Tension that crawls under your skin and stays there. The XCOM Legacy soundtrack by Tim Wynn pulls together music spanning the franchise's modern era into one collection, and the pacing is brutal. "Sleeping Chryssalids" is all low drones and barely-there percussion that makes you dread what's around every corner.
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Then "Kill It With Fire" ramps into full combat intensity with these pounding brass stabs. The way "Geoscape" handles the strategic layer is perfect too, just enough unease to keep you second-guessing every decision. And yeah, there's an Advent Burger remix of "Mission Accomplished" because of course there is.
If you've ever lost a squad member on Ironman and felt genuinely sick about it, this soundtrack already lives in your head.