I don't know if you've ever heard of this game - it was pretty popular back in the day but I think it some how fell to obscurity when it never got any sequels or something.
Also, I thought the first and second Mass Effect had some great tunes. Third was.. well, it was okay at best.
1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUMIK6V_bjU,
People from the 70s thought all music would eventually sound like this when we got into the space age - turns out in some way they were right.
2
I always preferred the second games soundtrack overall with it's more orchestral approach thanks to a higher pay grade composer, Jack Wall (One thing Electronic Arts got right) and more themes that really set the mood for the game, yet I find my favourites from the series come from the first game
3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zonrWB8z84c
The third one had alright tunes, but I think it tried a bit too hard - like think actors who overact but not really on purpose - you get the message they're trying to relay but you're not feeling it. It's funny. Some of the tracks sound like they were composed by a Hollywood composer and some of it was some guys project at Sound Design 101. The third game tried to go and find that space-age sound the first Mass Effect had to combine it with what the second one offered with it's orchestral and oomphier sound. In many ways, Mass Effect 3 tried to combine the best bits of the two games, but mostly just failed. Like that one-button-does everything approach was ridiculous. We could have had 'E' for 'Use', 'Space' to access the combat HUD and 'Shift' for sprint and..
I'm getting sidetracked.
I highly recommend Mass Effect if you haven't played it yet. It's sort of like Battlestar: Galactica, now that I think about it. Smooth and exciting start with a great twist, excellent sights and sounds and it suddenly ends in a way you would have never thought. And I don't mean that in a way that you won the lottery when you got to your destination. No. More like "you turned left at the wrong intersection and now you're a sex-slave to a bunch of inbred rednecks who plan to eat you when they're done with you."
Ugh. Still gives me the shivers.
The ending. Not the redneck thing. I made that one up.