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. Mezsgye
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    2020 is getting worse by the day . I love the visuals, but the writing is horrible. Do not get fooled by the positive reviews.
  2. kaijubuff
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    A terrible sequel with a story that almost feels like a slap-in-the-face to any developed intelligent life form. If you liked the first game, please stay clear of the follow up.
  3. RomShenhav
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    Terrible story.
    The decisions being made in this game are absolutely ridiculous and horrendous.
    Almost no change whatsoever in gameplay, besides being able to jump and climb. Characters are bland and uninteresting, and the encounters with the infected are much less often now with an obscene design to one of the new infected enemies. The end is laughable, considering everything that    Terrible story.
    The decisions being made in this game are absolutely ridiculous and horrendous.
    Almost no change whatsoever in gameplay, besides being able to jump and climb.
    Characters are bland and uninteresting, and the encounters with the infected are much less often now with an obscene design to one of the new infected enemies.
    The end is laughable, considering everything that happened during the game.
    The agenda does not really matters to me but the fact that Druckmann decided to shove a lot of things that aren't necessary down out throats made me sick.
    Fans of the series waited 7 years for this sequel and this is what they got.
    It's like they took everything that people loved in the first game and decided to switch it 180 degrees from what it was.

    A positive thing I have to say is that the game is totally gorgeous, graphics wise. It really brings the limit of the PS4 and this generation.    … Expand
  4. mohbaboo7
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I played the 1st game on PS3 for about 10 times and played the remastered version 5 times again and that's simply because it was a masterpiece that took others and me on an emotional journey that didn't need any politics or religions or agendas to shove on our faces. The 2nd didn't need to do that, too. Guess what? They did it anyway and threw all the dedicated fans who loved the characters no matter what their sexuality were. I loved the 1st game and loved the DLC (Left Behind). Story was part of the success as it was grey (not black or white) and people can relate to the decisions made during the game, but now we were supposed to see the death of the 1st game's protagonist early in the game and should go - as advertised - on a journey of revenge while playing almost half of the game as the one who killed him! I'm still shocked from the cheap shock value. Even I, a novice writer, could come with better story line and plot to justify his death and the way it was done. I could've come to peace with her if we played her through the game only to have her revenge at the end, but no. They wanted us to force ourselves to keep playing because we already paid 60 dollars for this **** story full of agendas instead of having a decent game. Joel who didn't stop for a guy who looked desperate in the 1st game, trusted a group of strangers with his name and got killed for it and we're supposed to believe that? Abby which I hated from the beginning and tries to kill as many times as possible because I knew they were trying to make us feel bad for her and they even forced a sex scene no asked for which made me hate her and the game more in what we can describe as the gayest straight sex ever done. There no justification for what ND did to the fans, not to mentions the delays the game got so they can manipulate us more with false advertisements and trailers which convinced me that Joel would be a big part in the game, only to find that he appears in flashback with his old look and as the trailers showed us and now I hear that stores refuse to accept returning the game. The trailers convinced us that Dina died and Ellie had to avenge her and then Joel follows her to help. They didn't even show din behind Ellie on the horse on the first day of Seattle. Shame on ND and shame above all on Sony who let them do this. I lost my respect to the studio I admired and considered the best in the last 2 generations of consoles. I gave the 2 just for the technique aspects. Amazing world and graphics, cinematography, music, and voice acting. **** story full of holes, bad insert of left politics and agendas and disrespecting a loved character because he's a man. Don't buy the game and don't support ND and Neil F****** Druckman.… Expand
  5. Nadlav
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    Progressisme en marche. On adore le côté gauchiste dans ce jeu ! Un régal.
  6. Vovan8688
    Oct 20, 2021
    2
    Никакого прорыва нет. Сплошные гендерные твисты, от которых к середине игры уже начинает тошнить.
  7. SirYolox
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    Graphics 8/10 very pretty, with a couple of visual bugs here and there
    Gameplay 7/10 same gameplay as before, wasn't great, wasn't bad
    Characters 1/10 This aren't the same characters we met and loved from The Last of Us, these are new characters that look somewhat similar, have the same names and voice actors. I miss that game. Plus some very dislikeable new character you have to play as    Graphics 8/10 very pretty, with a couple of visual bugs here and there
    Gameplay 7/10 same gameplay as before, wasn't great, wasn't bad
    Characters 1/10 This aren't the same characters we met and loved from The Last of Us, these are new characters that look somewhat similar, have the same names and voice actors. I miss that game. Plus some very dislikeable new character you have to play as in order to finish the extremely linear game this is.
    Story 0/10 was there a story? Only two feelings came out of me from this game, anger at what they did to the original characters, afterwards, only boredom
    Playeability 4/10 No gameplay, walking simulator with next to nothing to do, ever, just listening and following very annoying npc's, some very badly done, none of them even remotely seem human    … Expand
  8. mrttkk
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    SIMPLE MAKE MONEY FORMULA: If you want to make a movie or video game and you want to add diversity to your content, make up new content from scratch and STOP taking already existing stories and characters, such as STAR WARS and now TLOU2, and destroying it! Do you companies know how this is supposed to work? If we don't like your product, then you get no money! Simple.

    Absolute waste of    SIMPLE MAKE MONEY FORMULA: If you want to make a movie or video game and you want to add diversity to your content, make up new content from scratch and STOP taking already existing stories and characters, such as STAR WARS and now TLOU2, and destroying it! Do you companies know how this is supposed to work? If we don't like your product, then you get no money! Simple.

    Absolute waste of money. I stopped playing and I'm not going to bother finishing it either. This game is the equivalent to Game of Thrones Season 8 epic failure! I just don't understand why everything about the first game was destroyed in this sequel. Everything I loved about the 1st installment, gone, just like that! Naughty Dog and Sony blew it and they were warned! The fans spoke after the leaks and told them what they didn't like. Naught Dog, Sony, and personally Neil Druckman himself, verbally attacked and criticized fans of being racists and misogynists, and assured fans the game would be loved by everyone. This game is an absolute blunder and will probably go down as the WORST sequel in video game history! Did Sony really think fans wouldn't notice the fake paid for "Critic Reviews"? Who are they trying to fool?
    The only good thing I can honestly say without a doubt, the graphics are SUPERB!!!! Big props to Naughty Dog on the graphics! Mouth-dropping attention to detail! I will say the graphics are even better than God of War 4!    … Expand
  9. Blackbird597
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Graphics are great and gameplay is fun enough but the the reason people buy this game the story.... its horrible. The trailers made us think Joel would be more involved but they replace him with Jesse and killed Joel off 2 hours in. THEN NG thought it was a good idea to make us play as the woman who killed him.… Expand
  10. Jonluka
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    This game is nothing more than a slap in the face to all the fans of the first game. This game has a boring gameplay, a horrible story, a lot of bugs, characters who make stupid decisions all the time. Also the game tries to make the player care about characters that he has no reason to like or whatsoever, this garbage also has one of the worst endings that i have seen in my entire life.This game is nothing more than a slap in the face to all the fans of the first game. This game has a boring gameplay, a horrible story, a lot of bugs, characters who make stupid decisions all the time. Also the game tries to make the player care about characters that he has no reason to like or whatsoever, this garbage also has one of the worst endings that i have seen in my entire life. Neil Druckmann somehow found a way to **** on the great legacy of the first The last of us. Truly
    disappointing.    … Expand
  11. HighFive2512
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Up to this point, id never think that killing the protagonist of a prequel right off in the beginning would be that badly received, assuming there have been a number of games with similar formula, which were successful. But when the storywriters are doing this just go bring up a vendetta story, presented in a very dull and filled with plotholes way, this bad reception comes as no surprise to almost everyone.

    There are probably a million paths the storywriters could have gone here, so that it would please everyone, even by repeating the story of the first game, and it would have been far more worth time investing in playing this game, than now.

    While the graphics are 9/10, everything else is absolute bonkers.

    enemy variety 2/10 - barely added new enemies since game 1- they could have added more types of zombies with different abilities/approach to kill them

    main characters 1/10 - post apolyptic scene with characters whose sole purpose is to hunt each-other down? First game the protagonists were survivors, which had their flaws, but you as player easily sympathized with them. This sequel here feels like cat and mouse game, where the surviving part is almost non existent.

    storyline 1/10 - whoever wrote this, should not be hired by ANY game dev company.


    It saddens me to write all this, as the first game was one of the most touching and mastetfully made I've had the pleasure to play.
    But game is a true franchise destroyer - doubtful there will ever be TLOU 3.    … Expand
  12. Bayushi_oni
    Jun 30, 2020
    2
    Gameplay so old it feels like it's 2013.
    Absolutely nothing good in the writing and plot. Joel isn't at all who he was in the 1st. It's a complete different caracter, because... who cares, right? Let's just transform who he is just because no one at ND can write a decent story since amy hennig left the studio...
    Nothing makes sense in a narrative way. Everything feels force and    Gameplay so old it feels like it's 2013.
    Absolutely nothing good in the writing and plot. Joel isn't at all who he was in the 1st. It's a complete different caracter, because... who cares, right? Let's just transform who he is just because no one at ND can write a decent story since amy hennig left the studio...
    Nothing makes sense in a narrative way. Everything feels force and unnatural.
    An immature story for immature people. But i'm not a 16 year old kids anymore, and I really can't understand how anyone above 20 can like this poor writing, with incoherent caracters, stupid decisions, and oh so bad developement overall...
    Graphics are great, but nothing worthy of all these stupids 10/10 reviews.

    This game deserve all the sh*tstorm it received, and if not enough, the blatant lies of Neil Druckmann about it should say it all.
    He lied because he KNEW that if truth were told about this game, people wouldn't have bought it in this huge amount.

    Great job, naughty dog. You sold your game with lies, by deceiving your customers. I hope there will be a part 3, and I hope it will fail so hard that it will be the end of this once great, now disgusting, talentless, arrogant shell of a studio.    … Expand
  13. Prodigu
    Jul 9, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If you like the first game you absolutely will not like this one. They take the characters they created within the first game and throw them to the side, and try to explain their story (which shouldnt happen in the first place you shouldnt need to explain your own story for yourself). They kill Joel within the first hour, and then you have to immediately play as his killer as well as multiple times throughout the story. Abby is completely unlikable as she was the one that killed a beloved character and the game devs attempt to humanize her in a complete failure. The game doesnt go above and beyond from the first game in terms of gameplay and it goes wayyyyy down in story.… Expand
  14. Aanstaar
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    This is my 5th time writing a review so I will be brief because of "Error 503 Service Unavailable" for some reason (maybe censoring negative reviews? not sure). So basically the story felt lackluster and all over the place. The idea between the story was good but everything executed in a bad way. New characters felt bland and hard to like. Combat felt clunky, camera does not follow theThis is my 5th time writing a review so I will be brief because of "Error 503 Service Unavailable" for some reason (maybe censoring negative reviews? not sure). So basically the story felt lackluster and all over the place. The idea between the story was good but everything executed in a bad way. New characters felt bland and hard to like. Combat felt clunky, camera does not follow the action most of the time, aim assist shows enemies through walls, bugs in combat and level design, crashes are not rare. The only points this game gets from me is from voice acting and looks of the environment.… Expand
  15. xiao478
    Jun 24, 2020
    2
    如果拋開劇情和政治正確，最後生還者或許是一款更好更棒的遊戲！也許中途發生改變是魔改了什麼？
  16. Revl8n
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    A colossal disappointment of unimaginative story telling that attempts to explore the consequences of anger/revenge at the kindergarten intellectual level while using x-rated violence and gore. I’ve honestly never been more insulted by the in game narrative choices made on my behalf. There are humans on this planet that behave like the characters in this game. Clinical psychologist’sA colossal disappointment of unimaginative story telling that attempts to explore the consequences of anger/revenge at the kindergarten intellectual level while using x-rated violence and gore. I’ve honestly never been more insulted by the in game narrative choices made on my behalf. There are humans on this planet that behave like the characters in this game. Clinical psychologist’s categorize them as psychopaths. Rational people just do not behave this way, including the "supposedly complex" characters in this game; Naughty Dog simply drops them into the sewer to deliver forced brutality shock - again - and again. The scarcity of genuine and believable character development keeps TLoU2 floating in the sewer throughout. I’m not sure what the hell Naughty Dog was trying to do, but this game could just as easily have been called Postal 2. It failed to engage me on any level. Others are claiming that Last of Us 2 is a disservice to the established characters from the first game. I think this is too kind, The Last of Us 2 is a disservice to every character in the game - each one a mockery of humanity, and then overtly politicized which only heightens the mockery. Naughty Dog seems caught up in their own bubble of smugness, because very, very few people care if game characters are straight or gay; white, black, or blue; Human, Krogan, or Orc. But virtually every gamer does care that the characters fit the world, lore, environment, and narrative; virtually every gamer cares that the narrative is unique, engaging, and builds upon the established lore. Here, Naughty Dog simply takes a dump on the world. Yes the game looks great - but honestly, that’s expected for a AAA title. The game play is adequate - if just barely, which is expected from B level games. Given the ridiculous and insulting context of this game, I have no intention of “finishing” only to accentuate my level of disappointment. Perhaps Naughty Dogs next masterpiece will let you role-play as Eric and Dylan. This game has a single central pillar - Story - which fails badly - 2/10.… Expand
  17. AlexWolfheart
    Jul 19, 2020
    2
    The screenwriter ignored all the story, all the connections, even the character personalities from the first game in order to make something appealing to the woke generation. Disappointed as hell about how it turned out, honestly. First time I ever regretted preordering a game on PS4, and first time I had to actually force myself to play it, to finish it. Never had issues being glued toThe screenwriter ignored all the story, all the connections, even the character personalities from the first game in order to make something appealing to the woke generation. Disappointed as hell about how it turned out, honestly. First time I ever regretted preordering a game on PS4, and first time I had to actually force myself to play it, to finish it. Never had issues being glued to the screen on a ps4 game before, never had issued of being so displeased with a constant and repetitive reminder that the character has a different tastes in some areas.
    Outer Worlds also had a side-story containing something similar, but so much more tasteful made. Did not need to repeat it in almost every verbal interaction to get the point across, as TLOU 2 did.
    Ending was stupid and pointless, after all that death and destruction for the purpose of killing someone, to just let them go? C'mon...

    Get a better screenwriter, IF there will be a 3rd one. Although, if you actually look around ,you'd realize that so many of the old fans have given up on this game and potentially this company. That includes me as well.
    Games magazines may praise it as long as they want, Metacritic may delete the comments that they consider to be hate-filled, but they all tell a general story of how the ones that actually paid for the game, us, players, are highly dissatisfied by what was thrown at us.    … Expand
  18. Vakarianknight
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Mechanics are okay. Graphics are excellent, but graphics aren't everything.

    Beloved characters are destroyed. Joel is killed within the first few hours. Characters make dumb, illogical choices. New characters are unlikable.

    Many many scenes are disturbing and feel like violence for the sake of violence.
    Bad thing after bad thing happens. With all the depression in 2020, this is not something the world needs.

    Joel, Ellie and all of us deserved better.    … Expand
  19. Redriot47
    Jun 25, 2020
    2
    Just been done with the game and got to say it's way worse then I thought. It's disappointing to be honest as they try to feed you an unwanted story by making you play as Abby after and before she kills Joel.
    The Gameplay and Graphics are good but the AI is stupid as hell. The enemies don't even response to your Allies. Dina crawls right beside them and they pretend they don't have eyes    Just been done with the game and got to say it's way worse then I thought. It's disappointing to be honest as they try to feed you an unwanted story by making you play as Abby after and before she kills Joel.
    The Gameplay and Graphics are good but the AI is stupid as hell. The enemies don't even response to your Allies. Dina crawls right beside them and they pretend they don't have eyes and it's laughable. I understand most games now provide an Ally so the gameplay is not as boaring or so that it doesn't get lonely but dude. Put in the extra effort to polish it and make the AI to detect your Allies as well.
    The starting of the game where we first get to see the settlement was so good . If they really wanted they could have gone in a different way and tell us a heartwarming lovable story but they had to be disrespectful to its fans and put in their **** agenda and make it worse.
    If you are a new comer you will enjoy the game but for the fans of the previous it just fuels us with harate and ending the game with saying violence is bad after Ellie killing thousands of innocent people .
    The game might as be named The End of us and not the last of Us.
    I have a huge games collection but I particularly shared this game from a friend because I have no wish to help the developers for being disrespectful. You don't make us Love a piece of work and then destroy it for your **** agenda. Might as well make a new IP for it.
    Anyways I didn't enjoy the experience.    … Expand
  20. kirill10
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    Naughty Dog, stop trying to follow the orders of minorities because you are making total crap of your game. You could make an awesome game, but you ruined everything. The only good thing i see is the reference to the first part of The Last Of Us. That's why i give this game 2 but not 0.
  21. Wynd
    Jun 24, 2020
    2
    Not sure what they were thinking. This is just terrible. Do not buy. I dont think I'll be buying their games anymore. I think the high Metacritic score for this game is due to certain reviewers getting paid off. Not sure how this game could be rated anywhere near 100.
  22. WilliamEag
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is a joke, last of us should have stopped in the first.
    Killing Joel in the first two hours, completely out of carater. SHOCKING THE AUDIENCE IS CHEAP AND I FELT MORE PAIN WITH THE DEATH OF JOEL'S DAUTHER THAT THE DEATH OF JOEL ITSELF. And it cuts after without any moments. I really don't have nothing to say that isn't obvious. Critics, you are a joke
    Sellouts    … Expand
  23. Prim3128
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    It looks nice, that's the whole reason i gave it a score of 2.....
    If you enjoyed the 1st game then just know that all of the characters you love will be brutalised horrifically in a plot i can only describe as Sadistic and just plain not fun to play.....
  24. NonameRR
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    ND should hire good screenwriters next time, because it feels like they found them on a roadside.
  25. teh0816
    Jun 28, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Good Graphics. Good gaming experience But Total **** of story
    U want me to play a character that kill one of my favorite character on the last of us 1 Seriously!    … Expand
  26. Stargate300666
    Jun 30, 2020
    2
    What more can be said, Dirty Dog tried something different as for the story line and character development is concerned and failed miserably, if ain't broke don't fix it, don't try to change a winning recipe, sad just all of it very sad.
  27. pbjent
    Aug 4, 2020
    2
    The story is all over the place. Tries too hard to tell a story in flashbacks and fail to tell a compelling story. Not enough time spent with any characters to have any type of any emotional attachment thus made me not care about any characters. Characters and groups did not behave the way you'd expect them to therefore the immersion was broken. Terrible storytelling but the game lookedThe story is all over the place. Tries too hard to tell a story in flashbacks and fail to tell a compelling story. Not enough time spent with any characters to have any type of any emotional attachment thus made me not care about any characters. Characters and groups did not behave the way you'd expect them to therefore the immersion was broken. Terrible storytelling but the game looked and played amazing… Expand
  28. Minicooperz91
    Jun 27, 2020
    2
    Nooooo! I wanted so much to love this and prove the haters wrong! I couldn't wait to get it. I'm heartbroken and frustrated. I hate agreeing with the haters ☹ don't hate it until you play but warning if you adored the first one be prepared for disappointment. There is some very WTF angry moments, be prepared! The ending left me so disappointed
  29. VladimiROCK
    Jul 18, 2020
    2
    Сюжет ШЕДЕВР. Переживал каждый момент. Но когда показывают сюжеты навязывания ЛГБТ повестки и о том, какие женщины, по сравнению с мужиками, героини - просто сводит тот самый шедевральный сюжет на нет. Заслуженая оценка за политическую повестку, когда игры, должны быть наоборот, свободны от политики.Сюжет ШЕДЕВР. Переживал каждый момент. Но когда показывают сюжеты навязывания ЛГБТ повестки и о том, какие женщины, по сравнению с мужиками, героини - просто сводит тот самый шедевральный сюжет на нет. Заслуженая оценка за политическую повестку, когда игры, должны быть наоборот, свободны от политики.
  30. AxelAlexander
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Played through the whole game in about 25 hours. Amazing scenarios and graphics, and the gameplay was really more enjoyable than the first one, an improved version. The history sucks tho. What the actual **** was that ending. She gets to live after that **** She has a two ****ing second flashback of joel and that's it? That was just ****ing horrible, I hope you don't make a the last of us 3. Neil Druckman please, get the **** out of naughty dog, don't ruin this amazing studio with your ****ty storytelling. I actually think the LGBTI+ members of the game are well implemented and don't draw too much attention to that trait of themselves. But the story, holy **** It sucks it just sucks, objectively, SUCKS.… 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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Metascore
93

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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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