Heavier and more geographically varied than the first game, H.A.W.X. 2's score shifts terrain with every mission. Tom Salta composed this one and you can hear the globe-trotting ambition in how different each track feels.
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Over the Caucasus has this sweeping Eastern European string work with choir elements that sell the scale of flying over mountain ranges. Shifting Sands pivots to Middle Eastern percussion and modal melodies. Then Winter War drops the temperature completely with cold, driving orchestration that sounds like frozen metal.
Mourning Over Moscow hits genuinely hard emotionally for a flight combat game. That moment of stillness after destruction. If you thought the first H.A.W.X. score was solid, the sequel pushed everything wider and deeper.