The Last of Us, and other video games that leave nothing to the imagination...
At the E3 video game expo in Los Angeles earlier this month, a crowd of gamers cheered on a camo-clad tough guy as he went room to room beating people to death and setting them on fire.
It was a typical third-person-shooter video game action, except that the realism was stunning. A nearsighted person without glasses could have mistaken it for a movie scene.
I wasn’t at the event in person. I just watched the game demo play on YouTube, with the “live” audience response mixed in. But they seemed to be thinking the same thing.
Just when it seemed a brawnier guy with a two-by-four would overpower our hero, a petite female sidekick stabbed the assailant in the back. The hero kicked his attacker to the ground and leveled a shotgun at his face. “No, no, NO!” the brawny guy shrieked, a split second before the hero unloaded. After the man’s jaw shattered in a spray of blood and bone—smash cut—the title THE LAST OF US, white-on-black, filled the screen. The crowd roared.
The video game industry is currently in a war that the movie industry fought and decided last decade. It’s a struggle between loud, assaultive, photorealistic game design that rewards wispy attention spans while demanding minimal problem-solving skills of its players and … games where shotguns to the face and chainsaws to the jugular are not so essential.
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2012/06/6026394/last-us-and-other-video-games-leave-absolutely-nothing-imagination
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and showed the demo trailer, unedited, to the studio and cable audience.
I'm surprised they let that amount and level of violence get out on the air. Fallon was visibly uncomfortable.
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/the-last-of-us-demo-6-13-12/1406213
Was kinda funny 
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