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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  1. jlplatten
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    This game is pleasant to the eyes and ears, but the brain stimulation is non-existant. The new characters are boring and the original characters thrown in the trash can. Original game you get to meet new interesting and charming characters to keep the pacing good. This game kicks you in the nuts early on to the point where you don't want to play anymore, but then drags and drags on.This game is pleasant to the eyes and ears, but the brain stimulation is non-existant. The new characters are boring and the original characters thrown in the trash can. Original game you get to meet new interesting and charming characters to keep the pacing good. This game kicks you in the nuts early on to the point where you don't want to play anymore, but then drags and drags on. Terrible game. Full of SJW agenda too which is eye rolling.… Expand
  2. jag2424
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. They ruined one of the best franchises ever. Never have I seen a story that is just so unbelievably bad. I gave the game a 1 for the graphics and audio but I will not force myself to suffer through this crap.… Expand
  3. vorph
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    How to take a masterpiece and smash it to pieces with poorly written story and meaningless characters.
  4. Herring
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    Depressing and pointless. I kind of see where they wanted to go with the story and what they wanted to achieve - circle of hatred and revenge and all that but the execution is just not there. There are games that can have a depressing story but still give you catharsis but this was not it. It was just emotional torture thru and thru, I wish I could erase this game from my memory.
  5. vandozza
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    It’s pretty but the story is terrible, not sure why the dev thought any of this was a good idea.
    2020 was a mistake.
  6. 00wolf
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    I don't think the original TLOU is the exalted masterpiece many claim it to be. While the visuals were of high fidelity and looked great, for a PS3 game, and the characters of Joel and Ellie and their journey through the post-apocalyptic world is the game's strong point, I cannot give any praise to nearly everything else. I found the gun-play, stealth, crafting, and set piece interactionsI don't think the original TLOU is the exalted masterpiece many claim it to be. While the visuals were of high fidelity and looked great, for a PS3 game, and the characters of Joel and Ellie and their journey through the post-apocalyptic world is the game's strong point, I cannot give any praise to nearly everything else. I found the gun-play, stealth, crafting, and set piece interactions to be very boilerplate and just disengaging on the whole.

    The reason I bring this up is because TLOU Part II is, in nearly every aspect, worse than its predecessor. The main protagonists and general characters of the game's story are uninteresting and inferior to those of the original. The narrative is a mess with some segments feeling detached and unnecessary while the moral absolutism of characters' motivations and actions are simply at odds with the themes of revenge the game wishes to paint in shades of grey. The gameplay is largely the same affair from the original with minor superfluous enhancements and less brain-dead "puzzles."

    I went in not expecting much, or about something on par with the original, but somehow came away with a newfound sense of disgust and disappointment. Thankfully, I got a full refund at my local game shop as the clerk was sympathetic to my and others' plight.    … Expand
  7. bloodrizer
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    Stunning game, excellent storytelling that builds upon the unforgyving apocalypse. Top notche gameplay for the genre. Another masterpiece by Naughty Dog
  8. CloakNRun
    Jan 17, 2021
    2
    Why is Metacritic keeping this POS in the top spot on the new and notable for MONTHS now? The story is an abomination of cultural Marxism. The graphics are descent. The gameplay is nearly a clone of the old one so still descent. Metacritic I don't know what they are paying you but you need to get this off of your front page. You r credibility is going to zero.
  9. rygu
    Jul 18, 2020
    2
    Good graphics, pretty good music, awful storyline, obvious agenda to pander to leftists especially the SJW mob, who would pay $80 for this?
  10. AlphaRebel
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What a let down from Naughty Dog, Technically a masterpiece but unfortunately the game they tacked it is a travesty to the first game. It actually might have worked had this been an original story but they write off a key character of the first game early on in order for focus on ruining the other key character with a terrible plot, and the tragic thing is it's written expressly to pander to a demographic who are are unappeasable and probably won't be interesting in buying this anyway.
    Given the disparity between the audience scores and the "critics" and how many of them posted pretty much exactly the same lines at the same time it's clear the game journo lists is alive and well.    … Expand
  11. joninemoni
    Jan 11, 2021
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The worst way to kill perhaps the best franchise of recent times. The best graphics checked, the best animations checked, the best sound work checked, the best physics you can see that they have experts in physics and mathematics checked, but what they have done with the fans making you play with a sociopath that ends up with the character perhaps more worked in the history of playstation and the political ideology that oozes through all its frames is something unforgivable cinema, literature, and tv are intoxicated by the ideology of fashion but not video games that ever ...… Expand
  12. lostoutlaw420
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    I make this simple, the game graphic are great, the story is awful. it like having a Lamborghini, that doesn't drive, useless huh. If you are a fan of part one, you are going to hate this.
  13. SpiralC81
    Jul 1, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. As I was about to write this review and check the spoiler box it occurred to me that it would have been really nice had Naughty Dog had warned us all that this game would not only ruin the series and guarantee little to no interest in further installments, it would spoil the entire beloved first game and best-loved character. This was very similar to what Star Wars had done Luke Skywalker.

    To start, it's fair to praise both the graphical beauty of this game and the ambitious vision for storytelling. Here, Naughty Dog tries to weave a complex tale about the pitfalls of vengeance with multiple perspectives and moral ambiguity.

    Unfortunately, this could have probably been accomplished without the myriad of questionable story-telling directions Naughty Dog ended up taking. Just to sum this up briefly, The most loved character was brutally murdered early in the game in an all too convenient chance meeting with a group who was hunting him down where he uncharacteristically let his guard down to a group of armed strangers. This is the oddity that is The Last of Us 2, a game that has grand storytelling ambitions but then falls into cheap McGuffins and plot holes at key moments. The game not only brutally kills of Joel, it rewrites his history, turning ultimately ruining the character of the first game as well which makes the entire affair that much more senseless. It doesn't help that the game then forces you to play as his wholly unlikable killer for half of the entire pointless experience. Manipulative tactics are employed to try and garner sympathy for Abby, but in the end, you still really want her to get what she has coming....and in that regard, this is never accomplished either. Of course, it's understood that Ellie "breaks the cycle of violence" by choosing to show mercy, but what then for the thousands of people she killed along the way to get to Abby? It seems like after all that sparing a single life, especially THAT life just does not carry the weight or message that is hoped and it leaves everything feeling pointless and nihilistic in the end.

    Reflecting back on the ending of that first amazing game, I always thought that it was a fitting point to end the story completely. We never really needed to come back and see how they were doing four years later. I'm just going to pretend this game never happened and I have zero interest in TLOU 3 should that ever be made.

    - Graphics are amazing
    - Gameplay is OK
    - Story is ambitious, yet a complete failure    … Expand
  14. Corwin
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. After you murderizee your way to the end murder suddenly becomes bad mmkay.… Expand
  15. Juni221
    Jun 25, 2020
    2
    Completely trashes what was established in the first game in favor of pushing the director's strange self-fellating narratives. Giving it a two outta ten because they unintentionally gave people mountains of material for memes, and those are actually enjoyable products of effort ironically enough.
  16. ExMassEffectFan
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    This game is an extremely dark and unpleasant follow up to one of the best narrative games ever made. While the gameplay of the original was not especially great the narrative of Joel losing his daughter and then learning to love again when he meets Ellie was an uplifting and affirming story.

    This game is a hopeless and desperate tale that destroys beloved characters and revels in    This game is an extremely dark and unpleasant follow up to one of the best narrative games ever made. While the gameplay of the original was not especially great the narrative of Joel losing his daughter and then learning to love again when he meets Ellie was an uplifting and affirming story.

    This game is a hopeless and desperate tale that destroys beloved characters and revels in darkness and gory scenes. There are no redeeming qualities to the story and any technological achievements from the graphics are rendered irrelevant by a tale that no-one other than a serial killer would enjoy experiencing.

    Avoid at all costs and perhaps ask yourself why the critics were so unified in their praise when actual gamers hate it so much.    … Expand
  17. MrMoon360
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. "I wish things were different. But they ain't."

    This game attempts to shock you with the killing of a beloved character, but this ultimately feels empty in execution. A revenge story with no pay off in the end and nothing profound to tell you through a dragged out narrative. Avoid at all costs. Just watch the game on YouTube.    … Expand
  18. jameshowlett89
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    No it's not bots, we're not bots.... We just didn't like it, simple. As beautiful as the game looks, the gameplay is lacking and no real improvements from the first game. The reason everyone hates it is cause it's a pretentious pile of crap and the director thought it was a good idea to kill off beloved characters to force his personal political agenda. Doesn't even deserve the 3 stars.No it's not bots, we're not bots.... We just didn't like it, simple. As beautiful as the game looks, the gameplay is lacking and no real improvements from the first game. The reason everyone hates it is cause it's a pretentious pile of crap and the director thought it was a good idea to kill off beloved characters to force his personal political agenda. Doesn't even deserve the 3 stars.
    Very sad. Imagine ur favorite game franchise. Halo, uncharted, mass effect, Zelda...ready? Now imagine some random turd you killed in a previous game had another ugly turd friend who shows up in ur favorite sequel, kills off ur favorite protagonist and now your told told you gotta play as that character for the rest of the game     … Expand
  19. Kcon
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    This game stinks like rotten foot cheese, the story is utterly horrid, even though the gameplay is actually pretty good.

    I wanted a shooter, not a golfing game.
  20. ZeroX_CHN
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Best graphic quality and worst story. Every NPC has friends and families, Ellie and Abby didn’t care, and kill hundreds of them. Especially Abby kill WLF soldiers with no mercy. Why they all be nice at end? Ridiculous! Maybe Tlou3 will be Isaac’s child kill Abby for revenge?… Expand
  21. Ciecieji
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    I almost feel like there's nascent a class action suit against professional reviewers buried somewhere deep in this mess.
    But, In fairness I have played (slightly) worse, although not at this price...it's probably dollar for dollar the worst game I've ever played.
    Lots of people are saying that the "gameplay" was the same as the fist game, but while the mechanics felt the same, because    I almost feel like there's nascent a class action suit against professional reviewers buried somewhere deep in this mess.
    But, In fairness I have played (slightly) worse, although not at this price...it's probably dollar for dollar the worst game I've ever played.

    Lots of people are saying that the "gameplay" was the same as the fist game, but while the mechanics felt the same, because of the game you had to play I think it was FAR worse. I didn't have to herd sheep or ride a horse in a snowstorm in the first one, I wonder if people are grouping these absolutley tedious gameplay portions into "story" because they are so tedious that you can forget that you are in fact still actually "playing" the thing. In my mind, to say that the gameplay is on par with the first game simply because of mechanically similarties is kind of like saying that the gameplay of horse is the same as an NBA playoffs match.    … Expand
  22. ArchAngel-7-
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    I LOVED the first one. It has been quite a while since a game has motivated me to leave a review either on Steam or Here. To start.....Great Graphics and improved game play mechanics. The environments are spectacular! HOWEVER, The Story is awful. Like many offerings these days it drips with new age propaganda plastered in your face. I am in disbelief that this was made by the same studioI LOVED the first one. It has been quite a while since a game has motivated me to leave a review either on Steam or Here. To start.....Great Graphics and improved game play mechanics. The environments are spectacular! HOWEVER, The Story is awful. Like many offerings these days it drips with new age propaganda plastered in your face. I am in disbelief that this was made by the same studio that made the first game. I had heard of some of the leaks before playing it and this did not deter me from purchasing it. I do not recommend this game unless you are only in it for the gameplay and NOT the story.… Expand
  23. Mikele
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    As is expected, it happen. Its sad but it is reponsability of the creators, maybe they dont understand after expend all this time and money wihout think.
  24. Crypto137
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    The Last of Us Part II is a product designed to appeal to masochists under the pretense of being fine art. While the presentation is at a high bar, as it is expected from Naughty Dog, all the essential parts are so awful that it irreparably ruins the entire experience. The story is a complete mess, the old characters are heavily butchered, the new cast is forced, uninteresting andThe Last of Us Part II is a product designed to appeal to masochists under the pretense of being fine art. While the presentation is at a high bar, as it is expected from Naughty Dog, all the essential parts are so awful that it irreparably ruins the entire experience. The story is a complete mess, the old characters are heavily butchered, the new cast is forced, uninteresting and downright annoying, and even the gameplay feels like it made one step forward and two steps back. The Last of Us Part II replaces all of the nuance the original game had with cliches, immersion-breaking pandering and desperate heavy-handed attempts at making the player feel emotions at the cost of the integrity of the experience.

    This product is a massive disappointment, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone other than the die-hard fans of the original game who want to see for themselves how bad it has really gotten.    … Expand
  25. articwind
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    It's bad game, that threw everything the first game built to the ground, they force you to make unreasonable decisions in the game and they even have the nerve to force you to see an unreasonable ending, revenge plots put of nowhere and forced inclusion make this one of the worst game of this generation
  26. NMorgan
    Sep 3, 2020
    2
    Most overhyped with some of the worst gameplay. I truly doubt that most reviewers have actually played the game.
  27. terminat2
    Jun 27, 2020
    2
    El juego es muy pobre en historia (muy pero que muy pobre), graficamente esta muy bien, pero en este tipo de juegos lo que interesa es la historia y la historia hace aguas por todos lados.
    No quiero decir spoilers , pero si te gusto el 1 , mejor no jueges el 2 porque te vas a ir con que se cae todo al piso.
    Que manera de tirar por la borda una saga.
  28. Doctor-J
    Jul 17, 2021
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What a massive disappointment this game is, forcing you to play half the game with a character that you don't give a damn about. I spent the first half of the game craving for more and the second half dragging myself through.… Expand
  29. OutlawTX
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    Fantastic graphics and decent gameplay are completely over shadowed by the garbage story. What Naughty Dog decided to not only do to the characters but what they did with the heart of the game is pure stupidity. The first game was a bleak, dark world with a light of humanity at its heart. This game just uses beloved characters to ram a cult ideology down your throat with zero humanity orFantastic graphics and decent gameplay are completely over shadowed by the garbage story. What Naughty Dog decided to not only do to the characters but what they did with the heart of the game is pure stupidity. The first game was a bleak, dark world with a light of humanity at its heart. This game just uses beloved characters to ram a cult ideology down your throat with zero humanity or heart aside from one flashback. It’s done with malice and hate, ending with hopelessness. All this game served to do for me is to insure I’ll never buy another Naughty Dog game again. These aren’t bots leaving bad scores, they’re actual people that buy games. I’d also bet a good portion didn’t buy the game but you know what? I bet they wanted to. That’s why they’re angry.… Expand
  30. Ins0mnia
    Jun 26, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Where do we start, this game is a mess. The storyline absolutely ruined my fun, it's lazy written and tries a bit to hard to be ''edgy''. IT's depressing as hell. Especially how they treat Joel is absolutely baffeling.

    The game play gets quickly boring, it's the same over and over again and barely an evolution of the previous.

    The music and grafix is beautiful tho. So points for that.    … Expand
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#2 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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#1 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2020
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#3 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2020

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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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