As promised last night, Game Informer magazine’s released the first screenshots of Naughty Dog’s mysterious upcoming survival horror project, The Last of Us.
The screenshots show protagonists Joel and Ellie wandering through an apocalyptic Pittsburgh. It looks marginally better than the current-day city (sorry, readers).
Game Informer’s got some juicy new gameplay tidbits to accompany the screenshots too. First up, weapons break so you’ll need to be constantly scavenging for new items to keep you armed. As evidenced in the screenshots though, the world you explore will not be bleak and grey like most other horror titles. Naughty Dog’s using natural growth to “spice up [the game’s] colour palette”. Did someone say Enslaved?
Furthermore, Naughty Dog’s promising that the game won’t be one long escort quest. While you’ll only play as Joel, the developer’s putting a lot of effort into ensuring that Ellie’s AI is not frustrating.
The magazine reports:
The developers stress that The Last of Us is not one long escort mission. Although you won't control Ellie in the game, her AI is one of the team's primary areas of focus. In our demo she always managed to keep up, yet stay out of the way. She didn't seem to need any babysitting at all.
There’s a real clash of themes in these screenshots that gives the game an interesting look. The rundown urban setting contrasts heavily against the tropical growth. And underlying that, there’s the very real threat that this is a frightening, post-apocalyptic world.
If you only follow one PlayStation 3 game this year, make sure it’s this one.
[source gameinformer.com]
Comments 7
Kinda of let down you can't control Ellie. There is just something I find cool about laying the smackdown with a girl.
@Splat Yeah, I was hoping she would be the main protagonist too actually. Perhaps they're saving that for the sequel?
Naughty Dog have done well with companion AI in the past, so Ellie should be alright. The only problem I had with the AI in Uncharted/2/3 was that they'd sometimes do bugger all to help out against enemies.
I trust Naughty Dog with completing this game so much, because they made Crash Team Racing for PS1. The Last of Us, hopefully will be like Dead Island but maybe more on the easy side?
He looks like old bearded Drake.
A shame Ellie is an NPC only. I'm confident in the game though, defo d1p for me.
@ro-kurorai, only in a videogame message would something like "defo d1p" make sense to the rest of us.
this game looks just as good as something you would expect from naughty dogs.
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