Twenty-five years of "just one more turn" condensed into a single tracklist that spans chiptune-era MIDI to full orchestral recordings. The Civilization anniversary soundtrack pulls from every mainline entry and hearing them side by side is kind of staggering.
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The Civ IV Baba Yetu legacy is well known but going back to those Civ II themes with their raw MIDI brass and Incan percussion hits different now. Civ V's leader themes are still some of the best culture-specific scoring in any game, the way Elizabeth's "I Vow to Thee" shifts from peace to wartime arrangement.
Civ III's menu theme though. If you've ever looked up from a Civ session and realized it's 4AM, this compilation is basically your life story set to music.