Gustavo Santaolalla  won back-to-back Oscars in 2006 and 2007, for Brokeback Mountain and Babel, respectively. And those sparse film scores are indicative of Gustavo's use of space in music &#151;  silence can be one of the most effective sounds to use in a video game.

Raison Varner and Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep on Top Score

Some of the scores for video games are incredibly intricate and deserve recognition, which is why we've created Top Score: a series of podcasts dedicated to the music that accompanies soldiers through battle, sorcerers through forests and aliens through space.