A newly-released mod forThe Last of Uson PC allows gamers to play as Sheriff Rick Grimes fromThe Walking DeadTV series. Both are centered around a zombie apocalypse, so Rick Grimes looks right at home in the world ofThe Last of Us.
The modding community forThe Last of Uson PC isn’t enormous yet, but the results so far speak toward a promising future for the game. OneLast of Usmod even adds Arthur Morgan fromRed Dead Redemption 2, with some hilarious results. So far, plenty of the mods are simple Joel replaces with protagonists of other games.The Last of Us' characters are the most important thing in the entire game, so it makes sense that they’ve been a focus of modder’s attention up to now. Despite the game still being new on PC, the modding scene forThe Last of Ushas a lot of potential, and it will be interesting to see how creative it can get in the future.
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Footage of the mod was posted to Reddit by user GamerDabiTodoroki, who showed off Rick Grimes in a cutscene with Ellie. Rick appears as he does in Season One of the TV show, still wearing his Sheriff uniform. The mod doesn’t replace Joel’s voice, however Troy Baker’s voice acting isn’t massively dissimilar from Andrew Lincoln’s Southern drawl in the show, so with some suspension of disbelief, it can definitely work. Plenty of modders are usingAI voice acting in their modsnowadays, so that could be a solution if the mod author wanted to go a step further with this.
Players in the thread felt it was certainly a great match, but wondered why Rick’s son, Carl Grimes, wasn’t included in the mod as an Ellie replacement. It would certainly be interesting to see how they’d fare inThe Last of Us, but there simply haven’t been too many Ellie replacers released yet. There are plenty of Joel replacers, such as theLast of Usmod that lets gamers play as Bill, but for some reason Ellie is yet to receive the same level of attention.
While the modding community gives players plenty to be excited about, things can’t truly gear up until the developer gets the PC port into a better state. Developer Naughty Dog recently put outupdate 1.0.4.1 forThe Last of Uson PC, but unfortunately, gamers have reported that it hasn’t made a huge difference to the overall performance. It does appear that the studio is fully committed to eventually having a great product for PC gamers to pick up, but right now it still isn’t all the way there yet.
The Last of Us Part 1is available now on PC and PS5.
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