Zimmer Does the Beep Boops

When writers from "legitimate" (lollin' @ dis!) media break out the fully-loaded Macbook Pros in trendy coffee shops to guest write for videogames, 9 times out of 10, it makes you wonder why they bothered. Example: When it was announced that Alex "28 Days Later" Garland wrote Enslaved, I was overjoyed. That excitement was sorely misplaced, because Alex clearly didn't bring his A-game to the assignment (It should be noted, however, that Enslaved was a good game in many other respects, and it is absolutely a title that you should rent for the weekend).

Thankfully, this isn't the situation with regards to music: Case in point, Mr. Hans Zimmer brings us the Crysis 2 soundtrack. Crysis 2 is an excellent first person shooter - currently the best first person shooter of the year of our lord 2011. It is the touching story of a man and his absolutely ridiculous nanosuit that lets him power jump around Manhattan and cloak invisible and ninja shank mercs AND aliens and cool freaky deeky shit as such.

Lots of people will roll their eyes at you if you suggest that VIDJA GAME MUSAK is worth listening to, but in this case it has the benefit of being absolute fact. (See also: Mass Effect 2, Halos dos and tres, Gears and God of War and their sequels.

So, even if you have no interest in Crysis 2 (your loss!), do yourself a favor and torrent its score for your iPod. Or buy it. Whichevz, we ain't here to judge.

(Protip: pretend it's a leaked OST to the next non-Bats Nolan picture so you can keep your jaded-as-f*ck street cred intact.)