Graphics - 4/5 The graphics in this game is beautiful and awe provoking. The vegetations, character detailing, diverse landscapes etc really adds to the immersion. Though the optimization on PC is really poor even after nearly 1 year of patches.
Story - 3.5/5 The story is good, especially the "Left Behind" dlc, moderately emotional story, but lacks the depth in Joel's character, and overall complexity, even if we consider the 2013 release. It doesn't really feel like how the majority of the reviews said about this game as outstanding. Also its predictable to the very end with no choices for the player and also pretty small storywise. Like indie titles. Also Joel should have died at the end, that would have been wayy more emotional.
Mechanics - 2.5/5 This game suffers heavily from really poor gameplay mechanics, the gunplay is not really satisfying, the melee combat is repetitive and boring, but the worst part of this game is the stealth system, its utterly tiring, while considering that this game was meant to be stealth centered. Also I hated the immersion breaking due to the other characters bumping into the zombies and nothing happens for that. It should have been player controlled on how the other characters move when they are in stealth.
Overall - 3.5/5 Before I played this game I heard a lottt of people saying how this game is a masterpiece and truly one of the best games ever. But I disagree with that completely, this game even if we consider 2013 release have nothing new to offer, a predictable short story made into a 12 hour game which barely considers as a AAA title, lackluster gameplay and little to nothing environmental storytelling with pretty much non existent soundtrack, every aspect of this game shouts mediocre. Even the remake suffers from severe technical issues upon launch and still not fixed with no improvement on the gameplay. Not a memorable game.
NOTES - 1. They really marketed this game well, other game devs should learn from the marketing of this game and how it convinced nearly all of playstation gamers to view this as an outstanding piece of art.
2. This might have been the most overrated piece of game ever (for history books).
3. My theory for why this game is praised so heavily - It was a playstation only title when it launched and stayed that way for 10 years, the first surge of reviews might have been fake so it brought the attention of the most casual of gamers, and as most of them haven't really played a lot of games only made them appreciate this one wayy more.
4. It is kind of proven these days how the game awards are kind of fake, and this game being heavily awarded just proves the point even more.
Story - 3.5/5 The story is good, especially the "Left Behind" dlc, moderately emotional story, but lacks the depth in Joel's character, and overall complexity, even if we consider the 2013 release. It doesn't really feel like how the majority of the reviews said about this game as outstanding. Also its predictable to the very end with no choices for the player and also pretty small storywise. Like indie titles. Also Joel should have died at the end, that would have been wayy more emotional.
Mechanics - 2.5/5 This game suffers heavily from really poor gameplay mechanics, the gunplay is not really satisfying, the melee combat is repetitive and boring, but the worst part of this game is the stealth system, its utterly tiring, while considering that this game was meant to be stealth centered. Also I hated the immersion breaking due to the other characters bumping into the zombies and nothing happens for that. It should have been player controlled on how the other characters move when they are in stealth.
Overall - 3.5/5 Before I played this game I heard a lottt of people saying how this game is a masterpiece and truly one of the best games ever. But I disagree with that completely, this game even if we consider 2013 release have nothing new to offer, a predictable short story made into a 12 hour game which barely considers as a AAA title, lackluster gameplay and little to nothing environmental storytelling with pretty much non existent soundtrack, every aspect of this game shouts mediocre. Even the remake suffers from severe technical issues upon launch and still not fixed with no improvement on the gameplay. Not a memorable game.
NOTES - 1. They really marketed this game well, other game devs should learn from the marketing of this game and how it convinced nearly all of playstation gamers to view this as an outstanding piece of art.
2. This might have been the most overrated piece of game ever (for history books).
3. My theory for why this game is praised so heavily - It was a playstation only title when it launched and stayed that way for 10 years, the first surge of reviews might have been fake so it brought the attention of the most casual of gamers, and as most of them haven't really played a lot of games only made them appreciate this one wayy more.
4. It is kind of proven these days how the game awards are kind of fake, and this game being heavily awarded just proves the point even more.