Big Hollywood orchestral action scoring from a mid-2000s FPS that punches way above its weight. Inon Zur composed and conducted this for Shadow Ops: Red Mercury, and it sounds like he treated every level transition as a film cue.
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"Approaching Grozny" has this tense military buildup with low brass that genuinely gets your pulse going. "Parisian Night" shifts into something more atmospheric and suspenseful, almost spy-thriller territory. "Hayden's Requiem" goes full emotional with strings that feel earned after all the gunfire.
Twenty tracks of reactive orchestral scoring. The game itself is mostly forgotten but Zur was already doing what made him famous with Fallout later. If you collect composer discographies, this is the deep cut worth finding.