Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War Original Soundtrack
The Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War Original Soundtrack is the official soundtrack of Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War. It was commercially released by King Records in December 22, 2004 under the catalog code KICA-1346~9 at the price of 3,990 yen.
The soundtrack features many signature composers of the Namco Sound Team, including Tetsukazu Nakanishi, Keiki Kobayashi and Hiroshi Okubo, while also introducing new assets, such as Junichi Nakatsuru, Katsuro Tajima and the ACE COMBAT 5 Chorus Team. It contains varied music genres, shifting between techno-orchestral compositions, electro-rock and fully orchestrated cutscene music, setting the mood for the game's plot. The Unsung War is notable for being the first game in history to involve the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as for being the first to include licensed music, featuring Puddle of Mudd's "Blurry", which is used as the game's title theme. The soundtrack as a whole took Namco 3 years of development, making it the largest and most expensive soundtrack in the company's history.
Track listing
Disc 1
The first disc centers on the game's first half.
- Title
- Briefing 1
- Hangar 1
- Shorebirds
- Open War “”Theme Of Open The War”"
- Wardog
- Naval Blockade
- First Flight (Arranged ACE COMBAT 04 “”Blockade”")
- Rendezvous
- Ballistic Missile
- White Bird (Part I)
- Front Line
- Scinfaxi
- Mother Goose 1
- Lit Fuse
- Blind Spot
- 8492
- Chain Reaction
- Reprisal
- Powder Keg
- Game Over
- Shop
Disc 2
This disc mostly centers on the events from mission #13 through #20.
- Menu
- Four Horsemen
- Demons Of Razgriz
- Hrimfaxi
- Ice Cage
- White Noise
- Desert Arrow
- Desert Lightning
- Free Flight
- Supercircus
- Into The Dusk
- Fortress
- Mask
- Final Option
- Ancient Walls
- Failed Game Over
- Result
- Tutorial Main
- Tutorial Menu
- Tutorial Result
Disc 3
The third disc centers on the events of the plot from mission #21 to the game's climax and closing in mission #27+, "The Unsung War".
- Briefing 2
- Hangar 2
- Solitaire
- Closure
- Ghosts Of Razgriz
- White Bird (Part II)
- Heartbreak One
- Grabacr
- The Journey Home (On Radio)
- Wings Of Unity
- Dead Ahead
- Winter Storm
- The Unsung War
- The Journey Home / The Warsaw Philharmonic (unused in-game)
- Razgriz / The Warsaw Philharmonic (unused in-game)
Disc 4
The final disc contains the music from Operation Katina (Arcade Mode), alongside most of the game's cutscene compositions, including "Blurry" and a remix of Stephanie Cooke's "Blue Skies", the credits theme of Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies.
- Arcade Title
- Arcade Menu
- Arcade Stage Select
- Arcade Briefing
- Arcade Ripping Air
- Arcade Knock You Down (Arranged ACE COMBAT 2 "Elemental Particle"
- Arcade Elemental Particle 2
- Arcade Broken Skies
- Arcade Catch The Lightning
- Arcade Riding High
- Arcade Do or Die
- Arcade Consequence
- Arcade Game Over
- Arcade Clear
- Arcade Victory Road
- Blue Skies (remix)
- Razgriz “”ACE COMBAT 5 Main Theme”"
- Open The War
- Sand Island
- The Following Morning
- 15 Years Ago
- A Blue Dove For The Princess “”Nagase’s Theme”"
- OSEA
- Blind Corridor
- Fugitive Hope
- New Emblem
- President Harling
- SOLG
- Battleships Uprising
- Final Launch
- Hope For Freedom
- Unsung Heroes
- Peace (Epilogue)
- The Journey Home “”ACE COMBAT 5 Ending Theme”"
- BLURRY / PUDDLE OF MUDD
Gallery
Lyrics to The Unsung War
Lyrics to The Journey Home
Lyrics to Blurry
Lyrics of Blue Skies (Remix)
Trivia
- A solo piano rendition of the Razgriz theme is featured at the start of "2015 Trailer", Track 18 on Disc 6 of the Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Original Soundtrack, which played during the game's announcement trailer at PlayStation Experience 2015. This later evolved into the start of "Friendly Fire", Track 17 on Disc 1 of the same soundtrack, which played in-game at the end of "Rescue".
- The track Elemental Particle 2 is based on the original from Ace Combat 2 with new composition.
- "First Flight" was one of the pieces of video game music played during the Parade of Nations at the 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.