Like Manco, I'd have played "The Last of Us" - But unfortunately I don't own a PS3. So instead I watched the entire thing on Youtube over the past 4 days, like a 15 hour long movie.
It left me contemplating it for a long while after I'd finished watching - Modern society mostly abandoned for 20 years and left to ruin, a fungus which drives people insane and mutates them, deep characters which undertake a long, epic journey which we witness slowly bonding together and succeeding against impossible odds, only to be betrayed in the end... Dark stuff portraying the fragility of humanity, and a story that for once isn't all sunshine and roses. Not original, but stuff like that isn't normally shown in prolonged detail in other games and films.
The gameplay didn't seem to me to be very groundbreaking but Naughty Dog did really well with the setting, atmosphere, environment detail - Brilliant voice acting, motion capture and excellent facial animation really helped with immersion, too. I just wish I played it rather than watch someone else play it. :/ Platform exclusivity needs to die horribly.
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