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How The Last of Us went from hit game to hit zombie tv

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Craig Mesa: When I'm watching it and their characters are escaping and they're in a truck, it strikes me as like, oh, this looks like a game I've played. Is that just because that's what happens when, there's only so many ways to shoot someone running away from something in a truck or is there something intentional there? He says part of it is when Neil is making a game, he is drawing from the cinematic language of movies and television shows that we've all grown up in. It's never about, let's get as much game in there as possible; it's really what will make the best episode of TV. We'll be right back with Craig Mesa

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