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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  2. Mixed: 8,550 out of 161975
  3. Negative: 68,475 out of 161975
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  1. 28dayslate
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    (PROS include Gameplay, Animations, Acting, and Graphics...)

    (CONS include Story and Dialogue...)

    This game mainly relies on its story. And its story is pretty awful. It will leave you unsatisfied.
  2. foxmulder34
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game has amazing details along with its gameplay. The performances abd the music is good but the story itself does not suit. This game has the worst script ever written on Earth. They literally killed Joel, who was a well written legendary character in the first game, for nothing! The ending of the game is not worth Joel's death.… Expand
  3. JessieSmith
    Jun 29, 2020
    3
    Знаете, я 7 лет ждал эту игру. Специально купил под нее консоль, стоило поиграть 18 часов в "это" я понял что был унижен. Серьезно, чтоб ND проебались с сюжетом? Так и есть.
    Сюжет слаб, ничего не понятно, я не против бесполезных бойцов бесполезности, но проебать сюжет, слабо описать героев, обосрать наследие 13 года.Повествование рваное, никто ни на что не влияет, выбора нет. Так что ,    Знаете, я 7 лет ждал эту игру. Специально купил под нее консоль, стоило поиграть 18 часов в "это" я понял что был унижен. Серьезно, чтоб ND проебались с сюжетом? Так и есть.
    Сюжет слаб, ничего не понятно, я не против бесполезных бойцов бесполезности, но проебать сюжет, слабо описать героев, обосрать наследие 13 года.Повествование рваное, никто ни на что не влияет, выбора нет. Так что , за сюжет 0, за актерскую игру 1.5, и за графен 1.5
    В конечном итоге 3 обосравшихся Нила Дракмана из 10    … Expand
  4. Amin_mz
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Everything is ok about tlou2....until you reach the golf training section of the game.… Expand
  5. mickies
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    The graphics and gameplay keep this game above the water but the direction and story completely muddied it. This game does not take 25-30 hours like some people have said unless you are stopping to go shopping and cooking meals during your playthrough. Took 16-17 hours from start to finish. The connection between the characters and players made in the first game were thrown out the windowThe graphics and gameplay keep this game above the water but the direction and story completely muddied it. This game does not take 25-30 hours like some people have said unless you are stopping to go shopping and cooking meals during your playthrough. Took 16-17 hours from start to finish. The connection between the characters and players made in the first game were thrown out the window very shortly into this game.… Expand
  6. geeko1593
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    Nice graphics but bland and tiresome gameplay, pathetic story which is dragged for no reason! Not worth the $60
  7. mathliker
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    This game is visually appealing and the gameplay is very similar to The Last of Us 1, one of the best video games of the past 10 years. So this should be good, right? Unfortunately, it's not due to the horrible story of this game, throwing away the magic of the first game in favor of some shock and awe approach that never ends up paying off. Save yourself $60 and don't buy this game.
  8. MatiRz
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    I am without words. They destroyed the game, the story is total trash, the game is ruined guys I can't keep writing I'm gonna cry.
  9. Matheuzok
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    The Last Of Us Part II is undeniably one of the most ambitious games ever made. Graphics and gameplay are impeccable. But what is the price of de-characterizing an important character? The Last Of Us 2 fails exactly where it could never fail: in his story.
  10. andrekensei40
    Jun 26, 2020
    3
    Visuals- better than the first game.
    Gameplay- About the same. Moving things around to get from place to place replaced with jump. Story- Pretty much uprooted the first game, put into a fire pit, and burned. The characters are turned 180 degrees and pretty much unnoticeable. Post apocalyptic
  11. JoelLivesMatter
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    I am angry, not at the fact that the game misleads me showing that i could play as my favorite character, or that one of the playable characters you are forced to play is an unlikable self-centered person. Or that the ending of the game is straight trash where SJW propaganda is force-feed through every orifice in your body. Its the fact that the majority of the game journalism mediaI am angry, not at the fact that the game misleads me showing that i could play as my favorite character, or that one of the playable characters you are forced to play is an unlikable self-centered person. Or that the ending of the game is straight trash where SJW propaganda is force-feed through every orifice in your body. Its the fact that the majority of the game journalism media straight up lied to us and say this game is 10/10 material. Game Journalism is corrupt and all the people who voted it 10/10 should lose their credibility.… Expand
  12. Raiden0232
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Graphics are pretty good

    The music is great

    The first few hours of gameplay are fun, but the other 3/4 of the game gets repetitive and boring (also the ia of the enemies is not so good)

    Characters (almost all of them) are plain, with stupid motivations ,have no development and you do not get to empathize with them (spoiler: the second half of the game you play as abby, a character taken out of the ass with a **** backstory that almost at the beginning of the game kills one of the most beloved characters in the franchise, Joel. I don't understand how the hell the creators of this game expect us to empathize with this character)

    And the most important thing in the game, the Plot ... is pure bull****, that plot that made the first game so good is totally screwed up with a cliche story of revenge, it has lazy writing, it's full of plotholes , the events happen for no apparent reason (spoiler, at the end of the game ellie is about to kill abby but out of nowhere she has a change of heart and decides not to kill her, despite the fact that throughout the game she has killed hundreds of people she decides not to kill the murderer of her father figure) and the outcome is ****

    Don't spend 60 bucks on this game.    … Expand
  13. 0Frankenstein0
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    This game could have been so much more.
    Before criticizing the 0 reviews, check all the 10/10 reviews and see the double standards. They all **** about how ppl review bomb it but they also review bomb it just to give it 10/10 in spite of players.
    Graphics wise the game looks amazing. Gameplay mechanics is old and mediocre. Characters are butchered and unlikable, dialogue is bearable    This game could have been so much more.
    Before criticizing the 0 reviews, check all the 10/10 reviews and see the double standards. They all **** about how ppl review bomb it but they also review bomb it just to give it 10/10 in spite of players.

    Graphics wise the game looks amazing.
    Gameplay mechanics is old and mediocre. Characters are butchered and unlikable, dialogue is bearable at best, cringy at worst. Story is filled with nothing but plot holes and one of the worst writings in the gaming history.    … Expand
  14. berithjah
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    This sequel has a sub par story that the immersive environment and game-play can't solve. The story is consistently un-fun for the viewer, and feels like a TV show with cheesy predictable twists and turns that toss out continuity in the silliest way possible. I think this game would have been much better if only one writer worked on this story, because it felt quite disconnected. WithoutThis sequel has a sub par story that the immersive environment and game-play can't solve. The story is consistently un-fun for the viewer, and feels like a TV show with cheesy predictable twists and turns that toss out continuity in the silliest way possible. I think this game would have been much better if only one writer worked on this story, because it felt quite disconnected. Without spoiling too much, there are many parts along the story where I feel like the choices the character take are not thought out.… Expand
  15. CynicalHobo
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    I didn’t want to believe the leaks, I felt like the missing context was key. I was wrong. The environments are gorgeous, but this game’s heart is ugly, soulless, bleak and nihilistic. I’ve never disliked playing a game so much.
  16. lwrns
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    Everything else is good which is unfortunate because the story is what made TLOU great in the first place. Out of all the things they could have screwed up it had to be the one most important aspect of the game. A total disaster and a total disappointment for the more hardcore fans of the franchise.
  17. 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.
  18. smizzlereview
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So disappointed to see how all the leaks are true. It really shows how much of a biased circle-jerk that gaming publications are that the reviews for this game are so high. I don't understand how any fans of the original game, or a casual player who owns a PS4, would at all agree with the scores that "professional" critics are publishing.

    Yes, the graphic and animations are great. A lot of work went into the graphics and are design, and you can really tell. However, this seems like the only part of the game that any thoughtful development went into.

    The mechanics and moment-to-moment gameplay haven't changed whatsoever since the original game was released 7 years ago. And back then, the original game played like an out-of-date action adventure. The Las of Us 2 has the same weak crafting system, same generic and uninspired stealth system that's been in games since the PS4 first came out.

    AI is absolutely terrible. Here's an example that happened to me: throw a molotov at a group of infected, other infected (not clickers) run over to stand in the fire to investigate. Human AI are equally bad, at the AI you would expect in something like Fallout 76 or something. They will just run into kill zones where their buddies just died, they will be completely oblivious to bodies or stealth kills right next to them. Like, you'll grab one enemy as a human shield in broad daylight directly in front of 2 other enemies, and they'll be doing the "Oh, what's that sound? I better investigate." animation for 3-4 seconds until you shoot them in the face. This is especially bad as you'll be fighting the exact same 3-4 enemy types throughout the whole game, so the terrible gameplay stays the same through the whole game, which gets boring and fatiguing fast.

    So you probably didn't play the first game for it's gameplay, you loved it for the world and plot, which is why you're thinking about the Last of Us 2. Everything you like about the first game is gone. None of the characters have good chemistry or banter with each other, and the characters you like from the first game have had the parts that you loved about them conspicuously removed. New characters in Ellie's side of the story are mediocre at best. If you're that interested in the story, go watch the first couple of hours of the game / cut-scenes on YouTube before you decide to buy.

    *SPOILERS*

    Joel dies in the first hour. The Abby character is just as laughable and unrealistic as all the memes say she is. Ellie's character has been turned completely one-dimensional by the start of the game, which is part of the game's weak thesis on cycles of violence and revenge. All the characters put on a forced gruff tone for their voice acting, and have flat and uninteresting dialogue to read off.

    At the end of the game, after killing your way through hundreds of people, and other characters who were involved in Joel's death get the bullet, you don't even get the choice of what to do with Abby. Ellie lets Abby live because....cycles of revenge? This lack of choice, and forced direction by the game describes the entirety of the plot and game design.    … Expand
  19. Dannysexbang
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Last of us 2 feels sloppy in its writing and Execution The death of joel was handled very sloppy. The characters joel and ellie you come to love from the 1st game feel so disconnected in this one Instead of seeing these characters grow more as people. last of us 2 feels like a bad fan fiction. The first game was about loss hope and growth but this game is just not good character development or direction. The first game was about hope i feel this game was forced in all its narrative. I just don't agree with the story direction and will say last of us part 2 was a major disappointment for me my personal opinion.The story ended with the first game… Expand
  20. Merielle
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    My goddess, this game is so violent, it's like someone had a fetish on pain and suffering and decided to make a game about it, and is not because of a valid reason or a cause but just senseless violence only to end in the most anti climatic way I ever witness. I liked the first one but this second part is a very big no-no, whatever it was the message the creators of this game wanted toMy goddess, this game is so violent, it's like someone had a fetish on pain and suffering and decided to make a game about it, and is not because of a valid reason or a cause but just senseless violence only to end in the most anti climatic way I ever witness. I liked the first one but this second part is a very big no-no, whatever it was the message the creators of this game wanted to give, it failed miserably.… Expand
  21. DreamingScholar
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    The Last of Us 2 Spits on the spirit and characters of The Last of us 1. The game play is fast and fluid and the art direction is great, but those two things are all that are saving it. The Last of Us 2 is a story driven game with, quite frankly, a bad and atrocious story.
  22. ShadowCM8
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    Es fácil visualizar la poca calidad narrativa que esta entrega presenta en comparación con su antecesora. La calidad grafica es impresionante, así como la band sonora, pero el desarrollo de la historia deja mucho que desear. Con una trama enfocada en la venganza que no lleva a ningún lado al final de la historia esta entrega no es mas que sostenida por la jugabilidad. Cabe destacar que losEs fácil visualizar la poca calidad narrativa que esta entrega presenta en comparación con su antecesora. La calidad grafica es impresionante, así como la band sonora, pero el desarrollo de la historia deja mucho que desear. Con una trama enfocada en la venganza que no lleva a ningún lado al final de la historia esta entrega no es mas que sostenida por la jugabilidad. Cabe destacar que los infectados pasan a un segundo plano, siendo sus encuentros pocos a lo largo del juego.… Expand
  23. Yamadipati
    Jun 27, 2020
    3
    I have no idea how this game gets so much praise... I mean everything else is ok, but the story, by god was it horrible...
  24. Josephjoestar
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Buena jugabilidad, buenos graficos, buena ambientación, final mediocre, e historia muy cliche y forzada.… Expand
  25. PatEamon
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    Utterly disappointed with the narrative... The story just ruins everything.
  26. Honest-dude
    Jun 21, 2020
    3
    i was one of those people that have been wating this game for so long, i played the original one in ps3 and replayed it in ps4 in short....

    The good: the game visually is stuning, great, you can feel hard work from all people that designed and created the enviroments models for the game, the soundtrack is good, pretty similar from the first game but is really good. the bad: THE    i was one of those people that have been wating this game for so long, i played the original one in ps3 and replayed it in ps4 in short....

    The good: the game visually is stuning, great, you can feel hard work from all people that designed and created the enviroments models for the game, the soundtrack is good, pretty similar from the first game but is really good.

    the bad: THE WRITTING, as a narrative based game like the first one was, and how this second part was advertised, the writting is really bad, not thaking advantage of anything of what could be and judt relaying all in "shock moments", characters from the first game feel more like devolutions of what they were, mechanics are ok, no really a significant change at all, and the interaction with the enviroment like puzzles and those are really most gone, and zombies what should have been one of the most interesting things to interact/fight are left really behind and barely given a chance to bewhat they were in the first game.

    the WORST: this game suffered a lot from what tried to achieve, poorly lgbt+ potrayal of characters, feeling more annoying that they could be, beside the ,ajor plat an ellie story, all of them have stories that have been better represented in other media, leaving them just as poorly writen characters, the "adult scene" was meaningless and really just worked as a "shock moment" that left me disgusted, and what is worst about is that it shows a double moral for what sony allow or no to show in games, basically censorship, censorship that other franchises have suffer for less graphic content. and finally the interaction between Joel and ellie is completely gone, it left really sour and bitter taste from all the flashbacks, and the treath that they gave to joel as character is one of the worst things ND have ever made poorly and wrongly handle.

    im really disapointed for all the hype that i had to bare to play this game. its Just sad    … Expand
  27. bmarksberry
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    This game is an unfun, pretentious slog. Kneejerk reactions for the shocking story moments are justified, but they fail to assess the greater problem: the walk and talk gameplay, the quick time events, the hours of formulaic "Spanish guitar plays over dramatic scene, cut to black" all pile up into a mountain of Sony's modern gaming sins.

    The unoriginal lazy gameplay ensures that this    This game is an unfun, pretentious slog. Kneejerk reactions for the shocking story moments are justified, but they fail to assess the greater problem: the walk and talk gameplay, the quick time events, the hours of formulaic "Spanish guitar plays over dramatic scene, cut to black" all pile up into a mountain of Sony's modern gaming sins.

    The unoriginal lazy gameplay ensures that this fails as a game and the snuff-esque attempts to copy what the director considers serious cinema ensures that it fails as art. The Last of Us 2 is simply a failure.    … Expand
  28. Alfa752
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    Its a bad game the story is bad ass hell and joel why joel this game is bad bad
  29. Kekday
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    The graphics are great, gameplay is good, but the story is really bad.
    Unlikeable characters, plot holes and a really bad ending.
  30. SydneySE
    Jun 28, 2020
    3
    My thoughts having immediately just beaten The Last of Us Part II. On a technical level. This game is everything I would expect from a triple A title. Graphics, Sound design, Voice acting, mocap work, all top class work. ND team should be applauded for such stellar work on those.
    The gameplay much like the first game was really fun and very satisfying. I LOVE a good stealth game, and even    My thoughts having immediately just beaten The Last of Us Part II. On a technical level. This game is everything I would expect from a triple A title. Graphics, Sound design, Voice acting, mocap work, all top class work. ND team should be applauded for such stellar work on those.
    The gameplay much like the first game was really fun and very satisfying. I LOVE a good stealth game, and even though I found the game to be on the easy side and seemingly much too forgiving and gracious in terms of items distribution, I had fun playing the gameplay parts for sure.
    Sadly though, all of this though was completely and absolutely ruined by the atrocious, and predictable writing that seemed to go out of its way to undo everything the first game did in terms of a coherent and believable story and character development. I’ve honestly never been this disappointed in a story being continued to the point I wish this game never was ultimately made. The writers ruined what could have been a gem of a franchise. What an absolute waste. I’ll forever love TLOU, but I’ll try my best to forget this sequel ever came to be. Disappointed doesn’t begin to explain how I feel after playing this game. FML.    … Expand
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#3 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2020

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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.
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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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