What music would you use in your own FPS?

[NiGHTMARE]

Imagine you were in charge of making your own futuristic FPS, full of evil aliens and whatnot. What kind of music would you want to have in it?

EDIT: it should be Drum 'n' Bass, not Drum \'n\'Base

[Naked Snake]

A mix of all of them. The last level would probably be some creepy chanting a la Blood.

[mmnpsrsoskl]

I agree with BBG. I like all those genres of music, and my FPS would be great with them all.

/me makes some music for his project

[LorD BaZTArD]

A mix. IMO, Ambient music for normal areas...classical or metal for action, even better, a heavy metal and an orchestra combined, with the right composer/band it would sound phenonemal. (That is not how to spell it, Im sure) and industrial here and there.

[Spike]

If i had to pick one, i'd go with industrial - it ranges from soft, haunting synthesiser melodies to full on crashing guitars.

[SyntherAugustus]

A mix with mostly rock.

[Fredrik]

Orchestral/ambient.

[DooMBoy]

Ambient, all the way.

[Little Faith]

Instrumental Hip Hop and Trip Hop would also be cool.

[Torn]

Something like the music in quake2.
Hard rock/metal.

[nxn]

Whatever would fit the game, for example metal would not go with Alice while it would go fine with quake 2.

[Sharessa]

Spike said:

If i had to pick one, i'd go with industrial - it ranges from soft, haunting synthesiser melodies to full on crashing guitars.

That's why I love industrial so much. I'd probably compose all the music myself because thats one of my favorite things to do. Personaly, I think I'm a good composer but I have neither the tools or the training to pull it off very well.

[Grazza]

I'd beg Paul Corfiatis to do it, and leave the style to his judgement.

[Erik]

classic metal (like black sabbath)

[Zaldron]

Orchestral as the leading AND support, combined with weird-ass what-the-hell-is-this techno and a bit metal to flesh out something unique.

[Kid Airbag]

Mark Klem/Tolwyn, definitely.

[Captain Red]

Ambient and orchestral. If I did ever make a FPS it would be an Aliens-esk affair.

[sgtcrispy]

Archvile64 said:

Mark Klem/Tolwyn, definitely.

Hear Hear!

I'd also go with some Marc Pullen too.

Or at least some ambiant,industrial, and metal.

[Draconio]

In that situation I might choose to do something similar to the way music is set up in Half-Life, which has ambience most of the time, but with more action-oriented music at certain special points. But I'd use genres of a sort of eerie/creepy music for normal-time music (think D_E2M6 or D_ROMERO) and techno/metal for the "heat up" parts of the game, at least I think that's what they would be (I'm not too good at differentiating genres) but think of something similar to: the Duke Nukem 3D theme song, the Raptor: Call of the Shadows music, or other similarly fast paced/heavy style of music.

As for what my "futuristic game" would be themed like, I think it would invole a colony of humans who have become hideously malformed and hostile from a biological weapon release. But now I'm straying from the topic, so I will end here.

I hope you could understand it, it seems a little incoherent but it's the best I could do right now.

[fraggle]

Britney Spears/Teen Pop. I always listen to it when I'm playing FPS's. Really fits the mood.

[NiGHTMARE]

orion said:

Whatever would fit the game, for example metal would not go with Alice while it would go fine with quake 2.

But Alice is, AFAIK (I've never played it), a third person game, not an FPS. It's also definitely not futuristic, which is what this poll was asking about.

[mmnpsrsoskl]

fraggle said:

Britney Spears/Teen Pop. I always listen to it when I'm playing FPS's. Really fits the mood.

It most certainly does...

Please note : I am out of my brain just now.

[Captain Red]

Heh, yeah when ever I see a spawn from quake, I just think "Britney".

[VileSlay]

it would definately depend on the environment of the levels. a dark cramped maze-like area would require creepy ambient music, something that would build the suspense. for a fire fight type environment I would throw some hard metal or hard techno, just to get you amped and keep you moving.

[IMJack]

Punk rock. Use Bad Religion's: "Fuck Armageddon, This is Hell" for boss battles. It'd be sweet.

[Shaviro]

Ambient/Orchestral/Metal...

[Wobbo]

Gothic - like Heretic or hexen 2

[NiGHTMARE]

Read the original post, I'm asking about a futuristic FPS.

[Lost Soul]

If I were designing a futuristic Fps, Id use a delightful mix of ambient (for most levels). And for levels where there will be a lot of fighting and I want the player to MOVE
I'll use soemthing hard. most likely metal or a form of industrial.

Instrumental Hip Hop and Trip Hop would also be cool.

NO.

[HateFactor]

Metal ala Quake2, but much heavier, and with added orchestral elements.