Uniquely Familiar
There was something beautiful about the opening to the VGA trailer for "The Last of Us", Naughty Dog's venture into the very crowded land of zombie games. Through the first seconds, there seems to be a peaceful tranquility to the apocalypse. Moving from the sound of birds and green trees, we slowly see that the world is in obvious ruin, overgrown and still bloodied from whatever caused this round of flesh hungry zombies. Then we meet our subjects.
It appears to be either a daughter with her dad or just two random people who have met through this madness, but the girl definitely seems much younger than the guy that she's with. She comes across the man beating a tar out of an infected person with a two by four, and after they barely start searching him, three more bad guys show up. Cut to them running into a city street overgrown with vegetation, and we have a setting for "The Last of Us". The message is simple, their daily routine is to survive no matter what. It may be a market that has been tapped into way to many times, but I'm really interested to see what kind of angle this game will take on the zombie genre. As long as it's not another Dead Island, there's a lot of potential from this trailer alone.
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