Shooters are told from the perspective of someone killing thousands of people, it is important that these mass murders seem grounded and honest. Team Ico looked at games like Far Cry 3 and Wolfenstein: The New Order and determined that it wasn’t so much the gun in your hand which was important, it was who the gun was killing that really mattered, whether it was Nazis or islanders, terrorists or bank robbers. So what does this mean for The Last Guardian? Mostly it means an emphasis on story, like all good shooters. Between Crackdown, Far Cry 4, Rainbow Six Siege, The Division, Battlefield: Hardline, Halo 5: Guardians, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Evolve, Uncharted 4 and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, it is clear the world of video games is mostly about shooting stuff and looking cool while you do it.

With games like Call of Duty making revolutionary changes to its gameplay by changing the setting to the not-so-distant future (to resolve conflicts it couldn’t handle with Modern Warfare), and games like Destiny showing that shooting guns doesn’t have to be done alone, it is clear the shooter is proving to have more legs than anyone gave it credit for. Clearly no good video games can exist without gritty men fighting in dark worlds.” “I watched these press conferences, seeing Call of Duty rip a man’s arm off and Nathan Drake looking all gritty and shit while loading a gun. Ueda-san said the E3 Press Conference this year confirmed Team Ico was on the right track. It was clear that gamers love blowing things up and shooting each other, and that was the only way we could truly communicate our vision.” “After years of delay,” Lead Director Fumito Ueda revealed in an exclusive interview, while I was helicoptered to a secret lair in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, “We decided that Team Ico had explored many different avenues, but the bro-shooter was one completely unique to us. The boring game shown fiver years ago has been turned into the blockbuster explosion-filled shooter you have always wanted. After being announced in 2009, The Last Guardian has finally seen the light of day, and after meeting in a secret location, taking a blood oath, and selling my kidney, Sony allowed me to get the first peek at what Team Ico has been working on. For those who were so distraught at the lack of Last Guardian-ness at Sony’s E3 Press Conference, you are finally about to get some good news.

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