In the video game The Last Of Us, a fungal infection turns people into mindless zombies. But while David Walton’s new sci-fi novel The Genius Plague (paperback, digital) is also about a fungus among us, he says that not only was his novel not inspired by that game, but also that his infected aren’t really zombies, and they’re really not mindless.
It goes without saying that if you played the third-person stealth action survival horror game The Last Of Us when it came out on the PlayStation 3 last summer, there’s no reason to buy The Last Of Us Remastered on the PlayStation 4, since all it adds is upgraded graphics, minor changes to the controls, and the previously released add-ons.
But for those who haven’t had the pleasure, The Last Of Us is a engrossing, challenging, and often horrific journey through a rich word fraught with danger…regardless of which version you play.