She lives in a military-run orphanage within the confines of the quarantine zone, and has great interest in media from before the fall, such as comic books and music. Having been born years after the devastation begins, she has no idea what the real world was like. "All she knows is this one quarantine zone." That's a scary thought, but it's Ellie's reality. ![]() ![]() Joel's gotten more than he bargained for. Why is she being smuggled out? "That's something we're not ready to talk about," Druckmann admits. That young girl is Ellie, who we were first introduced to when the game was revealed for the first time with that beautiful trailer. While he usually deals in "contraband," such as illicit drugs, illegal weapons and more, this job requires him to "smuggle" a young girl out of the city. A "black market" within the quarantine zone is what Joel calls home. "What he wouldn't do in the past is almost a daily occurrence at this point," Bruce Straley, the game's director, notes. Over time, he's begun to become less bound by morality and more bound by doing whatever's necessary to survive. Described as being in his 40's, Joel knows what the world looked like before it was devastated. "If you scan positive for infection," he notes, "you're taken off to the side and euthanized." Joel is then touched upon by Naughty Dog. The quarantined city the game begins in is split up into various, heavily-guarded sections, and scanning for the infected happens constantly. Martial law rules the day, and any infraction - even minor ones - result in immediate execution. "Our story picks up in one of the last remaining quarantine zones," Druckmann goes on. Ellie's in trouble, and needs to escape the Quarantine Zone. Druckmann goes on to note that even the quarantine zones begin to fall apart over time, however, as supplies run low, people start losing their minds, and the infected start infiltrating them, whether intentionally or otherwise. Though the government is falling apart, the military has created quarantine zones that act as sparse safe havens for uninfected survivors. He goes on to talk about what we already know and what we've already figured out society is breaking down as a result of a deadly virus. "The story takes place 20 years after this apocalyptic event happens," Creative Director Neil Druckmann explains. ![]() But now, thanks to a video posted on Game Informer, we have more detail than ever about the game's plot, how things begin, and what the situation is for both Joel and Ellie as your adventure unfolds. We've met the game's main characters, we know that a virus has mutated most of the world's population and destroyed the world as we know it, and we know that the game takes place in a post-apocalyptic setting.
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