5 most memorable video game soundtracks

The music in video games today has evolved from the simple melodies of the early '90s. Grand Theft Auto 5, one of the world's most popular video games, has its own separately sold box-set soundtrack featuring music artistes and bands like Def Leppard, Queen, Robert Plant, The Alan Parsons Project and Bob Seger, just to name a few; while an Eminem song features in Call of Duty: Ghosts. Video games now feature cutting-edge music made by well-known composers and musicians.

Says avid gamer Neelabh Pandey, "Soundtracks of games like Max Payne, for example, are painstakingly researched. They are bang-on with the environment the game designers want to create. Music mood shifts during the gameplay are similar to what you'd find in a big budget Hollywood movie."

Samuel Berlie, guitarist and backing vocalist of The Other People, says, "Video games are such a big market now that new artistes also stand to benefit from being featured on game soundtracks."

From Brazilian hip hop and Wild West music to atmospheric scores, here's a selection of contemporary soundtracks that can be enjoyed even if you've never touched a game controller.

Bioshock Infinite
Apart from an orchestrated score by composer Garry Schyman, this game has one heck of an eclectic playlist. The music here is as retro-authentic as it gets and is a clever, tongue-in-cheek counterpoint to the game's depiction of a dystopian future. There's some old blues by Leadbelly, pop by Tears For Fears, classic rock by Creedence Clearwater Revival and even a tune by Duke Ellington and Django Reinhardt!

Grand Theft Auto - V
It took a little more than $250 million to create the marriage of art and technology that is GTA V and clearly, a lot of thought went into putting together a fitting soundtrack, because it's a genre-spanning jukebox by itself. The game has 15 in-game music stations with music spanning everything from old-school classic hip hop to the underground Mexican sounds of East LOS FM and also the amateur beatmaker music scene in LA.

Max Payne 3
While the game itself sets a new bar in terms of wildly varying scenarios, with shootouts drenched in blood and gore, a four-person group from Los Angeles, called Health provided the music for most of the soundtrack. Nominated for Best Score in a Game and Best Song in a Game (for the song Tears) at the Spike Video Game Awards in 2012, the music manages to be dark as well as dramatic.

Halo: Orbital Drop Shock Trooper
Moving away from the Gregorian chants of the previous Halo games, composers Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori have used a different palette of sounds. The music features some beautifully moody string sections and surprisingly, even plenty of dreamy and atmospheric piano and saxophone work that would not be out of place in a sophisticated jazz club.

Red Dead Redemption
Moving from hip hop, avant garde, the underground and classic rock with cool credentials to something more Country and Western, Red Dead Redemption's soundtrack is reminiscent of Ennio Morricone's soundtracks for classics films like The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars etc. Sticking faithfully to authentic Wild West sounds, it's predominantly acoustic guitar, Spanish guitar, some wind instruments, basic percussion and, of course, the harmonica.

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