This Fallout series prequel score is a good example of an action/sci-fi soundtrack in the modern cinematic style done right. The string swells, the low brass tones, the rhythmic percussion, even the often understated melodies are similar to what you might hear in so many bland and uninspired modern film and game scores, but Fallout 76 is anything but, thanks to excellent orchestration, emotive solo violin (given just a slight folk quality to match the game's Appalachian setting), and modestly used but extremely effective themes (particularly the album opening "Main Theme", which brings to mind the similarly apocalyptic yet rousing opening theme of James Newton Howard's The Postman). Even many of the heavily atmospheric, nearly ambient pieces - including the ten-minute "Wandering Appalachia" tracks with nary a theme to be heard - are well worth listening.