This video is a detailed comparison of Naughty Dog's remake of "The Last of Us Part 1" with the original game. The analysis covers various aspects, including:
- Changes in cinematics: The remake uses real-time rendering for cutscenes, providing more consistent visuals and improving character models, environments, and lighting.
- Character models: The remake features more realistic character models with improved hair rendering, textures, lighting, and eye rendering. This makes characters look more lifelike.
- Animation: While most gameplay animations remain similar, some improvements have been made, including better looting and weapon upgrade animations.
- AI improvements: Friendly AI characters behave more intelligently, avoiding getting in the player's way during combat.
- UI redesign: The remake's user interface has been updated to match the design of "The Last of Us Part 2," featuring cleaner button prompts and other changes.
- Collectibles: Collectibles are now treated as physical objects, and when picked up, the player can examine them up close for added immersion.
- Environment enhancements: The remake significantly improves the level of detail in environments, adding more vegetation, reworking building facades, and enhancing lighting to create a more realistic and immersive world.
- Lighting improvements: The remake uses physically based material rendering to achieve more natural and somber lighting, deviating from the original game's excessive red and yellow light.
Overall, the remake of "The Last of Us Part 1" brings substantial improvements in graphics, animations, AI, and environmental details while maintaining the essence of the original game.
1. The text is a transcript of an episode discussing the visual and gameplay improvements made in the upcoming remake of the game "The Last of Us" titled "The Last of Us Part One".
2. The original game, "The Last of Us", was first released for the PlayStation 3 in 2013 and later re-released as "The Last of Us Remastered" for the PS4, offering modest visual and performance improvements.
3. "The Last of Us Part One" is a top-to-bottom remake of the original game, developed using a modified version of the engine used for "The Last of Us Part Two".
4. The remake includes a dramatically overhauled visual presentation, with redone character models, environments, lighting effects, animations, AI, and new accessibility features and UI redesigns.
5. Both games are being played on a PlayStation 5 console with visual settings set to a locked 4K resolution at 30 hertz for the highest quality possible.
6. The remake also includes improvements to the character models, clothing, and accessories, as well as animation and AI.
7. The game's UI has also seen some changes, bringing it much more in line with the design of the UI used in the sequel.
8. The environments in the game have been enhanced with an impressive increase in the amount of detail in every corner of the playable space.
9. The lighting in the game has been improved, with the game now behaving a little bit more naturally.
10. The game also includes improvements to its various effects, such as the fire, smoke and fog effects, and the water simulation.
11. The PlayStation 5's additional resources are used to bump up the number of on-screen physics-based objects allowed at any given time, resulting in more dynamic objects and enhanced destruction.
12. The remake has also introduced a revised gore system and a brutal last man standing elimination mechanic.
13. The faction's multiplayer mode, a competitive elimination style deathmatch mode, is not included in this release of the game.