Thick, rumbling low end and strings that won't stop climbing. Gears of War 3 on Xbox 360 closes out the original trilogy, and the soundtrack carries that finality in every track. "Forever Omen" is dark and slow, the kind of piece that plays when you know things are ending badly.
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"Father and Son" hits on a personal level that the earlier games never really reached. The combat cues are savage. "Deadland Dance" and "Corpser Ambush" are pure chaos, layered percussion and distorted brass fighting for space.
"Gasbag Airways" somehow sounds exactly like its name. "Ashes Fall Down" is the quiet devastation track. Just strings and silence and weight. For anyone who finished this trilogy controller-in-hand and felt something real, this score is why.