Grand orchestral arrangements crashing in like a 17th century cavalry charge on your PC speakers. Cossacks: European Wars dropped in 2001 with eighteen tracks of pure strategy game atmosphere. The numbered tracklist hides some real variety, with early tracks establishing a stately military mood and later ones building into something more urgent and dramatic.
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Track 5 and Track 12 are the kind that make you forget you are just moving tiny soldiers around a map. They carry real weight. Eighteen tracks is a lot for a RTS from this era, and somehow most of them hold up. The composers clearly took the Napoleonic setting seriously.
For anyone who still thinks early 2000s strategy games had throwaway music, this one will change your mind.