10 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About The Last Of Us

6. It Was Pitched To George Romero

Despite escaping easy classification as a "zombie game", originally the distinction was much clearer. Let's rewind back to 2004: Neil Druckmann was still attending Carnegie Mellon University, and his professor had just told the class to come up with ideas for a game that would be pitched to George Romero, who happened to be a friend. So yeah... just, you know. No pressure. Druckmann, seeing an opportunity to make a cocktail of a few of his biggest influences, came up with the idea of throwing a cop who suffered from a heart condition (based on Sin City's John Hartigan) into the world of Romero's Night Of The Living Dead where he would protect a young girl in a very Ico-inspired relationship. Unfortunately, Romero passed on the concept, but Druckmann held onto the idea for years and planned to revisit it in a comic called "The Turning", which would have changed the central character from a cop to a former criminal.