Game review: The Last of Us Remastered

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29 Jul, 2014 10:30 PM2 mins to read

A scene from The Last of Us.

One of the Playstation 3's best games has been transported onto the PS4. Is it worth playing again? Chris Schulz evaluates The Last of Us Remastered ...

There's a scene early on in The Last of Us that will leave your jaw on the floor.

With a jeep full of survivors fleeing a growing zombie apocalypse, gamers positioned in the back seat are able to survey the surrounding carnage with a sweeping 360-degree view that includes burning barns, marauding monsters and screaming police sirens.

It's exquisitely tense stuff that helped make The Last of Us one of the Playstation 3's best games. But how do you improve on perfection?

Apparently porting TimeOut's game of the year for 2013 on to the Playstation 4 was a hellish task, but developers Naughty Dog have done such a fine job you'll want to play through it all over again.

That's thanks to beautifully upgraded graphics that run at 60 frames a second and make you want to soak in those detailed ruins, abandoned buildings and gleaming sunrises as long as you can.

And that's before you've even got to the sheer terror and brutal violence of taking on the game's zombies, those "clickers" with split heads and a taste for blood.

But The Last of Us is a game with heart - hardman Joel and his sidekick Ellie are an unlikely gaming duo that you'll be backing until the game's shocking final moments.

The Remastered version also adds last year's downloadable side mission Left Behind, as well as extra multiplayer options, another difficulty setting, a photo-sharing mode and commentaries for those cut scenes.

A sequel is rumoured, but if we never get it, perhaps that's no bad thing. This is gaming perfection that means the PS3's best game might just be the PS4's best game as well.