A distorted synth pad swelling into an industrial beat, and then David Bowie's voice cuts through the static. Omikron: The Nomad Soul was Quantic Dream's bizarre, ambitious 1999 debut, and having Bowie contribute tracks like "New Angels of Promise" makes this one of the weirdest crossovers in gaming history.
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Xavier Despas handles the ambient and incidental scoring, and his work is genuinely moody, all shadowy Dreamcast-era electronica and tense investigation cues. "Anekbah theme" captures that oppressive cyberpunk city atmosphere with droning pads and metallic percussion.
"Only a nightmare" leans into unsettling territory with processed textures that sound like a machine dreaming. If you ever wanted to hear Bowie scoring a dystopian body-swapping adventure game, this is literally the only place to go.