The Best Video Game Music of All Time
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Crooner Bobby Darin's original version of "La Mer" also shows up in BioShock, but it's the haunting instrumental version by jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt that greets players at the above-ground doorway into Rapture. The light, lazy, guitar-led version of this classic tune seems to emanate from every inch of the structure which serves as the entry point into Andrew Ryan's failed utopia. When the same song is heard later on, after the full extent of Rapture's rapid decline has been revealed, memories of that "red pill" moment when you flipped the lever in the bathysphere become all the sharper for it.
Listen to it here.