The Last of Us (2013).
Platforms: the PlayStation 3.
The idea of designing a new game for a post-apocalyptic setting was shaped by Naughty Dog studio workers Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley, influenced by the work of George Romero and Frank Miller of the first game developers to create a zombie like setting, and from the second story arose a story about a man who protects a young girl from enemies.
The idea of an apocalypse was eventually rejected when it was viewed by the documentary Planet Earth, which tells how a parasitic fungus of cordyceps enslaves the insects and then turns them into a kind of zombie. The new setting was prepared for the future.
The Last of U began production in 2009 and was released from the PlayStation 3 just before sunset last year.
This game takes place twenty years after the start of the global epidemic. A virus killed the charlah and became ill for decades. This led many sick, anxious people to group and adapt their lives, although people should not even return to their usual culture. The population lives in quarantine zones controlled by the military, while the muti, looters and terrorists of the Cicada association, who want to get an infection vaccine, leave.
The main character of The Last of Us is Joel, an elderly smuggler who has to send the fourteen-year-old girl Ellie to the scientists with the attention of the Cicada: she was found to have immunity against the fungus and this allowed humanity to develop a cure.
Even though Naughty Dog played its usual third-person action, the game was completely different from the Uncharted series: instead of being a dynamic action game, gamers were given almost a survival simulator in which there is no shortage of ammunition and the main character can wrestle with an enemy without the help of another protagonist. The developers wanted players to feel Joel’s age as well as the weight of weapons and limited resources in a world that hasn’t worked for twenty years.
Therefore, most often players had to play stealth action as a shooter; they string from one cover to another; and adjacent and soothingly eliminated enemies. Once an open battle started, a mistake would be a life saver, especially when the difficulties are great. The multiplayer didn’t turn out to be much less hardcore, with many modes capable of melee combat.
The plot was very well connected to Game of Last You from the series. The unsociable Joel became more and more attached to Ellie, and the story expanded with time (the events of the game last about a year) allowed to make the process of developing relationships between the characters natural. As a result of the novel The Road and the video based on it, the game focused on the main characters, but did not forget about the secondary characters, showing different aspects of post-apothecyptic society through them.
The Last of Us has played the same role in the game industry as Half-Life, fifteen years earlier. It showed that video games can be cinematic and the stories they tell can be as mature as their audiences, as noted since the days of eight-bit games. It’s not the first statement, at least the industry, to remember Spec Ops: The Line a little earlier, but certainly the loudest statement ever.
The game was successful. High standards, player excitement, multiple awards for storytelling, acting, soundtrack and visual design, 240 awards. One of the best-selling games of 2013 is the market of 1.3 million copies and 3.4 million copies sold in the first three weeks. Justly? Yes. Have gamers wanted to do a sequel? Surely.
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I left for the last of us (2014).
Platform: Xbox 3: PlayStation 3: Game of Thrones!
Shortly after the release of The Last of Us, Naughty Dog announced an expansion of the story titled Left Behind, which was released in the first half of 2014. The development of the DLC takes place in two timelines: the primary timeline, when Ellie traveled with Joel to search for the Cicada Lab, and the preview, three weeks before the start of the original game plot, when Ellie and her boyfriend went to an abandoned mall. went where the girl was bitten by the infected.
Gameplay-wise, Last of Us: Left Behind wasn’t there, but script-wise it closed a few holes in the plot and revealed Ellie as a character. The addition has received high marks, but has not only been criticized.
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The Last of Us, remastered (2014).
In 2012, the PlayStation 4 console went on sale and Naughty Dog started developing a remaster for this platform. Since its release in the summer of 2014, it has made a few changes to the original game without affecting the gameplay.
PS4 gamers can enjoy gameplay with a high frame rate of 60 fp at 1080p, longer drawing spacing, improved lighting and shadows, and updated textures. The game used the dualShock 4 controller, touchpad, light bar and a built-in speaker, and the photo mode became more practical.
The remaster has added all previously released content, including the Left Behind DLC and other material.
Buy (PS4).
The Last of Us II (2020)
The sequels of The Last of Us have been waiting for seven years, when Naughty Dog set out to re-imagine uncharted 4: A Thiefs End and Uncharted: A Lost Legacy. The Last of Us Part II was released on the PlayStation 4 in 2020, shortly before the PlayStation 5 went on sale and the story continued to unfold.
The sequel has been delayed for 4 years and the protagonists are Ellie and Abby, girls who are on opposite sides of the conflict. Moreover, both have more similarities than differences: belligerent, obsessed with the thirst for revenge, they will not be peaceful until they achieve their goal.
The plot of Part II caused a lot of controversy: players were furious at the developers’ fate to play in Joel’s game, they did not dislike the new main character, and the decisions of characters seemed quite unambiguous to the public. The creator of the sequel, thinking of the creator Neil Druckmann, chose to talk about the destructiveness of the endless cycle of revenge, as well as the idea of a similar sequel.
In terms of gameplay, this one is extensive compared to the last of us. Players have been given new features including the creeping mechanic, killing skills and weapon killing. The sequel introduced a dog that can follow characters, the AI got smarter, and the enemies had names to give them more personality. The attack on opponents has become more naturalistic and brutal, bringing us back to the critics who want to show the rejection of violence.
This time, multiplayer had to be given up, but the developer originally planned to do all other types of network modes. After completion of the project, it was decided to put all energy into the storytelling campaign.
The popularity of The Last of Us Part II with the public, which staged a review bombing of Metacritic, was high due to the sheer volume of copies in the first few days of its release. This made Part II the fastest selling PS4 exclusive. Of course, it was not without accolades. The project was named the annual Game of the Year in many publications and at The Game Awards 2020, the project received awards in seven of the eleven categories.
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The Last of Us, Part I (2022).
Platforms: PlayStation 5, PC, etc.
Finally, in 2022, a remake of The Last of Us was released, subtitled by analogy with the sequel Part I. In addition, this is the first installment of the series alongside the PlayStation Platform. It was officially announced that the remake would also be available on PC. Many submitters are a great source of inspiration.
The last of Us doesn’t change the plot, reimagined it as well as the gameplay, just changed it a bit further with new features, but this is not a remake: Naughty Dog has rebuilt the game, drastically changed the graphics, character and animation. The project includes all original content, including the Left Behind DLC, and bonus features, but has no offline modes.
Buy 5 copies.
Who among us – Part III?
We’re not sure if the third part of The Last of Us will arrive today, so we can only speculate about the leaked and classified information.
Neil Druckmann, for example, said in an interview in 2021 that he had already prepared a symposium version of the Last of Us Section III. Nevertheless, Druckmann said the third part is not in development; he just hopes it will be released someday.
Since Sony is jealously guarding game development information, it’s highly likely that we won’t know much about Part III until the announcement has been heard.
The last of us is the Holocaust.
Meanwhile, HBO presents a TV series titled The Last of Us. The original game retells the first story and is expected to open until 2023.
The producer and writer of The Last Of Us games, Neil Druckmann, makes a TV show and Craig Mazin, whose films are called “The Scary Movie, The Hangover and Chernobyl” and also “Tuny’s Last of Us”.
Joel was played by Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian, Wonder Woman: 1984), the role of Ellie was played by Bella Ramsay (Game of Thrones). The role of Gabriel Luna (Terminator: Dark Fate) was Joel’s brother. Unsurprisingly, actors from the game also participated in the series. For example, Merle Dandridge played the part of Marlene, the leader of the Cicadas, and she played the same part in the game. The late Jeffrey Pierce, who played Tommy in The Last of Us, became a quarantine-soad resident named Perry. With the last of us, he didn’t appear in the game.
And in addition to The Last of Us, composer Gustavo Santaolalla joined the television show and composed the soundtrack for the series.
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