Monday, 24 November 2014

PS4 - The Last Of Us (Remastered) - Updated Dec 16, 2014





Update:
- Dec 16, 2014, DLC for the The Last Of Us: Left Behind was voted Game Of The Year for the category PS3 (Gamespot.com - Dec 15, 2014)


The Last of Us is an action-adventure third person shooter video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released on June 14, 2013 for the PlayStation 3. The player uses firearms, weapons assembled using item found in the game environment and stealth to escape, defend and survive against humans and zombie-like creatures infected by a strain of mutated fungus in the post-epidemic apocalypse United States background. Rated "Mature".

The Last of Us has received numerous critical acclaim for its storyline, voice acting, sound quality, music and graphics. The Last of Us was the second-largest PlayStation 3 video game launch in 2013 after Grand Theft Auto V

Gameplay

The Last of Us uses a third-person perspective in gunfights and melee combat. For most of the game, the player controls the character, Joel, the male protagonist. Ellie and other companions are controlled by the AI. The player must travel across post-apocalyptic environments, mostly US cities while fighting off human survivors and animals/creatures, infected or otherwise, by the mutated parasitic fungus, Cordyceps. The player can attack enemies directly, or use stealth tactics to avoid combat and escape undetected.

Players can use ranged weapons such as rifles, shotguns and bows as well as short-barreled guns such as pistols and revolvers. They can assemble or improvise melee weapons using items scavenged in the game environment such as pipes and baseball bats. Objects such as, bottles and bricks, can be used to distract or attack enemies. Weapons can be upgraded using collected items/parts at workbenches found in the game environment. Joel's physical health and skills can be upgraded or improved with items such as pills and medicinal herbs. Health kits and molotov cocktails can be made using collected items such as alcohol, towels, and blades. The game also involve the solving of simple puzzles; for example, by using wooden planks to move Ellie across bodies of water, or using ladders or objects to reach higher areas. Notes, journals, maps, and comic books, can be found, kept and viewed in the backpack menu.

There are periods without combat, mostly involving conversation between the characters that will eventually developed into father-daughter relationship as the game and story progresses. That's it before anymore spoilers ruin the game for some.

"The Last of Us was a commercial success. In the United Kingdom, it debuted at number one in the sales charts and stayed there for six weeks. The Last of Us also topped the charts in the United States, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Spain and Japan. It sold 1.3 million copies in the first week and 3.4 million copies worldwide in three weeks, making it the fastest-selling PS3 game of 2013 prior to the release of Grand Theft Auto V. As of July 2014, The Last of Us had sold over 7 million copies worldwide. In its first week, The Last of Us: Remastered sold 632,000 copies." - Source Wikipedia

The Last of Us: Remastered is an updated version for the PlayStation 4, It includes the downloadable content for the episode Left Behind, previously released on PlayStation 3.

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