game music 2011
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All Of The Best Video Game Music Of 2011
3It’s been a lot of fun cataloguing and recognising the best video game music of the year. We’ve gone from AAA blockbusters to indie games, sweeping melodies to ambient synths, heroic themes to dread-soaked atmospherics. Some of the games built music into their gameworlds, while others brought in full orchestrasand still others used the kazoo…
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The Best Game Music Of 2011: Bastion
Bastion snuck up on me — I had heard a lot of friends and fellow critics hyping it after seeing it at PAX East and GDC, but I hadn’t actually played it until it was released. For the first hour or so, I wasn’t sold, but as the story snowballed and the levels stretched out,…
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The Best Game Music Of 2011: Skyward Sword
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is perhaps the most compelling argument yet for “video-game-as-concert-piece”. As a game, it is a smartly designed interlocking series of puzzles, an ever-more-complex world filled with hidden secrets and challenging combat that unfolds with a uniquely Zelda-y sense of joyous excavation. But as a concert piece… oh, boy.
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The Best Game Music Of 2011: Total War: Shogun 2
Total War: Shogun 2 may look and sound for all the world like the latest in a long line of reasonably bland strategy games. As most strategy games are. Removing the player from the action to such an abstract level tends to rob the genre of its potential to truly immerse you in the spirit…