The Last of Us Part II

 PlayStation 4
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5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 161975 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 68,475 out of 161975
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  1. MTB
    May 31, 2021
    2
    Why yes I made an account only to take a dump on this game, thank you.
    Originally I was going to post some trans-phobic joke for **** and to see if twitter lefties would screen-shot it an effort to make an argument, but I'm not doing that, I'm going serious.
    I own a PS2, 3 and 4, I got to play a bit of the original TLOU in PS3, then lost it, years later, the remastered version was free    Why yes I made an account only to take a dump on this game, thank you.
    Originally I was going to post some trans-phobic joke for **** and to see if twitter lefties would screen-shot it an effort to make an argument, but I'm not doing that, I'm going serious.
    I own a PS2, 3 and 4, I got to play a bit of the original TLOU in PS3, then lost it, years later, the remastered version was free for PS+ users, so I bought it, and I loved it, the game got me truly enthusiastic for the sequel.
    Then I saw the leaks back in April, and my absolute hype for the game, turned into absolute hate.
    I didn't and I still don't care if Abby is a mutilated 41%-ass individual, or if Ellie likes to scissor with women whose actresses got their boobs nerfed, what enraged me is how dirty they did Joel, a character that everyone fell in love with in the previous game.
    Some time later, I kinda got over it, but I still wasn't going to play it, and when people got the game early VIA pre-order, I got even more goddamn enraged.
    They torture the main characters like the absolute worst villains in history, Tommy gets divorced, one-eyed and limping, mad about the fact that Ellie promised him to kill that woman and now is hesitating about it, Ellie herself hallucinates about Joel's dead body and with how she couldn't save him, which inspires her to finish the job and fight Abby on an even fight where both of them are emaciated as hell and she DOESN'T KILL HER BECAUSE OF A FLASHBACK OF JOEL PLAYING THE GUITAR (Which absolutely contradicts what she said about Joel killing Abby if Ellie was the one killed and not him), then the game ends with Dina making a meme out of herself and taking the kids, and Ellie making a failed attempt to play the guitar with three fingers on her left hand, she's alone, she did Tommy dirty by having the chance of finishing the job, and HESITATING about it, and she made a complete fool out of herself by killing a bunch of people trying to find Abby and NOT finishing off the person you killed so much to find, ending the game with an unsatisfying climax, tbh it would have been slightly less bad if Abby just finished Ellie in the theater.
    Good job, Neil, you got what you wanted, a game that literally no mentally stable person likes, and you are getting what you deserve because of it, I hope mocaping that scene with your self insert banging Abby was worth it.
    I'm giving it a 2 only because of the REALLY slightly improved gameplay, and I'm being really forgiving with it.    … Expand
  2. Datum
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    I'm just here to offset shill reviews from shill reviewers in a shill industry that has no regard for integrity. Nobody should trust reviews from companies that get to make indirect money from their pandering or posturing outside of gaming and in the politics of social media, and get to ride the marketing and the hype wave of the games they review.These critic reviews are not incentivizedI'm just here to offset shill reviews from shill reviewers in a shill industry that has no regard for integrity. Nobody should trust reviews from companies that get to make indirect money from their pandering or posturing outside of gaming and in the politics of social media, and get to ride the marketing and the hype wave of the games they review.These critic reviews are not incentivized to give consumers an idea about the product. They are astroturfing for these companies, and that is dishonest and misleading marketing practices, which is illegal in almost every country on the Earth. Journalists aren't supposed to be in the back pocket of those things they are claiming to "review." These are Lets Plays at best, and shouldn't be counted as anything more than an influenced view of the product.

    Unless consumers start looking at truly independent opinions instead of the schmoozers and those that will compromise their ethics for a trip to a convention and a ham sandwich, they will get what they are given.

    "Consumers get what they are given. Users find what they need." -Datum    … Expand
  3. Cristoferoga
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    A parte mais importante que era a história , erraram em tudo kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
  4. TheBakerNation
    Jul 8, 2020
    2
    Worst sequel possible! Can't believe that after such a delightful first game, the second couldn't honor it properly, not even close. This game is so disappointing and bad that it upsets me to the core. The story doesn't make sense at all and it's horse site. 2/10 because it has good graphics.
  5. jk8yhoih
    Jul 1, 2020
    0
    Made an account just to express how frustrated after playing this game. The system doesn't evolve a lot; the storytelling is way worse than the previous game; the characters are unlikable, especially the change of Allie's attitude toward Abby (although I already guessed what she would do, based on the pattern of how the story is written). Generally a disappointment. I don't know why itMade an account just to express how frustrated after playing this game. The system doesn't evolve a lot; the storytelling is way worse than the previous game; the characters are unlikable, especially the change of Allie's attitude toward Abby (although I already guessed what she would do, based on the pattern of how the story is written). Generally a disappointment. I don't know why it received such praises from most of the media, but I do know that IGN Japan, Game Revolution and GAMINGbible are some of the most honest ones among them all.

    Also, Sony/naughty dog is freaking racist and double standard. The writer has tons of ways to express that Ellie is not into Jesse, but they chose that race joke. They added so many political correctness thingies, pretending that they care but they do NOT. Deep down they are still a bunch of racists and always trying to pick on a race with the lowest risk. That joke wouldn’t be there if Jesse was black or gay.    … Expand
  6. iEdgardo
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    Two things that this game did well, the graphics and the voice acting. The character models and scenery is beautiful, and of course, the voice acting was very well directed.

    As for the story, it's just bad. I believe 'The Last of Us' is about Joel and Ellie. It's clear Neil and Naughty Dog pushed both of them aside to make room for all these new characters, but at the end of the day it    Two things that this game did well, the graphics and the voice acting. The character models and scenery is beautiful, and of course, the voice acting was very well directed.

    As for the story, it's just bad. I believe 'The Last of Us' is about Joel and Ellie. It's clear Neil and Naughty Dog pushed both of them aside to make room for all these new characters, but at the end of the day it just doesn't tie in well nor do we get the same character development for the new characters as we did for Joel and Ellie in the first game. You're simply not going to feel the same attachment for any of these people the same way you did for Joel and Ellie.

    Gameplay: It's The Last of Us 1 but you can jump, dodge attacks (time is slowed down when an enemy initiates an attack so it pretty much forces you to dodge before you can counter), and go prone. This gameplay design was already outdated when the first game came out back in 2013 as other games have simply done it better, and now it's even worse to the point where you get bored
    while playing the game.

    It's incredibly disappointing to say the least.

    I can babble on about how much I hate this game, but i don't have the energy to do so after playing that mess.

    If you really want to know what happens, watch the cut-scenes on youtube. Triple AAA games nowadays are not worth $60 and this is one you should only pick up when it's on sale for $20.    … Expand
  7. Wouloak
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Basura que tira a la mierda la historia para llevar a cabo su agenda política progre. Todo por satisfacer a los estúpidos SJW y colectivistas.

    Y antes de que salgan con sus pendejadas. Existen juegos donde hay personajes con otras orientaciones sexuales, pero no se le da un enfoque política o sobre exaltación de estos rasgos de manera absurda, y no infieren en la decisión de a dónde    Basura que tira a la mierda la historia para llevar a cabo su agenda política progre. Todo por satisfacer a los estúpidos SJW y colectivistas.

    Y antes de que salgan con sus pendejadas. Existen juegos donde hay personajes con otras orientaciones sexuales, pero no se le da un enfoque política o sobre exaltación de estos rasgos de manera absurda, y no infieren en la decisión de a dónde llevar la trama.    … Expand
  8. Gamer1619
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This game was only made to make money. It has nothing to do with the wonderful original story and its characters. It's a shame how this storyline turned out! It makes me feel like they completely changed the authors.
    Graphic isn't everything.
  9. Ahmed_Fahmy96
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    You can easily say that This The worst most awaited game of this generation by far...

    The story line is **** simply But everything else is good
  10. Mogore
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Very disappointing. An insult to the first game. Do not buy this and support this ****
  11. Striker_Naiker
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game never happened. The story sucks ... very disappointing. The first one was way better.. the writers should be fired for creating this.. this was like playing through a dumb fan fiction..… Expand
  12. Jax2000
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    The first Last of Us has a very special place in my heart and is my favorite game of all time. After completing this I feel heartbroken. It did not do the original game justice and did an injustice to the intelligence of Ellie and Joel. I ask that whoever reads this does not waste money on this game. My first game review ever.
  13. Niiko
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Graphics are decent.
    Story is bland. No personality.
    Game-play is what you'd expect.
    No replay value.
    Waste of money/10.    … Expand
  14. Loken257
    Jun 21, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is of two parts for me.
    The first is the graphics and overall gameplay which are amazing, the scenery adds to the overall bleakness of the settings perfectly, the character models are done with an attention to detail missing in most games, the overall gameplay loop gets slightly repetitive nearer the end but generally is enjoyable.
    Unfortunately what lets this game down, and is seriously disappointing to say having waited years for a follow up, is the story (the main reason I play games), ignoring the controversy before launch, the story is dull, its all about how killing is bad and violence begets violence. I understand this is an important lesson but should have been a backing note behind an immersive story following characters I genuinely care about. Instead new bland unlikable (probably because the story is so terribly written) characters are introduced and favourites are killed off early (badly done, purely for shock value) removing one of the most enjoyable aspects of the first game. The characters have barely developed and in some cases have regressed. To sum up the story is badly written, badly paced, with very little care or attention given to the aspects of the first game which made it so popular.
    I've rated this game so harshly because for me the story makes the game, and the disregard given to this games story is painful. The game is a shadow of the first, all of the darkness but with none of the light to balance it out.
    p.s. the Game Directors multiple different cameos just stink of a massive ego and its distracting from the game. Neil Druckmann is no Stan Lee, Quentin Tarantino or Hideo Kojima so stay out of the game.
    p.s.s the trailers for the game have scenes created for the specific purpose to lie to the gamer, showing the gamer what they wanted and then changing them in the actual game.    … Expand
  15. moarblues
    Jun 20, 2020
    1
    Absolute unconcern from developers to musicians and music itself. Maybe a cover song stealing was ok in their opinion, but one character puts a guitar out of a case, plays it and leaves it on open air with complete indifference, that guitar will turn unplayable. Maybe musicians should join some right-demanding movements to make some rich boys to value them too?
  16. makhoof
    Jun 26, 2020
    0
    They should refund everyone who wasted their money. Awful Awful Awful Awful Awful Awful game
  17. Tetoman290
    Jul 20, 2020
    2
    It can have all the great gameplay and graphics you want, but if the story is bad and disrespectful like this, it's a 0 for me.
  18. Gundrawer44
    Jun 20, 2020
    6
    I went into this game with an open mind after beating it i became extremely disappointed. The story is bland just another typical revenge plot and to top it all off you have your typical radical Christian cult in there as well.Everything seemed so forced and the flow of the story wasn't organic.This game isn't a game it's just sjw, LGBTQ ,anti-christian propaganda.As a gamer we play gamesI went into this game with an open mind after beating it i became extremely disappointed. The story is bland just another typical revenge plot and to top it all off you have your typical radical Christian cult in there as well.Everything seemed so forced and the flow of the story wasn't organic.This game isn't a game it's just sjw, LGBTQ ,anti-christian propaganda.As a gamer we play games to escape the real world and to just enjoy a good story but this game is far from good.The pros of this game is the gameplay naughty dog delivered it perfectly.The cons of this game is the story the story is complete trash it's full of plot-holes and the characters aren't fleshed out at all. I was a last of us fan but after playing this game and seeing the direction there going with it pandering to sjw groups and the LGBTQ community and not their true day one loyal fans is a no for me I gave this game a six the gameplay was good but the story brought the score down.… Expand
  19. oleja322
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    I was completely disappointed in this game waiting for her and waiting for a masterpiece but got this something very boring and banal story dumber I think it was impossible to come up with. absolutely unnecessary lgbt line
    But there is this plus too - cool graphics and very beautiful locations and that's it!
  20. mosanio
    Jun 30, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game plays well but the main focus "the story" makes the final season of GOT looks like a masterpiece especially if you loved the first one like I did… Expand
  21. Aliusone
    Jul 5, 2020
    2
    This game, like a lot of movies and games today, throws away the story and characters and legacy of what came before. This is a “sequel” in name only. If you’re looking for a good follow up to a very good game, keep looking, this isn’t it.

    It is very disappointing that this kind of re-imagining keeps happening to popular IPs, and the high critic score just illustrates how much they    This game, like a lot of movies and games today, throws away the story and characters and legacy of what came before. This is a “sequel” in name only. If you’re looking for a good follow up to a very good game, keep looking, this isn’t it.

    It is very disappointing that this kind of re-imagining keeps happening to popular IPs, and the high critic score just illustrates how much they don’t know about the products they review and instead are reviewing the narrative they want to see pushed.    … Expand
  22. sald
    Jul 6, 2020
    0
    The first Last of Us was a 10/10 to me. This sequel has great game-play and visuals, but the story is not very good. I would have rated the game as a 3 or 4 out of 10 if it just ended around 12 hours in, but it forces you to switch roles and you have to play an additional 10-12 hours as the antagonist that most people don't care about or want to play as. I was not willing to do this andThe first Last of Us was a 10/10 to me. This sequel has great game-play and visuals, but the story is not very good. I would have rated the game as a 3 or 4 out of 10 if it just ended around 12 hours in, but it forces you to switch roles and you have to play an additional 10-12 hours as the antagonist that most people don't care about or want to play as. I was not willing to do this and continue down this messy, boring road to the end of the uninteresting game (that I just wanted to end at this point at the 12 hour mark) so I uninstalled and lowered my rating down to a 1 because I just couldn't even continue. It was the equivalent of walking out of a theater because a movie is so bad. It's the least imaginative story I've ever seen and it all feels unnecessary… Expand
  23. georgemccauley
    Jun 27, 2020
    2
    I’m gutted with what Naughty Dog have put out here. We have been victims of false advertising and pure lies. From the trailers we were shown, we were expecting a game about Joel and Ellie. We didn’t get this and to make matters worse, the story is terrible, it’s jumbled together and the writing and pacing is so far off the first game, it’s almost like there has been a completely differentI’m gutted with what Naughty Dog have put out here. We have been victims of false advertising and pure lies. From the trailers we were shown, we were expecting a game about Joel and Ellie. We didn’t get this and to make matters worse, the story is terrible, it’s jumbled together and the writing and pacing is so far off the first game, it’s almost like there has been a completely different team writing this story.

    The only good thing about this game is the gameplay and graphics. The level of detail that has gone into this is brilliant, at times I thought I was looking at real humans. The world of the last of us is great, but in a story driven franchise, when it’s not up to par, it will drag everything down with it. The ending of this game will leave you feeling angry and upset, there is nothing satisfying about it and nothing gets cleared up. It appears Naughty Dog have tried to do something different with this game, but it doesn’t work and it’s a mess. It feels like a big political statement and a message about revenge is bad being shoved in our faces.

    In my honest opinion I had to set the difficulty to very easy after the first couple of hours into this game just to get through it, it wasn’t a good experience at all. We was told by Neil Druckmann himself that the Last of Us is about Joel and Ellie, this game isn’t. I bought it as I had to play it as I consider the first game the best I’ve ever played. However, after this I will not be purchasing anything Naughty Dog put out in the future. Save yourself £60 and don’t buy it.    … Expand
  24. LoneAssailant
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    Poor story, decent gameplay. Really disappointed with this sequel compared the masterpiece of a game the original was.
  25. vadimshevchik
    Jun 21, 2020
    9
    Сразу ставил низкую оценку из-за кардинального поворота в начале игры, но постепенно мнение поменялось. Тяжелый сюжет, можно было конечно переиграть все с более мягким сюжетом, остались бы все довольны.
  26. GreyGod
    Jun 27, 2020
    2
    I went in completely blind, seeing no spoilers and only watching trailers. That means I saw everything thay happens in this game in context and I finished it a few days ago and have sat on it to let my immediate reaction pass and write this logically. That being said, this game is a total waste of time for the player. The story is an -okay- concept that is delivered extremely poorly andI went in completely blind, seeing no spoilers and only watching trailers. That means I saw everything thay happens in this game in context and I finished it a few days ago and have sat on it to let my immediate reaction pass and write this logically. That being said, this game is a total waste of time for the player. The story is an -okay- concept that is delivered extremely poorly and heavy handedly. A complete assassination of the characters of the original game that ends in a mean spirited and unsatisfying way. If you enjoyed the first game for the relationship between ellie and joel, pass this one up as it has nothing to do with that. It manages to make you hate everyone in it and leaves you feeling empty after finishing it. Definitely overstays its welcome for about 15 hours too. Graphics are obviously great and gameplay is basically the same just flashier with a few new toys. Pass this one up guys, dont let the hype get to you. Not even going to go into how there are literally character skin swaps and false lines recorded just to be in the trailers to mislead the consumer about what this game is about. Naught Dog and Niel Druckman **** this one up. Big time.… Expand
  27. Vova6na9
    Jun 26, 2020
    2
    Disgusting! The plot, gameplay, idea - all minus! The game should primarily be a game, and not the promotion of their ideas by one specific person who does not give a damn about the fans of the series!
  28. Popeye_tv
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    It’s just sad how they treated some of the most lovable characters in all of gaming history, and make us play for most of the game with the character that pretty much humiliated them both.
  29. pinehills1
    Jun 29, 2020
    4
    As a big fan of the 1st Last of Us game. It's astonishing to me how the people at Naughty Dog really dropped the ball on the 2nd. The graphics are spectacular, the game play is descend, but the most important to most people, which is the story, is absolutely utterly ABSURD! How this game got the metacritic score that it got is beyond me. This game is an utter... SH*T... SHOW!!! I waited 7As a big fan of the 1st Last of Us game. It's astonishing to me how the people at Naughty Dog really dropped the ball on the 2nd. The graphics are spectacular, the game play is descend, but the most important to most people, which is the story, is absolutely utterly ABSURD! How this game got the metacritic score that it got is beyond me. This game is an utter... SH*T... SHOW!!! I waited 7 years for this?! I will never buy anything with Naughty Dog's name it ever again. I...KID...YOU...NOT!!!… Expand
  30. ChristianJM
    Jun 26, 2020
    2
    To be clear and concise, this gave has a few good points with a majority of bad points that would lead long-time fans of the game wanting. For one of the last games to be released on PS4 before its end it takes full advantage of all the capabilities provided to give a fair quality to the graphics and landscapes of the game. The forest scenes, and vibrant landscapes of nature and city ruinTo be clear and concise, this gave has a few good points with a majority of bad points that would lead long-time fans of the game wanting. For one of the last games to be released on PS4 before its end it takes full advantage of all the capabilities provided to give a fair quality to the graphics and landscapes of the game. The forest scenes, and vibrant landscapes of nature and city ruin give fans a feel of deep immersion in a realistic possibility of the future. Combat was exactly what fans of the serious have come to expect with small instances of similar glitches happening in place in different environments, smashing an infected head into a wall to only then smash air with the blood splatter as well as body of the infected being slightly below the implied area. Weapons crafting and perks were rewarding and if a player was tactical enough to gather resources as they went granted a scaling factor that made the player feel a late game strength as oppose to an early game weakness. All these factors above I believe granted this game its 2 points shown above. However, where the game seems to fail and seems to be the main focus of issue with major fans is the fact that the story seems to be inconsistent with the thought processes of our characters and instead a story the went on a heavy tangent of what fans were expecting. User game play is divided into uncomfortable segments that abruptly stops that storytelling momentum but instead forces fans to wait and engage with a completely different moment with little commit and or care. Fans may at times struggle to even empathize and engage with the story and have moments in which the question their own intentions of continuing. All-in-all, the Last of Us Part II strikes as more of a platform in today's media to connect and question as oppose to a self-fulfilling universe existing in fantasy and awe. It is a game released for them as oppose to fans of the series.… Expand
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Metascore
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Universal acclaim - based on 121 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 113 out of 121
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 121
  3. Negative: 0 out of 121
  1. GameMAG
    Sep 13, 2020
    90
    The Last of Us Part II is the high point of the PlayStation 4. The plot is controversial, but the game is the incredibly addictive adventure of Ellie, from which it is impossible to pull away from the opening and to the very end.
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  2. PLAY! Zine
    Sep 5, 2020
    93
    Not everyone is going to enjoy the motives of The Last of Us Part II. But if you try and manage to accept the subliminal and not so subtle messages as a fact that the world has gone awry and that people have the need to have somewhere or someone to belong to as their own way out, then... You will witness the boundaries of gaming expand. You will witness a true masterpiece.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Sep 3, 2020
    75
    If you loved the original for its great characters and well-paced story – stay away from this game. However, if you’re aching to sink into the depths of depression, or just want to cut some throats and burn some zombies – Part II will deliver. [Issue#247, p.72]
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