Best Sound (EGA's VGA's 2008)

Whether the game uses an original score, or simply contains a compilation of licensed tracks, the music for the game must add another level of emotional depth and weight to the experience. Moreover, the game’s diverse, yet suitable, sound effects must engage the player on a variety of levels, not only by extending the realm of gameplay to audio sensory perception, but also by making the player want to crank the volume up to 11. The winner of this award must make hearing the game as fundamental to the experience as seeing the game, and it must do so with the greatest audio fidelity possible.

You may change your vote after you have voted, so be persuasive and let everyone know why you voted for the game you did, and why they should too!

MGS4 gets this one for the voice acting alone.

LBP and Patapon are in a close second or third in my eye. Both have unique sound design and whenever you play either of those games you just wanna smile.

Pata Pata Pata Pon.

Have to go with Fr0dus Maximus on this one as well. In fact the Pata Pata Pata Pon is definitely very very memorable and will be must much better in the sequel and just as memorable.

LBP has that song that I like by The Go! Team, as well as the song "My Patch, My Patch"

I went with Rock Band 2. MGS4's everything was awesome, but Rock Band 2 has almost single-handedly reinvented what music means to me. Now, when I listen to songs on my computer, in my car, or on my iPod, all I can think about is how awesome or un-awesome it would be to play that song in Rock Band. MGS4's audio is functional and secondary; when one is playing MGS4 it helps immerse oneself in the world and the story. Rock Band 2's audio is the reason to play the game, and the visuals are secondary and functional; they are a way of turning an audible experience into a video game.

The problem is that it should be in a separate category of best collection of Compilation of Music tracks, just the same as Brawl, GH: World Tour, and others. And considering both GH and RB feature DLC of new albums and songs each week, we would really just be voting on whether or not we agree with the music genres and artists included in these titles and not on how much it adds to the games experience, how much it enhances the other areas of gameplay, and how well it was composed

I would totally pick Rock Band because it has music from Miranda Cosgrove and the Naked Brothers Band, !!!!

Yea, this is why I think sound should have two separate categories, one for licensed soundtracks and the other to original.

And Stealth I think you are looking at this category as half full, the music for this category is just a single part of it. You have voice acting, sound design, etc to consider as well.

MGS4