Reading that Polygon review, I tell ya, what I disliked most about Uncharted was the gunplay, both in terms of game mechanics and in how disjointed it felt from the rest of the 'experience'. If The Last of Us is the same in that regard, =/
It seems the more games try to directly mimic reality, the easier it is to shatter the illusion of reality those same games try to create. When the rest of a game tries to be so realistic in its narrative and characterization, and then suddenly I'm killing waves of other human beings (!), that pulls me right out of the narrative and all I'm left with is another dumb shooter. (I guess I'm alluding to Uncharted here more than anything though; like most of us I haven't actually played The Last of Us yet)
