Massive orchestral punch from the very first note. Stephen Rippy composed the Halo Wars soundtrack for Ensemble Studios' real-time strategy take on the franchise, and he went full Hollywood with it. "Spirit of Fire" carries this heroic brass theme that stands completely on its own outside the game.
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"Unusually Quiet" builds dread through sparse strings before everything erupts, and "Action Figure Hands" has this percussive drive that makes you want to send Spartans into battle immediately. The track names are wonderfully weird for a Halo game.
"Six-Armed Robbing Suit" and "Insignificantia (All Sloppy, No Joe)" sitting on the same album as that iconic choral sound is... something. If you skipped this because it was "just an RTS," the score alone proves that was a mistake.