Gustavo Santaolalla's score will heighten the emotion between The Last Of Us' main cast.

The Uncharted developer has announced that it has snapped up Oscar winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain, Babel) to score the music for its recently revealed PS3 exclusive, The Last Of Us.

"He's awesome," creative director Neil Druckmann said of the musician. "He picks and chooses what he works on; he could work on all these big movies. We brought him in here, showed him the game, walked him through the whole story and what we're trying to do, and he said 'I want to be a part of this'."

The press was played a sample of the main theme at a top-secret event in Santa Monica yesterday. Eurogamer described: "The main theme is acoustic guitar-led, an arpeggiated figure in a minor key over tribal percussion, building to a dissonant climax of fiercely-strummed chords."

"With this music we're trying to get emotion. We're not going for horror. There's going to be horrific things happening in this game, but that's not the focus of it. The monsters aren't the focus of it, it's the relationship between Joel and Ellie," Druckmann continued.

Music to our ears.

[source eurogamer.net]