Tired of the adventures of Nathan Drake, Naughty Dog I decided to rest and try myself in something new. The Last of Us (“One of us”) – this is not a cheerful tour of the picturesque corners of the world, but the adventure full of dangers, the ultimate goal of which is just to stay alive. On May 31, those who did not regret the money at God of War: Ascension, gained access to the exclusive demo version of the new project from the creators Uncharted, I was lucky a little earlier – I met the game a couple of weeks ago. Two small pieces of levels of Lincoln and Pittsburgh allowed to plunge into the tart atmosphere of post -apocalypse.
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In fact, not today, but 20 years after the outbreak of the epidemic, almost erased humanity from the face of the earth. There are no more governments, the infrastructure is destroyed, miraculously saved people as they can survive in militarized quarantine zones, where, although there is no threat of infection, but still hard.
The main character is called Joel. He remembers the world even before the disaster, which took everything from him. He is a gloom and laconic, he prefers not to answer questions about the past – working as a smuggler, he had to do anything better not to tremble … to carry the goods to quarantine zones and take them out of them is a dangerous but rather profitable thing. And once Joel receives a new order – he must deliver a young girl to the Cicada group, for which he will have to cross almost all of the destroyed America.
Girl’s name – Ellie. She was born after the beginning of the epidemic and how the world was before, she knows only from stories. She has never been outside the walls and did not see either nature or the mournful landscapes of the destroyed civilization, although there is little under the protection of military joy. Ellie is completely alone, there is no one to take care of her, but this only hardened her character. Sushful, inquisitive and hot -tempered – words about her. And she is just another load for a bearded smuggler, so their relationship at the beginning of the trip can hardly be called friendly. But over time, everything changes ..
In the first passage of the demo, which Lincoln, the heroes are sent to the town of the same name. There lives an old and slightly nervous friend Joel Bill, who owes his service, and now travelers hope that he will help them get the car. Walking along the overgrown suburb, Ellie is constantly surprised and rejoices in new discoveries. Bruthing of insects, birds, pecking worms in a dry stream, breaking through the foliage of low trees sunlight – all this is a completely different world for her. “Oh, look, fireflies! – the girl exclaimed, but then pulled herself: “Sorry, I was just forgotten for a second …” Having reached the fence crowned with barbed wire, Joel stopped and barely audibly whistled that he could not crawl here, and then bypassed the obstacle to the side. Not far, on both sides of the fence, there were two abandoned brick buildings, on the roofs of which the heroes moved. Ahead of them was waiting for a dangerous path along cluttered streets.
Despite the fact that the PlayStation 3 is already old, and the jokes about the “soap kinzo” were not the first year, The Last of Us It looks great. The point, of course, is not in technology, but in the skillful work of designers who managed to create extremely atmospheric America after a deadly epidemic. And here are full of details in which the devil lies. For example, turning into a alley, where, by and large, you can not go, you will find an abandoned courtyard, laid down by garden gnomes. Ellie will immediately share his opinion about them, and later he will find under the basketball ring not only a blow-off ball, but also something useful-broken scissors and a once forgotten bottle of alcohol. All this will definitely come in handy, because there are few cartridges, and you need to be able to make weapons from improvised means. For example, attach the scissors found to trim the pipe with the help of island – such a club is easy to kill the enemy from one blow, but it will not last long and soon breaks down. It is very important to be ready for a fight: Joel is not Nathan Drake and is no longer young, for him every battle is furious, tiring and as the last
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Having searched several ruined houses, Ellie and the gloomy smugglers went deep into the town, and for the first time they appeared in front of them – a terrible creature, a man disfigured by the virus. He is blind, but easily orient himself in sound, so it is worth acting carefully. Suppose you can distract the mutant abandoned aside the object and slowly sneak past, or you can try to kill him and search the area-suddenly there is something valuable. One way or another, be careful: the fingertips will immediately attract other monsters that can roam nearby, and the hand -to -hand end will end with death, if you do not fight back in time, – The Last of Us Enough hardcore, and the girl is unable to reanimate a friend with a friendly cotton on the shoulder. It is better not to count on it at all – it is hardly a teenager to easily deal with the infected or marauder.
The creature still managed to kill, and in the barn where it was hiding, there were useful supplies. Joel immediately took off his backpack and made a couple of sharpening, which you can not only cut the throats silently, but also open the locked doors, and sometimes there is something valuable behind them.
The further path along the extinct town went almost without adventure, except for a couple of the detonated stretch marks of the paranoid Bill, but at one point, opening the door to some garage, the main character fell into a trap and immediately turned out to be hung upside down. Only one way to free itself is to cut the rope at the counterweight. Ellie grabs the knife and tries to quickly save a friend, but infected are escaped to the noise. The dynamics of the game changes sharply – it is necessary, hanging upside down, quickly shoot mutants so that they do not get to the girl. As soon as it cuts the rope, Bill suddenly comes to the rescue, but you can’t hesitate – there are more and more monsters, and the three of us surviving with battle break through to the shelter.
The level of the “Lincoln” breaks off, and “Pittsburgh” begins. Having taken out the car in the end, friends get into an ambush in the city and at full speed drive into an abandoned store. Marauders – hunters pull them out of the pickup. Joel receives a couple of powerful blows, after which the enemy tries to rip off his throat sticking out of the window frame with a fragment of glass, but he intercepts the initiative and kills the attacker himself, after which he rushes to Ellie, pulls his broter out of her and breaks his head on the table. The cries of other pursuers come from the outside, and comrades hide behind the nearest rack. Getting a gun, the smuggler carefully covered the girl – apparently, she is no longer just a load for him.
In the meantime, enemies began to carefully enter the store. You can try to shoot them in an open battle, but it is dangerous – a couple of wounds will immediately send them to the next world, and if the cartridges end, then everything will become completely bad. And to give your position is also a bad idea. The best tactics are to distract attention, sneak past and kill quietly. As an option – to grab the enemy and hide in them as a living shield, but he is quite capable of breaking out, and then Joel is not to be not aware. As a result, the fight was long and tense: it did not work out silently-someone managed to shoot someone, and someone had to collide in hand-to-hand. Like in Uncharted, V The Last of Us During the fight, the environment is used – the hero, if everything goes well, can crush the enemy’s head against the nearest wall.
Having dealt with the hunters, friends quickly searched the store and hastened to get out. In the nearest building, a terrible picture opened – a warehouse of looters, littered with things and bodies. Climbing the stairs, Ellie asked how Joel guessed that they were waiting for them. He reluctantly replied that he had been on both sides. On the second floor there was a workbench, behind which we are allowed to improve weapons, if there are tools and spare parts: increase the reload speed, increase accuracy and so on. In addition, the main character can be developed, but do not expect that this will greatly simplify life. This ended the level of Pittsburgh.
IN The Last of Us The developers want to show the harsh and sad world that grew up on the ruins of the destroyed society, and tell the dramatic story about two completely different people, but who turned out to be together. About how they affect each other, what they are forced to go to survive. Judging by the demo, the authors do everything perfectly. I really want to compare the game with the “road” John Hill Coat (John Hillcoat) – Impressions are similar.
