The revised and improved re-release of Naughty Dog The last of us for PlayStation 5 brings new graphics, new game features and, as described on the PlayStation Blog Friday, a variety of accessibility options, both new and returned The Last of Us Part 2. One of those new features takes advantage of the PS5’s DualSense controller capabilities in an intriguing new way.
The Last of Us Part 1 Game director Matthew Gallant said that Naughty Dog will improve subtitles for in-game dialogue using the controller’s vibration capabilities. new in The Last of Us Part 1 is “a feature that renders dialogue through the PS5 DualSense controller as haptic feedback. That way a deaf player can feel a line being delivered, can feel the intonation, along with the subtitles to give a sense of how that line is being delivered,” Gallant said.
“We expect this to be an accessible experience for blind gamers, for deaf gamers, and for gamers with motor accessibility needs,” Gallant said. “The biggest innovation we have is audio description for movies. We’ve partnered with Descriptive Video Works, a professional service whose background is TV, movies and video game trailers, and integrated it into the cutscenes and into all of our localized languages.”
You can see and hear a preview of these accessibility features in The Last of Us Part 1 in the video above. On the PlayStation Blog, Naughty Dog outlined the very long list of accessibility features that will be coming to its PS5 game, including visual, auditory and motor accessibility presets, as well as granular control options, vision aids and magnification, anti-motion sickness considerations, game difficulty settings and interface options .
The Last of Us Part 1 will be released on September 2nd on PS5.
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