Everything you need to know about The Last of Us Remastered in 2 minutes. This is the first of a series of new videos from Family Gamer TV that offer family guides to new games. These aim to sum up the highs and lows in 2 minutes:
Due to the explanatory nature of the content there are spoilers about the game.
1. Genre and story: The Last of Us Remastered is a third-person action game, which means that you view the characters you control from the outside (rather than seeing the world through their eyes) and that you will spend a large part of the game in action, in this case moving through the world and fighting both mutants and humans.
For most of the game, players control Joel, a man who has lost an awful lot as a result of the infection that turns people into mutants and has wiped out most of the population. Occasionally, you get to control Ellie, the young girl who is immune to the infection and so may be humanity’s last hope for a cure. But the focus of this game is not on end-of-the-world drama, as is shown by the fact that after the prologue time leaps forward to twenty years after the outbreak. With things relatively settled, survivors grouped together in organized quarantine zones or more independent camps, the apocalypse is just a backdrop to the story of Ellie and Joel, and their journey from strangers to something like family.
2. Developer: The developers — Naughty Dog — were previously responsible for the action-movie style Uncharted series, and before that the more cartoony Jak and Daxter and Crash Bandicoot.
3. Platforms: As with the Uncharted series before it, The Last of Us Remastered can only be played on a Sony console: the PlayStation 4. You cannot buy it for the Xbox One or even PC.
4. Cost: £42.99 UK, $49.99 US.
5. Length: Expert players can get to the end of the story in around 15 hours, although newcomers or those taking their time may take up to 20 hours. The included DLC takes a further couple of hours. If you want to explore fully and collect everything, expect the game to last a few hours longer.
6. PEGI/ESRB rating: This game has a PEGI 18+ rating in Europe and a Mature rating in the United States, which means it is not appropriate for players under the age of 18. The Entertainment Software Rating Board provides the following content descriptors to justify the M rating: “Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Strong Language”.
7. GRA consumer information: As reported by the Games Rating Authority, “Strong language […] is used frequently.” This includes the four-letter ‘f’ and ‘s’ words, and isn’t limited to adult characters; part of Ellie’s character as a teenager who has grown up in this post-apocalyptic world is that she doesn’t — because she can’t — act like a child.
8. PEGI/ESRB detail: The Entertainment Software Rating Board goes into detail on the violence depicted in the game, clarifying that you don’t just witness it in cut scenes: “players […] use a variety of weapons (e.g., pistols, rifles, explosives, spiked bats, steel pipes, and blades) and melee attacks to fight off infected mutants and other human survivors. Players can also employ stealth kills (e.g., strangulations, pistol executions, stabbing attacks).”
Even for an adult player there may be some scenes that make for uncomfortable viewing. The Entertainment Software Rating Board highlights the fact that “Several attacks result in decapitations and dismemberment”.
9. Common Sense Media: Parents on Common Sense Media think the game should be rated 16, while kids think it should be rated 14. Common Sense Media says, “Parents should also know there is strong profanity, sexual references, and online gamers can talk without moderation.”
10. Why people play: It might be the incredible graphics and action legacy of Naughty Dog after the popular Uncharted games that attracted players to The Last of Us, but it’s the story and characters that have made people rate it so highly. Parents in particular will be touched by this exploration of a paternal relationship, and should consider checking the game out.
Experts in 15 hours? Try less than 10 hours. 15-18 hours for beginners. Of course it all depends on exploration.
If you are beating it in that amount of time then you arent playing it as the devs would have hoped. you would also be missing the point of the game. you would also be doing yourself a disservice to rush to get less than 10. i beat it 13 times. Quickest was 12 hours, longest was 26. Everyone ive met avgs 15-16. Exploration only adds to the 15 hr mark. If the reader buys this game, dont rush (its almost impossible due to its caliber of story telling and playability). Its a lot of hours of near perfection with gripping visuals, emotional yet occasional sound score and writing that can, and will make you weep. it changed my life. better to be endured than witnessed, but wwitnessing is great to. I would reccomend it to any man, woman or child even with its grizzly depiction of violence in a realistic survival type world because this game is a big deal. it will be talked about for ever and to not play it would be a major loss. Its a love story between a man and a daughter-like partner, and it tugs at your heart strings.
One of the best games of all time right here, in my humble opinion. And I don’t say that lightly. Up there with the original KOTOR in depth and entertainment/fascination of the story.
lol PEGI
kids don’t care you know ?