The Last of Us: what are the Biggest New Gameplay Features Coming in the PS5 Remake ?

The Last of Us Remake is dropping in just a few months, and Naughty Dog recently released a gameplay breakdown, showing off some of the new features.Released almost a decade ago, The Last of Us is still widely considered to be one of the greatest video games in Sony's library. Just about every facet of The Last of Us has been praised, from its voice acting and character animations to its environmental design and its overall narrative. Perhaps one of the most impressive aspects is just how well it holds up today. But it has been almost ten years, and some fans are excited to relive one of their favorite games once more, this time on yet another new console generation.The Last of Us Part 1 releases on September 2, 2022, and brings the beloved survival action game to the PS5. When the remake was first announced at Summer Games Fest last month, some long-time fans were a bit confused as to why this game needs to exist, unsure of what changes were actually being made to the original experience. Naughty Dog recently released a lengthy gameplay breakdown video, showcasing a plethora of new gameplay features and detailing a few of the visual tweaks and changes coming.The recently released Last of Us Part 1 gameplay breakdown trailer comes in at just over 10 minutes in length and is jam-packed with new details about the game. The whole intention of the trailer is to show fans just how much Naughty Dog has changed, and how much it's added to the original Last of Us experience,The trailer starts with a montage of iconic scenes from The Last of Us, showing a side-by-side of the original game and the upcoming remake. New lighting, new character models, 4K capabilities, 60fps, and updated environments are all showcased, all of which look genuinely very impressive, On that note of realism, The Last of Us Part 1 is also redesigning its combat environments so that character interactions are more naturalistic. For example, when a player or AI shoots at the environment, the object they've fired into now reacts more realistically, with shattered pieces of glass or splintered pieces of wood falling off naturally. The Last of Us Part 1 gameplay breakdown trailer then details some PlayStation 5 exclusive features included in the game, starting with the 3D audio, which the developers mention makes the game even more immersive and frightening, particularly during the Stalker sequences. The DualSense's innovative features are then discussed, with each gun apparently getting its own level of resistance to the controller's adaptive triggers. In the days following The Last of Us Part 1's announcement, a good portion of the fan base went online to express their confusion over the remake's existence. For these fans, the Last of Us Remastered was a more than good enough upscaling of the original game, and remaking the game just a few years later seemed at best a bit bewildering, or at worst, greedy on Naughty Dog's part. For some, this price is still too much of a barrier to entry on what is essentially a decade-old game with some reworked textures and gameplay, but for others, the price of admission is more than worth it for the definitive version of this beloved game.