Page 3 of 155
While the bulk of Naughty Dog was heads-down on Drake's Deception, a second smaller team inside the studio was quietly working on something completely different in the background. That project turned out to be The Last of Us. It's the first time in the company's history they'd split like this, and it's kind of wild to think both games were cooking at the same building at once.
By the time all the dust settled on the 2020 awards season, The Last of Us Part 2 had picked up more Game of the Year wins than any other game in history, knocking The Witcher 3 off the top spot it had held for years.
Caitlyn's voice actor, Katie Leung, is probably best known to a lot of viewers as Cho Chang from the Harry Potter films. Arcane marked a proper return to a major franchise role for her after years working mostly in smaller British TV and theatre projects.
Before becoming the peaceful grandmaster of the Greybeards atop the Throat of the World, Paarthurnax served as Alduin's trusted lieutenant during the Dragon War, reportedly committing atrocities against mankind before ultimately betraying his brother and teaching the first mortals the power of the Thu'um.
Thresh doesn't always start the game with the same number of souls. Queue into a match against Lucian and he kicks off with just one, but there are specific matchup interactions tied to Nunu & Willump and to Sejuani that quietly change his starting count too. Most players never notice the difference, but it's baked right into his kit as a nod to his obsession with Lucian specifically.
Robin Atkin Downes has played villain after villain across the Uncharted series, so Tenzin sticks out. He's the loyal Tibetan guide who becomes one of Nate's genuine allies, making it the one time Downes gets to play someone actually on Drake's side.
A lot of people picture Jack Sparrow himself duelling atop the giant rolling wheel, but in the actual film it's Will and Norrington fighting up there while Jack just gets tossed around inside it. The image everyone remembers of Jack on top of the wheel is actually from the parody film Epic Movie, not this one at all.
In Tolkien's version, the 'two towers' of the title refer to Orthanc and Minas Morgul. Jackson's film swaps that second one out, pairing Orthanc with Barad-dur instead.
The film's stop on the cannibal island wasn't just unsettling for some audiences, it got the movie banned outright in China, where censors objected specifically to the cannibalism content.
In Uplift Reserve you'll find a Warthog with a medic trying to calm down a marine who's completely losing it. That's the same panicking soldier from the Floodgate level in Halo 3, so if his reaction feels oddly specific for a random NPC, it's because he's already had one very bad day before this one.
