The Last of Us Part II

 PlayStation 4
User Score
5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 161975 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 84,950 out of 161975
  2. Mixed: 8,550 out of 161975
  3. Negative: 68,475 out of 161975
Buy Now
Buy on

Review this game

  1. Your Score
    0 out of 10
    Rate this:
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
  1. Submit
  2. Check Spelling
view
per page
  1. ReJyQI
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Эта игра наплевательски относится к фанатам первой
    Начиная с того, что Джоэл умирает в первом часу игры, продолжая тем, что Элли просто мстит и не развивается как персонаж и заканчивая тем, что нам вручают ужасную мужеподобную бабу, которая ничем не отличается по геймплею от Элли. Эбби, очевидно, вводилась в игру только для громких слов, вроде: "Это наша самая длинная игра, она проходится целых 30 часов!"    … Expand
  2. Brian30678
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    Really suck!!!!!!
    suck suck suck!!!!!!
    **** u TLOU2!!!!!!!
    30678mdfkash!!!!!
  3. Rudolf_K
    Jun 20, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I don’t like the decision Naughty Dog did. Real hard what happens after 2 Hours playing the Game. It’s disgusting and annoying what they have done to one of the best Videogame ever!
    If we talk bout how it’s look it’s brilliant, no discussion for that; but there Is so bad and character and storytelling; also the message behind all don’t compare with the end and part 1. And how the Producers act with us Fans! We made the rich and big; not only the Games; The Uncharted Series are amazing and one of the Best Games worldwide, also The Last of Us 1!! But you also need a Community or Fans out there; and probably sometime you should listen to them! For me it is one of the worst storytelling Game ever. Charactertelling - >1/10
    Story -> -1/10
    Gameplay -> 3/10 but for 7 years to less innovative
    Graphics -> 10/10    … Expand
  4. o9000889
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    For Joel

    So, this game is really really bad. It makes NO sense that Ellie act how she acts in certain parts of the game but that isnt even the biggest thing about why its bad. The reason is: character development. If you kill one of the most beloved characters early in the game (Joel) and want to bring in new main playable characters like Abby, you HAVE to bring WAY more backstory in    For Joel

    So, this game is really really bad. It makes NO sense that Ellie act how she acts in certain parts of the game but that isnt even the biggest thing about why its bad.
    The reason is: character development.
    If you kill one of the most beloved characters early in the game (Joel) and want to bring in new main playable characters like Abby, you HAVE to bring WAY more backstory in order to make the player feel with her.    … Expand
  5. NikoEst
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Neil Druckmann, or whatever this guy name is, for some reason came up with Idea to create unnecessary sequel to the great TLOU.

    Aight m8. I can tolerate this whole SJW **** but it wont make a game good.
    Here is some tips for you buddy. Good character development, good plot and motivation does.
    But Neil forgot about we live in the real world and this Biggot sandwich - Boy on steroids - Lesbian transsexual really works as good plot in his own world of make believe.
    But heres is a some real **** buddy. Nobody cares about minority and your sjw bull****.

    People wont like this game cuz u **** up with plot and characters.
    Flashback on falshback and the whole story is about revenge that does not even there in the end.
    WOW WHAT A STORY!! A REVENGE, WOW. NEVER SEEN THAT ONE IN 20 YEARS OF watching movies and playing games. WHAT A MOTIVATION FOR PLAYER A CHARACTER. Even this simple as hell plot was **** up.

    Pls, Neil, get your brain out of your ass, this game is trash. 70% of studio that were working at this game is left cause it is **** I praise the leaker who saved my money. Im prasing streamers who made walkthoughts.

    Gameplay 5/10
    World 7/10
    Plot 0/10
    Characters 1/10 (poor Joel)

    I started hating golf and gyms.    … Expand
  6. JamesFox87
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm real person and was a big fan of ND for years! I still can't believe how you and Druckmann destroy such masterpiece like TLOU! Why did you do this to your fans and our loved character? The story of the game is really BAD. It's such crazy like if you played 10 hours as David just after killing and eating Ellie in the first part of the game. And Joel forgave him at the end, and after that David became new protagonist in TLOU. This is madness.
    The only one thing that is good is graphic. Not even gameplay, it's almost the same like in TLOU1
    I rating TLOU2 in next way
    0 for story
    3 for graphic
    1 for gameplay
    BUT thanks to ND disrespectful behavior and lies to fans i cant rating this game more than 0
    I hope some day ND will fix it and create real TLOU2 but not what they did    … Expand
  7. leche_paterna
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. La historia es peor que horrible, tiene un downgrade respecto a los trailers enorme y una jugabilidad normalista.… Expand
  8. Motermar
    Jun 25, 2020
    1
    Odio como trataron a mis personajes favoritos, ELLOS NO SON BASURA PARA SER TRATADOS ASI!
    El Gameplay es una copias del primer Juegos sin cambios, solo que usas el cuchillo para todo.
  9. LoveSony1989
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    I loved the first game but this is just such a trainwreck. The story what Last of Us is known for is ruined leaving only medicore and linear stealth action for you with nothing much improved over the original game.
  10. Unforcritable72
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    Good gameplay although its kinda outdated and really basic, amazing graphics and cutscenes but all of this doesnt cover up the mess it really is and the bad story, feels like acquiring all the infinity stones just to not snap it, bad revenge story... didnt enjoy any bit of the story only 2 characters are interesting .... and they are not the main
  11. Mrcp
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Story was nonsense. Game play was basically same. Only thing that improved were visuals.
  12. massta31415
    Jul 7, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is poorly written game.
    I mean, after 2 hours of playing when Joel is beaten to death by someone I don't know and don't wanna know, game ended for me. Outrageous!!!
    relationship between Ellie and Joel was outstanding in the first episode. You've ruined it big time    … Expand
  13. Zartharn
    Jun 22, 2020
    1
    A perfect specimen of art being corrupted by identity politics.This game is a tarpit of political pandering with disregard to its predacessor and its fans Also can y'all stop deleting reviews like mine??? I payed for this game and I demand you take my review!!!
  14. Arya76
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Cant be worse. Full of politics. We cant trust metas anymore. Dont buy this nonsense.
  15. Nico_Kaneo
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    Last of us 2 kinda sucks. It's so **** boring. I don't care about Ellie or Dina. The people you kill are supposed to be "real people with names" but there's no option to talk to them or figure out another way. Just kill them. Whatever. The director Neil Druckmann is so in love with himself that he's in the game 3 times. Once as credited writer and director in the opening. Once as a villainLast of us 2 kinda sucks. It's so **** boring. I don't care about Ellie or Dina. The people you kill are supposed to be "real people with names" but there's no option to talk to them or figure out another way. Just kill them. Whatever. The director Neil Druckmann is so in love with himself that he's in the game 3 times. Once as credited writer and director in the opening. Once as a villain npc. And once as a rare collector's card. **** you. You love the smell of your own ass. You're no Hideo Kojima. Even Kojima knows not to piss off his **** fans.

    This game starts with a very brief glimpse of life in Jackson, Colorado and then immediately you're thrust into a revenge mission which seemingly lasts the remainder of the game. The intro is so short that I feel sorry for the animators who created the town of Jackson. There's absolutely no time given to breath and play around in a town of respite before it's all taken away from you and you're sent on a revenge mission, one you don't really want to go on. And other characters join, seemingly, for no other reason than "why not?" This is so incredibly boring, and a lazy story setup. Last of us 1 sent us on a long adventure across the country and was visually and thematically different from each location. I'm six hours in on last of us 2 and I'm still running around downtown Seattle, exploring pockets of set pieces, and just looting and killing creatures and people, for no reason. Ellie could easily capture and question one of these enemy NPCs to find what she's looking for, but instead she decides to just wing it, and look for her objectives by eye.

    The graphics and the gameplay are amazing, but I just don't care. The story is just doing nothing for me. And I shouldn't have to wait six hours for it to finally get good. I'll play it to completion, but right now, I would not recommend it. It just feels like such a chore to play.

    I've finished the game, and my score still stands. It's amazing technically speaking, but I know it's because of worker's crunch time. The story, for what it is, is told fine I guess. By the end, I just felt empty, like Ellie. I wanted more from this story. And we didn't get a second of time as Joel, except the beginning. I don't know why they decided to go in this direction, or why Sony approved it, but here we are... Last of us 2 is a divisive, polarizing game. It succeeds in many facets, and fails in others. This will be a damaging game to many. I don't see Druckmann or Naughty Dog recovering from this from the majority of their fans. While fun, I dread its story. But sales will sure condemn this game a success.    … Expand
  16. roughlysour
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Oh god, i was actually so hyped for this game. But the result is a comeplete garbage game. Gameplay is good combat feels satisfying to the end. Animations and camera angels are almost perfect. But i dont care about it. I care about the story and its **** garbage. Thank you neil druckmann.
  17. 2FckdUp
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Awfully forced minority agenda, just awful, don't play this, if they want to give the game to you as a gift, just take it and re sell it on gamestop's.
  18. graewd
    Jun 26, 2020
    0
    What a terrible follow-up to the first. Anyone who leaves a positive review is paid off. AND WHILE THIS SITE IS STILL ACCEPTING NEGATIVE REVIEWS THEY BLOCK NEGATIVE REVIEWS AND FORCE THE GAMES RATING UP. IT HAS JUMPED FROM A 3.4 TO A 4.6 IN A WEEK.
  19. Usikava
    Jun 25, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. tl:dr
    Graphics: 8
    Animation: 8
    Atmosphere: 9
    Gameplay: 4
    Story: 1
    Narrative: 1
    Critics claiming this game is masterpiece: -10

    First of I don't really think this game deserve 0 score, though it's the only way of showing protest against "paid" reviews of so called critics.

    Now let's get to why it's bad. Long and point by point.
    First of gameplay. It's dull, it's repetitive and it's absolutely boring.
    For a first quarter of the game you playing stealth game without any means to make stealth interesting you don't have skills(which by the way you should find in the means of magazines scattered around the so called world which is more of a tunnel with enough side turns or dead ends that will eventually lead you to a same point and still those magazines can be missed) and if you do, you don't have skill points to open them up soon enough to avoid this getting boring you don't have silent weapons and the only way to make it as it's intended to is by crawling in a grass and bushes with 1 button gameplay which is boring. Then we move to the second quarter of the game when you finally have tools but if you play on a highest difficulty the resources are so scares that you don't really have means of using them which again forces you to the point of either changing difficulty or continue boring bush crawling with 1 button playstyle. Then we move to the third and forth quarters of the game where you again striped out of means of doing the gameplay interesting and even of the mechanics as you play as Abby who is a part of wolves which were using dogs that made it at least a bit interesting and didn't allowed you to just sit on spot smashing stealth kill button. And instead of giving you a synergy with a dog and moving onto a new mechanics they just remove them from the game as a factor so the second half of the game is even a downgrade from already boring stealth gameplay. Again dull, poor and just plain uninteresting.

    Secondly story.
    I was never a fun of TLOU1 so I don't have any years long love for Joel or Elle. Though they were developing during the game, characters were evolving and that lead to controversial ending. Here we have a flat characters that don't do this. They just don't develop still at the end they take a drastic turns against everything they stood and fought for it's just a poor written drama of a broken characters that don't do anything in terms of what ending brings us to.
    Prologue and Joel's death make no sense at all. He stumbles upon Abby and her group just as they shows up in the region, saves them, tells his name, lead them to a safe house and can't understand where is this going to. No matter in the first game he saw through such characters by a single glance of an eye and then again Elle magically shows up just in time to see what is happening.
    Epilogue is even more stupid as Tommy instead of helping Elle as his brother would've probably wanted wanted sets her up on a vengeance path AGAIN. Then Elle finds Abby saves her and Lev, fight with Abby and let them go. Abby knows where cicadas are, have Lev by her side and get everything. Elle looses everything even her new family with Dina though she is the one braking vengeance circle she didn't even started in the end.
    Even with this BS story they could have done it better by parallel playing for Abby and Elle, or even by totally swapping the two halves of the game instead they try to make you understand Abby when you already don't want to, when you already hate her and just don't give any Fs about why she did what she did.

    And thirdly is a narrative.
    You don't make strong female characters by just showing how weak and bad male characters are, you don't make good gay characters by showing how pathetic and cruel straight are, you don't make a strong trans character by showing that for some weird reason(sarcasm) tribal, postapocalyptic, religious group don't agree and don't accept this chatacter being trans. The only thing this achieve is creating hatred towards this characters and,or there counterparts for the matter and towards the writers that just can't represent them by any means other then hatred. They must stand out by what they do and not by others that do wrong.

    And lastly you don't buy or otherwise force critics to say that game isn't what it is. A dull, boring, weak, old and underdeveloped in terms of gameplay and story pile of garbage. You don't make metacritic to start showing some weird server errors that occurs only for this game. You don't lie in promotional materials. You don't censor some games and leave others with a full out sex scenes.
    Again this game doesn't deserve a 0 score, it's 4-5 at least for it's graphics and detail obsession. But when I see 95 critics score for this I go for 0 to balance it out.    … Expand
  20. NemNomeEuTenho
    Jun 28, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Muita lacração, conseguiram acabar com a franquia história porcaria , conseguiram acabar com o game querendo empurra causa lgbt a qualquer custo nos consumidores, uma grande porcaria de game.… Expand
  21. joxique
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Like for gameplay, 2 points maybe deservedly, but I want play Elly, Tommy or Joel but not this person which appears in second half, this is not interested - minus 2 points. This just like fanfic 12 y.o. girl, nothing linked with last of us(2013), but this really funny I often laughing, nice rofl… Expand
  22. prophecy623
    Jul 25, 2020
    9
    Fantastic graphics. Showed how dedicated naughty dog is at their craft and it really shows. The story is not bad at all but I did like the first Last of Us slightly better. Not every story has to have a happy ending.
  23. iAxX
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Halfway through the game you get forced to play a character that has done something horrible to understand their motivations. But the thing they've done is so horrific that you won't care what their motivations are. The only pleasure you derive from that half of the game is seeing every one of her death animations.

    At least the gameplay's good.    … Expand
  24. Equinoqs
    Jul 7, 2020
    10
    Really? A 5.0 User Score total on Metacritic? I'm ashamed to be a gamer lumped in with the political incel trolls that like to call themselves gamers today. This is one of the best games of the current generation, but the same guys who ragged on the Captain Marvel movie are now trying to keep you from playing this game. "The Last of Us Part II" is a FANTASTIC game in every way, from theReally? A 5.0 User Score total on Metacritic? I'm ashamed to be a gamer lumped in with the political incel trolls that like to call themselves gamers today. This is one of the best games of the current generation, but the same guys who ragged on the Captain Marvel movie are now trying to keep you from playing this game. "The Last of Us Part II" is a FANTASTIC game in every way, from the writing to the voice-acting, from the graphics to the gameplay. There is absolutely no rational reason to give this game a 0 score. Do yourself a BIG favor and ignore the dudebros trying to drive people away from this game for their own petty little attention-seeking ploys. I didn't think Naughty Dog could make a sequel that would live up to the first game, but they did, with flying colors. This is a must-play game.… Expand
  25. magawolaz
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    An excellent achievement from a technical and narrative point of view. It could have used fewer jump scares, but other than that it's an excellent game. Do not listen to review bombers, homophobes, and racists.
  26. yazman
    Jun 26, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. OK, here we go. Before I go on with my personal opinion on the game I will say this “It would have been better if I never played TLOU Part II” Where to start….i will simply focus on where the game messed it up for me big time and not talk about how beautiful and how improved the combat mechanics are (they are not).. Naughty Dog simply developed this game for the past 7 years to totally annihilate, wipe out of existence all the empathy, character bounding and LOVE they built on the first game. All that sentiment and intricate relationship that grew in the first game for Ellie and Joel, they just decided that they had to kill it in this game and the worst part: “I think that was their goal”…..It is unthinkable, unimaginable in my precarious mind how Joel, a character that lived in both worlds, a character that since the very first scene on the first game was pray of mistrust when that guard killed his daughter and along the whole first game he is resentful of anyone he does not know, he thought Ellie all she knows in term of the current state of the humankind, not to trust no one NEVER…. And he blindly share all the information to Abby AFTER saving her life and walks right into a cheap ambush. (Oh yeah we will talk about this one later) A COMPLETE STRANGER who just showed up and ended up killing him…and to add insult to injury Naughty dog forces me be that weapon it forces me to be Abby for a good portion of the game…ME the one that has been trying to save them since the get go…. THIS IS HORRIBLE and right at that point in the game I felt I did not want to keep playing anymore. And all this just to be able to fuel the revenge plot that will follow in Ellie’s hands (that until the very end where she had a change of heart)….Abby…. I still don’t understand what was the goal there….relentless evil, pure and many, many times unsubstantiated evil just for the sake of again REVENGE. Not only they showed her as a robot after Joel literally saved her life she brutalize him with a gulf club. And still they try, yeah they try to humanize her by petting dogs and attempting to show she cares about her group, this is one of the worst character developments I have ever seen coming from one of the best teams (if not the best in the world) Abby’s actions are like taken from another universe, they make no sense most of the times and simply are unnecessary. And all this Naughty dog did it by putting you in her shoes, I was forced to harm the characters I loved or the people that they cared about. Time and again I felt like stopping the game and uninstall it, hated every time I had to be Abby not because what she was doing, but because what she was doing didn’t make lots of sense. And for all those justifying Abby’s actions , how am I supposed to feel right at the point where she did what she did I knew nothing of her, I had spent countless hrs. with Joel so no matter what you do after that point redemption is IMPOSSIBLE for Abby. And then when you go through all this suffering destroying what you built in the first game naughty dog DENIES you the ability to kill this despicable character Abby, and Ellie ends up sparing her life “”What the hell ND”””. So not only your whole game have been about REVENGE and senseless brutality but the moment where REVENGE actually makes sense you took it away from me….. I am Sad, I am Mad, I feel horrible Naughty Dog. I felt you had your story to tell and you intentionally carried on with it despite hurting your own work on the first game and most importantly, hurting us gamers as fan of your games and the universe you so graciously created for us. I regret having played the game….. I would like to forget, I would like to stay with that image of Ellie and Joel when they found Jackson.… Expand
  27. White_Worm
    Jul 10, 2020
    10
    A journey unlike any other. The visuals and sound are second-to-none, immersive to my core. The game play is purposeful, tense, exciting, and brutal. Improved upon the original in every way.

    But the story is the real stand out. This game is the most challenging in what it asks you to feel and think. As you watch these characters grow you'll have to grow, too. That's very demanding and i    A journey unlike any other. The visuals and sound are second-to-none, immersive to my core. The game play is purposeful, tense, exciting, and brutal. Improved upon the original in every way.

    But the story is the real stand out. This game is the most challenging in what it asks you to feel and think. As you watch these characters grow you'll have to grow, too. That's very demanding and i think it's the root of why the reviews are so divided. In the end, I am confident this game will be remembered as one of the best of the generation.    … Expand
  28. Yomomoto
    Jul 1, 2020
    0
    Pros:
    - gameplay (first hours)
    - graphics (its ok)
    - atmosphere (again, first hours)
    - sound (its good)
    - music

    Cons:
    - story (absolute unlogical)
    - character development
    - character design (no worries for heroes)
    - plot holes (no comments, if u want check this, just try some YouTube passing)
  29. Neonardo
    Jun 22, 2020
    1
    strong and independent...how you **** up ...The plot in the middle of the game is just stuffy, quickly bored with the game.She hasn't been around since the first part..
  30. Jolllyroger
    Jul 25, 2020
    0
    I don’t want to put any spoilers in the rating. The only thing I’d like to say about the game is: the first part is still among the best games I’ve ever played on PC, dendy, sega, ps 1,2 etc. My feelings for the first part are completely opposite to the feelings about the second part. I don’t really care about all this lesbian and transsexual stuff. I don’t like it, but who cares what II don’t want to put any spoilers in the rating. The only thing I’d like to say about the game is: the first part is still among the best games I’ve ever played on PC, dendy, sega, ps 1,2 etc. My feelings for the first part are completely opposite to the feelings about the second part. I don’t really care about all this lesbian and transsexual stuff. I don’t like it, but who cares what I like or not? The motto of the game is: “Who cares what you like”. The success of the first part is explained by the narrative and relationship between main characters. The view on the problem of “lesser evil” and readiness to sucrifice what you love in favour of the rest the people. The second part proposes us the possibility that despite all hatred one can find strength to forgive the opponent. It may work but not in the way it was realized. I don’t care about graphics and I don’t really care about gameplay but I do care about plot and storytelling. Zero out of ten for spoiling one of the best games.… Expand
Page:

Awards & Rankings

2
#2 Best PS4 Game of 2020
1
#1 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2020
3
#3 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2020

Critic Reviews

All reviews »
Metascore
93

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.
    Read full review
  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.
    Read full review
  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]
See all critic reviews »