Half-Life 2 was originally featured in the original Game Music post, but only with a limited selection of the available (awesome) songs. Here is a more in-depth compilation of my favourite Half-Life 2 tracks, including tracks from Episodes 1 and 2.

Many of the Half-Life 2 tracks use extremely heavy baselines; they should be listened to on a decent sound system, with a decent sub woofer, in order to give the tracks, the justice they deserve

In addition to the note above; the quality of the clips below compares only marginally to that on the official sound track (which happens to come with Audiosurf).

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I can’t tell whether I am disappointed in the musical aspect of Mass Effect 2 or not. Unfortunately, some of the ‘best’ music tracks aren’t included on the Official Sound Track – reason being? They aren’t made by EA, but are instead “real life” (but undiscovered) songs used in-game. Examples include the music from Aria’s Club on Omega — instead of gaining a place on the official soundtrack, it was substituted with some “generic battle music”.

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For such a great game, the ambient background music by itself doesn’t quite deliver quite the same effect as the game itself.

The music in Mass Effect was unfortunately not as ‘significant’ as I would have liked it to be. The tracks all seemed to lack the “ability” to be listened to outside of the game. A lot of the tracks were required to be coupled alongside game play in order to make their effect more prominent. This rendered the official soundtrack regrettably “forgettable”.

However, with every batch of not-so-great game music, or there are some stand out tracks from Mass Effect that provided that “Zelda-music like” connection to the game.

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Since publishing the post containing some of my favourite game music; I have been keeping and ear and eye out for any other games which I may have missed. The original post was already quite full of various game music, so I felt it was probably best to start splitting the music up into individual game posts

Sonic the Hedgehog! Only after finding a quiz on Sporcle related to the game music did the memories of the classic Green Hill Zone and super trendy Chemical Plant Zone music come flooding back. Below is the collection of my favourite Sonic themes.

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