The Final of Us Remake has formally gone gold as we shut in on the sport’s September 2nd PS5 launch date. A PC model will comply with shortly after, TLOU being the newest PlayStation franchise to drop its console-exclusive standing.
Thrilled to announce The Final of Us Half I has gone gold! 🏅✨
Congratulations to the Canine and our companions @PlayStation who contributed their ardour and expertise to the rising world of #TheLastofUs! pic.twitter.com/PGd9ezWuZC
— Naughty Canine (@Naughty_Dog) July 11, 2022
Studios saying that their recreation has “gone gold” is commonplace these days, merely highlighting {that a} title is in a completed state and copies are able to be made. What’s notably newsworthy right here is that The Final of Us Remake didn’t necessitate brutal crunch, according to one developer at least.
“That is the primary time in my 13 12 months profession, throughout a number of studios that I didn’t must crunch to complete a recreation,” mentioned Anthony Vaccaro, Principal Surroundings Artist at Naughty Canine. “Feels good, actually good. Particularly hitting the identical high quality bar as TLOU2. Extra work to maintain doing however happy with the large modifications up to now to make the studio more healthy.”
We’re a pair months away from the sport’s launch but we’ve seen no gameplay footage of The Final of Us Half I. Naughty Canine has mentioned we’ll be getting a a lot deeper take a look at the sport very quickly, the builders having enhanced the unique with gameplay techniques from Half II.
Since these first rumours of a TLOU remake, many have questioned why Naughty Canine would revisit the unique recreation. It’s not even a decade outdated and when it first launched, it actually pushed the PlayStation 3 to its limits earlier than being remastered on PS4 only a 12 months later. Having not too long ago replayed this model, it holds up remarkably properly (particularly the multiplayer) and the story is not any much less impactful or gut-punching. So why return and mess with such an all-time nice?
Being such a industrial and important success, this sequence has grow to be a flagship for the PlayStation model. Not solely is there an incredible-looking HBO tv sequence within the works, Sony and Naughty Canine are constructing their greatest multiplayer recreation to this point, increasing the TLOU universe even additional. With The Final of Us Half I, they’re offering a super entry level to the sequence for individuals who’ve but to expertise this status, post-apocalyptic journey.