The Last of Us

Hello I am Ryan, back to review another game called The Last of Us . It's an upcoming survival horror action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog for the Playstation 3 . It was officially revealed on December 10, 2011 during the Spike TV Video Game Awards & is scheduled for a worldwide release on June 14, 2013 as a Playstation 3 exclusive.

The game focuses on 2 survivors, an adult name Joel and a youth name Ellie . They were trekking across post-apocalyptic United States .

Gameplay 

The last of us uses third-person view. The player will control of Joel, while elle will be controlled by the AL. The game involve gun fighting and melle combat as wel as a cover system. The player will fight off the Infected (a former human) and survivors (human that are not infected) but are hostile towards Joel and Ellie. A new gameplay mechanic is a feature the developers call "dynamic stealth", meaning that there are many different types of strategies and techniques that the player at any given time as they approach a new situation, to which enemies will react differently. Naughty Dog have develop an AL system called "Balance of Power". This new system allows enemies to react realistically to any combat situation they are placed in by taking cover if they see the player, calling for help if they need it and even taking advantages of players weaknesses, such as when Joel runs out of ammunition or when he is being attacked by other enemies. 

Plot 

The story is set two decades after a cordyceps-type fungus has killed millions, with nature gradually retaking the abandones cities and towns. The survivors are hemmed inside quarantine zones, completely under the heel of the United States military, with order and screening for any Infected being viciously maintained under martial law. Joel, a hardened black-marketeer within one of the quarantine zones, goes through an event which makes him promise an old friend that he will get a young, fourteen year old girl named Ellie, away from the harsh regime to a resistance group known as the Fireflies. They began a journey through the USA, avoiding the Infected, humanoid creatures who sole aim has become spreading the fungal infection. Joel and Ellie also have to avoid scavengers that survive outside the quarantine zones who see Joel and Ellie as their latest prey. Adding to their problems, the military is determined to find Ellie and bring her back under their power. 

Development 

The game was first teased before the Spike VideO Game Awards on November 29, 2011, with an billboard in Times Square mentioning "a PS3 exclusive you won't believe". Initial trailers showed an apocalyptic event including riots, epidemic, quarantine, and violence, as well as a clip of the BBC's Planet Earth showing ab ant infected with Cordyceps unilateralis, a dangerous parasitic fungus that usually kills insects such as ants. On December 9th, players of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception spotted and in-game reference to the aforementioned trailer with the newspaper headline "scientists are still struggling to understand deadly fungus". At the Spike Video Games Awards, Sony officially unveiled the game, a brand new intellectual property from Naughty Dog, created by a previously unpublicized 80-person Naughty Dog development team. A gameplay trailer, made up of in-game footage, showed a man and a teenage girl fending off other survivors and what appeared to be people with unusual fungal growth before running out into a dilapidated city covered in greenery, reminiscent of the film I am Legend.

Shortly after the unveiling, Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells posted new details of The Last of Us on the Playstation Blog:

Shortly after the unveiling, Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells posted new details of The Last of Us on the PlayStation Blog:

"The Last of Us is a genre-defining experience that blends survival and action elements to tell a character driven take about a modern plague decimating mankind. Nature encroaches upon civilizations, forcing remaining survivors to kill for food, weapons and whatever they can find. Joel, a ruthless survivor, and Ellie, a brave young teenager who is wise beyond her years, must work together to survive their journey across what remains of United States."

The announcement confirmed that the new project is being headed by the studio game director Bruce Straley. Former lead designer on Enslaved: Odssey to the West, Mark Richard Davies has been working at Naughty Dog on the game. After Uncharted 2: Among Thieves shipped in 2009, some of the development team from he game formed the team for The Last of Us, while the remainder worked on Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception; The Last of US marks the first time that Naughty DOf has become a two-team studio. It is also the first time the studio has introduced a second new IP in the same hardware generation.

The spike Video Game Awards 2012 officially revealed The Last of Us to be released on May 7, 2013. However SOny and Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann later delayed the release date to June 14, 2013 to give the developers more time to polish up the final game. Instead, a demo of the game will be activated for those players who own God of War: ascension in late May.

I love games with apocalyptic themes, and I am sure when they release the game, lots of people would buy them as this game has won 25 awards in 2012. Thanks for viewing, and Happy Good Friday !