This is a game about women - not about the female experience per se, but a game in which almost all the notable characters are women and in which they are not only shown exhibiting great capability and physical prowess, but also contending with dark impulses typically ascribed to men: trauma, obsession, rage and revenge. This isn't even all that The Last of Us Part 2 is attempting. But, by taking some big gambles, the developers land decisive blows that will send you reeling. It gets messy and problematic, and neither side comes out unscathed. It is, perhaps for the first time in the history of big-budget action games, a fair match. Now The Last of Us has a sequel, and in that sequel the wrestling match between the game's violent action and its thematic intentions has developed into a full-on, bareknuckle brawl. In 2013 they started to grapple with its implications in The Last of Us, a moody post-apocalyptic thriller that upped the graphic brutality while seeking to frame it in the context of a desperate, cruel world, and also contrast it with the delicate bond developing between the protagonist, gruff smuggler Joel, and his cargo, a teen called Ellie. The joke must have stung the Californian Sony studio Naughty Dog, Uncharted's maker. Availability: Exclusive to PS4, released on 19th June.
Star of the Uncharted series, Drake is famed for his easygoing, flippant charm - yet over the course of a single game he will typically kill hundreds of people.
The most common joke about the difficulty video games have reconciling their storytelling impulses with the violent action so many of them depend on revolves around the character Nathan Drake. Can a slick, mainstream action game really reckon with the violence that drives it? The answer is yes - messily, but powerfully.
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