Best game soundtracks ever?

[Nimsky]

Some games have really good soundtracks, which do you figure is the best?

My faves are probably:

Rome: Total War - the music that plays while planning out your moves on the strategical world map. The acoustic guitars and the female vocals, very nice.

Vietcong - The menu music totally sets the mood. It's like Hendrix!

THPS2 - Just good memories. It's rockin'.

RO - deserves to be in the list.

Hitman - Particularly "Ave Maria".

Thief - ambient music, with industrial / steampunk kinda stuff.

 

[Bluehawk]

The older Medal of Honors by Michael Giacchino, and I agree with the Hitman series. Jesper Kyd brings the win.

 

[sharpshooterklj]

Tons of games have excellent soundtracks, more often than not I'll go and try to find a game's soundtrack online for download. My particular favorites are:

RS3 Raven Shield - Love every one of the tracks, each one sounds like its from a heroic action-drama.

TES4 Oblivion - So far one of the best games to convey the epic feel through the music.

Halo 1&2 - Each track sounds unique, from calming techno to intense rock, all sounding good.

Half Life series - I don't know if its just me, but I love it when the techno songs kick in. They all give a different mood that fits the situation.

 

[Xendance]

Unreal Tournament 2004, mainly the deathmatch map tracks. I absolutely love them.

 

[Trendkill]

Great Battles of WWII: Stalingrad has some great music by a Russian band called Skafandr. Hard to describe the genre though.

 

[Coey]

DEFCON the music when the nuclear holocaust starts

 

[dogbadger]

All of goldeneye 64
Some of Perfect dark 64
chris vrenna's 'alice' soundtrack (one of the very best)
a few of deus ex 1 + 2
most of MGS series
lot of mario esp. 64 (loved water song and 'dark world')
donkey kong snes underwater music
Mr driller psx
Vietcong - menu music was called 'pseudo hendrix' and is still downloadable i think
doom psx and 64
RTCW
Half life music when you launch the satalite.
XENON2 megablast Amiga (bomb da base)
The flashpoint death music
Timesplitters 2 particulaly atomsmasher, siberia and the scrapyard MP level techno tune
Final Fantasy (only familiar with 7, 8 , 9)
Red faction 2
Hitman 2 ( love 'Exploration' theme) + contracts ( won an BAFTA apparently)
Total anihilation (nice touch how music would switch to dramactic during combat)
Some of westwood's dune 2000 + command and conquer stuff was fun

I probably listen to as much music written for games as anything else nowadays

 

[Rrralphster]

Monty on the run.

 

[dogbadger]

Monty on the run.

yeah that was top - same guy did international karate, he was highly rated.
Sanxion was another top CMB64 soundtrack- i was very jealous only having a bleeping/farting sinclair spectrum at the time

 

[[FERGIE]]

Halo 1 and 2, COD (all of them), and the early MOH games.

Will always remember playing the original MOH on playstation, and there was this one level where the music just scared the crap out of me and made the level so atmospheric. Think it was "assault on fort schmerzen" or something like that. Good times...

 

[Makabi]

Rome: Total War and Morrowind currently have what I view to be the best game soundtracks. I still feel that the music in Morrowind matches with the visuals perfectly, and that Oblivion's music seems much more random and less fitting, apart from some of the dungeon songs.

 

[entertainer]

Fallout.

 

[tropsobor]

Planescape: Torment

A few pieces from the soundtrack:

Deionarra's theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZOuy4YM0AI
Annah's theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCpk7HIryK0
Main title: http://www.planescape-torment.org/soundtrack/01 - Main Title.mp3

 

[Sidus Preclarum]

Planescape: Torment.
Balrdur's gate.
Some of Deus Ex (Hong Kong ! \o/ )
Hearts of Iron II Doomsday
Europa Universalis I&II (but that wasn't music composed for the game, so I don't know if that counts... anayway, Falalalan, falalalera! )
Total Annihilation
Starcraft

 

[SiC-Disaster]

Hitman games
Rome Total War campaign map music, same as Nimrod said.
Arcanum's violin music provided a pretty weird but cool atmosphere as well

Probably more to follow when i remember them lol

 

[A-tree]

GTA: Vice City
Added so much to the style and mood of the game. My personal game soundtrack favorite.

 

[Maschine Pistole-38]

All the ones I like have been said already so heres the only one I can think of

Medal of Honor: Frontline, nothing can touch the music on the Arnhem Knights level.

 

[odin1899]

Cannon Fodder .

All-time favourite is David Whittaker's Shadow of the Beast soundtrack, it's awesomeness packaged in soundwaves. In fact I must go play the CD right now.

 

[Jokerman]

Nothing beats http://youtube.com/watch?v=roeGHMNyHng.

 

[Soviet]

For music no game will ever touch Star Control 2. From a PC speaker.

Yes I am 27.