Game director Bruce Straley (left) and creative director Neil Druckmann (right) were awarded for their work on the game. |
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Game director Bruce Straley (left) and creative director Neil Druckmann (right) were awarded for their work on the game.
The Last of Us is an action-adventure survival horror video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Players assume control of Joel (Troy Baker), escorting the young Ellie (Ashley Johnson) across a post-apocalyptic United States. The game's development was led by Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann, as game director and creative director, respectively. The game was officially announced on December 10, 2011, and was widely anticipated. It was awarded Most Anticipated Game from PlayStation Universe and Cheat Code Central, receiving a nomination at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards.
Following its previews at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the game won numerous awards, including Best of Show from several gaming publications. It was released worldwide on June 14, 2013 for the PlayStation 3.Review aggregator Metacritic assigned the game a normalized score of 95 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim", based on 98 reviews.GameRankings, another review aggregator, assigned it an average review score of 95% based on 68 reviews. Within three weeks of its release, The Last of Us sold approximately 3.4 million copies, and seven million by July 2014, becoming one of the best-selling PlayStation 3 games.