Awards received by 2013 video game
Naughty Dog developers accepting
Game of the Year at the
Game Developers Choice Awards
The Last of Us is a 2013
action-adventure game developed by
Naughty Dog and published by
Sony Computer Entertainment . Players assume control of
Joel (
Troy Baker ), escorting the young
Ellie (
Ashley Johnson ) across a
post-apocalyptic United States.
The game's development was led by
Bruce Straley and
Neil Druckmann , as game director and creative director, respectively. The game was officially announced on December 10, 2011,
[1] and was nominated for Most Anticipated Game at the 2012
Spike Video Game Awards .
[2] Following its previews at
E3 2012 , the game won five awards at the
Game Critics Awards , including Best of Show,
[3] which it also won from several
gaming publications .
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
The game was released for
PlayStation 3 on June 14, 2013,
[9] and for
PlayStation 4 as The Last of Us Remastered in July and August 2014.
[10] It received "universal acclaim", according to
review aggregator
Metacritic , based on 98 reviews.
[11] Within three weeks of its release, The Last of Us sold approximately 3.4 million copies,
[12] and seven million by July 2014, becoming one of the
best-selling PlayStation 3 games .
[13] The game received six nominations at the
Golden Joystick Awards , of which it won three,
[14] and seven nominations at
Spike VGX , with Baker and Johnson winning Best Voice Actor and Best Voice Actress, respectively.
[15]
The Last of Us won
Best Animated Video Game at the
41st Annie Awards ,
[16] and Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing at the
66th Writers Guild of America Awards .
[17] It led the
17th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards with thirteen nominations and ten awards, including
Game of the Year ,
[18] received five nominations at the 3rd Annual
New York Game Awards ,
[19] of which it won the Big Apple Award for Best Game,
[20] and won four of its seven nominations at the
SXSW Gaming Awards , including Game of the Year.
[21]
[22] At the
10th British Academy Video Games Awards , The Last of Us received ten nominations and won five awards:
Best Game , Action & Adventure,
Audio Achievement ,
Performer , and
Story .
[23] At the 14th Annual
Game Developers Choice Awards , it won
Game of the Year , Best Design, and Best Narrative.
[24] It received nine nominations at the 12th Annual
Game Audio Network Guild Awards ,
[25] of which it won four: Audio of the Year, Sound Design of the Year, Best Audio Mix, and Best Dialogue.
[26]
The game appeared on several publications' year-end lists of the best games, including
The A.V. Club ,
[27]
The Daily Telegraph ,
[28]
GamesRadar ,
[29]
GameTrailers ,
[30]
GameRevolution ,
[31]
Giant Bomb ,
[32]
Good Game ,
[33] Hardcore Gamer ,
[34]
IGN ,
[35]
Kotaku ,
[36]
VG247 ,
[37] and VideoGamer.com .
[38] The Last of Us Remastered received nominations at
The Game Awards 2014 and the 15th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards.
[39]
[40] The game was named among the best games of the 2010s by
The Hollywood Reporter ,
[41]
Mashable ,
[42] Metacritic,
[43] and VG247 ,
[44] and was added to the
World Video Game Hall of Fame at
the Strong National Museum of Play in May 2023.
[45] It is often ranked among the
greatest video games ever made .
[46]
Accolades
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