The Last of Us Gets Fresh Details, First In-Game Screens

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Lee Bradley

Fresh details on The Last of Us have emerged, alongside the first in-game screenshots for the PlayStation 3 exclusive.

The details come courtesy of Game Informer. You play as Joel, who must protect the Ellen Page lookalike Ellie in a post-catastrophic Pittsburgh, using scavenged weapons that will degrade and eventually break.

Indeed, scavenging will be a key part of the game, as you will have to search the environment for useful supplies.

Even though it's your job to protect Ellie, Naughty Dog is keen to communicate that the game is not one long, tiresome escort mission. Apparently, the young girl's AI means that she rarely feels like a liability and can hold her own in certain situations.

The Last of US is set for release in "late 2012 or early 2013". You can find the, frankly gorgeous, Game Informer screens below.

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  • First and that looks amazing.
  • @1 Lame And yes it does look amazing. I cannot wait for this. Release date and gameplay vids!
  • Absolutely epic ! :)
  • Uncharted + Dead Island = The Last of Us looks great, can't wait to play it ;)
  • Reminds me of Enslaved, will definitely be keeping my eye on this.
  • last pic = old drake
  • Hopefully its not too much like Uncharted. Although I'm glad Naughty Dog is taking different avenues.
  • Dead Island meets dead rising meets uncharted meets bbc natural world meets I am Legend
  • "who must protect the Ellen Page lookalike".. I had a good laugh :-) Seriously, it seems a decent work so far.
  • can't wait
  • the girl from Inception!! lol this looks amazing
  • Looks interesting, chuck in another 2 players and you can call it the last 4 of us.
  • second pic looks like the hobo from happy wheels :p
  • id prefer to play as joel anyway he looks like he cud b nathan drake's uncle :)
  • MOTHER F**KING JOEL!!!!!! JOEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLL! Lol this game looks epic. It was developed by Naughty Dog, thats all I need to know in order to buy it. In the meantime the Jak and Daxter HD Collection comes out soon, so that will keep me occupied until then :D
  • WoW :o Looks amazing! But degrading weapons?... Hopefully they will be better than the ones in Far Cry 2 *sigh* - Great idea, implemented badly.
  • I hope they keep most of the details and gameplay for this game on the hush hush, I hate it when a publisher or creator released a fuck load of videos and information months before the game is out, it looses at its excitement! Yes I'm looking at you Assassins Creed. Cannot wait for this game however! Its games like this that push me to be in this line of work! XD
  • God i hope this is freeroam game:)
  • End of the year? Damn long time to wait such epicness. Can't wait though!
  • the third screen shot is really impressive. I am getting more and more interested in this game :D
  • I hope we wont get the same gameplay as uncharted since we will have to do some scavenging to find guns, ammos and misc... Uncharted have a great gameplay for its typo game but for this one I hardly see being able to survive while we have to jump cliff or things like that. On the other hand, I'm glad to know that it is Naughty Dog who's working on it, they always release masterpieces.
  • this game does look really interesting. saw the trailer for it yesterday i think it was and was really surprised. reminded me of i am legend except there was no dog to be seen.
  • I hope Joel remembers not to give zombie girls piggy back rides
  • made by naughty dog, why would it be bad
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