Mon, Dec 12, 2011 | 06:54 GMT

Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us announced at VGAs

The bomb has been dropped big time: The Last of Us has been announced at the Spike VGAs for PS3, coming as a brand new IP from Naughty Dog.

The trailer showed a man and a young woman, who looked a lot like Ellen Page, fending off what appeared to be ant-like zombies of some sort before running out to a environment of a metro city and jungle that had a big I Am Legend vibe

No date was given, however.

Last of Us is a “survival and action elements to tell a character driven story about a population decimated by a modern plague,” headlined by a duo known as Joel and Ellie – the Page-looking gal – as they go through the US.

“We are excited to finally unveil The Last of Us, a project the team has been working hard on for some time,” said Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells.

“Naughty Dog’s mission is to change the way people experience videogames. We are confident The Last of Us will take a leap forward in cinematic gaming and storytelling, providing gamers with an experience unlike anything else in the industry.”

The announcement of the new project, being headed by studio game director Bruce Stanley and Uncharted 2 director Neil Druckmann, shows the team now has two teams operating at once. It’s been focussing on Uncharted since its inception in 2007, so this is a big ultra-shocker.

It’s also the first time the studio has introduced a second new IP in the same hardware generation. Trailer and first screens is below.

94 comments

#1

Erthazus
11/12/11, 1:18 am

I was mindblown by this announcement.

Best secret announcement in 3 years. trailer was really gorgeous, although it was a PC rendering… which is damn a shame.

#2

Strandli
11/12/11, 1:18 am

I didn’t get hyped from the trailer, but the grapics were AMAZING.
What has gotten me hyped though… Naughty Dog now has TWO teams! BOOOOM

#3

Mike W
11/12/11, 1:20 am

Yes!!!!!

#4

Mike W
11/12/11, 1:20 am

I was sure the last of us was going to be developed by Epic

#5

humanfish
11/12/11, 1:21 am

Sony investing in their talent yet again. Good on’em

#6

jdfoster00
11/12/11, 1:21 am

Fantastic! I am utterly speechless! Really looking forward to more footage of this! Biggest kept secret in the industry for years now!

#7

DeforMAKulizer
11/12/11, 1:21 am

According to Naughty Dog it is all IN-GAME!

#8

Razor
11/12/11, 1:23 am

When the camera panned outside… o_O

#9

Lesh26
11/12/11, 1:23 am

^^^ Yup! Saw E.Wells post that on twitter.

#10

Erthazus
11/12/11, 1:25 am

@7, according to Naughty dog Uncharted 2-3 cut scenes were also IN-GAME, but reality is that all that was baked because Ps3 don’t have additional FSAA.

#11

Sini
11/12/11, 1:30 am

on gametrailers. not impressed with yet another zombie outbreak game

#12

HauntaVirus
11/12/11, 1:33 am

I trust ND but ZOMBIES…really?!

#13

mathare92
11/12/11, 1:35 am

Uncharted also sounded derivative on paper “Ooh another Tomb Raider game” etc. but look what they achieved with the brilliant characters and dialogue.

After the Uncharted series, I trust ND to make an awesome game whatever the genre.

#14

strikkebil
11/12/11, 1:36 am

oh man it looked so good- naughty dog is devolping it too! so excited!!!!!

#15

Lewis247
11/12/11, 1:36 am

This will be so fucking epic… I really want to start getting at people for moaning about “zombies” but really it’s not worth the effort. This will be so amazing! Such a surprise at this being Naughty Dog.

Cannot wait.

#16

pianomanjack
11/12/11, 1:37 am

@1 – you’re actually wrong :P it says at the beginning ‘captured from a playstation 3,’ and naughty dog founders have since tweeted that trailer was DIRECTLY from ps3.

DIRECTLY!

#17

KL
11/12/11, 1:44 am

@16 don’t bother…he’s a broken record.

#18

Anders
11/12/11, 1:44 am

Super-hyped for this, but then again, by this point, I’d be super-hyped for anything with the Naughty Dog logo on it.

#19

lexph3re
11/12/11, 1:47 am

Hmm can people not tell the difference between a zombie outbreak and a Viral outbreak anymore?

#20

Razor
11/12/11, 1:49 am

And a big LOL to everyone who thought this would be Sony Santa Monica.

Never made any sense as to why it would be SSM.

#21

Gama_888
11/12/11, 1:49 am

@10 Fuckoff allready with negative comments for a game that has only just had its first real trailer shown, jeez. Did u really not enjoy the trailer??

I thought it looked fantastic tbh And i trust Nd to make a great zombie game.
But i was thinking to myself when it was showing the parts outside,Surely this cant be ingame?

#22

Erthazus
11/12/11, 1:50 am

@16, I can capture from Ps3 a Samaritan Unreal Engine 3.5 demo you know and tweet that it is directly from Ps3.

By using just video recording.

you will believe me? Well, if you are a PS3 fanboy than of course you will believe me.

It’s not directly from PS3. Look at the characters faces, even current gen PC’s with GTX 580 can hardly do that in 60 frames per second because it is hard to animate in real time all that.

No FSAA – impossible to do that without recording in-game video ithout prerender. Ps3 don’t have that. Thats it.

@21, butt hurts much? Maybe you will read my first comment?

#23

absolutezero
11/12/11, 1:53 am

“I can capture from Ps3 a Samaritan Unreal Engine 3.5 demo you know and tweet that it is directly from Ps3.

By using just video recording.”

Fuck me you really are a retard.

#24

pianomanjack
11/12/11, 1:55 am

@22, Read the naughty dog tweets from their staff. You can say all you want about technical shit but i trust the naughty dogs – they know they’ve been under scrutiny before for it not ‘technically’ being run on the ps3, but they seem to be making specific effort to show differently this time. It’s in-engine.

#25

Erthazus
11/12/11, 1:57 am

@piano, ” i trust the naughty dogs”

OK. You also believe in Santa probably.

#26

xino
11/12/11, 1:59 am

in-game?
sure it may be but may be in-game engine not real time in game play.

There’s no way they can pull it off unless its for ps4

#27

LOLshock94
11/12/11, 2:01 am

@25 HAHAHAHAHA that was actually a nice comeback.

#28

pianomanjack
11/12/11, 2:05 am

@25, oh sorry i’ll be completely pessimistic then – ‘those graphics are completely bollocks it’s clearly running from a pc and the naughty dogs are lying about their own game which i’ve never seen but they’ve been developing for years.’ Much better outlook, clearly.

#29

YoungZer0
11/12/11, 2:08 am

Puh, that felt really, really good after watching the Metal Gear Rising Trailer.

Wonder what Naughty Dog is up to. Already love the music, characters and the direction. The only thing what i was missing from the Uncharted games was an adult theme. It was always about adventure and fun and shooting, but this? This is my kind of game.

#30

varsas
11/12/11, 2:10 am

@Johnny Those were exactly my observations!

#31

Cozzy
11/12/11, 2:11 am

Just to be a bit pedantic; as far as I can tell it’s not a zombie apocalypse it’s a viral infection apocalypse. Pretty much the same thing but it’s not technically another zombie game as so many of you seem annoyed about.

#32

jdfoster00
11/12/11, 2:14 am

@Erthazus The co-president of ND confirmed it was running ona ps3 when the captures it…. So did Geoff KEIghley and the community manager of ND

#33

Erthazus
11/12/11, 2:15 am

@Piano, Understand this: Naughty dog is a great developer, they make Great looking games. Uncharted is probably one of the best series of all time.

But this video is a pre-rendered in-game engine trailer. No way in hell it was in real time.
PS3 is not a magic machine and Naughty dog use pre-rendered recorded video all the time in their games like Uncharted 2-3. Thats a known fact.

#34

jdfoster00
11/12/11, 2:16 am

@pianomanjack You’re correct it was running on the PS3 when they captured it…. http://twitter.com/#!/evan_wells

“”"”"”"”"”Btw, The Last of Us trailer was entirely captured from a Playstation 3.”"”"”"”"”"”"”"

Evan Wells!

@Erthazis….

#35

lexph3re
11/12/11, 2:18 am

OMG Cozzy you robbed me! *shrugs shoulders*

#36

strikkebil
11/12/11, 2:18 am

dont feed the Ertha- i mean troll.

#37

Cozzy
11/12/11, 2:25 am

@Lex Shit sorry man didn’t see your comment. I hang my head in shame!

#38

lexph3re
11/12/11, 2:28 am

Its ok Cozzy I was being a dick *hangs head in shame for hurt comrade*

#39

varsas
11/12/11, 2:28 am

@Cozzy They don’t look like the undead variety but they can still be called zombies that is mindless or mostly mindless creatures as in I am Legend or 28 days later.

#40

jdfoster00
11/12/11, 2:30 am

http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/121/1214496p1.html

Check that out…. VG247 update ….

Naughty Dog has posted more details…
“Abandoned cities reclaimed by nature. A population decimated by a modern plague. Survivors are killing each other for food, weapons; whatever they can get their hands on.

Joel, a brutal survivor, and Ellie, a brave young teenage girl who is wise beyond her years, must work together if they hope to survive their journey across the US.”

#41

jdfoster00
11/12/11, 2:31 am

So they where not mindless zombies but I am legendy figures that are ‘hunting’ or fighting for food…. so have an intelligence to them

#42

Cozzy
11/12/11, 2:38 am

@Lex I think we need to work together in spreading viral infection awareness!

@Varas Yes but zombies are the living dead whereas they’re people affected by a plague. I suppose there is a fine line between zombie and viral infected people of death.

#43

WFMMK
11/12/11, 2:40 am

Very much looking forward to this.

#44

lexph3re
11/12/11, 2:40 am

HaHAA I BELIEVE IN THAT CAUSE!!!!!!!

#45

mathare92
11/12/11, 2:41 am

@40 Quite Enslaved-sounding isn’t? What with the two character leads, the junglefied (is that a word?) environments and the “journeying” across the US.

#46

Cozzy
11/12/11, 2:52 am

:D

#47

dravenkaze
11/12/11, 3:06 am

cant wait for this

#48

HeavyD-Love
11/12/11, 5:17 am

Wow. Now THAT’S how you make a world premiere announcement. Bravo Sony. Bravo Naughty Dog. Fucking AWESEOME trailer, and even superior lead up to the reveal.

#49

PriZm
11/12/11, 5:32 am

@any of Erthazus’s comments,

Your are a hungry little fellow aren’t you?

PRIZM

#50

FeaturePreacher
11/12/11, 6:07 am

I wonder what the online multiplayer will be like.

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