10 Times Music Made A Video Game INCREDIBLE
1. Red Dead Redemption 2 - Unshaken
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a deeply affecting game. Across the course of its huge runtime, Arthur’s story cuts you deep and leaves a scar.
Starting out the game as a stoic, cold outlaw, the plot shows you Arthur’s softer side and helps you connect with this flawed and broken cowboy on a deeper level than arguably any video game had previously managed.
D’Angelo’s Unshaken comes in just when it’s needed in the game’s final act, crushing your soul as it perfectly encapsulates Arthur’s struggle for his own redemption. The song and game both share the key theme of the world moving on without them too.
It’s the only song on the soundtrack to feature any vocals at all, and as such it demands that you pay it your full attention. It comes in when Arthur is less sure of Dutch, the gang, and himself than he has ever been before, and the praying request of the opening line (may I stand unshaken) fits his disillusionment perfectly.
This entry does means the list is bookended by Red Dead, but with both songs so brilliant for their respective moments, so striking and stirring, neither could conceivably be left out.