Some new details have been released for Naughty Dog’s new upcoming title The Last of Us. The game was announced at the VGAs last Saturday and has picked up quite a bit of attention since it was shown. The game is currently looking at a 2012 to 2013 release date. The details came from a foreign site that needed a translator so bear with the wording.
-An adventure that revolves around the relationship between Ellie and Joel. She a 14 year old that knows no other place in the devastated world that has been raised, which will be very important in the interaction with him, a man of forty a few years, much less be the typical hero just a nice guy who wants to survive in an extremely hostile world.
-The animations and facial expressions are made by hand, as in the series Uncharted
-The story revolves around them, their relationship, the connection is established, and this in itself already unlike any horror adventure, game or post-apocalyptic zombies.
-It will be a single player adventure, and control throughout the game to Joel.
-We have to protect Ellie in more than one occasion.
-A narrative which promises to be especially careful, very ambitious, even revolutionary, with which aim to go one step further in the video game world when it comes to telling stories,
-Mark Richard Davies, chief designer of Enslaved, Naughty Dog is now with The Last of Us.
-In The Last of Us the important thing is the way, the special relationship established between Ellie and Joel, regardless of how terrible the threat that surrounds them and the actions that have to do to survive.
-There will be other humans, who in their struggle for survival will be willing to attack,
-From the careful lighting, animation and modeling of the characters with graphics that after seeing the trailer could not believe that they were moved in real time through a PlayStation 3, but as Evan Wells taught us in his office, it does not move all by his own game graphics
-To convey more tension, more credible and nerve to the cinematic, you are trying to imitate a hand-held camera style
-The Last of Us features the music of Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla (Babel, Brokeback Mountain).
-Currently there are few workers in the offices of Naughty Dog, and the guys who worked on Uncharted 3 are on vacation.
-The Last of Us was one of the titles that were to show at E3 2010.
-A linear least Uncharted game with elements of exploration.
-Animals, flooded areas, abandoned houses, …
