The Last of Us Part 3 Motion Capture and Audio Recordings Happening This Year – Rumour

gamingbolt.com:

What Naughty Dog is working on next has been a question that’s been asked on no few occasions over the past couple of years, and it’s no surprise that – owing to the popularity of the property, especially with its successful TV adaptation – many have assumed that The Last of Us Part 3 is going to be up next for the acclaimed studio. Sure enough, looks have claimed as much as well, with prominent leaker ViewerAnon having claimed in December last year that the next instalment in the post-apcalyptic franchise was Naughty Dog’s next project. Now, the leaker has taken to Twitter again to double down on those claims.

Prompted by recent leaks concerning the next game in the Last of Us franchise, the leaker said that though the game was still in early development, which meant leaked story details may or may not be tweked in the final product itself, The Last of Us Part 3 is indeed in development. They went on to add that “major filming” is happening this year, with motion capture work and audio recordings all set to happen in the coming months- though that, of course, is a process that tends to stretch out over long portions of production for games on this scale.

ViewerAnon also stated that the one story detail that’s definitely right is that Ellie is going to have “at least as important” a role in The Last of Us Part 3 as she did in Part 2. While that might not be entirely too surprising, as this series has taught us in the past, who the central protagonists will be and how prominent of a role they will have aren’t things we can just take for granted.

Naughty Dog itself has been unsurprisingly tightlipped over the possibility of a The Last of Us Part 3. It was confirmed a little over a year ago that the studio had started work