In those more innocent scenes, Ellie and Riley, a friend who has returned after a disappearance, explore a different mall that has been abandoned because of the zombie outbreak but that still feels as if civilization might one day return to it. The terror of these moments - she must evade zombies, as well as humans who are tracking her and Joel - is juxtaposed with scenes of wonder from the period before The Last of Us began. Part of Left Behind is set during the events of The Last of Us, as Ellie scavenges through the ruins of a shopping mall for medicine to aid Joel, who is wounded. By turning its focus to Ellie, the 14-year-old girl who is Joel’s ward for much of The Last of Us, Left Behind becomes the better game: lighter, more playful, joyful, vulnerable and, yes, girlish. I liked The Last of Us when it first came out, but it took me many hours of playing to warm up to it, to get past its monotonously somber tone and the conventionally murderous, thieving proclivities of Joel, the game’s protagonist. Would Rockstar Games have been willing to call one of its major games The Ballad of Gay Tony, which was the title given to a downloadable story for Grand Theft Auto IV in 2009? Their smaller budgets and lower financial stakes may allow designers - the studio Naughty Dog in the case of Left Behind - to take risks that they wouldn’t with a core game, in which the fate of an entire studio might rest. Yet the past few months have been a high-water mark for ambitious DLC. So it’s shocking that the best game of the year so far would arrive in such a crass disguise.
Players widely think of DLC as a way for studios to squeeze a little more cash from them by charging for things like additional maps, costumes and weapons. Left Behind is “DLC,” which stands for “downloadable content.” That means that a game is not merely downloadable, which many games are, but that it is also an online expansion of, or an addition to, an existing game that the purchaser must already own. That’s because you need a PlayStation 3 and a copy of the first game, The Last of Us, a very good drama from last year - an investment of more than $200 if you’re not already in the club. Except, alas, it’s unlikely to be tried by anyone who isn’t already a dedicated video game player. Left Behind could prove to skeptics that games can be smart and sophisticated. It’s also inexpensive, selling for about $15. A coming-of-age story about two teenage girls during a zombie apocalypse, it’s approachable and contained, designed to be played in a single sitting of two or three hours. "Still trying to figure it out ourselves." said Druckmann.Įlsewhere in the discussion, Druckmann and Straley said that the team went over "about three or four ideas" for The Last of Us' ending "before finding the ending that worked best for the story we wanted to tell."ĭruckmann and Straley added that they will go over some of the alternate The Last of Us endings during a panel at PAX Prime, which takes place in Seattle August 30 to September 2.įor more information on The Last of Us, check out GameSpot's previous coverage.The Last of Us: Left Behind is the best new video game so far this year, or at least the only one that I can’t stop thinking about. The pair confirmed that some characters from the campaign would return for the DLC, but that Naughty Dog wasn't sure who. Two chunks of multiplayer DLC and a new story chapter have been promised for The Last of Us, and will be available as part of the game's season pass.
"There's stuff in the pipe.to be talked about soon-ish" followed by the confirmation that "news is on the way about the first DLC drop. Taking part in a Reddit AMA, The Last of Us game director Bruce Straley and creative director Neil Druckmann spoke briefly about the DLC when asked.
The first details about DLC for The Last of Us will be revealed in August, developer Naughty Dog has said.
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