная

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  Саундтрек из игры GTA 4
  Intro

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  Саундтрек из игры GTA Vice city.
  «Для ВелоСаджема»

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  Саундтрек из игры
  Asphalt 8 Airborne

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  саундтрек из игры Дальнобойщики 2
  Воля и Разум

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  саундтрек из игры Дальнобойщики 2
  Встань, Страх Преодолей

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  Саундтрек из игры Ведьмак
  Без названия

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  Саундтрек из игры Ведьмак
  Без названия

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  Саундтрек из игры Ведьмак
  Track4

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  Саундтрек из игры S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Тень Чернобыля
  Радио Бар 100 рентген

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  Саундтрек из игры «Ведьмак»
  Dusk of a Northern Kingdom

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  Саундтрек из игры Bionic Commando
  Main Theme

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  саундтрек из игры «Flat Out»
  Feel So Numb

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  Саундтрек из игры World of Goo
  =

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  Саундтрек из игры STALKER
  Тени Чернобыля

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  саундтрек
  из игры «Дум»

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  Магазин Игрушек

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  В меню 5-ой части

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  Ретро Клуб

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  Красная Площадь

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  Бордель

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  Корабль №2

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  Казино №2

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  Байкеры

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  Саундтрек из игры Мафия
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God of War

The new God of War is a powerful narrative that’s only exemplified by its stunning score. Composed by Bear McCreary (who’s also the brains behind the 10 Cloverfield Lane soundtrack), he uses instruments like the hurdy-gurdy to really evoke that ethereal, Norse vibe. And what’s better, if you already know the God of War series, you’ll spot some familiar bars:

«I took my memories of that classic God of War soundtrack – the deep choirs, pounding drums, and shrieking brass – and reinvented them for a Norse age,» writes McCreary. «I wrote new themes, and introduced to the music exotic instrumentation and languages from various Northern European folk traditions.»

The way it ebbs and surges with the action and emotion really builds the pace and power of the game. But it’s just as beautiful in isolation afterwards.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Отличный саундтрек, за который игру даже снимали с продажи

Игры Rockstar Games всегда отличал впечатляющий саундтрек, но самый богатый достался, пожалуй, Vice City. Треков на радиостанциях было так много, что разработчики даже не уследили за лицензиями на каждый из них. Именно по этой причине игру пришлось снять с продажи (да-да, не только Cyberpunk 2077 удаляли из магазинов). Виной всему стала песня Майкла Джексона (Michael Jackson) Wanna be Startin’ Somethin’. К счастью, геймеры отделались лёгким испугом: неугодную композицию удалили, а игра снова стала доступной для покупки.

Подборка Spotify насчитывает аж 202 музыкальные дорожки. Такого богатства хватит надолго, а подходящие песни подберёт себе даже самый искушённый меломан.

DuckTales

It is convenient that DuckTales for NES is a super fun game, but its quality is hardly essential to success. DuckTales could have been a boring, unplayable monstrosity and it wouldn’t have mattered as long as Hiroshige Tonomura’s songs were still there. The rollicking pop of “” and the Rob Zombie-by-of-NES horror schlock of “” are the kind of righteous chiptunes that have kept this soundtrack famous for almost 30 years. Even the “Stage Select” jingle melody, a simple 8-note looping melody, is a sweet earworm that lodges in the brain. Its centerpiece, the utterly wistful “,” is the song that demonstrates why bands like Anamanguchi continue to use the NES to make music today.

Eternal Sonata (2007)

Composers: Motoi Sakuraba, Frédéric Chopin

Content

In Eternal Sonata, the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin is on his deathbed. In his final hour, he dreams up a dewy, enchanted world in which he and a ragtag crew of companions unite to fight against oppressive rule. (The real Chopin suffered from chronic illness and died at 39.) The game features a small selection of Chopin compositions played by Russian pianist Stanislav Bunin, including the delicate “Raindrop Prelude,” which feels like an afternoon of quiet reflection, and the stormy, dramatic “Revolutionary Étude.” The rest of the Motoi Sakuraba–composed score includes jaunty strings, tranquil harp, and ominous horns that mirror the game’s dramatic emotional shifts. –Cat Zhang

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020)

Composers: Kazumi Totaka, Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagata, Sayako Doi, Masato Ohashi

There’s beauty in every mundane moment of Animal Crossing. As your humanoid villager with an abnormally bulbous head goes about their daily tasks—pulling weeds, digging up fossils, making small talk with adorable animal neighbors—gentle melodies soundtrack every hour. The sun rises to light whistling and sets to pensive strings, and every shop, season, and holiday gets its own theme. The music ranges from smooth jazz to light calypso and changes subtly as you move around the world. Of course, any mention of Animal Crossing’s delightful soundtrack would be remiss without mention of K.K. Slider, the game’s guitar-playing dog (inspired by lead composer Kazumi Totaka). In the latest installment of the series, New Horizons, K.K. has a bit of an inflated ego, only playing once your island reaches a certain degree of popularity—which might be the realest part of the game. –Quinn Moreland

Halo 3

Halo 3 was the culmination of composers Marty O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori’s work on Bungie’s (now Microsoft’s) sci-fi shooter series. Sure, it might not be the game that introduced us to the famous Gregorian chant-laden theme we all know by heart, but it was the game that refined and expanded on it, while also providing us with some of the best backing music to Master Chief’s adventures. You might not know the track names by heart, but listen to “” or “” and you’re guaranteed to remember scenes of action and heroism, as one of the last Spartans fought to save the galaxy from darkness and annihilation. Spartans never die, they’re .

The Sims (2000)

Composer: Jerry Martin

Content

Composer Jerry Martin’s score for The Sims is intentionally calming and Muzak-y; like the gibberish the game’s characters speak, it can feel like a tidy facsimile of the human experience. Recall the meditative jazz instrumentals of Build Mode that made drywalling and swimming pool construction feel peaceful and domestic, followed by the giddy pizzicato of Buy Mode as you blew your fake cash on flat-screen TVs and self-flushing toilets. The score’s optimism and mid-century lounge vibe underlined just how much The Sims critiqued the suburban consumerist values it replicated—and if you bought your Sims a stereo, it played goofy Simlish replicas of other genres, too, like country and Latin jazz. Put some of it on the next time you’re fantasy-browsing Zillow. –Anna Gaca

Silent Hill 3

Akira Yamaoka’s soundtracks—thick stews of rock, trip hop, industrial, drone, and more—are almost as famous on their own as the games they appeared in. When the furiously plucked mandolin gave way to beats, guitar and piano in the original theme “,” Yamaoka established a signature sound as unmistakable as Prince’s guitar or Dre’s beats. While Silent Hill 2 comes close, Silent Hill 3’s soundtrack is the crown jewel in the Yamaoka discography. The quiet, lulling strums of “” lead into a plucked counter melody that sounds like an afternoon nap as conceived by Joy Division. The shuffling menace “” uses cresting, looping piano to create an air of furious ecstasy that’s never given proper release. And then there’s “,” a rock song so pure you can practically feel Chrissie Hynde nodding in approval as it plays.

Secret of Mana

In making his first soundtrack, Hiroki Kikuta bent the Super Nintendo soundchip in truly bizarre ways. Making his own samples and stretching his skills to make songs that pulsated with the same teeming life that marked Secret of Mana’s verdant visuals, the result is a soundtrack that not only doesn’t sound like anything else from the era but one that doesn’t sound like anything else on the hardware. “” is a ruminative mix of strings and piano that takes on an air of hallucinatory mystery when it opens with, of all things, whale song. Elsewhere songs like “Into the Thick of It,” whose sweet flute melody is driven by a synth melodica underneath, is the literal sound of climbing a giant tree that is the heart of the world. Timeless.

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (2000)

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Sony’s first Playstation console was a quantum leap for video games, with a CD-ROM drive that dramatically expanded the amount of data a single game could contain. This led to curated soundtracks that became as influential as the games themselves. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 is one of the earliest examples, with an adrenaline-fueled mix of punk and hip-hop that mimicked the skate-rat aesthetic and highlighted rap’s undersung impact on the culture. Naughty by Nature was next to Bad Religion; High & Mighty and Mos Def followed Swedish pop-punk quartet Millencolin. There’s even some nü metal and dub in there. Hawk’s playlist serves as a time capsule for both skate culture and a game-changing musical moment. –Matthew Ismael Ruiz

Metroid Prime

The original Metroid trilogy produced some of the most iconic game music ever made. Hip Tanaka’s “,” Ryoji Yoshitomi’s ripping on Game Boy, and Kenji Yamamoto’s eerie, propulsive work on are the definitive aural landscape of sidescrolling exploration games. Yamamoto’s work on Metroid Prime, though, is in a class all its own. Midi compositions that capture the ruined grandeur of the alien planet Tallon IV are propped up by bizarre instrumentation and profound emotion. “Chozo Ruins” is a jittery mix of funk and ‘50s pulp cinema sound effects while “” is a glassy piano soundscape propped up, like all songs on the Prime soundtrack, by what sounds like a synthesized theremin. The is, like the whole game, bizarre, alien, and beautiful.

Castlevania 3: Dracula’s Curse

From the very first screen of the original on the Famicom Disk System, Castlevania has been known for absolutely bitchin’ jams. “Vampire Killer” is to chiptune what “Johnny B. Good” is to rock and roll, but the series’ legacy extends beyond 8-bit into the elegant melange of styles captured by Michiru Yamane in Symphony of the Night, Aria of Sorrow and more. If there is a peak to Mount Castlevania, though, it must be Castlevania 3. Whether listening to the Famicom version bolstered by a unique soundchip in the cartridge or the stripped but not less spectacular NES version, these tunes capture every mood the series is capable of. “” rocks harder than almost everything in the series while “” lays down an absolutely irresistible groove. “,” the dusky theme that plays as soon as you turn on the game, is also the first moment that the music starts to hint at its potential for real gothic beauty.

Parappa the Rapper

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A dog wants to impress his ladyfriend, who is a flower, by becoming a hero. He does this by, among other things, taking karate lessons from an onion, cooking with a chicken, and trying not to poop himself while waiting for the bathroom. Parappa the Rapper is a glorious exercise in music rhythm game weirdness as you tap along in an attempt to master each song’s unique and absurd challenge. The gameplay isn’t overly remarkable, but the songs have real staying power: For proof, simply say “Kick, Punch” to a Parappa fan and their reply of “It’s all in the mind!” will be swift and guaranteed. Every track is a winner, but my personal favorite is the reggae-esque tune from the flea market. Just because the rhythm is slow, that don’t mean that you can’t flow. That is a great wisdom.

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

We couldn’t get away with listing the best video game soundtracks of all time without at least one mention of the Legend of Zelda. And, for us, the best of the lot is the soundtrack for Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It draws on themes and motifs that had been used in A Link to the Past and the original Legend of Zelda, but it sought to reinvogirate Hyrule with a younger, yet still familiar feel. And what’s more, when you were playing the Ocarina in-game, you were part of it, solving puzzles casting spells and generally drowning in the glorious harmonies and melodies Koji Kondo had created. These are also the themes that have gone on to define and elevate the rest of the Zelda series, so it’s not just excellent music, it’s also history in the making.

R4: Ridge Racer Type 4

«He’s the one for me, there’s no place I’d rather be, yeah, yeah, yeah. To the finish line, everywhere you look he’s right on time.» Lyrics to the hot new summer single? Nope, those are the words to “,” the opening of R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 for the PlayStation. And it only gets better from there. The eclectic soundtrack boasts some of the best and most unique driving songs you could ever hope for, fusing Namco’s game-y synth beats with jazz, funk, and house genres. Tracks like “” and “” are standouts, but really it all comes back to the tone set by that opening tune. Buckle up and have fun, it says, because there’s nothing out there that drives — or sounds — like this.

Persona 4

Shoji Meguro is a wild person. Attempting to mix jazz, old school midi game soundtrack style, J-pop, rock, and hip-hop all in one place simply shouldn’t work. In the hands of another musician, Persona 4’s soundtrack would sound like a discordant nightmare. Instead, it’s as effervescent as an autumn breeze running through the streets of Inaba. Battle themes like “” have all the cheesy rock glory of an Iron Maiden classic but they’re balanced out by Everything But the Girl style dance pop confections like “.” Nothing beats the mix of beats, horns, and keys that is “Pursuing My True Self,” Meguro’s main theme.

Persona 5 (2016)

Composer: Shoji Meguro

Content

In Persona 5, a group of teenage vigilantes gain superpowers whenever they enter the Metaverse, a realm filled with mankind’s collective subconscious desires. It is a kooky, fanciful adventure that puts equal weight on living everyday life and fighting monsters. The glue that holds the story together is Shoji Meguro’s score, which is one continuous work of light, lounge-ready funk. It is incredibly balanced, meeting both the hectic action of dungeon heists and the chill monotony of studying for exams. The soundtrack’s free-flowing acid jazz mirrors a confounding journey in and out of a shared psyche; the dream state has rarely sounded so groovy. –Sheldon Pearce

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Final Fantasy 8

Everyone’s got their own favorite Final Fantasy soundtrack, but if there’s one that deserves a place on a list of best soundtracks, it’s Final Fantasy 8. For 8, series composer Nobuo Uematsu was clearly shooting for something cinematic, and you can feel it right away with the opener, “”, which is like Star Wars’ ‘Duel of the Fates’, only a million times better. Seriously, pick any song out of the 74 different tunes in the soundtrack, and you’ll find your mind instantly swept away on a grand sci-fi/fantasy adventure. There’s “”, which is single-handedly the greatest overworld theme in Final Fantasy’s decades-long history. “” is a rollicking, blood-pumping tune, and is just as listenable after dozens of hours of random battles. And of course, there’s “” which basically sounds like if Rush got a side gig making video game music. Every single song is a masterwork, a bizarre blend of prog-rock, classical music, and Uematsu’s signature style combining to create something not just unique within Final Fantasy’s oeuvre, but within video games as a whole. Final Fantasy 8 may not be the most obvious choice, but dammit, it’s the right one.

Fahrenheit. Одна из лучших игр 2005 года и один из лучших саундтреков вообще

Геймеры постарше отлично помнят, какой шум подняла на релизе вторая игра Quantic Dream. Все игровые издания взахлёб рассказывали о лучших моментах Fahrenheit, а геймеров ждали бессонные ночи: выключить интерактивное кино на самом интересном месте было почти невозможно. Творение Дэвида Кейджа (David Cage) совершило настоящую революцию в геймдеве, и OST запомнился многим игрокам. Самыми чарующими треками были, наверное, Santa Monica и Say Goodbye от группы Theory of a Dead Man. Многие надолго задерживались у магнитофона в квартире главного героя только лишь для того, чтобы сполна ими насладиться.

Конечно, под конец драматичный сюжет Fahrenheit скатывался во что-то невразумительное, да и на фоне Detroit: Become Human многие элементы старушки сегодня кажутся устаревшими, но вот саундтрек точно будет актуален всегда.

The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind

You could pick any of the Elder Scrolls games for this list, really, as it’s impossible to go wrong with a Jeremy Soule soundtrack. We went with Morrowind, though, because of the way it effortlessly evokes the beautiful loneliness of that game’s landscape. Oblivion embraces pomp and Skyrim bravado, but Morrowind captures the quiet solemnity of your role as the hero standing alone against the darkness. It’s impossible to remember your time as the Nerevarine without hearing Soule’s elegant arrangements in your head, whether it’s the quick strings and horns that accompany an unexpected battle across the hillside (it’s always a goddamn cliff racer), or a cheeky little ditty that picks up your spirits as you wander down the road. Morrowind’s soundtrack is woven into the very fabric of Tamriel and gives everything you do there an air of gravitas. Even if it’s finding out what happens when you drink 600 bottles of skooma.

NBA Street Vol. 2 (2003)

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NBA Street Vol. 2 strengthened my love of hip-hop. As an 8-year-old, there were days I turned on my Playstation 2 not even to play the game but just to surf through its soundtrack. It was mostly instrumentals, but I was obsessed with them all: Dilated Peoples’ “Live on Stage (Remix),” Lords of the Underground’s “Chief Rocka,” and even Benzino’s “Rock the Party.” My favorite was Pete Rock and CL Smooth’s “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y),” because Pete Rock’s smooth blend of jazzy horns and head-knocking drums was like nothing I had heard before. Up to that moment, the rap I listened to was confined to whatever played on New York’s Hot 97 or BET’s Rap City, but Street Vol. 2 let me know that there was more out there, and I had to find it. –Alphonse Pierre

Hotline Miami

Hotline Miami’s special breed gameplay combines speed, skill and ultraviolence with a soundtrack that pulsed through your ears with the kind of furvour that put you into a kill-die-repeat loop for hours on end. You always emerge from your hypnotic lull with the kind of head-spinning momentum that almost makes you want to dive straight back in, but more importantly keep that same soundtrack on loop in the background for any kind of medial household task. Playing the game, of course, you realise just how well the techno-drenched soundtrack fits with the tension and release of each level, but listened to in isolation it’s a heart-pounding masterpiece. I can’t even deal with how much I love Jasper Byrne’s «Miami».

Mass Effect 2

The original Mass Effect set the tone for BioWare’s three-part space opera with its ’80s action movie-inspired, synth-heavy soundtrack, but Mass Effect 2 is the game that took that concept and made it palatable to a wider audience while giving listeners bigger crescendos and more variety. The track “” is a great example, starting slow, mysterious, and electronic before evolving into something organic and genuinely thrilling to hear, full of a wide variety of instruments, percussion, and a chorus of chanting voices. And if the blockbuster inflection isn’t your thing, there’s the sublime tones of the galaxy map music to gently sweep you away on solar winds. Mass Effect 2’s soundtrack is so good, you really can’t help but speak in hyperbole about it.

Mafia 3. Не лучшая Mafia, но лучшая в серии музыка

Mafia 3 собрала на релизе столь негативную прессу, что название игры можно было считать синонимом к слову «хейт». Приключения Линкольна Клея ругали за баги и обязательный гринд, но не всё здесь было так плохо. Например, кат-сцены заслуживали похвалы. А ещё саундтрек: музыка в игре было просто божественной. От сцены предательства под легендарную Paint It Black мурашки по телу бежали, скорее всего, даже у самых скептично настроенных геймеров.

Игра под завязку набита главными хитами 60-70-х годов прошлого века: тут и Animals, и Джимми Хендрикс (Jimi Hendrix), и Джонни Кэш (Johnny Cash) — настоящий рай для ценителей музыки тех лет.