Thursday, 10 December 2015

Task 3 – Video Game Documentary.

Script

The Last of Us has to be one of the most amazing games I have ever played ,The game was created by Naughty Dog who did an amazing job with the Uncharted series .The last of Us mainly stands out with  two things the games great graphics and its outstanding story line. The game was released in 2013 on PS3 and with them selling 1.3 million units sold in the first week of release and then they sold 4.4 million at the end of 2013 and with amount of units sold Naughty Dog had a second version of the game release in 2014 called The Last of us Remastered which was released on the PS4 which included both The Last of Us and the games story DLC The Last of Us Left Behind. which made over 1 million units in 2014 and over 200 thousand units in 2015.

The game starts out before the virus when a tragic and emotional accident happens , and with the events that have happened the game skips 20 years where you play as Joel. Your objective is too take a 14 year old girl called Ellie who is immune to the virus to a checkpoint area in the city unfortunately something happens and it is up to you to deliver Ellie to the fireflies. With there being a fungal virus there are also hunters around that are on the need to kill and survive.

Naughty dog did an outstanding job at making the characters in the game come to life with there being emotional events that happen in the game. The bond that Joel and Ellie have with each other is almost like a father and daughter bond and Joel looks after Ellie considering he had his own Daughter about the same age as her. The game might start out quite slow its just too show you the basic controls of movement and attacks, you make your first shot on a bunch of men that tell you to turn around, Things get bloody and you carry on progressing with the mission. The world of the last of us is beautiful and dangerous at the same time as you see some famous landmarks of Boston and what a mess they have been in, the dangerous part is that you dont know what is round the next corner if its a hunter or the infected.

When the last of us Left behind DLC was released i didn't know what to expect until i played it and realized it was telling the story on how Ellie found out she was immune to the virus. The story to Left behind is quite emotional really with both Ellie and her friend Riley both hanging around that day when they both get ambushed by a group of  infected and both get bit. While you learn about how Ellie found out she is immune there is also a part of the story where Joel gets badly hurt and you take control of Ellie to find medication for Joel. where you also have to attack groups of hunters and infected.

When i first played the last of us multiplayer i thought it was another run and gun game mode like all the other games out there but when i played it i realized that it was a multiplayer that was unique in its own way and no other game was like that and that it was highly addictive. At first you make a choice too either play as a firefly or a hunter then you are given a small camp of people and you are too take care of them and be their leader for 12 weeks. Too aid your camp you have to play game modes with other camp leaders and hope you win the mode if you lose the mode then people in your came get sick and if you still fail to aid them they will eventually die, you can also aid them by finding small blue cans you will mainly find these by killing other players on the opposite team. The game modes are Supply Raid, Survivors, and Interrogation. In Supply Raid, it's normally 4 vs. 4, and your only objective is to kill the opposing teammates until they are all gone. Survivors is the same concept, except the match is divided into rounds in which all 4 players must be killed, and no one respawns until the next round. Survivors offers a better chance to change the tide of the battle and any team can win regardless of how bad they're losing. Interrogation is completely different from both - it's still 4 on 4, but instead of just killing, you have to interrogate the opponents to find the lockbox then you have to unlock the lockbox, The team that fully unlocks the lockbox wins.