Did you skip 1997 or forget to add it? I don't see it in the list.

Odd though that I don't recall Unreal music being that exceptionally good or unforgettable or anything...

I mainly remember it from apparently using some kind of tracker-type music (a bit like Deus Ex did after it), which was different from other games from the same era which used either General MIDI, audio CD tracks or fully digitized music streams (like I think Starcraft and Baldur's Gate did).

Between FF7 & BG, i went with BG.

Unreal engine games of the era used "tracker" based files for their music, so game play could turn on or off certain layers at different times (not sure any games ever USED IT that way though?), but also their loops could be specified to have an intro, a loop sequence, and a finale, within the tiny file. It could theoretically do hot-swaps of certain instrument samples (again, I'm not sure any games *used* this). It's a shame games have largely moved to prerendered music. Maybe we'll again return to that sometime; graphics have largely returned to in-engine cutscenes rather than pre-rendered ones.

Sample of what could be done: SNES' Super Mario World, on-Yoshi/off-Yoshi. Riding yoshi adds a drum track. That kind of thing.

But beside that technical detail though, Unreal's soundtrack was pretty fun to listen to.

What made it so exceptionally unforgettable for me personally was the fact that few games had/have so many unique tracks that fits so well with the level design, and the whole mood and atmosphere, and the little story there is (besides surviving a literally hellish and hostile alien planet, twice).

F.ex. WarCraft 2 and StarCraft had great gameplay and some unique OST, but they where very few and they always repeated and you started to just focus on the game instead of having the OST adding more to the gameplay. It was just in the background. That, and they are totally different games, of course...

As with Tyrian, Half-Life, Fallout (and others), they made the music fit the changes the character went though very deeply, whether it was a walking lonely scene or a more action filled scene:
Unreal Soundtrack Remastered
Unreal Gold - Soundtrack (UMX)

EDIT: Also, even though I wouldn't mind that the source got released so people can start modding it, let's not forget this game was released 22 years ago and it still both sounds and looks good!

Had no idea somebody was doing this. Although the original UMX still win out for me, this actually sounds pretty good.

While I loved the remade soundtrack of Dune 2000 (many tracks were remixes of Dune II'ones), I'll support Starcraft by an inch.

Neither, I intentionally delay posting the results.

For some reason I forgot that this was not from the year 2000. :P

Oh, I thought you open up new threads when the old one's poll is over. Why?

I do, yeah. Winner announcement is delayed to allow for more votes.

It's easier to keep track of everything with separate threads.

Too bad he left out an important part of Shared Dig.

Speaking of remixes; I won't be surprised if Alexander Brandon himself will make his own remix of Unreal not too far into the future, hopefully...

https://alexanderbrandon.bandcamp.com/album/conspiravision-deus-ex-remixed

Absolutely, it's one of the best RTS's out there, if not THE best, besides C&C. Since then RTS games have for the most part gone downhill.

It was even so popular that South Korea made it their national esport game and went absolutely bonkers, along with creating their own Starcraft-clone; Atrox. There were many clones, but only this one was relatively good, probably because they re-used/copied much of Starcrafts assets. :D

I know people like to bully me but what about

METAL GEAR SOLID

BALDUR'S GATE

Also Fallout Don't tell me you don't experience a breakdown when you hear "a kiss to build a dream on"

But i chose BG. Never played Unreal

Age of empires 2? Stronghold? Company of Heroes? Dungeon Keeper? Warcraft 3? The settlers?

MGS - PC version is from 2000

BG - It's in the list

Fallout 1 - 1997