The Last of Us

Naughty Dog developed The Last of Us in 2013.

Players control Joel, a smuggler tasked with escorting a teenage girl, Ellie, across a post-apocalyptic United States.

The Last of Us is played from a third-person perspective.

Players use firearms and improvised weapons, and can use stealth to defend against hostile humans and cannibalistic creatures infected by a mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus.

In the online multiplayer mode, up to eight players engage in cooperative and competitive gameplay.

The Last of Us is an action-adventure survival horror game played from a third-person perspective.

The player traverses across post-apocalyptic environments such as towns, buildings, forest and sewers to advance the story.

The player can use firearms, improvised weapons, and stealth to defend against hostile humans and cannibalistic creatures infected by a mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus.

For most of the game, the player takes control of Joel, a man tasked with escorting a young girl, Ellie, across the United States.

The player also controls Ellie throughout the game's winter segment.

In combat, the player can use long-range weapons, such as rifles, shotguns, and bows, and short-range weapons such as handguns and short-barreled shotguns.

The player is able to scavenge limited-use melee weapons, such as pipes and baseball bats, and throw bottles and bricks to distract, stun, or attack enemies.

The player can upgrade weapons at workbenches using collected items. Equipment such as health kits, shivs, and Molotov cocktails can be found or crafted using collected items.

Attributes such as the health meter and crafting speed can be upgraded by collecting pills and medicinal plants. Health can be recharged through the use of health kits.

Though the player can attack enemies directly, they can also use stealth to attack undetected or sneak by them.

"Listen Mode" allows the player to locate enemies through a heightened sense of hearing and spatial awareness, indicated as outlines visible through walls and objects.

In the dynamic cover system, the player can crouch behind obstacles to gain a tactical advantage during combat.

The game features periods without combat, often involving conversation between the characters.

The player can solve simple puzzles, such as using floating pallets to move Ellie, who is unable to swim, across bodies of water, and using ladders or dumpsters to reach higher areas.

Story collectibles, such as notes, maps and comics, can be scavenged and viewed in the backpack menu.

The game features an artificial intelligence system by which hostile human enemies react to combat.

If enemies discover the player, they may take cover or call for assistance, and can take advantage of the player when they are distracted, out of ammunition, or in a fight.

Player companions, such as Ellie, can assist in combat by throwing objects at threats to stun them, announcing the location of unseen enemies, or using a knife and pistol to attack enemies.

The online multiplayer allows up to eight players to engage in competitive gameplay in recreations of multiple single-player settings.

The game features three multiplayer game types: Supply Raid and Survivors are both team deathmatches, with the latter excluding the ability to respawn;vInterrogation features teams investigating the location of the enemy team's lockbox, and the first to capture such lockbox wins.

In every mode, players select a faction—Hunters or Fireflies —and keep their clan alive by collecting supplies during matches.

Each match is equal to one day; by surviving twelve "weeks", players have completed a journey and can re-select their Faction.

Killing enemies, reviving allies, and crafting items earn the player parts that can be converted to supplies; supplies can also be scavenged from enemies' bodies.

Players are able to carry more equipment by earning points as their clan's supplies grow.

Players can connect the game to their Facebook account, which alters clan members' names and faces to match the players' Facebook friends.

Players have the ability to customize their characters with hats, helmets, masks, and emblems.