Sony launched a ten-minute-long trailer for The Final of Us Half 1 on Thursday, the place the sport’s administrators discuss by means of among the enhancements coming within the PlayStation 5 remake of Naughty Canine’s iconic recreation. The trailer takes loads of alternatives to point out off the improved graphics (which look as good as they’ve within the leaked screenshots, but it surely’s not like the sport was ugly on the PS3 or PS4), however essentially the most fascinating contain adjustments to the gameplay — Naughty Canine says that the AI for enemies and companions will probably be improved, that there will probably be some additional gameplay modes, and that the sport’s cutscenes can have audio descriptions for accessibility.
When it was initially launched in 2013, The Final of Us’ AI was nothing particular. The remake, nevertheless, apparently builds off of The Final of Us Half 2’s extra trendy system for controlling NPCs, making them higher at working collectively and developing with techniques extra complicated than “run straight on the man with the shotgun.” In keeping with Neil Druckmann, inventive director of each Final of Us video games, this makes for extra intense fights. Your companions’ AI has additionally apparently gotten an improve, which ought to hopefully keep away from immersion-breaking experiences the place Ellie or Henry run proper in entrance of an enemy who then has to behave like they didn’t discover.
By way of gameplay modes, the remake will apparently embody a permadeath mode for individuals who need to actually attempt their hand at surviving a zombie (er, sorry, “contaminated”) apocalypse. There’s additionally a pace run mode, although the trailer presents just about no particulars on that apart from that the sport will show a timer within the higher proper nook.
The trailer contains another neat particulars as properly — apparently the character animation system has gotten an overhaul, the sport can have improved haptics that’ll supposedly make it really feel such as you’re truly petting a giraffe in that one well-known scene, and Naughty Canine particulars among the issues it’s doing with the adaptive triggers, one of many PS5’s greatest options. If you happen to’re in any respect within the remake I’d suggest checking it out.
Personally I’m nonetheless undecided whether or not all of this is sufficient to make me need to replay the sport (I’ve already gone by means of it as soon as on the PS3, after which performed the PS4 remaster), but it surely does look like it’ll be value choosing up for individuals who have by no means skilled it, or who’ve been in search of an excuse to do one other playthrough. The Final Of Us Half 1 is ready to launch for PlayStation 5 on September 2nd, and for PC sooner or later sooner or later.