This soundtrack hits like industrial metal got shoved into a fighting game and somehow it works. Tao Feng on the original Xbox had this aggressive, textured sound design that matched its whole "martial arts with real damage" vibe.
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Boardwalk has this grimy electronic pulse underneath distorted guitars, and RoofTop layers in these tense atmospheric loops that actually make you want to keep fighting. Shipwreck goes harder than it has any right to, and then EtherealPlane just...
completely shifts mood. Almost meditative. The whole thing sounds like early 2000s Xbox energy distilled into combat music. If you ever wondered what a Tobal-meets-DOA fighter sounded like on Microsoft's black box, this is your answer.