Best Video Game Soundtrack?
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Of all the Bond games I've played, I'd probably have to say that Nightfire is probably the one with the best music with AUF as a very close second.
If you have the chance to get any of Jeff Tymoschuck's NF album, it's AMAZING. Particular standout tracks are "Enemies Vanquished", "Ignore That Sinking Feeling", "Escape from Drake's Castle" and "Rescuing Nightshade".
Enemies Vanquished is like a LALD revamp with some cool OHMSS stuff thrown in as well as being very fast paced.
Ignore That Sinking Feeling starts out as an eerie underwater theme but segues into a brass-filled battle.
Escape From Drake's Castle is a big thematic showdown with pounding brass and a Bondian electric guitar strumming away. Also it hints at the 007 theme.
Rescuing Nightshade is another heartpounding rendition of the Bond theme and "Where Has Everybody Gone?". It ends with a pseudo-Christmas in Turkey interlude.
AUF, sadly didn't have many stuff published but it was very much a 60s Bond score. After Don Veca's disappointing music for the equally disappointing videogame TWINE, it shows that he was really talented when given more material (i.e. The Bond Theme) to work with.
Goldeneye's is pretty good too, probably third on my list. EON, while having a killer title song, does nothing for me musically.
What do others think?
If you have the chance to get any of Jeff Tymoschuck's NF album, it's AMAZING. Particular standout tracks are "Enemies Vanquished", "Ignore That Sinking Feeling", "Escape from Drake's Castle" and "Rescuing Nightshade".
Enemies Vanquished is like a LALD revamp with some cool OHMSS stuff thrown in as well as being very fast paced.
Ignore That Sinking Feeling starts out as an eerie underwater theme but segues into a brass-filled battle.
Escape From Drake's Castle is a big thematic showdown with pounding brass and a Bondian electric guitar strumming away. Also it hints at the 007 theme.
Rescuing Nightshade is another heartpounding rendition of the Bond theme and "Where Has Everybody Gone?". It ends with a pseudo-Christmas in Turkey interlude.
AUF, sadly didn't have many stuff published but it was very much a 60s Bond score. After Don Veca's disappointing music for the equally disappointing videogame TWINE, it shows that he was really talented when given more material (i.e. The Bond Theme) to work with.
Goldeneye's is pretty good too, probably third on my list. EON, while having a killer title song, does nothing for me musically.
What do others think?
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Goldeneye 64 also had a very good sound track.
Nightfire had a more classic bond sound track, so it was quite nice. But everything or nothing was a slightly better game.
Both the PS1 and N64 versions of The World Is Not Enough were great too, I just wish I could get the tracks to those, as so I don't have to play the game to listen to the score.
That being said though, I've never been a fan of TWINE's VG soundtrack either. It's basically regurgitated David Arnold stuff, and although it's good Arnold stuff, it's basically repeated over and over again in loops like A Sinking Feeling and Night Watch. However, Thames Chase and King's Ransom are excellent tracks that couldn't have the Bond theme in them, yet still managed to hint at it and give the listener satisfaction.
David Arnold is music greatness embodied, in my opinion. PM sent, btw
Tommy Tallarico(Tomorrow Never Dies) Did some amazing stuff.
Also, the GE:RA Main title theme was pure kickass.
Goldeneye 007 had just incredible soundtracks, especially the control. That piece kicks buttholes.
The one who shines here, ironically is not "famed" composer Sean Callery but Jeff Tymoschuck, since Callery seems to have fallen into Kamen's trap of LTK when he just scores generic action music with only a few spurts of Bond theme to remind us we're playing a Bond game. Tymoschuck's music is all Bondian all the time. I especially love his tracks set in New Orleans, very relaxed and cool, like Bond himself.