Cancelled The Last of Us Online director says it was 'the best multiplayer game' the team had ever played

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The cancellation of The Last of Us Online is one of the greatest tragedies of our time. At least in the imaginations of many TLOU fans—it was cancelled after all, so we never actually got to see whether it lived up to the hype.

Nevertheless, former game director Vinit Agarwal has called his cancelled baby "the best multiplayer game [the team] ever played" when reminiscing on the project over the weekend. "It’s wild how many of my ex-colleagues still message me today saying how amazing TLOU Online was going to be," Agarwal expressed.

After the success of the mode in the first game, Naughty Dog planned to expand the idea with The Last of Us Part 2. However, the studio explained in 2019 that it "grew beyond an additional mode that could be included with [an] enormous single player campaign". As a result, it would instead become a fully-fledged The Last of Us multiplayer spin-off.

Agarwal's recent comments come only three weeks after h...

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