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Could New PS3 Exclusive The Last Of Us Be About Brain Fungus?

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by Tim Turi on December 04, 2011 at 05:09 PM

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Yesterday we showed you the a teaser for a new PlayStation 3 exclusive entitled The Last of Us. While we will have to wait until next week's VGAs to learn more concrete info about the game, one intelligent gamer made a connection between a video of an ant on the game's official website and an interesting segment in BBC nature show, Planet Earth. The ant clip on the Last of Us website features an ant succumbing to a deadly brain fungus. Could this be what the riots and strife afflicting those in the Last of Us teaser are so afraid of?

Here's the full clip of the killer cordyceps fungi which attacks various jungle insects:

Given that we see droves of sickly looking people behind fences and quarantine signs, I'm going to say this seems like a pretty reasonable guess. After watching the video and enjoying the soothing tone of David Attenborough's very British voice, I've decided I'd rather die any other way than have a fungus slowly take over my entire body and spread to my loved ones. If that's what The Last of Us is all about, color me simultaneously horrified and intrigued.

Source: IGN

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by Echelon XII Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:18 PM

It would seem so, but this game seems to still fall in the overly saturated post-apocalyptic, zombified populace genre. If the gameplay is with ingenuity or otherwise different than mass slayings, I might be interested.

We have too many zombies, not enough good content to fill them up, and rushed stories all featuring the same topics in this genre. Make something unique this time around, please. Fungus or zombie, its all starting to blur together.

Cordyceps is interesting, but I wonder if the implication is not necessarily fungi based. It could be more relative to the nature of the attack, and how the infected will be treated - the ants knew precisely what it was and how to dispose of it's victims.
by Robo Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:18 PM

Well, sign me up as interested.
by Aiklund Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:18 PM

I am trying to think 'meh, apocalyptic theme? nothing new...' but somehow I am intrigued. AND it's always nice with a new exclusive ip.
by The guy who is meh Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:20 PM

Day one purchase.
by VegitarianZombie Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:20 PM

"There's fungus among us" better not be the tagline.
by christian Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:20 PM

might be what turns people into zombies
by cmanwitaplan Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:21 PM

Glad to see a new IP, but I'm starting to get sick of this hyper-realistic stuff.
by Arkhammoved Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:21 PM

Brain fungus is an interesting topic. It is also a likely way for the zombie invasion to begin! Fellow gamers, protect your brains, but do not tell your friends. I, along with everyone else that is awesome, am ready for the zombie invasion, so let it begin!!!
by Farrell Maniac Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:21 PM

Great. Two things that freak me the *** out: bugs and fungi.
by John Hunter Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:21 PM

Nooooooooo i hate PS3 exclusives
by Mortal91ify02 Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:23 PM

"After watching the video and enjoying the soothing tone of David Attenborough's very British voice"......LMFAO!!!
by Adym Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:23 PM

Kind of reminds me of the flood from Halo. So does it continue to spread after the insect dies or does it die with it? Apparently its used as a medicine, weird.
by Leon S Kennedy Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:24 PM

Terrifying. Great idea for a survival horror game, though.
by ReclusiveSpirit Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:24 PM

A humungous fungus among us?
by Aaron Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:25 PM

I like that idea. It's similar to the parasitic idea of RE4, but different enough to distinguish itself from it.
by Large Italian Mustache Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:25 PM

Zombies anyone?
by fearless1112 Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:32 PM

good idea for a game, and the fungi makes me think either zombies, or mutation. now im gonna go take a shower...(UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!)
by lugadi Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:33 PM

It's like a plague. The game is going to be a survival horror black plauge-type game. Similar to a zombie game but instead the infected just die. The virus (or fungi) will spread unless someone finds a cure of some sort. Let's just hope that this type of idea doesn't become the next craze like zombie games are.
by Darkeon Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 05:35 PM

very wierd