>>713775140
>Total Annihilation
>Soule convinced Taylor that, given the large number of other real-time strategy games coming out at the same time as Total Annihilation with techno scores, that to separate themselves they needed to do a large orchestral score. He went so far as to bet a year's worth of reduced pay that it would pay off; Gilbert felt that it did after the first sentence of the first review of the game he read was about the music.[7][5] Given the software limitations at the time, to make the sound work correctly required a full live orchestra, the first that Soule had ever worked with; the orchestral tracks in Evermore had been performed by Soule and his brother by themselves, two instruments at a time.[7] The soundtrack earned Soule his first award, that of "Best Music" of 1997 from GameSpot in their year-end awards.
That's right baby, it's isn't synths or samples and that's why it fucking rules.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxAdOQtAFEs