Michael Giacchino is a fucking legend of a composer. Medal of Honor, Up, Spider-Man, Star Wars, the new Batman movie…he doesn’t miss.

A bygone era indeed for both gaming and history. Such an emotional piece.

Since you’ve done this track, then you should give the companion track “Arnhem” a listen (same game and composer) as it is a specific battle/place of Operation Market Garden. It has such beautiful, yet somber and haunting vocals and I think you’ll enjoy it. Whenever I think of operation market garden itself this is the song that I’ll always associate it with and remember.

It's videos like these that remind me how much I miss WW2 Medal of Honor games, Frontline and European Assault took hours of my life as a kid since my uncle got me into it on the PS1 with Undeground. Fun Fact, the PS2 version of the game had a making of of the OST and it was awesome.

The amount of nostalgia that hits me when this music plays is just enormous

In context of the game itself, this track is used as the main theme track when you first load the game up and navigate its menus. So that hopeful tone fits really well for that very first time you put the game on (and then start right off with the D-Day beach landings, what a way to kneecap the player right after setting them up). If you want to look at one of the pieces used during one of the levels set during Market Garden, I recommend listening to "Arnhem". It's personally my favourite track from the game, and you could say is the companion piece to "Operation Market Garden".

Ah yes, Medal of Honor. I practically grew up with this series during the PS2 era. Frontline has a very special place in my heart, it was one of the first FPS games I felt invested in playing. And the soundtracks and overall atmosphere of the game evoke a strong feeling in my child self, that I didn't know I could feel, when I was playing. It's so great to see somebody react to this and breaks it down.

Honestly one of my favorite soundtracks, and it's one of Michael Giacchinos earliest works! It's pretty cool to hear the early stuff of some of the biggest composers of today's soundtracks

All the classic Medal of Honor games had impeccable original scores. Highly recommend doing more from this amazing era of MoH games.

War has such a profound impact on the human mind.

This game's entire soundtrack is almost flawless. So many great songs that each convey their own feelings based on the mission they're played in. I feel like this was the peak of the game with the hopefulness of Market Garden, followed by the gradual realization that everyone's cut off from friendly forces and the operation won't be a success. However, the individual victories are still there and possible but at a great cost of life.

I’ve waited so long for you to react to Frontline. I feel every piece that comes from that game has an individual story behind it. My personal favourite is “Arnhem Knights.” The piece perfectly describes how daunting the paratroopers mission was and the raw power behind the voice shows the immense strength they must have had to carry on, it’s a fantastic listen and one I feel you’d very much enjoy

god i haven't thought about this game in ages. the music was such a gem. and i remember spending at least a couple hours trying to shoot fruit in all the levels

Oh man, you just reminded me of the Crysis 2 OST. Hans Zimmer did this wild collab with the game's composers to make this heroic, otherworldly, sharp, metallic sounding sound scape that haunted me for years after playing. Fast forward, and i'm sitting in Dune (2021) and I hear the same Zimmer elements in his music and my headspace is completely pulled back in time, lol. It was a wild theater watching.

You should look into more MoH songs they have a ton of good tracks spread throughout the games. European Assault's theme, Vanguard's theme are the two I can cite from the top of my head

This song makes me tear up every time I listen to it. It’s probably my favorite song on the entire soundtrack! It’s just a gorgeous piece with a wonderful orchestra to back it!

These soundtracks make me cry often, the nostalgia and memories of my old home. Having one hour of playtime per day, me as a 7 year old playing this on the PS2 not knowing how to read the objectives, my older brother guiding me through half of the game until it got too difficult for me with him then continuing until the end while I watch. I was thinking of suggesting this game, but didn't think it would happen before I could! Thank you, this made me happy. If I were to throw in suggestions from this game they would be 'Arnhem Knights' aka 'Arnhem' and 'After The Drop', both equally making me tear up as much as the main theme you just listened to. An honorable mention goes to the main theme of MoH European Assault by Christopher Lennertz, really makes me feel like it could play in an HBO series or movie.

You should check out some of the music from the Halo games. Some of the stuff there is really great. Personally, I can't suggest the song Rain from Halo 3 ODST enough, as it sets the game's mood like nothing else can. The dark, rainy night in a ruined and alien occupied city where neon lights, broken screens, burning wreckage and enemy patrols are the only lights, as you, a normal human soldier, tries to find out what happened to your squad after you were knocked unconscious. What better way to sell that sad, mysterious mood than with a piano, some strings and a saxophone?

The hopeful tone of the child soprano but with the harsh drums really hammer in the hope of the mission with the foreboding knowledge of us in hindsight knowing it failed. Those harsh slams on the drums are also meant to symbolize artillery striking. I recommend listening to Songless Nightengale and After the Drop from this game's soundtrack as well. And also European Assault's "Dogs of War" main theme

This will always be the single greatest piece of video game OST I've ever heard. Incredibly well constructed and nostalgic to my younger years of playing this on PS2.

So many FPS games have amazing music. Halo is one of the best. Would love to see a reaction to the theme from the original game, as well as other bits of music from the franchise.

I was thinking about asking you about doing a review of frontline and I can't believe I just found it recorded only a few days ago. Sweet! I love your work.

Oh my goodness! As soon as I saw this title, I HAD to listen. This is such a nostalgic piece for me, I remember listening to this song constantly and sitting on the menu just for the music. 🤌🏾so good!

Hearing this again gave me so much memories from 2005. My favourite game in my childhood era

The entire soundtrack is amazing and beautiful. I could literally pick any other track and it has emotion, action, triumph, suspense, sadness. If I had to pick one that I would love to see you give your tjoughts on, it would have to be After The Drop. One of the more emotional prices of the OST in my opinion and it sort of an outlier in the way it's not at all action packed or intense in the way you'd expect a shooter to sound. It's so melancholy and sad that it often makes me teary eyed as well as many others. Anyways, I'll never not love hearing others geek out about this amazing score, awesome video 🙏❤️

A little context regarding the choir: Op Market Garden was a day jump on a Sunday... To those in Belgium, living under occupation for years. It was akin to "angels" from the sky.

I still have my copy. This is what I mean by art. Seeing their Dev videos of making real sculpted heads as a reference to build in 3D. Music such as this in a video game is part of the puzzle that propelled me to learn how an interactive experience is made. I don't think the quality is near like this anymore.

What a great track. I never played this Medal of Honor and had no idea Giacchino composed for it, so thanks for introducing it to me. Edit: Man you can tell it was made in the post-Saving Private Ryan, post-Band of Brothers period, much like Call of Duty from a year later, also with a soundtrack by Giacchino. PS: I'm once again recommending the male choral and chanting pieces from Star Wars Republic Commando. ;D

A good soundtrack makes an already good game great, I love it when they treat a game that covers a serious historical event seriously and give it the same effort that a WWII movie or TV series would receive.

One of my single favorite songs from a video game ever. The way this song develops… so beautiful. Love the slow build to something tremendous. I actually just got back from 2 weeks traveling all over NL and got the opportunity to visit the famous bridges of Arnhem (Bridge too far) and Nijmegen. Very very cool to see them in person. Beautiful country :)

If I recall, I think Medal of Honor Frontline had such a good soundtrack that most outlets that didn't give awards for best music, added "Best Music" to their award catalog. This was back in 2002 and not all review outlets actually praised games for their music yet.

Now this is a song I haven't heard for many years. Still great to this day. Michael Giacchino did a wonderful job with Medal of Honor Frontline. You should try listening to Arnhem Knights while you are on the Medal of Honor Frontline OST. There are a lot of hidden gems in First Person Shooters. Halo, Call of Duty 1 & MW2, Battlefield, Red Orchestra/Rising Storm and so many more to list for sure. Can't wait to see you going into more soundtracks from first person shooters.

You should check out Arnhem Knights. It's beautiful as is the Market Garden one.

Ahhh! Would never have thought you would react to this. I played this game growing up on the original Xbox.

You should definitely check out "after the drop" from the same game, it has the same little boy singing. Its great

I remember when I was a kid and played medal of honor Frontline and European assault And that music relaxed me for a moment for a grave tension that gave the IA of the enemy's And the arnehm knight music Man that bring me a tear think how the people lived in that situation I remember that I confused the WW2 with the Vietnam war But I got more depth on the asunt and know that the game it's ambientated in the WW2 and then I back to my ps2 and put the mission arnehm knights and bring me so much tears Cause I see that the war was one of the bloodiest war in our history Thank you for react at that beautiful song

I would really love to hear you do a bit more of a dive into the rest of the music from this soundtrack!

I just realized parts of this track takes some cues from the soundtrack of the film "a bridge too far" which is also about operation market garden. neat

Arnhem knights is a freaking amazing track on this album. This whole album is awesome.

This is my go to game to play after school back in the day. Nostalgia wins again.

Can't say this is what I was expecting when I woke up but it's certainly welcomed. Frontline was a game I played a lot in my childhood so it's interesting to see the things I'd never really thought much about at the time analyzed.

MoH Frontline was one of the first games i gotten for the PS2 when i had gotten it as a christmas gift many years ago the opening intro with Dwight D Eisenhower's D-day speech really stuck with me all these years later.

I always interpreted the violins swooning as if the paratroopers where leaping from, and after trying to find there D.Z.

Operation Market Garden was an airborn focus operation where the main objective is to drop paratrooper and elite comando a cross the Rhine river and capture and secure a brigeway to make a way for the main force, this operation was done by the british 1st Airborne and US 82nd Airborne This however didn't go as plan as alot of paratroopers were scatter and surrounded, however the 1st Airborne manage to capture a single bridge, they fend off mutiple attack for 5 days of continous fight, but the main force that was supposed to help them didn't arrive in time, without enough equipment and no resupply they were pushed back by the german and force to fight in small pocket and with that the last 1st Airborne squad sent their final message "Low on ammo, suffer major casualties, God save the King"

My dad flew paratroopers into Holland during Operation Market Garden. He was shot down behind enemy lines near Grave, Holland, where he was picked up by the Dutch Underground minutes before German officers flooded the area looking for the downed airman. After many days, and some unusual adventures, he finally made it back to friendly territory. He remembers being in ditches and watching German boots passing by his head so close that he could have reached out and touched them. And being greeted by an entire village complete with brass band at one safe barn because they believed they were being liberated. Of running between a Panzer and Sherman tank battle because that was the only flat land the jeep he was in could navigate. He never had anything good to say about how Market Garden was handled, but he could never say enough good things about the many Dutch people who risked their lives so one lone American airman could live.

This song's intro is very similar to a portion of the main theme of Allied Assault, a previous entry.

aight i've already proposed it but since you'r just discovering FPS music i'll do those recomandation once again :p so Titanfall 2,wich has probably the best linear campaign in the genre,and it has also beautifull music ! so there it is ! BT-7274 wich is the main theme of the game,great music but i admit it doesnt have any strong feeling attached to it SERE-Kit and Trust me are way more charged emotionnaly tho,and i'm pretty curious if without playing the game those feeling also get trought the music ?

It’s funny, I was just playing Medal of Honor Frontline yesterday. Also fun fact, there’s a behind the scenes footage of the person singing the solo soprano, it’s just one kid.

OMG I looovvvve the medal of honor series.

Panzer Blockade is still one of my favorites Medal of Honor themes, It gets me so pumped up during the mission it plays.

This actually the theme music of Frontline, but it applies equally well here too.

Operation Market Garden from MOH Frontline is actually a more... somber, sad and slow version of the orginal theme from Medal of Honor from the Ps One. Michael Giacchino market a great part of our childhoods with his music, and without it, these games would be as remembered today.

3:48 is when I fell in love with this music 😢😢😢😢😢

Oh My God Haven’t heard that since forever one of the first games I played on ps2

I remember playing this game for hours when I was younger. In my opinion it has one of the best soundtracks ever put into a video game. Also listen to Arnhem from this soundtrack it probably one of the best ones.

God this trigger some old ass memories lol. played this game so much

We still gotta get him on Arnhem Knights. Has to be up there with one of the most emotional tracks in gaming history.

Ahem...sorry, last comment was on my phone. In human-readable language, I wanted to recommend the following tracks from Medal of Honor: Frontline. Arnhem Knights, Needle in a Haystack, and Operation: Market Garden are beautiful, soaring pieces. Sturmgeist's Armored Train is harrowing and might make your hair stand on end. Lastly, consider Ace Combat 7: Faceless Soldier. You might want a lyric video of that one depending on how good your Latin is ;) Also, how about Castlevania: Symphony of the Night? Aside from being an incredibly good game, the title should hint that the music is incredible. It's hard to recommend a specific one but the majority of the tracks are excellent and done in wildly varying styles. Festival of Servants had some scary vocals, I think.

God damn. I'm glad you are expanding your reactions. Part of me wonders how you would react to some of the OSTs from Hearts of Iron IV like "Shatter the Empires".

Since Allied Assault part, Medal of Honor always had a great, emotional soundtrack. Even in era of "one-man army" gameplay which was not very immersive experience looking from today's perspective

Don't tell him about Halo...he'll lose it

Call of Duty World at War comes to mind for great fps music, black cats, dogfire, marine theme, brave soldat.

As you play the game you unlock various videos of the music from the game that you can watch as an extra

The music really fits the operations' tone. Especially considering what a colossal failure market garden was. It helps emphasize the feeling of lives spent with no gain.

Marco speaking of this vibe of going into the unknown but with hope, you should check out "The Landing" from final Fantasy 8.

Yeah Medal of Honor had some really good themse, though there's also some of the older CoDs with good music. I feel chills whenever I hear the Mamaev Kurgan theme, or the "Not one step back" orchestral piece in the soviet campaign in CoD: Finest Hour. However, it needs to be said, CoD: World at War is filled to the brim, with absolute bangers, they went all out with that game's soundtrack and I cannot recommend that game's OST enough in terms of FPSs Oh, also, in terms of WW2 game OSTs, its not an FPS but I very highly recommend the main theme for Company of Heroes 2, its got a lot of emotional weight to it.

Cod World at War had some bangers in it's OST specifically Black Cats, Heart of the Reich and Blood and Iron.

If you wanna hear another ww2 video game soundtrack from Michael Giacchino but a lot more heroic and epic, I recommend the Main theme from Secret Weapons over Normandy. A game that Lucasarts made a long time ago for the ps2,Xbox and PC. Sounds like John Williams basically!

Personally i hear it as melencholy. Like "doomed to begin witth" feeling andbwhen the second axt of the song picks up with the soft violin is where i see them realizing their situation.

The nostalgia 😭 🎶Who does the Army love the most? Airborne!🎶

Yes, this music was so amazing for a game…

Damn, that's nostalgic.

Just reminded me of, in my opinion, one of the best FPS series for PS3 (I'd say Killzone tops it for me though) which generally had really nice period correct sounding music for the era it was set in, the series being Resistance, particularly Resistance 2, which has about a 3hr Soundtrack, but if you want a taster on the vibe that it has you can listen to Main Menu themes 1,2,3 and 4 which are about a Minute, minute and a half tops each. Sadly it's one of those series that never saw the limelight of a remaster despite its incredibly well done premise.

Frontline is a legendary game

Battlefield V has an amazing soundtrack! "Under No Flag" being one of my absolute favorites! It's gorgeous

I think you look at Arthas' theme from World of Warcraft. The vocals in particular just brings me chills just remembering it.

I suggest looking into Bioshock OST, especially Cohen's Masterpiece and Elizabeth Theme, or The Ocean on his Shoulders

Damn what a nostalgic OST

From classic Medal of Honor games you should also check out "Last Rites" from Medal of Honor Underground. Actually you should check out the entire Medal of Honor (1999) and Medal of Honor Underground OSTs. ;)

I highly recommend the music of Red Orchestra 2 and Rising Storm if you'd like atmospheric WWII themes

Another masterful work of Giaccino was the soundtrack of Black. The ps2 and Xbox game. Give it a try. Won't regret it

I don't need to have a qualification in music to say that this composition is a complete masterpiece.

If there is another Medal of Honor track you should react to it's Dogs of War from MoH European Assault.

If you mention FPS' I honestly can't think of anything greater than the soundtracks for Halo. That main theme, especially halo 2's is a soundtrack of my soul

I don't know if this will get a reply but this game...was a big part of my childhood. I was a teenager when it came out. The only games by that time that really brought out serious emotion were of course rpgs. But this...this was something different. Up to this point i had played things like Command and Conquer, games like Duke Nukem and Doom. So my experience with military like or shooters was there. But Medal of Honor Frontline is an experience no shooter or military based game has ever truly replicated the feelings i had while playing it. I was ready for action sure but that D-Day level told me right off the bat as i watched soldiers die in droves that this game was going to be far different from anything i ever played. And it was. I from then on, read every briefing, listened to what every soldier or civilian said and listened to the music the best i could. And when i got to Arnhem...I was able even as a teen to figure out how bleak what i was entering was. Sure the briefing gave a bit of the information but the music and what i saw in the level hammered it home. It was such a powerful experience. I actually teared up during the mission my first time playing it and the lines you hear...did not help matters. No game has ever replicated what i felt playing that mission to it's completion and i don't think any game ever will. As far as i am concerned Medal of Honor Frontline had the best soundtrack of any historic military or military shooter(in general) ever. I don't think ill ever change my mind. Just wanted to post this. This game is quite special to me and i thank you for your time as well for the fact you covered this. If you get the chance (if you haven't already), please listen to Arnhem Knights. If you can react to it in a video, wonderful, if not enjoy the listen. If you already have, I hope you enjoyed how powerful it is.

Well, are we onto the fps OSTs and songs era on the channel!? If yes, then perfect. COD WAW or COD in general have amazing intense songs, specifically cod world at war and black ops. Some other titles too, like Battlefield have it's moments. But this is my personal views, I'm sure the comments can point more songs/OSTs.

Though I don't hear Medal of Honor's theme often, it is among gaming's most iconic motifs. That said, you had to have heard Halo's music before, right? FPSs have always had good music. :P

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Allied Assault has one of the best soundtracks of any game. Maybe its because it was the first game I played as a 10 year old kid on our first family PC in 2002 with my dad

Am I the only one who owns the physical CD of this games sound track? 😅 Most definitely my favorite game soundtrack of all time. ❤

You played some other games on the channel, any chance you might play this at some point? Such a great game, probably my favorite WW2 game, or even favorite game from the Original Xbox generation. Has a lot of super interesting and unique missions that you don't typically see other games go into, even others from that golden era for WW2 games. Wish more people would play it with modern recording equipment instead of crusty many-years old super compressed videos. Also Ace Combat and Project Wingman. The tracks you loved are so much better when they happen in the heat of the moment and are properly contextualized. Hearing them play while in those scenarios is an experience you can't quite get anywhere else.

Medal of Honor European Assault, 2010, and Pacific Assault had arguably the best soundtracks in my opinion.

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS IS A CLASSIC I HAVEN'T HEARD IN SO LONG. The MoH games have such great music man also Day seventy-five of recommending Stay Gold from the Arknights OST

The Medal of Honor European Assault main theme is also a masterpiece

This could be in a movie, no problem. It just sounds like a war movie, hopeful but not entirely successful. Very good one, differently enjoyed it.

I REALLY hope you react to Battlefield 1's round end theme. It's definitely one of the best music i've ever heard in gaming.

Since you've opened this door to FPS's I hope you'll end up doing some of the tracks from Call of Duty World at War.

Do Arnhem Knights next! You won't regret

More WWII games need a sombre clarinet solo.