Since it was first released to PlayStation 3 owners last month, The Last of Us has been hailed as an artistic masterpiece of a kind rarely seen before in the history of video games. But for all the pomp and circumstance, it's not like a game like this hasn't been a long time in the making. There are plenty of zombie video games as there is plenty of zombie everything, after all. And developer Naughty Dog has earned itself a reputation for making games with remarkable human characters (as opposed to oversized beefcakes like Halo's Master Chief or Gears of War's Marcus Fenix) ever since it set "Indiana Jones"...