May 29. (Portaltic/EP) –
The franchise developer The Last of UsNaughty Dog, has confirmed that it continues to work on the multiplayer of this title and has acknowledged that it needs “more time” to develop this game mode.
The Last of Us is an initially exclusive game for PlayStation that came to PC at the end of March and whose story focuses on the United States, in a post-pandemic environment. Its protagonists with Ellie and Joelwho must survive the outbreak of a fungus that caused humans to mutate into cannibalistic creatures.
In recent months the company has made reference to a multiplayer mode for The Last of Us, which was not present in The Last of Us: Part II, and it was the co-chairman of the studio and co-creator of the saga, Neil Druckmann, who said in january that it would “begin to offer some details” about this title, that described as “ambitious”.
The followers of the title expected to know news about this work at the PlayStation Showroom, which took place on May 24, but nothing was said about the state of the multiplayer of the well-known franchise.
However, Naughty Dog has shared that although they are “incredibly proud of the work” that they have done in this time, they have realized “that the best thing for the game is to give it more time”.
“Our team will continue to work on the project, as well as our other games in development, including a new single player experience,” he added in a shared post. via Twitter.
It should be mentioned that the developer has released the estimate in which its multiplayer is currently located shortly after Bloomberg announced that the creators of this game modality were reassessing “its quality and long-term viability” and that, despite that development has not been cancelled,”many of its developers have moved on to other projects.”
