In the video game and HBO show The Last of Us, humans struggle to survive after an infectious fungus turns ordinary people into zombies.Creators of the franchise didn't look far for inspiration This episode heavily deviates from the 2013 “The Last of Us” game by Naughty Dog, which serves as the source material of the show that director Craig Mazin adapts. With so many differences from the game, let’s take a look at the several ways the show made a departure but still managed to awe every viewer of this masterpiece of a series. The Last of Us season 1 has concluded, and it's safe to say that the HBO adaptation has gone over well with fans of the game and newbies alike. For the most part, it's been super faithful to the The Last of Us episode 4, “Please Hold to My Hand,” features precisely zero infected, but that doesn’t mean the show has parted company with the game — some of The Last of Us Part I’s The Last of Us TV series features less violence than its gaming counterpart. It is intended to redirect the audience’s attention from the action scenes to the characters’ experiences. There are also more plot threads dedicated to the supporting characters, uncovering all the secrets, nuances, and details unavailable in the video game. A bittersweet vignette that comprises most of the season’s best episode casts Nick Offerman as a misanthropic survivalist who builds a relatively luxurious fortress around himself and then One of the biggest differences between the tv series and game comes almost immediately after the show begins. We learn that the cordyceps outbreak occurred in 2003. In the source material, the apocalypse started in the same year the game was released: 2013. The change was suggested by co-creator Craig Mazin so the series could take place the The Last of Us: Remastered - PlayStation 4. $38.79. walmart.com. More. TV Show: The show’s intro starts off with a television conversation about the possibilities of the future fungal outbreak, which airs in 1968. Both the video game and the TV show state that Joel’s birthday is on September 26. Different: His smuggling job. This is where the first key difference arises. In The Last of Us game, Joel is also a smuggler, but he is shown to be tracking down Robert, the black-market dealer The Last of Us Episode 2: TV Show vs Game Comparison. 16 Images. But the show changes that almost entirely, leaving Ellie and Joel for a bit to give us an episode devoted to telling Bill and Frank LkW8.