Hey guys! Welcome back to another post of The Games Insiders! Where today, we are going to be talking about one of the most successful game Naughty Dogs have ever made. This game is sort of like the Walking Dead or the Resident Evil, where you fight zombies. This is a really cool game, with great story and the plot is long and enjoyable. Before we start, please feel free to explore other posts in out blog. Well, without any farther to do, let's start today's AMAZING post!!!!About
The Last of us is an action-adventure horror game, where you have to survive the apocalyptic world and escort your "daughter" named Ellie. This game was developed by Naughty Dogs, and was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. They are also the creators of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. This game was first released on 2013 and was only released for PS3. However, it is rumored to have it's second game released this year in 2018. It was first announced on 2009, and was under development ever since. It took them 4 years to develop this game and publish it. This game became, one of the best selling game in the PS4 selling over 1.3 million copies. The PS3 will never be the same without this game. However this was also released for PS4 in 2014 and became also a huge popular game in PS4. Now, this game is also the game with the most awards ever received in the gaming history of all time, and is counted as one of the greatest game of all time!
Gameplay
This game is a third person game, and is really amazing. You have to escort your "daughter" Ellie, and that's your main goal of this game. You need to go through America and survive the zombie like world. Player goes through woods, towns, sewers, etc to advance the story. The players can use firearms, improvised weapons, and stealth to fight against hostile humans or anything that were infected by the Cordyceps fungus and are acting like zombies. You mostly control Joel, the father of Ellie, and sometimes also control Ellie.
In combats, players can use various types of weapons including the long range weapons, where you can shoot rifles, shotguns, bows, etc. And also you can shoot with a close range weapons: hand guns, and short barrel shotguns. Players can also scavange items such as base ball bat. However there are limited uses to those. You can also sneak behind enemies and kill enemies by sneaking behind the enemies and killing them.
There is also something called the "listening mode", where you can detect the enemies by listening to them. This is really helpful to the game. There are also floating pallets, as Ellie does not know how to swim. This game also invovles a lot of thinking and common sense.
Your health will regen when you find a med pack, or it will regen as the time goes on. You also have a health bar, so you need to look out for that. If you don't the next moment you are probably going to be dead.
There are also fighting companions like Ellie, and they can support you by throwing rocks or stuffs like that to stun them. Which is also very useful.
Plot
In September 2013, an outbreak of a mutant Cordyceps fungus ravages the United States, transforming its human hosts into cannibalistic monsters known as infected. In the suburbs of Austin, Texas, Joel (Troy Baker) flees the chaos with his brother Tommy (Jeffrey Pierce) and daughter Sarah (Hana Hayes). As they flee, Sarah is shot by a soldier and dies in Joel's arms. In the twenty years that follow, most of civilization is destroyed by the infection. Survivors live in heavily policed quarantine zones, independent settlements, and nomadic groups. Joel works as a smuggler with his partner Tess (Annie Wersching) in the quarantine zone in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts. They hunt down Robert (Robin Atkin Downes), a black-market dealer, to recover a stolen weapons cache. Before Tess kills him, Robert reveals that he traded the cache with the Fireflies, a rebel militia opposing the quarantine zone authorities.
The leader of the Fireflies, Marlene (Merle Dandridge), promises to double their cache in return for
In the fall, Joel and Ellie finally find Tommy in Jackson, Wyoming, where he has assembled a fortified settlement near a hydroelectric dam with his wife Maria (Ashley Scott). Joel contemplates leaving Ellie with Tommy, but after she confronts him about Sarah, he decides to let her stay with him. Tommy directs them to a Fireflies enclave at the University of Eastern Colorado. They find the university abandoned, but learn that the Fireflies have moved to a hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Afterward, Joel is severely wounded by bandits, who are killed by Ellie.
During the winter, Ellie and Joel shelter in the mountains. Joel is on the brink of death and relies on Ellie to care for him. Hunting for food, Ellie encounters David (Nolan North) and James (Reuben Langdon), scavengers willing to trade medicine for food; David turns hostile after revealing the university bandits were part of his group. Ellie manages to lead David's group away from Joel, but is eventually captured; David intends to recruit her into his cannibal group. Refusing the offer, she escapes after killing James, but David corners her in a burning restaurant. Meanwhile, Joel recovers from his wounds and sets out to find Ellie. He reaches Ellie as she kills David and breaks down crying; Joel comforts her before they flee.
In the spring, Joel and Ellie arrive in Salt Lake City and are captured by a Firefly patrol. In the hospital, she was not alone when she was infected and expresses her survivor guilt. At her insistence, Joel swears his story about the Fireflies is true.
Review
Overall, the Last of Us is a really cool game, with a gaming record for the most earned awards. Tons of knowledge of common sense is used to play this game. The story line is really cool, and if you are not careful you can get addicted. However, the game is sometimes too hard, and you end up looking it up in the internet to see how you can beat the level.
Metacritic- 95%
Common Sense Media 5/5
Gamespot 9/10
The Games Insiders- 9.5/10
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