Soundtracks is where we take a look back at the use of licensed music in games. Go here if you want to know more. Hello and welcome to Soundtracks, a series that is likely to be ending soon. For a finale, let’s do some more racing games: why not? Specifically, all of the Need for […]

Soundtracks is where we take a look back at the use of licensed music in games. Go here if you want to know more. Welcome! If you thought the premise of this feature started off thin and has only got thinner since, get ready for the barrel to be scraped. By which I mean, in […]

Soundtracks is where we take a look back at the use of licensed music in games. Go here if you want to know more. Hello and welcome to Soundtracks. Today’s game is Burnout Paradise, a 2008 racer from Criterion that lots of people seem to like but which we found to be competent, but slightly […]

Soundtracks is where we take a look back at the use of licensed music in games. Go here if you want to know more. Today’s game needs no introduction, although it’s going to get one anyway, because that’s how these things work. Despite generally being regarded as part pastiche and a bit of a light-hearted […]

Soundtracks is where we take a look back at the use of licensed music in games. Go here if you want to know more. And we’re back! Just as the last ‘proper’ instalment of this series promised that we would be, er, 18 months ago. Believe it or not, I do have a plan, of […]

Soundtracks is where we talk about licensed music in games. When I Played was a series from a few years ago, about significant games, and times, in my life. Today we have a strange kind of hybrid/crossover piece, a one-off for a special occasion. Hope you don’t mind. Nostalgia and happy (or, sometimes, less-than-happy) memories […]

Soundtracks is where we take a look back at the use of licensed music in games. Go here if you want to know more. Today’s game is Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, which is probably the last football game I bought with a sense of genuine expectation that I would devote hours to the career mode, […]

Hello and welcome to the latest in the Soundtracks series, the title of which is fairly self-explanatory, but you can read more about its aims and intentions here. Today’s game is Need for Speed: Carbon, a middling-to-good entry in the NFS canon, but one with some fairly interesting visual choices that create a vaguely sci-fi […]

Soundtracks is where we take a look back at the use of licensed music in games. So far I’ve covered a couple of EA games – FIFA 2000 and Need for Speed: Underground, while Stoo added a touch of class to what was becoming a dangerously flippant series with a look at the music of […]

Rik has graciously allowed me to contribute to his new soundtracks series, so today we’re looking at Homeworld, the epic space-based RTS where fleets of starships clash in three-dimensional battles. I’m possibly stretching the premise of these articles a little, as there’s only one licensed song in Homeworld, plus a new recording of a classical […]