

The struggles to adapt video games into movies were two-fold: However, video game adaptations didn’t have the best reputation. It also won multiple Game of the Year awards and has since been known as one of the greatest video games ever made.īecause of its cinematic style, a Hollywood adaptation was inevitable. The game was an instant hit, becoming one of the bestselling video games of all time. Standing in their way are endless obstacles, including an oppressive totalitarian government present within larger cities, rebellion factions that trust nobody, desperate survivors, and, of course, the infected. He’s tasked with guiding an apparently immune teen girl across the country to get her to someone who can create a cure.

In 2013, Sony’s third-person narrative and highly cinematic game The Last of Us debuted, telling the story of smuggler Joel navigating through a post-apocalyptic landscape decades after civilization has fallen to zombie-like humans that have succumbed to the effects of a mutated fungus.
