Some music

  I listened to a podcast, as I usually do, on the drive to work this morning. In it they were covering some of the music in games that came out in 2011. It was an interesting thing to cover considering that when you say videogames most people assume it is a mostly visual entertainment medium. They think of what it looks like, maybe what the sound effects are but rarely of the music in it. True for a long time the machines that played videogames were simply not capable of generating what most people consider "normal" music. Chiptunes will never be considered mainstream music despite what vocal parts of the videogame community say.

  Anyway, due to this podcast I thought I would link some of the music (you'll note most of them don't have vocals, something that really doesn't work in videogames) that I thought stood out. I've not played all of these games but have heard the songs being linked. We have:

1. The main Skyrim theme I've linked to before.
2. The main piece of music for Deus Ex Human Revolution, a game I don't have and I'm not that interested in playing but it has a very cyberpunk style.
3. A piece of music written by Hans Zimmer of all people for Crysis 2.
4. The main theme from Batman Arkham City.
5. The unforgettable theme from all the Uncharted games that was used again in Uncharted 3.
6. The end song from Portal 2, not as unexpected and cool as the one from Portal but still worthwhile.

  That is about it for now, there are more but my youtube searchfoo is escaping me at the moment on what other songs I actually first heard last year. You get the idea though, a lot more effort is being put in to videogame music these days and it shows (ok, is audible).