25 Greatest Musical Tracks From The Halo Series

20. Last of the Brave - Halo 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ubHkPWIjUOc When Halo 2 shifted its course to two separate perspectives following the same war, Bungie decided to go back to the drawing board with Halo 3 and make it exclusively a human story. Since it was the capper of the trilogy, the amount of emotion and ardor had to be spiked up to new levels. So, by taking a steadier approach and with major consequences at stake, the soundtrack needed to require more focus on the human struggle. The #20 spot on the list belongs to "Last of the Brave", as it basically revives, on an audible level, the human emotion and brevity that we, as the players, must care for. I see "Last of the Brave" as Martin O'Donnell's and Michael Salvatori's version of the UNSC anthem for Halo; the vast majority of the track displays that quiet sense of peace, a reassembling of arms per-say, or "the calm before the storm" as one Marine in-game references. It's almost like one of those reassurance tracks that shows that, with everything going on and the possible annihilation of all life in the galaxy, even in hard times there is a time for regrouping. After the anthem portion of the track is cleared, we dive into a more action-paced tone, showing that the storm arrives even before the calm is over Even the in-game level, Crow's Nest, is all about arriving in a military base that could very well be one of humanity's last able defenses and defending a Covenant siege that, inevitably, leaves the whole base in ruins after a warhead is set off. While "Last of the Brave" encapsulates the human bravado, it also captures that feeling of having your back against the wall, and no matter how much you prepare, the storm will always arrive in full force, wiping the calm away.