10 Best End Credits Songs In Video Games

5. The Best Is Yet To Come (Metal Gear Solid)

The first Metal Gear Solid was a groundbreaking moment in video game history.

Released in 1998, Hideo Kojima's magnum opus was the most potent marriage between video games and cinema the world had yet seen. Blending a hugely enjoyable stealth-action game (itself something of a novelty at the time) with best-in-the-world cinematics and voice acting, Metal Gear Solid fully deserves its reputation as a seminal moment in gaming history.

All of which is to say - The Best Is Yet To Come does justice to the game it's in.

A hauntingly powerful Irish ballad, The Best Is Yet To Come will remain with you long after the the credits have stopped rolling. Despite being in a language most people won't understand, singer Aoife Ní Fhearraigh's ethereal vocals became inscribed in the hearts of many a gamer in the late '90s. That's not just our opinion - when Kojima wanted to tug on players' heart strings in MGS 4's nostalgia-heavy fourth act, this is the song he used to do it.

And God damn him, it worked.

Favourite lyric - An cuimhin leat an grá / Crá croí an ghrá. The song's opening lines, they immediately let the listener know that they're in for something special. (And yes, we had to google the spelling).

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