10 Video Games That Pushed Consoles To The Limit
2. The Last Of Us - PS3
Words cannot describe the enormity of The Last of Us' impact when it first came out. Much like Undertale a few years later, you just had to be there for it to truly get it.
The reason that Naughty Dog's constant rereleases of this game - first a remaster, then a remake - feel so absurd is that the game still looks amazing to this day. Definitely an achievement on the PS3 which - despite having some excellent features of its own - just had too many millstones around its neck to hold a candle to its contemporary, the Xbox 360.
The Last of Us was the perfect game to showcase the PS3's best graphical qualities, that being its lighting and character model details. The characters in The Last of Us look so consistently weary, beaten down, and filthy, all the time. And thanks to the PS3's advanced lighting, the world manages to look realistically beautiful and threatening at the same time.
While its sequel is the bigger graphical powerhouse, the way the original worked its hardware to the limit should also be showcased.