Finally decided to look this up, but looking back at the game... i feel like without this music, there may have been times where i was in the middle of a loadout and i might have said "eh maybe ill do this next time" and proceed to play another game for the time being, but instead you hear this and cant help but get excited to choose which soldiers get what, and deploy them on their mission to save humanity!
This theme is so immersive. Imagine the alert in your base. Soldiers running out of their quaters, taking guns, gears, and equipments while heading to the transporter. I loved it every time! "Let's kick some alien butts!"
This is xcom's theme, hands down. This is THE song you always remember. It's the one that no matter how many times you hear it, it sends a tingle down your spine as you meticulously prepare your troops, not knowing who, if anyone will survive. You send them off and prey this mission isn't the one the drives the final nail in your Classic/Ironman campaign's coffin.
I once head a squad out of two meachs and the rest was psychic and or genetically modified. The all died within five rounds in a series of undurtunate events.
If I had a pound for every time I forgot that Sectopods automatically went into overwatch at the end of their turns in EU, I would probably have eight or nine pounds, but I wouldn't be happy about it.
Heroic, uplifting and hopeful. "They'll keep fighting and they'll win!" I'd expect nothing less from the composer who brought us the fantastic soundtrack for Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Yea Micheal McCan doesn't disappoint. they need to hire this guy to make more game music. You can hear some Deus Ex HR in Xcom music. Which kida fits since is a dystopian future theme game where soldiers have to embrace cybernetics and alien-DNA/Tech (HumanAlien) hybrids in order t defeat the
@@DinnerForkTongue I ain't talking about increasing changes, I'm talking about fair random RNG I hope you know XCOM's actual hit rates are rigged and different than the displayed
It's hard for me to play this one after XCOM 2. I hadn't touched either in years before recently starting another playthrough on War of the Chosen. I was actually going to try to find the vanilla XCOM 2 equivalent of this track but I decided I'd give this one a listen again and it hit me straight in my heart. I love that game so very very much
Honestly, I think XCOM is far more suspenseful and gave a more immersive gaming experience than XCOM 2, even if 2 had better gameplay and graphics. They're both good games, but I just felt a stronger urge to save humanity in XCOM 1
@@Ogugua-k1w I'm afraid I have to respectfully disagree. Personally I always found it odd that nobody (police, soldiers, armed civilians) ever help you against the aliens in EU, and weirder still that the aliens were "invading" Earth in such a small and piecemeal fashion. I remember thinking even before the XCOM 2 trailers dropped that the gameplay would have made a lot more sense as some kind of paramilitary insurgency that's exactly what they gave us next. Don't get me wrong though, I do think the Avatar Project was a bit of a poor replacement for the countries' panic system
@@Ogugua-k1w I was actually very disappointed when I found out that XCOM 2 takes place after a failure in EU because... It was all for nothing? But when Bradford busted me out after not giving up for 20 years? And he's got the late great engineer Shen's daughter with him? This time it's personal. And you're damn right they're gonna pay
Yeah, yeah, yeah... fire all your quotes away. My personal favourite, though, is the Council: "Remember, we will be watching." That one quote is much cooler than all of the Bradford's stuff altogether.
I play this song as I am donning my rubber gloves... For dishes. Not prostate exams. Though this would fit as well for prostate exams. Prepare for deployment Strike One.
+Sino Deutsch Just means you have to make sure they go out in a blaze of glory, getting up close and personal with that berserker, yelling back in their face. Defiance in certain death, never relent!
metalcollection1 Yeah, I don't know what that song is called yet, but I like it too. But again that's what I meant earlier, XCOM:EU has 5 tracks I like whereas XCOM 2 only has 1. Not a good soundtrack ensemble.
Every time I heard the F1 theme, I couldn't lay my finger on what it reminded me of... Has been bugging me for years until today I realized the truth: It's this and the XCom2 squad selection themes. Such great pieces of music. Made my week!
Love this song!! You can feel the urgency as your soldiers are gearing up for what may be their last mission, yet at the same time they know they're the only thing standing between extraterrestrials and civilians. Epic!!
Audio is one of the strongest elemtns in this game. Epic tracks. Even after finishing the game on normal dificulty and restarting the game like 20 times on classic with ironman till i get enough skills to get to lategame i still find selecting squad a pleasure to do it. This game really has "that thing" in it. Now time for impossible with ironman.
Had this in my head this morning as I straightened my suit jacket, tugged out my shirt cuffs and put on my watch. READY TO LAUNCH oh wait I'm just taking the train to work :(
What I love about this theme os that there is feel of mystery embedded in it. An enigma in the background of the battle hype: It heightens this sense of we are going to war with all we got. But...the enemy is Alien. Unknown"
One of the reasons this game is so great to me, right here. Having battle music en site when you see an enemy really sets a mood that draws you in, no matter how many sectoids you've killed.
Now there is no turning back. May god be with them all...... Gotta say this, this is the only inter-mission scene in any game EVER that I NEVER skipped, not even once (or maybe once otherwise I wouldn't know you could skip it). I never get bored of this.
I must agree that this song is the highlight of the game's music. It doesn't have much of a tune, but the drums definitely give it that battle-like atmosphere. Also kind of reminds me of Battlestar Galactica.
This song is just about perfect for an 'outfitting your troops' pre-game thing, I don't think I've ever heard a better theme for it. I want to play this every morning as I get up and drive to classes so I feel pumped and ready to rock.
Every CIA movie, every thing involving some kind of secret organization that is 'good' will always have a theme similar to this at least starting at the 0:33 mark. Usually when you're panning into the base and you can see its giant logo on the floor as random nobodies rush around or when you're panning into the control center with a bunch of randoms working at the consoles.
God DAMN this song is epic. It always gets my blood pumping before every mission. It makes me feel the sense of duty and brotherhood that my soldiers experience. Anybody else hella excited for Enemy Within??
I didn't have a computer that can play this game so I wind up buying this game on my android phone years after this game was released. I played this during a long haul flight and let me tell you, this soundtrack made this game so great and so awesome the first time I heard it. Did not sleep during that 8-hour flight as I was too busy killing aliens (and also super upset seeing my squad getting killed left and right..)
This music while I am decking out my Squad ALWAYS makes me sit there before I click launch... checking and double checking... its amping you for the battle that is coming. Epic piece of sound :)
1:16 PM 11/9/2022 PSI agents need their own office. The testing XCOM does to see whos PSI capable I scored high. Only reason why someone like me is able to go on frontlines as PSI is cus Im former assault/infantry experienced kind of like Carl from Starship Troopers tagging along with Rico and others as infantry squads.
Yep, it was awesome when Wing Commander first did dynamic music, back in the day...it's an essential part of any Epic experience in a game!!! This is such a cool score!
I love it when the music syncs up to my best of the best, the elite, most valuable squad take off. Oh, hell. Who am I kidding! Bunch of rookies that I am trowing at the enemy in the vein hope they some how survive...
They should have make the credit screen rolling with this music, while script the remaining squad running towards the skyranger, killing Alien on the way, while trying to escape from the temple ship.
Replay in higher difficulty and turn on ironman. Makes it much more exciting. Once you're done with that, try putting more limitations upon yourself (like no more than 2 reloads per mission and stuff like that). Once you're done with that and are really for a REAL challenge, install DOSBOX and play the original 1994 XCOM for a good beating.
::gets his big job break a civilian contractor for the department of defense:: ::gets a bunch of boring DoD documents thrown at him full of convoluted A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.S as far as the eye can see holy bejebuss:: -_- ::plays this music and continues to read...suddenly its not boring:: I am ready to lead the entire DoD! Follow me 'Murica! *_*
That would be so.. damn.. cool... But instead we have the sequence where the Volunteer get's his flashes of the End of the world and goes all heroic sacrifice to save the world... I always like to imagine that one squad member he pushes out through the door banging on the door screaming his name.
This sound track stirs alot of things inside me. it gets me pumped, making me feel like i'm the last hope of humanity and at the same time, fills me with dread, knowing that there is a chance some of my men may not make it back.........is this normal? lol.
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Finally decided to look this up, but looking back at the game... i feel like without this music, there may have been times where i was in the middle of a loadout and i might have said "eh maybe ill do this next time" and proceed to play another game for the time being, but instead you hear this and cant help but get excited to choose which soldiers get what, and deploy them on their mission to save humanity!
Nuff said.
agree
+Judgment12x Until you said this, I had no idea I did exactly the same thing.
Judgment12x Likewise
This theme is so immersive. Imagine the alert in your base. Soldiers running out of their quaters, taking guns, gears, and equipments while heading to the transporter. I loved it every time!
"Let's kick some alien butts!"
This is xcom's theme, hands down. This is THE song you always remember. It's the one that no matter how many times you hear it, it sends a tingle down your spine as you meticulously prepare your troops, not knowing who, if anyone will survive. You send them off and prey this mission isn't the one the drives the final nail in your Classic/Ironman campaign's coffin.
But does it stand the test of time? 🤔
It has. It does. The only theme more awesome than this is the ones they created for X-Com 2 and the Legacy Pack for War of the Chosen.
Was Classic the highest difficulty 10 years ago? I play Brutal or Impossible only :)
XCOM 2 ready for battle is now the iconic theme people think of first.
Original Xoom Interception Theme :
90% chance to hit, 100% chance to miss target.
Get pumped to lose those men you see before you.
lol yep! just to get my ass kicked
In my first attempt to shock one of them. I made my guy get close to it.BUT this one.THIS ONE sectoid was in overwatch -_-
I once head a squad out of two meachs and the rest was psychic and or genetically modified.
The all died within five rounds in a series of undurtunate events.
If I had a pound for every time I forgot that Sectopods automatically went into overwatch at the end of their turns in EU, I would probably have eight or nine pounds, but I wouldn't be happy about it.
I've been saying the exact same thing for over 10 year now I think.
never would've thought a *pilot* would have such an epic voice...
Ace combat characters: Am I a joke to you.
RIP: Big Sky. Firebrand is cool, but she's just doesn't get to the same level as Big Sky.
@@gustanabo9433 I mean...
As much as I fucking love that franchise with all my heart, the dialogue is cheesy as fuck sometimes.
You like prejudice against pilots or something?
I just learned the other day that his voice actor is one of the game devs (checked IMDb)
I will NEVER get bored of hearing this.
I want this music played when i am preparing myself for going to Work.
Heroic, uplifting and hopeful. "They'll keep fighting and they'll win!" I'd expect nothing less from the composer who brought us the fantastic soundtrack for Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
No wonder it's so awesome...
That explains SO much.
Yea Micheal McCan doesn't disappoint. they need to hire this guy to make more game music. You can hear some Deus Ex HR in Xcom music. Which kida fits since is a dystopian future theme game where soldiers have to embrace cybernetics and alien-DNA/Tech (HumanAlien) hybrids in order t defeat the
Too bad he didnt come back for mankind divied or xcom2. I wished they hirerd this guy for cod advanced warfare or any sci-fi cod game.
@@trager8933 Michael McCann did music for Mankind Divided.
Remember...we will be watching.
we are confident you will handle this matter with...discretion...
Good luck, Commander.
Pikachu i choose you!
XCOM doesn't need Batman. They already have the Spokesman. Vigilo Confido.
"Excellent. We look forward to seeing your progress."
"If there are civillians in the area, I hope they stay clear"
prepare for deployment strike one
Roger that, Big Sky.
Strike one beguin to engage hostiles
This music is one of the reason that why I love xcom
The sound that gives me chills evertime
Rhaimes Storm Rack, tap, bang!
ahhh the last moment when you feel badass before your squads starts missing 90+ percent shots
I don't count on 90%+ shots hitting anymore. I risk them, but I do my best to get a backup plan rolling.
@@DinnerForkTongueJust install a fair RNG mod lol
@@youraverageenclavesoldier
Nah, I just play better. Contingencies on top of contingencies.
@@DinnerForkTongue I ain't talking about increasing changes, I'm talking about fair random RNG
I hope you know XCOM's actual hit rates are rigged and different than the displayed
@@youraverageenclavesoldier
I have 800 hours in this game, of course I know.
that fucking badass takeoff with that turbine sound with this music, is really epic
Big sky ready for takeoff
"We can destroy stone walls by a shotgun, but 95% chance to hit is still too low for us".
I've run dozens of missions, but I gotta say, hearing this track while I kit out my crew still gets my blood pumping.
It's hard for me to play this one after XCOM 2. I hadn't touched either in years before recently starting another playthrough on War of the Chosen. I was actually going to try to find the vanilla XCOM 2 equivalent of this track but I decided I'd give this one a listen again and it hit me straight in my heart. I love that game so very very much
you should try long war of the chosen its incredible
Honestly, I think XCOM is far more suspenseful and gave a more immersive gaming experience than XCOM 2, even if 2 had better gameplay and graphics. They're both good games, but I just felt a stronger urge to save humanity in XCOM 1
@@Ogugua-k1w I'm afraid I have to respectfully disagree. Personally I always found it odd that nobody (police, soldiers, armed civilians) ever help you against the aliens in EU, and weirder still that the aliens were "invading" Earth in such a small and piecemeal fashion. I remember thinking even before the XCOM 2 trailers dropped that the gameplay would have made a lot more sense as some kind of paramilitary insurgency that's exactly what they gave us next. Don't get me wrong though, I do think the Avatar Project was a bit of a poor replacement for the countries' panic system
@@Ogugua-k1w I was actually very disappointed when I found out that XCOM 2 takes place after a failure in EU because... It was all for nothing? But when Bradford busted me out after not giving up for 20 years? And he's got the late great engineer Shen's daughter with him? This time it's personal. And you're damn right they're gonna pay
@@Ogugua-k1w now I don't even remember why I opened RUclips in the first place 🤦♂️ maybe I'll just listen to this track again
Excellent! We're confident that you'll handle this matter with.. discretion.
+Oscar Jonsson Roger that.
If by discretion you mean using blaster launchers then I'm all over it
Excellent. We're confident that you will handle with matter with... EXPLOSIVES.
(Looking at geared-up squad of six Colonels.)
Have you ever seen...A bigger pack of badasses in your life?
Absolute. Badasses.
+NoSuperman
Colonel 1: Colonel?
Colonel 2: Colonel!
Colonel 1: Colonel?
Colonel 3: Colonels!
Colonel 2: Colonel?
Colonel 4: Colonels!
Science guy: Seriously?
+Saiyan0X Stargate reference? Nice.
+KMCA779 Aliens too.
+NoSuperman that feel when none of them earned the rank, and were all just rewarded from missions.
+NoSuperman Don't forget the incredibly powerful psionic who can crush a damn alien ship with only his mind!
Even after all this time still one of the most definitive pieces of game music ever. McCann nailed it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah... fire all your quotes away. My personal favourite, though, is the Council:
"Remember, we will be watching."
That one quote is much cooler than all of the Bradford's stuff altogether.
+The Freakin' Scientist My new favorite: "Welcome back.... Commander."
I prefer "Excelent! We look forward to seeing your progress."
“Close range”
I dunno man “It’s commanding time” still hits pretty hard
I play this song as I am donning my rubber gloves...
For dishes. Not prostate exams.
Though this would fit as well for prostate exams. Prepare for deployment Strike One.
+Psionic Phazon Come in,HQ!Strike One is deployed and waiting confirmation.
I just realized that the title of the game has a lot to do you your profile pic. Good old GITS.
Sophia Laird LOL Nice comparison; didn't catch that.
+Psionic Phazon
try the XCOM 2 version, i find it suitable for anything
cobrazax Way ahead of you. The soundtrack is already on my D&D playlist. lol
The sound of saying goodbye... because you know one of the soldiers you see sitting in front of you... won't be sitting there on the way home =(
+Sino Deutsch Says you! My soldiers all survive! The ones that don't ride back are just MIA.
+Psionic Phazon stop playing on normal mode scrub
BILLYBOB JOE Classic Iron Man, bitch. Though I freely admit I haven't beaten it on Impossible.
+BILLYBOB JOE some people play for fun, not for frustration ;)
+Sino Deutsch Just means you have to make sure they go out in a blaze of glory, getting up close and personal with that berserker, yelling back in their face. Defiance in certain death, never relent!
Sometimes I just don't want to leave deployment screen because of this music. Hope XCOM 2 will have epic soundtrack too.
metalcollection1 Indeed matey :)
+metalcollection1 So far they do!
+metalcollection1 I come from the front lines. XCOM2's OST is no where close to XCOM1. Fucking shame.
bad4ever2001 I'm actually digging the new music. Not as good as EU, but still enjoyable. There's one really nice combat theme.
metalcollection1 Yeah, I don't know what that song is called yet, but I like it too. But again that's what I meant earlier, XCOM:EU has 5 tracks I like whereas XCOM 2 only has 1. Not a good soundtrack ensemble.
Every time I heard the F1 theme, I couldn't lay my finger on what it reminded me of... Has been bugging me for years until today I realized the truth: It's this and the XCom2 squad selection themes. Such great pieces of music. Made my week!
I so wish this was still the loadout music in XCOM 2. This was great.
It can be! Check the settings for XCOM2 and you can set the soundtrack to Enemy Unknown
"Dropship has arrived."
Hearing this in 2023 after the UFO hearings
Really hits different now, doesn't it?
Good luck commander...
Preparing for my final exams goes so well with this masterpiece
This track gives me chills every single time
Love this song!! You can feel the urgency as your soldiers are gearing up for what may be their last mission, yet at the same time they know they're the only thing standing between extraterrestrials and civilians. Epic!!
Audio is one of the strongest elemtns in this game. Epic tracks. Even after finishing the game on normal dificulty and restarting the game like 20 times on classic with ironman till i get enough skills to get to lategame i still find selecting squad a pleasure to do it. This game really has "that thing" in it. Now time for impossible with ironman.
best track in game!!
Been blasting this in my head for the past week
Had this in my head this morning as I straightened my suit jacket, tugged out my shirt cuffs and put on my watch. READY TO LAUNCH oh wait I'm just taking the train to work :(
"What's left, soldier? What remains? You have failed us all..."
It's a Gears quote but it applies pretty damn well after losing a whole squad.
What I love about this theme os that there is feel of mystery embedded in it. An enigma in the background of the battle hype: It heightens this sense of we are going to war with all we got. But...the enemy is Alien. Unknown"
One of the reasons this game is so great to me, right here. Having battle music en site when you see an enemy really sets a mood that draws you in, no matter how many sectoids you've killed.
Still the best XCOM music in 2024… just one more turn Commander.
Now there is no turning back. May god be with them all......
Gotta say this, this is the only inter-mission scene in any game EVER that I NEVER skipped, not even once (or maybe once otherwise I wouldn't know you could skip it). I never get bored of this.
***** YOUUUU
And yeah I agree. 10/10 would lose all my squad to this song again.
I must agree that this song is the highlight of the game's music. It doesn't have much of a tune, but the drums definitely give it that battle-like atmosphere. Also kind of reminds me of Battlestar Galactica.
This song is just about perfect for an 'outfitting your troops' pre-game thing, I don't think I've ever heard a better theme for it. I want to play this every morning as I get up and drive to classes so I feel pumped and ready to rock.
Every CIA movie, every thing involving some kind of secret organization that is 'good' will always have a theme similar to this at least starting at the 0:33 mark. Usually when you're panning into the base and you can see its giant logo on the floor as random nobodies rush around or when you're panning into the control center with a bunch of randoms working at the consoles.
Perfect song for that squad selection.
Too epic.
Very nice! Thanks for the rip and upload! :-)
God DAMN this song is epic. It always gets my blood pumping before every mission. It makes me feel the sense of duty and brotherhood that my soldiers experience. Anybody else hella excited for Enemy Within??
Sniper:gets a 95% hit chance
Also sniper: completely misses
When you're going shopping with your friends during an epidemic
"We look forward to seeing your progress"
We'll be in touch, Commander.
2012: Kill the Aliens!
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2020: PRAISE THE SNEK WAIFU!!
Teacher: Hello, today we have a test!!!
-Music plays-
Simply epic. You hear it and you know: Nothing can stop the troopers from XCOM!
Thin Men: Allow us to end your run early for you.
Awesome soundtrack, I keep coming back to it..
Listened to this as I got ready for a job interview yesterday. Got the job today!
Prepare for deployment, Strike One.
The nostalgia, gonna have to play some today
I didn't have a computer that can play this game so I wind up buying this game on my android phone years after this game was released. I played this during a long haul flight and let me tell you, this soundtrack made this game so great and so awesome the first time I heard it. Did not sleep during that 8-hour flight as I was too busy killing aliens (and also super upset seeing my squad getting killed left and right..)
"Even a man who has nothing can still offer his life. No man died in his service that died in vain."
Warhammer 4000
This music while I am decking out my Squad ALWAYS makes me sit there before I click launch... checking and double checking... its amping you for the battle that is coming. Epic piece of sound :)
god damn that was the most epic mouse click of my life
Strike-One, you are clear to engage...
I like the fact that the opening of this tune is like an alarm really gets the blood moving
1:16 PM 11/9/2022 PSI agents need their own office. The testing XCOM does to see whos PSI capable I scored high. Only reason why someone like me is able to go on frontlines as PSI is cus Im former assault/infantry experienced kind of like Carl from Starship Troopers tagging along with Rico and others as infantry squads.
I made my troops look like stormtroopers to reflect their aim.
Confidence embodied!
I hope you'll handle this matter with... discretion, Commander.
This song never gets old.
Michael McCann makes another epic score.This is what makes a great game an epic score:-)
I've found myself listening more to this music on the squad selection screen than actually selecting my damned squad.
Big Sky ready to blast some tunes.
Yep, it was awesome when Wing Commander first did dynamic music, back in the day...it's an essential part of any Epic experience in a game!!! This is such a cool score!
Finally, we can use this in XCOM 2
Strike team, prepare for deployment.
I love it when the music syncs up to my best of the best, the elite, most valuable squad take off.
Oh, hell. Who am I kidding! Bunch of rookies that I am trowing at the enemy in the vein hope they some how survive...
They should have make the credit screen rolling with this music, while script the remaining squad running towards the skyranger, killing Alien on the way, while trying to escape from the temple ship.
You know its gonna be a metric shitton of dead muttons when this banger comes on
Replay in higher difficulty and turn on ironman. Makes it much more exciting. Once you're done with that, try putting more limitations upon yourself (like no more than 2 reloads per mission and stuff like that). Once you're done with that and are really for a REAL challenge, install DOSBOX and play the original 1994 XCOM for a good beating.
I love this track. It is quite possibly my favorite XCOM: Enemy Unknown track.
So many bold soldiers went to battle with this music in their ears...
В тылу врага Cold war миссия: Остров Крым. Кто понял тот понял
I'm playing xcom2 with enemy within's ost just for this loadout music
Me too. Changed it as it became available. Never looked back. I hope i can select this version again when Xcom3 finally arrives.
Honestly, this is fucking incredible.
To think this man has basically invented an entire musical vibe.
"Facing Our Future".
::gets his big job break a civilian contractor for the department of defense::
::gets a bunch of boring DoD documents thrown at him full of convoluted A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.S as far as the eye can see holy bejebuss::
-_-
::plays this music and continues to read...suddenly its not boring::
I am ready to lead the entire DoD! Follow me 'Murica! *_*
The "mission start" button in that screen should be removed, so we can listen to this epic piece the whole time
Test today. Studied for the last 48 hours. No breakfast.
BRING IT ON!
"We're in the pipe, 5x5!"
Very cool song. Always reminds me how Skyranger takes off and base door closes in Xcom :-)
That's Xcom, baby.
WHY ISN'T THIS ON SPOTIFY!?
0:32 is SICK!!!
When I first heard it, it was simply a good song, but after several of my soldiers were killed, I realized that the song was a master piece.
I can't believe they didn't put this theme in Chimera Squad. Nothing makes me want to kick invader butt more!
we will ride, we will fight, till the very end some of you may not make it back but i promise you this i will leave no man or woman behind.
Aliens can go back home
I shed a tear as one of my friends died to this song, his operative served me well. And was replaced immediately xD
That would be so.. damn.. cool... But instead we have the sequence where the Volunteer get's his flashes of the End of the world and goes all heroic sacrifice to save the world... I always like to imagine that one squad member he pushes out through the door banging on the door screaming his name.
This sound track stirs alot of things inside me. it gets me pumped, making me feel like i'm the last hope of humanity and at the same time, fills me with dread, knowing that there is a chance some of my men may not make it back.........is this normal? lol.
and they all die after you send the sky ranger.
THE END ;__:
not today bro, We can do it just believe