so, this is the greatest game ever created for the ps3, and as far as i can tell the ps3/360 generation.
i got the game on the weekend, i played a bit to make sure my wife would want to play it too. I showed her the pic of how every magazine and review site gave it a 10/10, and the opening scene, she was hooked. I chose easy difficulty cuz of two things. while my wife has played games since she was 7, it is a majority of platformers/jrpg's and mmo. plus i wanted to get through the story in a weekend, (i read that the most dedicated ppl were able to beat it fast, those that got early review copies) i mean we all have lives to live and things to do right? so let's just finish it.
well it worked out in the end that she would play the journey part and her game OCD let her collect all the stuff that we needed while i watched, and she could finish off 1,2,3 enemies or so but when we knew she was gonna get zerged(mobbed) i took the controller, and she watched.
it was great, our playstyles were so different. she'd see some mobs(bad guys, we use mmo terms for every game now) and she'd shoot and snipe them. While i took a brick and ran into them knocking them out or stealth strangling them.
i'm not going to spoil anything but it's obvious it's an old man and young girl game from the picture cover, basically an escort mission... except the little girl is quite possibly the best ai/companion ever created. she's got a good voice actor and pulls you in but later on (skip this for minor spoiler stuff)
she yell's "joel to your left", "joel behind you" while you're in battle so she's like an ai situational awareness, or "he's got a gun"
then later on she grows that when you're in melee trouble, she'll jump on the bad guy and stab him.
then she'll learn to start throwing bottles at enemies and stunning them.
then she'll shoot em.
it was a great game for the both of us to play, the sound was excellent, with 3d sound we were like... "oh damn" actually once in a while you venture off into the woods, and i was like "do i have the windows open? oh damn that's just the sound"
i mean yea... the previous game i recently finished was bioshock infinate and i was like... bleh it's ok... twist was... blah and the escort ai was good, but "the last of us" ellie just blows away elizabeth out of the water (which is funny since the main character for both games uses the same mo-cap and voice actor)
i mean i LOVE to complain and criticize things, i LOVE it... the only thing i found wrong with "the last of us", is the upgrade system pertaining to the weapons really... in order to upgrade more levels of a gun/type you have to have a higher upgrade level, which is fine, but you only obtain this upgrade level by finding an object in the game, and for us... with two ppl watching the screen we only found 4 out of 5 level locks, so we couldn't upgrade our guns to the level 5 upgrade caps.
that's it, that's literally it.