Our first delectable taste comes right near the beginning in "Gekko", where suspenseful strings subtly but persistently build until a sweet techno-New Age synth horn climax rises. We get a few other action extravaganzas like "Desperate Chase", with its urgent strings and melodic guitar riffs, but most tracks let loose only in bursts that though short are worth waiting for.
"Mobs Alive" gives us the instrumental and choral works for the length of the entire track, providing an epic end to the first disc and the climax of the soundtrack.
Choral accompaniment is also added to the mix, usually only briefly but to great effect, as with the almost spiritual sounding female chorus in "Breakthrough" and "Endless Pain". An electric guitar sometimes enters the fray to juice up the orchestrations, and the frequent use of rapid electronic percussion, synth, and filter effects in tracks like "Haven Troopers" clearly distinguishes the score from other game soundtracks. The synth-orchestral base instrumentation suits the "tactical espionage" theme nicely, and it's taken to another level by superb electronic accompaniment. Metal Gear Solid 4 Original Soundtrack has some of the highest production values I've heard in a game score. More surprising is the degree to which it succeeds. One would expect a soundtrack in a series like Metal Gear Solid to strive to be cinematic, but even so the degree to which its fourth and supposedly final installment does so is surprising.
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