The NWR Award for Best GameCube Sound, as you might have already guessed, goes to the 2006 GameCube game that sounds the best.

A Zelda victory in GameCube Best Sound wasn't a no-brainer. We had to take a second vote to make sure Twilight Princess was worthy of it. In the end, the cards fell in the way most of us expected them to. You'd think with that pants-wetting soundtrack that it would be a landslide victory, but there were actually some pretty good tunes in the other '06 GameCube releases. Leave it to Nintendo to release the game that sounds better than the rest anyways.

Runner-up (tie): Chibi Robo

It helps for Best Sound nominees to have have good music, but Chibi-Robo went a step further than that. What really impressed us was the use of music for the little robot's sound effects. Something as mundane as walking around the house and doing chores became a very happy thing to do because of it. We liked that a lot, so we're giving it joint second prize behind the Zelda juggernaut.

Runner-up (tie): Baten Kaitos Origins

You can't go wrong with a Monolith Soft soundtrack, which is the big reason why BKO is here. Yeah, the voice acting isn't the best, but you can skip over it. You don't want to pass up the great music, though, because it's one of reasons Origins is such a joy to play through.