25 examples that demonstrate an overwhelming sense of detail

Naughty Dog has been accustoming us to games of mind-blowing technique for more than a decade now: the worst is that the company continues to progress throughout its production, even to the point of pushing back some fairly striking standards . So, like a Red Dead Redemption II packed with ultra-precise elements that are impossible to spot at first glance, The Last of Us II is this kind of adventure in the sense of mind-blowing detail, testifying to the will unstoppable of its designers to establish a realistic and damn attentive experience.

As ultimate proof of this authenticity, the Knightz YouTube channel rightly identified and then illustrated twenty-five examples on video (watch out for spoils, however) : for example, did you know that Ellie looks at the steps when she climbs a staircase? Do your enemies’ teeth fly in real time during a scuffle? Or that the dogs of your opponents show their misunderstanding and their sadness after the death of their master, canine motion-capture in support?

Similarly, it is then possible to realize that when Ellie throws a bottle in the face of an opponent, real shards of glass are stuck in his skin; bits of the brain can also be seen on the walls after a bloody headshot; Dina is blinded when we direct the flashlight in her direction while a camera effect transcribes the vertigo of Abby when we look at the void …

No doubt possible, Naughty Dog gave himself thoroughly in this resplendent suite which, on our side, particularly convinced us. Inevitably, it is with a certain question that we ask how far will Californian developers go on the next generation of consoles …

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