15 Greatest Video Game Theme Songs Of All Time

1. Halo 2 (Mjolnir Mix)

For a truly great video game theme, one that represents the medium, is instantly recognisable as such, can stand alone as a great piece of music and still gets used in one of the best parts of its entire runtime, look no further than Marty O'Donnell and Steve Vai's revised version of the already iconic Halo theme.

By adding Vai's masterful guitar playing and having him write original, arching solos that genuinely soar over the top of an already powerful composition, it's a resoundingly powerful piece of music that helped the second game become one of the most successful 360 titles of all time.

In-game it actually appeared right when you needed to take down a skyscraper-sized Scarab tank. You'd be given a rocket launcher, hear the first few drumbeats of the score kick in, and you just knew something awesome was about to go down.

Firing volleys of rockets into the Covenant machine as the Vai's shredding backed you up, gave all of us a sublimely iconic moment overall, and one only made possible by having the best video game theme of all time backing it up.

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