Naughty Canine Teases The Final of Us 3 Will (Finally) Occur


Key art for Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Part II Remastered.

Picture: Naughty Canine/PlayStation

The Final of Us is certainly one of PlayStation’s greatest properties, and its odds of continuous have grown with every remaster and its presently ongoing HBO adaptation. Unsurprisingly, a 3rd recreation is deliberate to come back out sooner or later—simply don’t anticipate it throughout the subsequent few years.

Developer Naughty Canine launched its Grounded 2 documentary forward of the weekend, which fits all into the event (and aftermath) of 2020’s The Final of Us Half II. In direction of the top of it, co-director Neil Druckmann mentioned he’s bought an idea for a Half 3 in his head, and that there’s “most likely yet one more chapteer to this story.” Concurrently, he argued that Half II may function a a becoming endpoint of the sequence, because it wraps a bow on the general take a look at the lengths of affection as established within the authentic 2013 recreation.

“The wonderful thing about working at Naughty Canine is that we don’t must,” defined Druckmann, who added that one thing else could strike the studio’s fancy. He’s beforehand been evasive on the possibilities of a 3rd recreation, however mentioned it wasn’t till lately that he discovered an concept that’s “thrilling as [Part I and II], is its personal factor, and but has this throughline for all three.”

Late final 12 months, Naughty Canine canceled its lengthy in-development multiplayer spinoff for The Final of Us so it may follow being a single-player studio. In accordance with Forbes, the developer is now engaged on an alleged sci-fi recreation first heard about in 2021. Naughty Canine already mentioned it’s engaged on a number of tasks (probably together with a fantasy title, so it could be a while earlier than we get a full reveal of The Final of Us Half III. The wait between the primary two video games was seven years, and with triple-A video games taking as lengthy (and as a lot) as they do to make, it’s mentioned mission could not come till the following new PlayStation console. And that will not come till 2028, if not 2029 or 2030.

Within the meantime, you’ll be able to satiate your Final of Us wants by with the live-action sequence on Max (and its second season presumably airing subsequent 12 months), and the primary two video games on PlayStation 5.

[by way of IGN]


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