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Awesome Music / Splinter Cell

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"CIA Lobby" provides the necessary thrills for the namesake mission in Langley itself.
"Common Fight" plays when a suitably epic moment is happening (such as escaping the Kalinatek building, the showdown with Grinko and his mooks in the abattoir, and the shootout in the Presidential library). Also doubles as an Autobots, Rock Out! song. Unless you were playing the PS2 or Gamecube versions of the game, in which case this awesome track was only used once during the escape from Kalinatek.

The whole score by Jack Wall is much more atmospheric than that of the first game. Among the tracks that stand out, "Jerusalem" is the perfect musical atmosphere to infiltrate a Middle Eastern city by night.

Amon Tobin's whole score is made of breakbeat, IDM and especially Drum and Bass. It captures the game's atmosphere so well that it seems astonishing that they didn't keep him on retainer for the rest of the series. For example, "Battery" is really good at setting in the mood.
Jesper Kyd's "Bomb Defusal" at the end of the Bathhouse mission is appropriately tense, with the beeping of the timers being integrated into the music. It gets more frantic as the clock runs down.
The 3DS port of Chaos Theory received a mixed reception, but almost everyone agrees that its theme song "Breaking Protocol", once again by Amon Tobin, kicks ass.

Iceland Battle, an action packed piece with an epic guitar riff at the start and mid way through the piece.
The Kinshasa fight music is awesome, thanks to the African chanting and drums.
The Cozumel fight music is cool, thanks to that sweet electric guitar.

During a particularly emotional scene, the designers include DJ Shadow's "Building Steam With a Grain of Salt." It works perfectly.

"Got Yourself Locked Up" on the original soundtrack not only fits during tense moments in stealth and action, but it's very fitting to the series as a whole.