Gordy Haab absolutely nails the cockpit tension here. Star Wars: Squadrons gets a score that feels like you're white-knuckling a joystick through an asteroid field, all brass stabs and restless strings that never let you breathe.
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"Hyperspace Ambush" hits with this wall of panic that genuinely sounds like an ambush should. Then "Fallen Comrades" pulls way back into something quiet and wounded. The way the score pivots between full imperial pomp on "Imperial Ceremony and Briefing" and scrappy dogfight chaos is so well handled.
Almost too cinematic for a game about sitting in a cockpit. If you ever wanted to feel like a stressed-out X-wing pilot for an hour, press play.