Neal Acree brought a film-grade orchestra to an MMO and it shows. The Revelation Online score uses real soloists on erhu, guzheng, pipa, and cello, and you can hear every one of them breathing life into these arrangements.
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"Weiyang Palace" layers Karen Han's erhu over full orchestral swells in a way that genuinely aches. "The Battle of the Five Emperors" goes full epic without ever feeling generic because the pentatonic framework keeps everything rooted in this specific world.
"Spirit Town" gets quiet and strange. The score won a Jerry Goldsmith Award and honestly it earned that, the Northwest Sinfonia performances are impeccable throughout. If you need proof that MMO music can stand completely on its own, start here.