Naughty Dog was working on Jak & Daxter reboot

Naughty Dog has revealed that a reboot to the Jak & Daxter series was in the works before being dropped for The Last of Us.

The classic PlayStation 2 platformer underwent an extensive redesign to make everything seem less cartoony.

However in the end Naughty Dog felt that fans wouldn't appreciate the changes so the project was scrapped.

"As much as we liked a lot of these concepts and exploring this fantastical world, we found that the ideas we were passionate about were getting away from what Jak & Daxter was," said creative director Neil Druckmann at the IGDA Toronto 2013 keynote.

"And we were questioning, are we doing this for marketing reasons and naming something Jak & Daxter when it's not really Jak & Daxter, or are we really passionate about it?

"And the answer was, we felt it was more for marketing and we felt that we weren't doing service to what fans of this franchise really liked - even if the reinvented Daxter is pretty good looking."

The last full Jak & Daxter release was Jak 3 back in 2004.