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a good adventure game about the justice system would be nice. no law and order that's too episodical.

-a few good men
-jfk
-a time to kill
-just cause
-the verdict

good games about non-cops fighting the system, unraveling conspiracies, digging in the past etcetera.

I forgot about a true gem: The Last Express. Real classy music that takes you back to those great pre-ww2 times.

classy game, classy music, guess there's a connection there.

In some games music is annoying, non-present or at least not important. But in some other games music sets the atmosphere, sucks you into the game.

So what adventure game has the most memorable music? In a good way or bad way?

My definite number one is Little Big Adventure 2 (okay, action-adveture). Great epic music, non-comparable to anything else i've ever heard in a game or even movie.

What's your pick?

The Simpsons by the way, talking about a good cast with tons of possibilities for cool games.

Se7en, the adventure game universe could use a good serial killer hunting game after so many, many, disappointments.

Die hard, one man against a whole bunch of thugs and more importantly; against all ods.

Any world war 2 game: would be brave and rewarding if someone gave it a try to make a good game about ww2. As a resistance member, someone looking for his relatives or even as a german soldier or ss officer... most adventurge games dealing with world war 2 only have some nazi's in them (indiana) but in the heart of war would be something.
I say start with movies such as Blackbook about the resistance, why not.

I send you a PM, perhaps I can help out with the music.

Running with the devil - Van Halen
Cigarettes & alcohol - Oasis
Radar Love - Golden Earring
Town called malice - the Jam
Bohemian Rapsody - Queen

I composed the score for Colourwise, an AGS puzzle game and winner of 4 2008 AGS awards, mainly for non-adventure related awards.

No awards for the game music however, which was to be expected:
Due to my late entry into the 'team' that entire soundtrack (I guess about 10 songs) was written in only two weeks. And more importantly; it was no dramatic soundtrack for an adventure game, they were fresh and happy midi tunes for a puzzle game. Ah well, at least someone mentioned me in their review of the game:
"The music is also pleasant, bringing back memories of ages spent wasted away in SimCity 2000" which I thought was nice because I myself loved SC2000 and it's quirky music."

And just to pat myself on the back a little more (hey it was my debut!):
"I was close to mentioning the lack of a variety of music tracks, but I just noticed that the tune does change somewhere after the 14th level. Fortunately, the one song that plays during the intro levels (there's a separate tune at the main menu) is a fun and rhythmic piece with a catchy melody that's repetitive enough  to work as background music without being boring. The rest of the songs are nicely composed upbeat tracks resembling something you'd find during the walking moments of an adventure game. Some of them are laden with timpani, others throw in some bongo hits, still others feature flute or pipe-based melodies that are always easy on the ears. I'm glad the author didn't include any sound effects for the movement of  the block, as that type of sound in a puzzle game usually ends up getting annoying very quickly. There's a few sound effects for certain actions such as teleportation; they all do their job."

However I would like to have a go at some more ambitious work. Altough writing catchy tunes is my specialty, more dramatic symphonies really warms my cockles.

So send me a pm if you think we can help eachother out and, who knows...

Ahhhh.... finally I'm going to test it, what a cool surprise after returning my three weeks holiday. I read the review, great to find out that my music put them off enough to rate the game two places lower then it should've been. Well blah, let's test the game. I hope some of you did enjoy the music since it was all composed in about two weeks time. My congratulations to Francesco and all the other team members, the game already looks great judging the screenshots.

Ps. is there a next chapter to follow in the life of Colourwise (a website or a forum?)