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Sobre el juego
The game will play out across various US cities and it's suggested that survival will involve both killing and scavenging. Do you control Joel alone? Ellie? Both? Is it co-op? Naughty Dog isn't saying.
"It's story-driven, [but] the whole triangle is story, gameplay and art," says Staley. "As a gamer it's all about strategy and giving the player enough tools in their toolkit so that they can come upon something and choose and have the consequences play out within their choices."
How those choices play out remains unclear, but don't expect any kind of Heavy Rain-esque branching narrative. "We're telling it the way we've been developing this method at Naughty Dog," explains Druckmann. "We're evolving it, but I can't say anymore."
And that's because he'd rather talk about story. And not just any old story, but one Druckmann wants to "change the f***ing industry" with - "because we feel like storytelling is so poor right now". Aside from the all too few likes of Valve, Irrational and Rockstar, it's hard to disagree.
Like the Uncharted games, The Last of Us has a third-person perspective, in which you see the character on-screen, but it has a more realistic, cinematic look. "We're trying to move the medium of video games into an area elevated in the same manner of respect of film," Balestra says. "We want to redefine what our medium is even called. 'Video game' is not an accurate name anymore. It is not necessarily a game with rules and a winner and a loser. It's an experience."
With that in mind, imagine the shockwaves that reverberated around the Naughty Dog office when they saw that Dead Island trailer.
"We saw it and we thought, wait a minute, someone else is doing this - it's really moving, there's this family that's been torn apart," says Druckmann. But, as we now know, it bore little relation to the finished article.
"You saw the game and it wasn't that," he adds. "I'm not saying whether it was a good or bad game, but it wasn't that. And we feel our trailer is very representative of what we're going for." Not least because the footage is all in-engine.
So if not a horror game, what is it? "This is going to sound corny and it might not appeal to gamers, but I would say it's a love story," he says. "It's not a romantic love story, it's a love story about a father-daughter-like relationship."
This was in part influenced by the memorable sequence between Nathan Drake and Tenzin, his Tibetan guide, in Uncharted 2. "We kept joking, wouldn't it be intriguing to develop a whole game where you're building this relationship, not just a level," he says.
When the fruits of this labour of love will be shared with gamers, no-one is saying. And, in the wake of the brutal crunch endured by the Uncharted 3 team in order to meet a release date it recklessly announced a year in advance, that should come as no surprise.
"We will never do that again, not a year out," sighs co-president Christophe Balestra. Wells agrees: "The minute we saw [the date] on screen we were like, oh god, I really regret that."
So, while the game has already been in development for two years, with the team not yet ready even to discuss gameplay let alone show it, don't be surprised if The Last of Us fails to materialise before 2013. It'll be done when it's done, as the saying goes.
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Sobre los infectados y la plaga
Aparentemente la infeccion en The last of Us tiene mucho que ver con ese parasito, ya que se ve en la deformacion que muestran en la cabeza los infectados
Fungus parasite Ophiocordyceps
este parasito literalmente penetra en el cerebro crece en el y emite esporas, son capaces de afectar a la conducta de su insecto hospedado, el micelio invade y finalmente reemplaza los tejidos del huésped.
Sobre los personajes
ELLIEEllie is a 14 year-old girl , a brave teenage girl who is wise beyond her years but with no memory of the world pre-apocalypse.
Por otro lado, desde Naughty Dog también han desmentido que la protagonista del juego, Ellie, esté encarnada por la joven actriz de Juno, Ellen Page, pese a su gran parecido –algo que ha motivado que muchos seguidores dieran por sentado que era ella
JOELThe anti-hero ,Joel is "a vicious survivor . When he meets this girl, she is his one chance at redemption," says Neil Druckmann, the game's creative director. "That kind of arc has always been intriguing."
Neil Druckman, ha desvelado quienes son los actores que hay detrás de las voces de los dos personajes que podemos ver en el famoso tráiler, y ellos son Ashley Johson y Troy Baker.
Ellie está interpretada por la actriz Ashley Johnson (1983), quien ya cuenta con una larguísima trayectoria tanto en series de televisión como la reciente "The Killing", como en películas.
Por su parte, Joel está interpretado por Troy Baker (1976), un actor totalmente especializado en videojuegos y que ha puesto voz a personajes como Snow de Final Fantasy XIII, Dos Caras en Batman Arkham: City, y series de animación.
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