Thursday, June 6, 2013

Review: 'The Last of Us' a gripping tale of survival

Immediately it's clear that The Last of Us is a very different beast to what we're used to from the genre. Naughty Dog unapologetically replaces Uncharted's charismatic action-movie bluster with underplayed, slow burning grit. Where once there

The Last of Us mines the same post-apocalyptic scenario as dozens of other games, but its approach is starkly its own. It paints a vision of a near-future that is cold, heartless and, in many cases, downright evil. It's not a fun place to be, and

Showing up casually late to the marketing party, here's a trailer featuring the multiplayer modes in The Last of Us. They seem to draw from the same well of brutality and paranoia evident in the single-player game.

Of course I recommend The Last of Us, Naughty Dog's action-adventure. It's an extremely good game, set in the bones of our dead world. Sadly, given how much I cherish ND's previous series, Uncharted, it is not a great game. In Uncharted, we galloped

Immediately it's clear that The Last of Us is a very different beast to what we're used to from the genre. Naughty Dog unapologetically replaces Uncharted's charismatic action-movie bluster with underplayed, slow burning grit. Where once there


Review: 'The Last of Us' a gripping tale of survival

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