For the first time in the company's history, Naughty Dog split into two teams while one team developed Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, the other half developed The Last of Us. In the online multiplayer mode, up to eight players engage in cooperative and competitive gameplay.ĭevelopment of The Last of Us began in 2009, soon after the release of Naughty Dog's previous game, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.
Players use firearms and improvised weapons, and can use stealth to defend against hostile humans and cannibalistic creatures infected by a mutated fungus in the genus Cordyceps. The Last of Us is played from a third-person perspective. Players control Joel, a smuggler tasked with escorting a teenage girl, Ellie, across a post-apocalyptic United States. As always, email and follow us on Twitter.The Last of Us is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. You can submit your own 500 to 600-word reader feature at any time, which if used will be published in the next appropriate weekend slot. The reader’s feature does not necessary represent the views of GameCentral or Metro. And I’m saying that more to Naughty Dog than I am to anyone else because I don’t think they realise just how much damage they’ve done with their portrayal of such an irredeemable monster. Just because you liked the character in the first game doesn’t mean you can still treat her as a spunky, likeable teenager in the sequels after what she’s done. If there is some attempt to redeem Ellie in the third game I will despair. The unfortunate thing is that in other aspects The Last Of Us Part 2 does very well in showing two sides of a conflict and having you controlling and interacting with characters from both sides. I suspect this was the point Naughty Dog was trying to make but it becomes muddled in the overlong screenplay and far too sympathetic characterisation. Ellie is not what anyone should aspire to be, she’s what you should try to avoid becoming. This is all on her and she should not be celebrated in way. Joel’s influence as a bad person is often cited as an excuse for Ellie being as bad as she is and yet he is not shown to do anything nearly as vindictive as Ellie, and always talks about the things he has done as a regrettable necessity. Even within the context of surviving a zombie apocalypse, and having Joel as a father figure, there is nothing to justify her selfishness and complete lack of empathy. Her games are much more grounded and she and her other supporting characters act like actual human beings (which Kratos literally isn’t). Which is what made the PlayStation 4 game so impressive, as it deconstructed the character and made him react to the terrible things he’d done.Įllie is completely different though. Kratos from God Of War (another Sony game, oddly) is often described as the most evil anti-hero in gaming but his character in the early PlayStation 2 and 3 games was so thinly written, and meant as an obvious power fantasy for teenage boys, it’s hard to take him seriously. The game clearly does and although you sense that Naughty Dog’s writers are trying to be even-handed they obviously like Ellie too much as a character, despite her actions and position being completely indefensible (no doubt because many also worked on the first game). It doesn’t work because you’re supposed to like Ellie.
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