The Greatest Game Soundtracks of My Time
By Jake McMichael NOTE: These are obviously my own opinions, and should not be taken as fact. There’s a 100% chance this list will not sit with some of you. Such is the nature of life. That said, I’d love to read what you would consider the greatest game soundtracks of your time, along with the songs that stuck with you most. At the end of the day, we all ended up here because of our love of games and game music. NOTE NOTE: I’ve excluded music games from this list because, frankly, that’s cheating. Let’s dive in. The Fallout Franchise Whoever put radio stations in these games deserves a world-building medal. Taking music from the 30’s to the 60’s and setting it against the backdrop of a retro-futuristic nuclear post-apocalypse, there exists a zany, sometimes dizzying contrast in obliterating enemies with shoulder-launched mini-nukes to the tune of Billie Holiday, The Ink Spots, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and countless other icons of the day. And yet, despite the disparity betwe
