Best Licensed Music in a Game
| Amped 2 (XBOX)Publisher: Microsoft  You might not recognize the name of every single band on the Amped 2 soundtrack, but with hundreds of songs spanning a wide variety of genres, you'll have to snowboard for days on end to hear it all. Best of all, the music continuously plays throughout every point of the game, so you never get out of the groove. |
| Amplitude (PS2)Publisher: SCEA Covering a wider variety of genres than its predecessor, Amplitude contains a good mix of songs from artists like David Bowie, POD, blink 182, Logan 7, and Weezer. And unlike in most other games with licensed music, here you get to remix the songs yourself. |
| Project Gotham Racing 2 (XBOX)Publisher: Microsoft Microsoft's online racing game contains a number of different cities, with a location-specific soundtrack for each one. Project Gotham contains more than 240 songs and more than 30 local radio DJs. |
| SSX 3 (XBOX, GC, PS2)Publisher: Electronic Arts SSX 3 contains dozens of tracks from artists like The Chemical Brothers and Jane's Addiction, but what really makes the music unique is the way the game fades specific portions of a song in and out depending on what you're doing on the slopes. |
| True Crime: Streets of LA (XBOX, GC, PS2)Publisher: Activision Rather than attempt to appease all listeners with a more cross-genre musical offering, True Crime instead focuses on a great collection of uncensored West Coast hip-hop, giving the game a cohesive sound that most licensed soundtracks lack. |
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