The playgrounds in which the Prince could perform were vast arenas, made all the larger by a soft and evocative soundtrack so unlike many of today’s mainstream games:
#Wipeout 2048 soundtrack series
Striking out from the succesful Sands of Time trilogy with a bold new art direction and a bolder, some may say cheekier, new Prince, the game was regarded by some as too easy, too sand-free and too much like things happened in only one chronological order.īut it was simply gorgeous, and Ubisoft did a fantastic job of capturing the acrobatic antics so popular in the previous series and made an entire game world around it. I’m talking here of the 2008 game, not Jordan Mechner’s original icon from the 80s. I’m always sad that this game came in for as much abuse as it got. The original Doom’s gritty Mars hellscape and legions of scary-beasties was accompanied by the only suitable soundtrack – hard rock: What it also didn’t have was a kicking soundtrack to run those guns off with! There’s a reason Guile’s Theme got its own meme after all.īut R-Type more than any other is what swallowed up the most of my 50ps at my local ice rink, and so it gets the honour of inclusion in today’s list:ĭoom 3 didn’t quite deliver on what made the original so great back in simpler times, when the S in FPS meant Shooter and not Sucky-Story: relentless running and gunning. Truth be told, there were several games of this era that I could have picked for soundtrack purposes: Streets of Rage and Street Fighter 2 being clear and, if I’m fair, obvious stand-outs.
Subsequent releases in the series continued the tradition of bringing on established artists, with CoLD SToRAGE taking a much-reduced role in the 2097 sequel (to then disappear from the WipEout music entirely come Wip3out) in favour of the returning Chemical Brothers and adding in acts like The Prodigy, Kraftwerk and, most recently in Wipeout 2048, deadmau5.īut it was the original game in the series that set the bar so unbelievably high, and timed it perfectly with the Chemical Brothers who had just released their seminal Chemical Beats, the song that would go on to define the game’s marketing:Ī personal favourite of mine, and included in here for no other reason than that. Accompanying the visual treats of The Designer’s Republic were the sounds of CoLD SToRAGE and an exclusive-to-PlayStation trio of tracks from electronic giants Leftfield, Chemical Brothers and Orbital. The game that went all-out for design and presentation back in 1995 didn’t skimp on the soundtrack either. I don’t imagine this being anyone’s idea of a definitive list, but listening to the Mirror’s Edge soundtrack recently made me think on the games whose music has given me pause for thought over my quarter-century of gaming. Nor have I considered any rhythm game such as Patapon.
So obviously I’m not referring to Rock Band or that ilk. In this feature I’m talking about games who have had soundtracks put together for them specifically. Guest contributor Graham takes us through some classic game soundtracks from yesterday that you should have in your headphones today!
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