A trailer was released with the announcement and a release date was set for September 2, 2022, for PlayStation 5 and a later date for Microsoft Windows. Just prior, a listing of the game was accidentally leaked on the PlayStation Direct website, revealing the game prematurely. The Last of Us Part I was officially announced by Sony at the Summer Games Fest on June 9, 2022. The remake was helmed by game director Matthew Gallant and creative director Shaun Escayg. Sony reconfigured them into a support studio and tasked Naughty Dog with developing the project, partially due to their other planned titles being at various stages in pre-production and a lack of familiarity with the PS5's hardware. He noted that the project was originally being developed by the Sony's Visual Arts Service Group studio, however, Sony grew dissatisfied with the studio's progress on the game. In April 2021, Jason Schreier of Bloomberg first reported that a remake of The Last of Us was being secretly developed by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation 5. The Last Of Us Part 2 Spoiler-Free Review The game will also support PS5 hardware features including 3D audio and the haptic feedback and adaptive triggers of the DualSense controller. Visual fidelity, effects, exploration, and combat have all been enhanced as well. The game implements modernized gameplay, improved controls and performance, and expanded accessibility options closer to that of 2020's The Last of Us Part II. The game was rebuilt from the ground up using Naughty Dog's latest engine on the PS5, leveraging the leap in technology with its powerful hardware.

Similar to the original game on PlayStation 3 (and remastered for the PS4), The Last of Us Part I is an action-adventure game with survival horror elements, played from the third-person perspective. It follows a hardened survivor Joel and an immune teenager Ellie crossing across a post-apocalyptic United States in order to find a group called the Fireflies, who would be able to create a cure against the disease by studying Ellie's immunity. The plot of Part I is exactly the same as the original, with a new virus turning humans into hostile infected and being set 20 years after such.

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