A fan-made Dragon Ball mod for Half-Life 2's Source engine, and its 2007 soundtrack goes surprisingly deep with over thirty tracks spanning background ambience, villain themes, and a pile of fighting cues. The naming convention is pure community mod energy: "Background 1" through "Background 14," "Fighting 1" through "Fighting 15," functional labels for a functional purpose.
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The fighting tracks come in enough variations to keep multiplayer matches from getting stale, with "Fighting 11 Version 2" and "Fighting 12 Voice" showing the composers iterating on their own ideas. "Bad Guy 1" and its Version 2 rework give the villain side some personality, and "Dark The Halls (Dbs Xmas Song)" is the kind of goofy seasonal bonus that only a passionate mod community would bother making.
"Dragonballsource Live In Concert" is a standout curiosity in the tracklist. The death stingers across four variations give the game some dramatic weight when you get knocked out. This is a time capsule of mid-2000s mod culture, when fans built entire games inside other games and scored them with genuine enthusiasm.