Grand classical arrangements repurposed for strategic warfare. Hyakunen Senki Euro Historia is a 2014 strategy game built entirely around European classical music, and it goes surprisingly hard. "Ride of the Valkyries" and "Marche Slave" hit with the exact military weight you'd expect when commanding armies across a hundred years of conflict.
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"Sonata No. 14 Moonlight (3rd movement)" is the real surprise though, turned into something frantic and almost aggressive in context. Then "Dies irae" shows up and suddenly the whole battlefield feels apocalyptic. The tracklist reads like a greatest hits of Western classical canon but arranged to serve gameplay tension.
Beethoven, Bach, Wagner, Dvorak, all conscripted into service. If you ever wanted to feel like a general with impeccable taste in concert music, this is your excuse.