The Last of Us

 PlayStation 3
  • Publisher: SCEA
  • Release Date: Jun 14, 2013
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9.2

Universal acclaim- based on 14422 Ratings

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  1. Littlemisspeony
    Aug 10, 2023
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My all time favorite game, remaster, remake, original, DLC and all. Seriously Make time to play, by any means..… Expand
  2. AGCR
    Jun 22, 2023
    5
    The best PS3 exclusive by far, a masterpiece of NaughtyDog, impossible don't like this game
  3. Geo3891
    Apr 14, 2023
    7
    Hay que admitirlo, fanboys de Clony o lo que sean, este juego es de los mas sobrevalorados de todos los tiempos, lo sobrevaloran a tal punto de creer que este juego es mejor como obras maestrar como Mario Galaxy, Sonic Adventure 2 o Zelda Breath of the Wild.
    Esta cosa que parece pelicula no es nada mas que un simulador de caminar y ya esta, el 90% del gameplay solo se basa en caminar, el    Hay que admitirlo, fanboys de Clony o lo que sean, este juego es de los mas sobrevalorados de todos los tiempos, lo sobrevaloran a tal punto de creer que este juego es mejor como obras maestrar como Mario Galaxy, Sonic Adventure 2 o Zelda Breath of the Wild.
    Esta cosa que parece pelicula no es nada mas que un simulador de caminar y ya esta, el 90% del gameplay solo se basa en caminar, el soundtrack esta bien pero no es nada del otro mundo, no se compara con los legendarios soundtracks de Sonic, Mario o Kirby, la historia es una basura pretenciosa, solo es la típica historia de apocalipsis rebuscada y predecible y los personajes son un charrasco y el apartado artístico es una cosa genérica a mas no poder.
    Este juego no es para nada la gran cosa y menos es de los mejores videojuegos, solo un juego sin identidad sobrevalorado, no es nada del otro mundo minimo te entretiene unas 1 hora y ya, solo es bueno para curarte el insomnio    … Expand
  4. phil_chapman1
    Apr 3, 2023
    5
    The perfect game. 2 loveable main characters on an adventure with z…zzz….zombies! What’s not to like!
  5. Broyax
    Mar 25, 2023
    7
    A première vue, ce machin ressemble un peu trop aux Uncharted et on y retrouve de temps à autre bien des évènements scriptés (et donc obligatoires) qui énervent un brin... sans compter tous ces QTE... un peu trop nombreux (qui énervent un tantinet). Mais comparé aux Unchartiep, ils ne sont pas si nombreux que ça (les scripts), un heureux changement donc.

    Le combat, les fusillades sont    A première vue, ce machin ressemble un peu trop aux Uncharted et on y retrouve de temps à autre bien des évènements scriptés (et donc obligatoires) qui énervent un brin... sans compter tous ces QTE... un peu trop nombreux (qui énervent un tantinet). Mais comparé aux Unchartiep, ils ne sont pas si nombreux que ça (les scripts), un heureux changement donc.

    Le combat, les fusillades sont nettement améliorées par contre ; il faut dire que l'atmosphère (excellente) n'est pas la même et le côté viscéral (et bien plus violent) rendent l'action cohérente et spectaculaire. L'interface souffre néanmoins d'un manque de maniabilité et reste dans l'ensemble assez perfectible...

    L'autre point d'un grand intérêt concerne l'infiltration étonnament bien rendue ; voilà qui permet de varier les approches ici et là dans ce qui reste cependant un long couloir plus ou moins... large ! mais un gros couloir quand même, bien balisé. L'avantage du couloir, c'est que le jeu est très beau et très détaillé malgré évidemment un taux d'images parfois à la peine ! pour ne pas dire que ça peut ramer plus ou moins sévèrement...!

    Enfin, terminons par le meilleur du jeu, à savoir ses personnages et son scénario, tous deux fort bien écrits. D'excellentes idées ici et un rythme savamment dosé. Sans oublier une noirceur générale étonnante, venant de la part d'un jeu américain. La fin ou plutôt l'épilogue laisse un peu sur sa faim... il manque une vraie conclusion à ce périple par ailleurs très impressionnant.    … Expand
  6. JesseDillinger
    Feb 2, 2023
    6
    Hot take: This is one of the most overrated games ever made. It's not a BAD game, but man, people treating this like it's the second coming of Christ. The gameplay is dull af. Replaying this game just isn't fun. It's all sneaking, annoying shooting, boring slow combat, and gears. The story isn't bad, but it's your basic zombie story. Straight up nothing special. It's a fine game. Not aHot take: This is one of the most overrated games ever made. It's not a BAD game, but man, people treating this like it's the second coming of Christ. The gameplay is dull af. Replaying this game just isn't fun. It's all sneaking, annoying shooting, boring slow combat, and gears. The story isn't bad, but it's your basic zombie story. Straight up nothing special. It's a fine game. Not a masterpiece.… Expand
  7. dancefoxks
    Jan 29, 2023
    5
    Last Of Us is just meh. Story is great, same with the main characters, but when it's time to actually play the game it's all tearing apart by its gameplay
  8. Crimson9
    Dec 13, 2022
    6
    Naughty Dog's game design is outdated by about 10 years.

    This is a story driven game, so it makes sense that its somewhat linear. The fact that each level and ultimately the entire game is essentially a straight line, however, is not necessary, but lazy. This is a combat focused game. The entire gameplay revolves around combat. There is nothing else. There is no exploration, there    Naughty Dog's game design is outdated by about 10 years.

    This is a story driven game, so it makes sense that its somewhat linear. The fact that each level and ultimately the entire game is essentially a straight line, however, is not necessary, but lazy.

    This is a combat focused game. The entire gameplay revolves around combat. There is nothing else. There is no exploration, there are no NPCs to talk to or choices to make, there is no platforming, there is no leveling system or anything like that. There's just combat (and some boring scavenging, how fun). So the combat should better be really good. But... its just mediocre.

    As for the story, I guess gamers who have never read a book in their life consider this some masterpiece of storytelling. In reality, the story is solid, nothing more. It is certainly no planescape torment.    … Expand
  9. ZangBang
    Oct 24, 2022
    7
    73/100
    The Last of Us is an extremely derivative product, narratively speaking, as it reuses horror concepts already seen in thousands of other stories, but the plot still manages to be one of the most compelling ever told in a videogame thanks to its greatly nuanced characters and their deeply believable interactions, enhanced by amazing performances of the voice actors. It is a tender    73/100
    The Last of Us is an extremely derivative product, narratively speaking, as it reuses horror concepts already seen in thousands of other stories, but the plot still manages to be one of the most compelling ever told in a videogame thanks to its greatly nuanced characters and their deeply believable interactions, enhanced by amazing performances of the voice actors. It is a tender but raw depiction of humanity, with a finale that twists the themes on their head with a thought-provoking moral dilemma. Even in gameplay, the game uses concepts and mechanics already seen in other games, but by carefully merging them into a cohesive balance, it creates something extremely engaging and addicting. The game will put you up against hostile humans or various zombie-like creatures, which are groups that require extremely different approaches from each other. Regrettably, the game's greatest failure is precisely the AI of human enemies: they are often painfully dumb and too easy to fool. This makes their encounter much less thrilling than the ones against the zombie-like beings, much more challenging and engaging thanks to their animalistic, unpredictable routines. Nonetheless, by smartly cycling through these two enemy types the game keeps the flow of gameplay excellently variegated, also thanks to an amazing level design with areas often multilayered and always dense of possible routes for both the player and the enemy, granting the player a huge amount of strategic freedom. To fight these enemies we have a pretty small set of weapons, but on top of that we can utilize a series of various tools, traps and explosives. To craft these, the player will need to find the required materials in the environment. The hunt for materials, although pretty tedious after a while, adds a new explorative layer to the game as it makes environments an integral part of the experience. Its also used to enhance immersion, as the story can place dialogue while the player is scavenging for materials. The other thing that the game uses to add flavor between enemy encounters are environmental puzzles, which are extremely simplistic and excruciatingly repetitive, feeling more like padding.    … Expand
  10. Karai
    Aug 3, 2022
    7
    Developers to soon closed online for ps3.Online "died" with Naughty dog for me.
    Great grathic,atmoshere,plot.
    Last of us 2 showed their weakness in many ways.
  11. Ygs
    Jul 14, 2022
    7
    It's a really good game, but the gameplay is completely ordinary, the mechanics are completely out of date, so what do we have here, a good and memorable story.
  12. SaraSassypants
    May 26, 2022
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It was a good game don't get me wrong but I really don't understand the GOTY hype. I freaking love Naughty Dog. The Uncharted series is one of my most favourite series of all time but this? I found Joel to be very unlikeable, an absolute asshat. And because he was such an asshat it was really hard to enjoy the story. Ellie was the saving grace for me. Controls were clunky and gun play frustrating. I did think the areas you travelled through were quite nice, but not as nice as some other places Naughty Dog has taken me to. Maybe I was expecting something mind-blowing because of the hype or I played this too late after it had been released. Either way, good but not great. I'll still be giving TLOU2 a go which I might actually enjoy more knowing Joel doesn't play such a significant part.… Expand
  13. edoras
    Feb 13, 2022
    6
    To compare with The Last of Us Part 2 is kind of boring, for me is Part 2 the best game I've ever played, but this first part is not that good as is the user rating score, and I don't know why people hate second part, and this part likes, its boooooring :(
  14. Sanduc
    Nov 19, 2021
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. - Falta de originalidad y clichés:
    Desaprovechamiento sobre el concepto de los "zombies" para dar una idea propia que lo diferencie de las distintas obras postapocalípticas
    Joel y Ellie juegan un papel en la trama demasiado recurrido en las distintas obras del mismo genero
    Se utilizan clichés del genero postapocalíptico para dar recurso a las relaciones de los personajes
    - Primera mitad redundante:
    Conversaciones reiterativas muy similares que limitan el desarrollo de personajes dado a que la información que se nos plantea se desenlaza siempre de la misma manera
    Situaciones repetitivas las cuales van ligadas a estas mismas conversaciones que siempre acaban en una situación limite o dramática y hace que desvíen a estas personajes, lo cual lo vuelve forzado y en vez de sentirse como algo impactante emocionalmente parece que alarga la trama de forma artificial
    -Situaciones inverosímiles que se agravan dado el tono realista que quiere llegar a conseguir
    Distintas situaciones poco creíbles que contrasta con lo que quiere llegar a transmitir principalmente personajes sobreviviendo de forma irreal a situaciones de gran riesgo que contrasta con lo que quiere transmitir
    Inteligencia artificial en combate con reacciones y acciones incoherentes
    -Disonancia ludo narrativa
    La jugabilidad también contradice a lo que quiere llegar a generar lo cual empeora algunas de las situaciones mas importantes y el hecho de tener sistemas de "videojuegos" que sacan de la experiencia y ejemplos de estos hay muchos.
    -Jugabilidad aburrida
    Puzzles sencillos en donde mueves cajas o escaleras o caminas en linea recta simplemente que rompen completamente con el ritmo del juego ademas de ser bastante repetitivos,
    Un sistema de disparos un tanto generico aunque desafiente
    Algunas habilidades excesivamente mejores que otras lo cual lo vuelve iterativo y facil de explotar las habilidades en combate y la jugabilidad contradice muchas veces a su guion

    Historia: 7/10
    Jugabilidad: 6/10

    Calificación: final 7/10

    Bastante sobrevalorado, el dos es mucho mejor    … Expand
  15. LuisaoGuarnieri
    Oct 6, 2021
    5
    Terrific game with a great story.
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    This game was a mark on the survival horror games, and gave us an unique experience of emotion and action.
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    Even almost ten years after its debut, still the best game of his kind.
  16. Lamecalva
    Sep 14, 2021
    5
    The Best and only One the First the Last of us. Exprimer your ps3 and cell Processor. Good story
    . Good graphics. Better than the second part.
  17. Dnische
    Aug 30, 2021
    7
    This game is the main reason why all current PS exclusives are what they are — story-driven semiaction full of scripts and QTE. It was TLOU who created the trend for such bizarre action-games standards (previous Naughty Dog games hadn't such influence even though had pretty similar game design approach). Can't blame Sony for that — demand breeds supply, after all. But i personally can'tThis game is the main reason why all current PS exclusives are what they are — story-driven semiaction full of scripts and QTE. It was TLOU who created the trend for such bizarre action-games standards (previous Naughty Dog games hadn't such influence even though had pretty similar game design approach). Can't blame Sony for that — demand breeds supply, after all. But i personally can't understand people who give this game the title of the best of the decade. Doubtless, story is awesome, but overall gameplay is average at best. Action component was entirely adopted from Uncharted franchise, so nothing new to see here. Stealth is poor due to AI imperfection and survival side of the game properly reveals only on hard difficulties.

    7/10 Not bad, but a tad too overrated    … Expand
  18. HectorDelaRocha
    Aug 28, 2021
    7
    The voice acting is one of the best in any videogame, yet the gameplay is overwhelmingly linear and outdated. Excellent story, bad mechanics. If I wanted to watch a movie I would actually watch a movie, this is a videogame and the very concepts of it fail to be done in this game.
  19. kayrayarar
    May 12, 2021
    6
    It's a very overrated game. It has an ordinary zombie story, I never understand what people find in the story.
  20. PeterMRus
    Feb 19, 2021
    7
    Сюжет рваный, начало непонятное. Джоэл первую половину игры бесчувственный баран с изменением мнения раз в 2 минуты. Карты СЛИШКОМ ЛИНЕЙНЫЕ от слова совсем. Всю игру вытягивает потрясный графон и детализация мира. К сожалению, одного графона не достаточно, поэтому 7 из 10Сюжет рваный, начало непонятное. Джоэл первую половину игры бесчувственный баран с изменением мнения раз в 2 минуты. Карты СЛИШКОМ ЛИНЕЙНЫЕ от слова совсем. Всю игру вытягивает потрясный графон и детализация мира. К сожалению, одного графона не достаточно, поэтому 7 из 10
  21. catspats
    Jan 14, 2021
    5
    Однозначно игра не для всех, для любителей стелса возможно. Эта игра переоценена. Прошел до половину и просто надоело играть дальше .
  22. marcos83
    Dec 5, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A jogatina e boa mas o fato de ter matado meu personagem favorito enterrou o game para mim . The last nunca mais .… Expand
  23. Chubac
    Oct 29, 2020
    7
    Great story but the gameplay is not as groundbreaking as I expected. Kinda overrated.
  24. BradfootGaming
    Sep 24, 2020
    7
    Disclaimer: 1st playthrough in 2020.

    I found myself enjoying the story and characters more and more as the game went on. By the end I was interested in them, The 1st half or 60% I was not interested, it felt bland and kind of boring. I'm glad I stuck it out until the end, it was a positive experience overall. I noticed some bugs early on too. It told me how to craft a healh kit when    Disclaimer: 1st playthrough in 2020.

    I found myself enjoying the story and characters more and more as the game went on. By the end I was interested in them, The 1st half or 60% I was not interested, it felt bland and kind of boring. I'm glad I stuck it out until the end, it was a positive experience overall. I noticed some bugs early on too. It told me how to craft a healh kit when I didn't have the supplies to craft a healthkit so I had to play with huge block letters in the middle of the screen until I had the supplies needed. Another one where the game directed you to just run for the exit, Ellie needed to jump through a window before I could go through. She got hung up on the environment and was glitching for a long time while I had to waste all ammo and supplies on an endless zombie rush. It was clearly not meant to be an ammo using spot and I was severely handicapped for the next few scenes.

    Overall a decent game, my two thoughts through most of the game were "Uncharted is much better than this" and "where are all the zombies."    … Expand
  25. TheSnitchfather
    Sep 9, 2020
    6
    meh 6/10
    I just never saw the hype, got the game back in May 2013 for PS3, got the remaster couple months ago early 2020 and still don't get it. Graphically, it was amazing, but the whole interactive movies style of video game just doesn't appeal to me, had the same issue from Uncharted 3, if not even the 2nd.
    Story was good, but none special.
  26. Aloyy
    Aug 7, 2020
    5
    Best ps3 game hands down. Has been my favorite for years. Great storytelling, advanced graphics, straightforward mechanics, just lovely intense emotional stuff
  27. jordanlearmonth
    Jul 25, 2020
    5
    The thing about videogames is, imo, they should be fun to play. Last of Us offers a very great story, and would probably be a great movie or show, but the gameplay is usually bland/boring with occasional moments of intensity.

    Most of the time you're walking and pressing triangle occasionally to move a log or a board or push a box. The best parts of the game are the stealth sections or    The thing about videogames is, imo, they should be fun to play. Last of Us offers a very great story, and would probably be a great movie or show, but the gameplay is usually bland/boring with occasional moments of intensity.

    Most of the time you're walking and pressing triangle occasionally to move a log or a board or push a box. The best parts of the game are the stealth sections or parts where you actually fight zombies, even then it's nothing special mechanically. It's basically an interactive movie with little freedom to do anything else.    … Expand
  28. Peter19
    Jul 21, 2020
    5
    All that can be said of how good the game is too obvious to be told, I just want to give a bow to naughty dog for being such a great company capable of such evolving from crash bandicoot to the last of us. I don't think I have ever played a game like this. Saying this game was great would be an understatement
  29. God_of_War4198
    Jul 11, 2020
    6
    So let me begin.The last of us is a good game with decent graphics ,good story but i can't the same for the mechanics.The animations are repetitive after u play like 2-3 hours example:stuggling , executions ,the melee combat or the hand to hand combat.Then the online part is unbalanced, broken because u always get bad teammates,the enemies sometimes are immune to gun shots or to meleeSo let me begin.The last of us is a good game with decent graphics ,good story but i can't the same for the mechanics.The animations are repetitive after u play like 2-3 hours example:stuggling , executions ,the melee combat or the hand to hand combat.Then the online part is unbalanced, broken because u always get bad teammates,the enemies sometimes are immune to gun shots or to melee attacks.When i start a mission so the fireflies who attack 100%all my survivors when i start a match it puts me at the end when the enimies are winning.They sometimes spawn me into enemies when i play interrogation and they just shiv me from behind.Molotov ,smoke bombs when i throw them to a **** enemy they do nothing but when the enemy throws it i die instantely.Could have been 8/10 without multiplayer. Ah and i forgot, this is the most overrated game i've ever seen in my life.This game is not that good… Expand
  30. hotrew
    Jul 6, 2020
    5
    Bad story. fun characters. Gameplay is a litle better than uncharted. thats it
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Metascore
95

Universal acclaim - based on 98 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 97 out of 98
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 98
  3. Negative: 0 out of 98
  1. GamingXP
    Sep 16, 2013
    97
    Flawless in its ambition and almost perfect in its execution. A brave and remarkable game quite unlike any other.
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  2. Level7.nu
    Sep 10, 2013
    80
    The Last of Us is a great action-adventure game that manages to capture the feeling of post-apocalypse and survival. The story is alright but way too manipulative and borrows heavily from other, better, material. Still the segmented survival gameplay and the amazing audiovisual production makes the game an experience everybody should check out.
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  3. Official PlayStation Magazine Benelux
    Sep 4, 2013
    90
    Despite the breakneck pace of the prologue, it takes quite a while for The Last of Us to pick up some speed again. However, once the cold harsh winter arrives, the action (and story) ramps up. So much so, it puts most Hollywood productions to shame. [July 2013, p.76]
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