10 AWESOME Rock & Metal Video Game Soundtracks (ft. THPS2, Twisted Metal, & More)
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- The only thing better than a great video game is a great soundtrack to go with it. This video looks at 10 AWESOME Rock & Metal Video Game Soundtracks.
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“Video game soundtracks have become an integral part of the gaming experience, transporting players into immersive worlds and enhancing the overall gameplay. Two iconic examples that showcase the power of video game music are the soundtracks for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and Twisted Metal.
The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 soundtrack is widely regarded as one of the best in gaming history, featuring a diverse mix of punk, ska, and hip-hop tracks that perfectly captured the rebellious spirit of the franchise. Songs like "Superman" by Goldfinger and "You" by Bad Religion have become staples of the series, resonating with players and cementing the game's status as a cultural phenomenon.
Similarly, the Twisted Metal series is renowned for its intense, adrenaline-fueled soundtracks that complement the high-octane vehicular combat. The original Twisted Metal's soundtrack, with its heavy metal and industrial influences, set the tone for the series' dark and gritty atmosphere, while later installments continued to deliver memorable musical compositions that enhanced the gameplay experience.
These examples demonstrate the profound impact that video game soundtracks can have, elevating the overall experience and leaving a lasting impression on players. As the gaming industry continues to evolve, the importance of exceptional audio design and musical composition will only grow, captivating audiences and solidifying the status of video game soundtracks as an art form in their own right.” (Perplexity)
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0:00 - Intro
0:43 - Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2
1:44 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
2:44 - Saints Row 2022
3:50 - Burnout 3: Takedown
5:00 - Need For Speed: Most Wanted
5:59 - Twisted Metal 2012
7:06 - WWE 2K19
8:09 - Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood
9:18 - Metal: Hellsinger
10:23 - Brutal Legend
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10 AWESOME Rock & Metal Video Game Soundtracks (ft. THPS2, Twisted Metal, & More)
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My favourite video game music is from The Elder Scrolls. Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim have brilliant soundtracks, with iconic pieces (Dragonborn, por ejemplio).
The composer is also a gigantic pedazo de mierda, and I refuse to name him. However, I still love the music.
I'm not sure if was true but The Offspring music was in Gran Turismo in 98 or 99
I mean, I owe Guitar Hero 3 a lot for getting me into playing music, so I'll say that lol.
Other than that, Fifa Street 2 got me into more overall types of music, and Sonic Adventure 2 got me into music wholesale.
No wonder I’m such a rock nerd. A bunch of these games on your list were so formative for me / shaping my music taste. Pro Skater 2, GTA, NFS Most Wanted, Twisted Metal, BURNOUT?! We were truly blessed (also shoutout NASCAR Thunder 04)
The PS2 kids were definitely spoiled with good music in games.
Hi Jon.
Rob Zombie's "Meet the Creeper" and "Superbeast" made Twisted Metal 3 worth playing. Plus, hearing Offspring's "All I Want" always makes me think of Crazy Taxi.
Superbeast in TW3 was great. And The Offspring definitely made their sound huge with Crazy Taxi.
anyone who has played crazy taxi has "all i want" forever burned into their minds.
Thanks for shouting out Twisted Metal! Always nice to see it get recognized.
Hoping for a current gen release.
@@RockedNet couldn't agree more. Keep up the great work! You're definitely one of my favorite creators.
Funny seeing you here, Dessadoo.
Hey Drew
I'll add Saints Row 2, because where else can you hear Face Down, Misery Business, Hole in the Earth, and Bat Country? (Among many others)
As bad as Saints Row 2022 was, at least the soundtrack was one of the few good things going for it.
Skate 2, Carmageddon 2, Need for Speed Prostreet,, Burnout Revenge, Destruction Derby 2, Midnight Club 3 (I prefer 2's soundtrack, but we're discussing rock and metal, not trance), Flatout 2, Little Big Planet 1 & 2, Gran Turismo 4. Skate 2 is probably one of the best licensed soundtracks that I've seen in a game. Blur as well is another excellent one, but it's more drum and bass oriented.
Love the mention of Burnout 3. Amazing game and an awesome soundtrack.
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We are the Lazy Generation
We are the Lazy Generation
NOW!
The recent Guardians of the Galaxy game had a great licensed sountrack of 70s/80s hits, and the best (and sometimes funniest) part was when you could activate a special move that would play a random one of the songs during combat. You could either get a perfect song for fighting waves of enemies like Kickstart My Heart, or a contextually hilarious one like Don't Worry Be Happy
Backyard Wrestling introduced me to PintSIZE and their touching ballad 'My fist, your face' which may not be the greatest metal song of all time but is definitely one of the funniest.
A lesser known one. Test Drive: Eve of Destruction for the PS2. Sum 41, Thursday, Rob Zombie, Thrice, Autopilot Off, Hoobastank; it didn’t have a large soundtrack but just about all of it helped define my taste in music to this day 😂
I still credit Doom for getting me into rock and metal
I remember playing Need for Speed underground while Crystal Method’s Born to Slow was resonating through the speakers. Good times and, it was 21 years ago. 😭
I'd suggest the soundtrack for Karmaflow, a metal opera that also functions as a videogame! Kinda similar to Metal Hellsinger, it features metal singers like Marc Hudson, Alissa White-Gluz and Tony Kakko among others all performing as characters in the game and the songs they do are all great.
The LCHC radio station from GTA IV, or, Morro Rock Radio from Cyberpunk 2077. The "Samurai" tracks are amazing, courtesy of Refused!
Loved the hardcore station on GTAIV.
Samurai you say? 😂
The one that stuck with me through my Teenage years was the Road Rash soundtrack with the Soundgarden songs.
I had that on PS1. Another good soundtrack for an early PS1 era game.
I love the soundtracks for ATV Off-road Fury’s 2 and 4, but all of them have great songs from heavy artists like System of a Down, Slipknot, Lamb of God, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, and Korn just to name a few. Madden 05 is another game with an soundtrack, all childhood favorite games of mine with awesome songs to go with them
Great choice!
LOVED that Burnout 3: Takedown was on this list. Spent so many hours playing that game. LOVED IT!
Notable omissions off the top of my head:
MX VS ATV: Unleashed
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1
Tony Hawk Underground 1
Any Guitar Hero + Rock Band (But that's another list, of course)
We really need more mainstream video games with rock and metal soundtracks
I do hope we get more besides EA games.
@@RockedNet EA doesn’t exist in my opinion
I think the biggest issue is licensing the music. It isn't like back then where you can just release the game on physical media and play it forever. Now you gotta rely on the game to be consistently available and having its servers running in order to play it sometimes. And if the music license runs out, you can't get the game anymore
Brütal Legend will probably remain my favorite game of all time til the day I die. It's just the perfect mash-up of my two passions in life: metal and gaming. SERIOUSLY hoping for a sequel eventually, so the more exposure this bad boy gets the better! Thank you so much for that!
A sequel could definitely be done.
@@RockedNet Without Lemmy? I don't know...
Flatout 2 soundtrack was most of my early ventures into rock and metal, introducing me to Papa Roach, Rise Against, Rob Zombie, Underoath and Audioslave
One other series that has some absolutely awesome music is the Skate games, my intro to them was Skate 3 and that game had songs like Dead End Friends from Them Crooked Vultures, Debaser by the Pixies, Disorder by Joy Division, Almost Ready by Dinosaur Jr., Going Up the Country by Canned Heat (also a classic), Eyes of a Panther by Steel Panther and so many other songs that I would play on absolute repeat while having fun and causing havoc by beating people up with my board
Going way back: Road Rash on the 3DO had an awesome soundtrack. Tad, Swervedriver, Soundgarden, etc. Speaking of the 3DO... Way of the Warrior, basically a Mortal Kombat rip off, basically all of White Zombie's La Sexorcisto album is the soundtrack. Also Wipeout XL with Orbital, Prodigy, Fluke, etc. Awesome
Step One:
-Include Any Rage Against The Machine song.
Step Two:
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No Other steps, you already have a great game soundtrack!
A few I love that I worry will be forgotten with time:
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
SSX 3 (Probably my favorite)
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
MVP Baseball 2005 (Honestly, the only thing I ever did in this game as a kid was try to start fights between the two teams by intentionally making abysmal pitches)
I know we're only talking about licensed soundtracks but I have to give a nod to all of Arc System Works' fighting games. Just about every game they put out has an amazing original metal soundtrack and are just as important to the game as the fighting itself
demolition racer, flat out 1 and 2 and and the OG rock and roll racing would be good for this list!
Cyberpunk 2077 probably had the best rock and metal soundtrack in recent years. All of it custom made by actual artists that fit into this vision of the dark future. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is an interesting case as it also custom made music by some of the best artists at the time.
There is a PSP game called Infected that had music from Slipknot, The Agony Scene, Trivium, Fear Factory, Chimaira and others and you could unlock new avatars featuring members of Slipknot, Rayne from BloodRayne and Mark Hunter of Chimaira.
Gran Turismo games have had fantastic soundtracks over the years. GT 1 to 4 in particular. Don't know about the latest ones. Forza Horizon games tend to have great soundtracks. The third one was fantastic having a radio station DJ'd by Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die.
Homefront featured metal and djent artists covering some staples of classic metal and rock as well as Vietnam era protest songs. Bands like Periphery, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Misery Signals and Veil of Maya are featured.
Aside from those, there isn't much else off the top of my head. Most of them have already been covered. Need for Speed games have had great soundtracks, from Underground 1, 2, Most Wanted, Carbon, Prostreet up until Shift 2. Burnout 3, Revenge and Paradise also have had great soundtracks.
GTA Vice City. Maybe it's Gen X bias, but here we are
The Twisted Metal (2012) OST was absolutely incredible! Shame to see that it’s not really available anymore except for small individual videos on UA-cam
Great video as always.
When it comes to hard rock video game soundtracks, one of the first franchises that comes to my mind is the _Sonic The Hedgehog_ series.
Ranging from the level themes composed by Japanese guitarist Jun Senoue and vocal themes written by Senoue and Johnny Gioeli of Hardline fame. The songs can be a little cheesy, but they're still so fun to listen to.
For the most recent 3-D Sonic game, _Sonic Frontiers,_ they got Kellin Quinn for the boss fight themes! Just great stuff! I would love to hear your opinions on some of the music from the Sonic series at some point, Luke.
Not to mention contributions in other games from the singers of Bowling for Soup, Letters to Cleo, Hoobastank, and even Akon
Frontiers soundtrack goes so hard during the titan fights. Find your flame is just too good.
YES!!!!
@@KS-qq7mr I've heard that Wolfgang Van Halen is a big Sonic fan. It would be quite awesome to hear him in an upcoming Sonic game someday!
I always loved those Wrestling Game soundtracks. Also, never thought that New Jack would be mentioned on the channel
"Crazy Taxi" and "FlatOut 2" are probably my standouts for rock soundtracks in video games, and they absolutely should appear in a Part 2 of this video. "Crazy Taxi" makes a fantastic use of The Offspring and Bad Religion to the point where the songs of theirs included in it have arguably become most associated with this game and you cannot imagine the game itself without them, and "FlatOut 2", having been one of my childhood games, was my first (and in some cases, only to date) exposure to about all of the bands included there, including Audioslave, Megadeth, Supergrass, Yellowcard, Fall Out Boy and (believe it or not -ha!-) Nickelback.
Saints Row 2, MX vs. ATV Untamed, and the PS2-era NHL games are some of my personal favorites when it comes to soundtracks.
Speaking of wrestling games my favourite one there, also soundtrack wise, is WWE Day of Reckoning. It had Breaking Benjamin, Tantric, Public Enemy, Anthrax and Swollen Members on it to name a few.
When it comes to games with original rock and metal soundtracks my gold standard are probably the Guilty Gear games, especially Strive.
Guilty Gear mentioned lets goooo. Strive's songs are nothing but bangers. Naoki and Daisuke always deliver.
@@The_Maki1 I am sadly not a big fan of Baiken´s theme, as she is my main but the game has sooo many great songs. Armor Clad Faith is probably my favourite among them, it goes so hard.
Amped 2 is an original Xbox-exclusive snowboarding sim that has an extremely underrated and fucking _massive_ soundtrack; if I remember correctly it's around 200 songs of emo/industrial/hip-hop/etc. deep cuts that feels like it was designed to appease me specifically, plus some heavy hitters like Yellowcard, Taking Back Sunday-- dude this game had an _American Football_ song, it's insane
I like the little mention of the NHL games near the end, as those are what got me into rock and metal.
The pS2 rhythm game Amplitude had some great rock songs from the likes of Garbage and P.o.D. alongside some excellent electronic music.
I would argue my taste in music is rooted in the soundtrack to Gran Turismo 2.
With assists from Guitar Hero 3, GTA San Andreas/GTA IV/GTA V, and THPS 3 just to name the first few games that came to mind.
My introduction to STP (my favorite band), Alice In Chains and Garbage was Gran Turismo 2. THPS 3, my introduction to Motorhead. I found the Dead Kennedys, one of my fave punk bands, through Guitar Hero 3. Descendents and Black Flag (and specifically My War, easily a top 25 album for me) through GTA V. That's just off the top of my head.
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 had Rage, Godsmack, Black Sabbath, Sum 41, so good. MVP Baseball 2001 is also good with Shinedown, Sum 41, All-American Rejects, HedPE. Madden also usually has good soundtracks too
Ah, now this is a topic near and dear to my heart. I have been gaming since I could hold an NES paddle, but it was the video games I played as a teen that informed my musical tastes more than anything else in my life. There are four games in specific: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4, Need for Speed: Underground and NHL 2003. THPS 3 and 4 took my burgeoning interests in pop/punk and ska and blew them up into full fledged obsessions that still stay with me to this day. In particular those games gave me an undying love for Lessthanjake and introduced me to bands like The Offspring, Agent Orange, SoaD, The Ramones, Motorhead, Alien Ant Farm, AFI and many others. Need for Speed: Underground I remember almost exclusively for the Lil John track that always played on the opening screen and for introducing me to Static-X, Lostprophets (ugh), and Rob Zombie. NHL 2003, like NfS:U, also fed the obsession I had at the time with nu-metal with great tracks by Blindside and Papa Roach, and also introduced me to Jimmy Eat World and Gob.
Between Tony Hawk, guitar hero, and rock band,I’ve discovered a ton of great music
Karmaflow is both a great game, and has an amazing soundtrack.
It's an interactive Rock Opera. Has an original soundtrack, with many prominent metal musicians being characters. Tony Kakko, Dani Filth, Simone Simons, Alissa White-Gluz, Marc Hudson, and many more.
Gaming music is a goldmine
It's true. Both soundtracks and original scores.
Great list! I remember getting Tony Hawk 2 the day it came out, and it's one of my favorite game soundtracks! Twisted Metal's soundtrack was my #2. You just brought back some great memories from my childhood!
My brother played a lot of MLB, 2k and The Show games, which exposed me to a lot of alternative rock.
Brutäl Legend was fantastic, same with GTA San Andreas, and Tony Hawk 2! So happy you shared these songs Luke! Great video that makes me wanna check out Metal: Hellsinger now! It sounds like a great game!
I think Vice City has my favorite GTA soundtrack, and for a somewhat lesser known title, the 2010 reboot of Splatterhouse had Lamb of God, the Cavalera Conspiracy, Mastodon, and Municipal Waste. Played the hell out of that game back in the day.
I was a big fan of the Twisted Metal 4 soundtrack as a kid & teen, and it was kinda the thing that introduced me to Rob Zombie and two nu metal bands known as Ghoulspoon and One Minute Silence (the latter who they even had one of their songs as the menu theme)
Early NHL video games had elite soundtracks and deserved a mention.
NHL 06 had Red Flag - Billy Talent, Bat Country - Avenged Sevenfold, 4 Words (To Choke Upon) - Bullet for my Valentine
My favourite videogame soundtracks:
Tony Hawks Pro Skater, Pro Skater 2, Pro Skater 3 & 4, Underground 1 & 2
Saints Row 2, The Third & 4
GTA Vice City & GTA San Andreas
Burnout 3 & Burnout Revenge
Flatout 2
Need For Speed Most Wanted
Every Guitar Hero game
Every Rock Band game, except maybe 4
Brutal Legend
WWE Smackdown Vs Raw, Smackdown Vs Raw 07 & 08
Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This At Home (The first one)
Midnight Club 3
Guitar Hero 3, Saints Row 2, Madden Nfl 10 (that's the Madden NFL game I loved playing the most and had the best soundtrack out of the madden NFL series), and Tony Hawk's Underground 2. These were games I remember growing up that had the best rock and metal soundtrack if you want to add for a part 2.
7:02 Funny you should mention that! Rob Zombie was actually a playable character in Twisted Metal 4!
Granted, it's not MODERN, but there IS precedent!
Smackdown vs Raw (2005), 2006, and 2007. Nonpoint, black stone cherry Powerman 5000 😘
Gran turismo 2 and 3, Flatout 2, need for speed most wanted, NASCAR thunder 2004 and NASCAR 2005 chase for the cup
The Twisted Metal 3 soundtrack doubled as a rob zombie album... have totally spun it as one as well..
Loved the shit out of that soundtrack..
I'm bummed you didn't include Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX. Sublime, Social Distortion, Rancid, deftones, Pennywise, Dropkick Murphys, Cypress Hill. So many good songs.
if you get the chance, check out the soundtrack for true crime: new york city.
bad brains, my chemical romance, agnostic front, danzig, ramones, interpol, misfits, blondie, sonic youth, the stooges, biohazard, the damned, helmet, white zombie, the cramps, youth of today, gorilla biscuits, madball, quicksand, blue oyster cult, sick of it all, yeah yeah yeahs, television and much more. they might have been GTA clones but the soundtracks stand tall my friend.
I got into so much new music because of playing these games. Literally every GTA game had me downloading songs after playing them.
Burnout 3: Takedown and NFS: Most Wanted were fantastic choices. Some other notable soundtracks that I think are up there are SSX 3 (Thrice, Finger Eleven, Placebo) and NHL 2004 (Deftones, Avenged Sevenfold, Adema).
I stand by my SSX On Tour suggestion over on Twitter. Good mix of 80s metal (e.g. Scorpions, Maiden, Dio, Def Leppard, Motorhead) and then-contemporary alt-rock (OK Go, The Hives, LCD Soundsystem, Queens of the Stone Age, Billy Talent), with some Pennywise and A7x for good measure. Decent rap offerings too.
I'd give an honorable mention to the Alan Wake games, because Poets Of The Fall/Old Gods Of Asgard had some killer songs throughout the games, especially Herald Of Darkness
I like the Lollipop Chainsaw soundtrack
The Guitar Hero games were popular just as I was starting to discover my love of rock and metal. GH3 specifically got me into so many bands including Rise Against, Senses Fail and Lacuna Coil.
My Mom loves Brutal Legend.
That's not a joke, she has 100% of the achievements for the Xbox and Playstation versions.
I think Guitar Hero kinda goes without saying. The whole game is about the music. Same with Rock Band, which individual game is the best and deserves to represent the titles on a list like this.... I think thats up to interpretation. But you cannot deny the impact that Guitar Hero 3 had on the scene, especially with DragonForce, going from a relatively niche and unknown band to sudden, explosive mainstream fame (Whether that was good or bad for them thats also up to your own interpretation)
Brutal Legend is forever my favorite heavy metal game. Game's not the greatest, but I love it to bits. And its soundtrack, I cannot thank it enough for showing me a more metal to really appreciate and love.
Hot Wheels Turbo Racing is one of my go to OSTs. I'd also like to see a top 10 scores/original soundtracks, mostly because I think Dynasty Warriors has got to be on there somewhere.
Rob Zombie was a character in Twisted Metal 4 on PS1.
But yea anyway, the Tony Hawk series had great soundtracks as well as the WWE games. Burnout was great as well.
But something you didn't mention on the list was Road Rash for the 3DO/PS1/Saturn and Sega CD back in 1994. It had a rock/metal or Grunge soundtrack from the biggest bands of that era, Soundgarden, Monster Magnet, among others. I think that was one of, if not THE first CD-rom game to have a soundtrack with real life bands on it.
I still jam out to "Pretend We're Dead" by L7 after hearing it in GTA: San Andreas.
Okay, few things. First, I was unaware that one of the lesser known cuts from one of my all-time fave bands, "Decadence" by Disturbed, was in a Need for Speed game. Secondly, you're easily the first person I've seen talk even remotely positively about Saints Row 2022 on UA-cam, even if it's just for the soundtrack. Surprised the comments haven't already been raging at that, but you have my utmost respect in that regard. Thirdly, I'm also glad you left out the Guitar Hero games, because those would be way, way too easy, and fourthly, since the WWE games are on the table, I MUST mention Smackdown Vs. Raw 2007 & 2008. They both introduced me to many great bands that I still listen to, today.
DMC Devil May Cry, even though the story wasn't awesome, Combichrist's music on the soundtrack made it very fun to play
I'm glad Metal Hellsinger made it on the list. I was one of the people that suggested it on Twitter.
the best videogame soundtracks for me are ATV Offroad Fury 3 (The Duality intro was my awakening), NFS Most Wanted, Saints Row 2 & last but not least NHL 06.
I am so glad that most wanted is on this list cos that's where I was introduced to rock and metal
Great list. My favorite soundtrack is Madden 10. They have great songs in that game.
This is definitely a one-off, but I remember Papa Roach's 'Getting Away With Murder' being on MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf back in the early 2000's and it was just about the perfect song for that game
SOOOOO glad backyard wrestling 2 made in the list. So many good songs, twisted metal ruled. I think one of the smackdown vs raw games and midnight club 3 should make an appearance if this video gets a sequel. Loved it!
Great list. I could only add Rock Band and Crazy Taxi.
FlatOut 2 was my favorite
Fun list, I've always thought the Burnout games were amazing and they are sorely missed. Which STL Best Buy did you work Media at?
No mention of Crazy Taxi??? Apart from that, nice selection on the list. Now I have an optional new game to purchase...
Nascar Thunder 2004 had Avenged Sevenfold, Powerman 5000, Iggy Pop, Andrew WK along with others
If I had to put one other on here, it would probably be guardians of the galaxy. Not only having a great original soundtrack behind it with a throwback 80's style, it also has a great licensed soundtrack as well. I mean, you're telling me you don't want to fight a giant behemoth boss while listening to Autograph, or have a giant star wars scaled spaceship battle while blasting Iron Maiden.
I want to throw out an honorable mention to the Remedy games and Old Gods of Asgard/Poets of the Fall for their series of games. There's usually only a game or two per game but they are killer. Take Control from the fantastic game Control is amazing and should be heard by fans of heavy music.
Need for speed underground 2 had a great soundtrack on it . With the stand out song for me by killing joke -death and resurrection show
I have to say Cyberpunk: 2077's soundtrack is killer for the world of electronic/rock/metal. While it's not like any of the soundtracks mentioned here where they got big big names for it, they really put effort into having us hear numerous different musicians from all over the musical world. They had stuff for Latin music, generic pop, alt rock and grunge stuff, black metal and death metal, and especially industrial. The soundtrack includes stuff from Converge, Grimes, Rezodrone, A$ap Rocky, Rhys Fulber, and another FiXT artist in the form of Blue Stahli, alongside lesser known names and even techno stuff from fucking Idris Elba once the Phantom Liberty DLC came out since he voices Solomon Reed. Overall a killer soundtrack and that was what reminded me Cyberpunk even existed.
I’ve never heard of Hellsinger before but dear god you sold me on it, it kind of reminds me of a shooter version of Crypt of the Necrodancer (a game that sadly doesn’t qualify for the list since it’s mostly original music not counting the recent Hatsune Miku DLC, but I’d also recommend if you like rougelikes it even has metal option for the soundtrack)
great list! i personally put burnout revenge's soundtrack over 3's. yeeeeah, even with that weird bt version of break on through to the other side.
mx vs atv unleashed and midnight club 3 remix are a couple of my other all-time favorite soundtracks. mc3:r's in particular is SIX HOURS long, perfect for road trips.
I would definitely give the crown to MX vs. ATV Untamed. Bad Religion, Celldweller, Disturbed, Mudvayne, MCR, NOFX, Pennywise, Primer 55, The Used... Seriously had such a diverse range of genres and both popular and underground stuff. Probably the best soundtrack in all of motocross games!
I liked the original smackdown vs raws soundtrack from 2004
Breaking Benjamin - firefly and polyamorous
Powerman 5000 - when worlds collide, riot time, the way it is, and last night on earth
Zebrahead - falling apart and alone
Core - the angle
NFS: Most Wanted is my 2nd favoritr game of all time and big reason is because of the soundtrack. I very specifically remember hearing Bat Country as I flew over a hill and around a corner, somehow in the same spot every time. It's by far thr best NFS game and i wish they would properly remake it because even though i can still play it on my PS2, that kind of game is so hard to go back to when you are use to the smoothness of current racing games. Great list!
NASCAR Thunder 2004 NEEDS to be on the next installment! It has a great soundtrack!
Most of the video game soundtracks helped me introducing to a real good music. A real good recommendation after got sick of listening to top 40 in general and discovered something new.
I highly recommend NCAA Football 06. Legendary soundtrack
YESSS, GAME SOUNDTRACKS
I gotta thank the THPS games (and my older cousin) for introducing me to a lot of awesome music. Games like THPS3 and THUG2 juat opened the floodgates for me and set the foundation for my muaic tastes today. Its thanks to those games that im now a big punk, metal, and hip-hop head.
And side note: the Backyard Wrestling games have great soundtracks too. So much metal and rap that fits the ridiculousness of the games so well. Too bad the games themselves suck major ass lmao
Tony Hawk got me into most of bands on the sound track.
An under-rated one, in my opinion, is the "Guardians of the Galaxy" game soundtrack... not totally heavy metal but with songs from Iron Maiden, Blue Oyster Cult, Autograph, Billy Idol and an entire album and band made for the game, it scratches an 80's itch. Plus, they add them into gameplay which is gives it extra points from me!
I remember Amped 3 got me into a bunch of groups like Emery, Copeland, and Anberlin
Now this is a awesome list