Twenty-four map themes, each one trying to bottle a whole city into two minutes of orchestral color. Overwatch's location music does something sneaky. It fades into the background while you play but stands completely on its own pulled out of context.
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"King's Row" is moody and deliberate, all fog and cobblestone weight. "Dorado" opens with this warm brass that immediately puts you in a Mexican evening. "Busan" hits with K-pop adjacent energy you wouldn't expect from a shooter score.
And then "Horizon Lunar Colony" goes full sci-fi isolation. If you've logged hundreds of hours and never actually listened to the map music, prepare to hear your favorite maps completely differently.