Anyone need a copy? £27? Played thru, inc online code.

Sony claimed on Monday that The Last of Us sales topped 3.4 million units between the game's release on June 14 and July 3, making Naughty Dog's latest title the fastest selling new franchise in the console's history and the quickest selling PS3 game of 2013.

Just finished this. Wow.

Might be the best game I've ever played. Maybe.

Better than 'Try Not To Fart?'!?!?!

Cracked this open this afternoon.

You really suck, and you Bamba. It's mechanically robust - easily on par with Resi 4 - I've got no complaints whatsoever; otherwise I'd have been in here moaning.

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All the RE games are mechanically god-awful, please stop using them as an example of anything except Resident Evil games.

It's an example of a third-person survival horror game.

Like The Last of Us.

All the RE games are mechanically god-awful, please stop using them as an example of anything except Resident Evil games.

Substitute Resi 4 for Dead Space then.

Plus, I never said "all" Resi games. Just the best one. Yknow, the one that's lauded by gamers and critics alike.

Substitute Resi 4 for Dead Space then.

Plus, I never said "all" Resi games. Just the best one. Yknow, the one that's lauded by gamers and critics alike.

Yeah, good idea to just play the game. Like markg said, if you're not enjoying a section, it changes to something completely different in the next area, and then again in the one after that...

Finished. Outrageously good. Perfect ending.

I don't know what I can possibly play next that won't be an outrageous anticlimax by comparison.

Played a few more hours of this and am quite far through the Bill section; right after the point we get to the bus he's been looking for with the thing we need. I'm thoroughly engaged with the world and it's characters but am still really just tolerating the game itself. Solider guys on their own are fine as you can stealth or shoot them up. Clickers on their own are fine and indeed there's some satisfaction to be had from creeping blithely around them. Infected on their own are also fine as you can just smack them around until they're dead. It's the point when the game mixes clickers and infected that just make my heart sink and I've just switched it off in annoyance at one such part. You can't creep round the clickers as the infected spot you and start fucking screeching like bitches; but if you try and take the infected on you inevitably get eaten by a clicker. You just end up sort of running around the place shooting wildly and desperately hoping you get through it all, and the game's not good enough at what it does to make that anything other than an ordeal to be endured. I even tried actually sprinting through the school corridors just avoiding everyone which turned into an amusingly fun sort of racing game (with the odd shotgun blast thrown in) but, of course, you eventually just hit a door which has a triangle symbol but won't activate while you're being chased or whatever. At which point you get eaten. Again.

I really want to enjoy this and the story/setting/characters are absolutely excellent but, at the risk of getting told I'm doing it wrong again, I'm seriously struggling with it. 'Clunky' is the word I keep coming back to and it's really sapping my enjoyment.

I need to get back to this, I gave up at 50% and I know the final half has to be a lot better than the first half or everyone wouldn't be loving it so much!

Mechanically, it's a clunky stealth game, with on rails environments that go on for too long in a lot of places. The characterisation and feel of the game is great though, and I expect the story to get much better. It seems to be the best game ever, despite many parts of the actual game elements themselves rather than because of it, which is quite an achievement

It's the point when the game mixes clickers and infected that just make my heart sink and I've just switched it off in annoyance at one such part

Preparation, preparation, preparation.

The first time I came across clickers and infected together I died A LOT. I realised eventually you have to plan your approach carefully. If you can entice someone into a room on their own and strangle them, do this. If you're running around like a headless chicken and manage to fluke it, you're using the wrong approach. Use the bricks and bottles to your advantage. You will not win against a room with three clickers and two infected! If you can avoid fighting at all, more's the better.

Preparation, preparation, preparation.

The first time I came across clickers and infected together I died A LOT. I realised eventually you have to plan your approach carefully. If you can entice someone into a room on their own and strangle them, do this. If you're running around like a headless chicken and manage to fluke it, you're using the wrong approach. Use the bricks and bottles to your advantage. You will not win against a room with three clickers and two infected! If you can avoid fighting at all, more's the better.