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. Fsc06
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    The technical part is good but the story is very poorly written, badly inserted and forced characters.
  2. Daak12
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Jaw-dropping refinement in gameplay and breathtakingly beautiful story. This game tops even the first game! Abby is the new rockstar of the IP. Ellie is emotionally weak in comparison but I guess she cracked seeing everything shes seen.… Expand
  3. Jusanotherme
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    Accessibility is phenomenal, AI in game has improved since TLOU 1. Poor rating is due to their poor writing, narrative is just horrible. When players begin to not want to play your game, you know you messed up greatly. In this case, players were invested in the characters of Joel and Ellie cause TLOU1 storyline was A+. But this game, they tried to be unexpected and it ended up backfiring.Accessibility is phenomenal, AI in game has improved since TLOU 1. Poor rating is due to their poor writing, narrative is just horrible. When players begin to not want to play your game, you know you messed up greatly. In this case, players were invested in the characters of Joel and Ellie cause TLOU1 storyline was A+. But this game, they tried to be unexpected and it ended up backfiring. Dialogue is boring too.… Expand
  4. Sintaxis
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    La historia es un poco repetitiva, hay momentos en el juego donde no puede hacer absolutamente nada si boring.
  5. Dobranock
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    There’s a lot of lame people here review bombing this game because it’s too “politically correct”. That’s a dumb take on this amazing game but what else do you expect from man babies with too much time on their hands?
  6. madison0302
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    SPOILER FREE
    Dark, beautiful, horrific, and ahead of it's time. This is a story you must experience for yourself. Simply reading a synopsis does not convey half the nuance and emotion that you get from playing yourself. There is a reason this isn't a book. 10 years from now, people will look back at this game in praise for how the boundaries are pushed in terms of narrative and blurring    SPOILER FREE
    Dark, beautiful, horrific, and ahead of it's time. This is a story you must experience for yourself. Simply reading a synopsis does not convey half the nuance and emotion that you get from playing yourself. There is a reason this isn't a book. 10 years from now, people will look back at this game in praise for how the boundaries are pushed in terms of narrative and blurring the lines between player and character. Can't think of another game that made me both wince in horror and melt my heart, also the melee combat is super fun.
    10/10.
    Thanks, Naughty Dog.    … Expand
  7. sslust
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    Garbage story , Not listening to the audience , and i just want to forget about this game .
  8. Zero007
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    I'll be short and sweet the game sucked but who cares because it's woke at least
  9. Filter_of_Chaos
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I am one of the many who finished the game and was left feeling uneasy, and feeling that things are left unresolved. I can agree with all the banter about "Joel deserved better" and "This has an agenda" to a certain degree. It definitely felt like the PC culture was being jammed down my throat, and as for Joel, I'm not sure about deserved better... He murdered countless people and forsake mankind to save one girl. I am not saying I would have chosen differently. I would have made the same call, especially after losing my daughter many years before. When you murder someone there will be repercussions. Abby was one of those waves that Joel had created, and it caught up with him. You kill that many people, and you are asking for the worst possible outcome. Put all that aside, at least for this review. This game felt like a slap in the face. It felt like no one wanted to write it, or maybe there was just a lack of real story after the first one had been tied into a neat little bow for us. I do not know how much influence the Co-writer Halley Gross had, but I looked into her, and her reputation is less than impressive. She is a failed comedian, claiming it was some misplaced fear, when in reality she just isn't funny. Her writing is lack luster at best, and bringing her into the fold was a MASSIVE mistake on the studio's part. I feel that this whole stunt was like the studios and critics saying "Oh you want a sequel do you? The first wasn't enough? Well here is your **** sequel!" as if to put us in our place about craving a sequel to something as good The Last of Us. We understand that puts pressure on studios, but if this is the response we get for wanting sequels and remakes that actually do their counterparts justice, then I would rather have nothing at all. Killing Joel, and then FORCING me to play as the person who brutally beat him to death, is a **** insult to anyone who played the first game and don't even pretend like it isn't. Driving a narrative of seeing how bleak the world would be, and beating the dead horse of "revenge is bad" is just lazy writing. Showing me that my enemy has struggles too, and attempting to humanize them is just infuriating. Your counterpoint is immediately invalid, because it comes simply down to "I know my enemy has feelings, and cares, and wants, and struggles. The thing is, they killed the only thing I had left in this world, so I don't give one flying **** who or what that person is. Showing me their side of things is not going to change my mind that, that person needs to pay the piper. Just like Joel did." And then at the end you strip us of even that. This story felt lazy, and insulting all the way through. No amount of "good" gameplay will ever compensate for just throwing out good character arcs. I wish I could even give a decent review of the gameplay. I can't. It was fine enough for what it needed to accomplish, but the A.I. was piss poor. It felt like the clunky A.I. from the first game, but now even easier to sneak up on. Survivor mode was a joke. My biggest complaint... Killing animals. I have a problem with killing innocent creatures that do not have the capacity to even begin to understand the complexities of what drives man to slaughter each other with no reason or rhyme. I spent more time trying to figure out ways to NOT kill anything in parts that included animals, than doing any other thing in that game. I will give you this, you animated it and made it sound convincing. So good so, that the first time I killed a dog and heard it yelp, it made me so **** angry I turned the damn game off for the rest of the day. I had trouble justifying even turning the damn thing back on. I am disgusted with any game that includes killing innocent creatures. You couldn't even give us gameplay redeeming enough to recommend this game. Fire Neil, and absolutely fire Halley Gross. This game spit in the face of not only its fans, but in the face of its own predecessor. Next time put the goddamn pen down and think that it might be better to produce nothing than produce whatever the hell you call this.… Expand
  10. inedible_egg
    Jun 22, 2020
    1
    Good graphics, but that's all this game has going for it. They trash the original characters and the narrative suffers only to keep it's social propaganda. It deserves a rental at most.
  11. Fjcc
    Jun 21, 2020
    3
    The last of us 2 is so boring and uninteresting, they killed off Joel in the first 2 hours of the game in the worst possible way, instead of given his character a satisfying conclusion like Arthur Morgan. The game has nothing new, the characters sucked including Ellie and the end is one of the worst if not the worst in Gaming.
  12. vladislav12
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    Ставлю ноль только за политическую повстку сделаную для тупого лево-либеального сообщества.
  13. Remy1982
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Waited 7 years for this junk? Joel, a veteran survivor dumbed down to telling strangers his real name and where he stays, walks into obvious traps. Don't even get the revenge deserved because we know the saint Abby has big arms and bigger plot armor. I'm so disappointed… Expand
  14. FoxHounder89
    Jun 19, 2020
    10
    Amazing! Most beautiful game on PS4. Look forward to playing on PS5. Attention to detail in this game is blow my mind. You must play that!
  15. ConfuZen
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    This is a brilliant masterpiece, ignore the SJW critics, thats just entitled millenials complaining about art not being what that they want it to be.
  16. pjs78952
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This game is an insult to previous game.

    The most overrated game this generation.. the "critic" reviews are either fake or the reviewers are too boneless to say how generic the gameplay is and how terribly the story and characters are written
  17. Corey988
    Jun 23, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I respect the amount technical work that went into this game but the story line is completely screwed up. I am actually left with only one character from either game that I still like. The first game was awesome, the way the relationship between Joel and Ellie unfolded was masterfully done. Part 2 everything is forced and none of the characters are likable, for god sakes they ruined both Ellie and Tommy. Additional characters are completely horrible people. No matter how they tried Abbie was unredeemable and her roided out physique was completely off putting. My god that sex scene was frightening. Why on earth would they force you to play half the game as this person?

    In the first game there was lots of violence but it was to protect people you cared about. Part II is nothing more than a snuff film.

    The only reason I gave it a score of 4 vs 0 is the few scenes with Joel and Ellie. I did enjoy when he took her to the museum.

    Naughty Dog should be ashamed of the story they took 7 years to come up with.    … Expand
  18. umutcanMJ23
    Jun 19, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Better depth and very good animations I have never played better games for animations… Expand
  19. Ghost360
    Jun 23, 2020
    1
    This is an utter garbage. I should've never waited and expected something out of this. This is all about Social Justice propaganda **** It will probably make sense if y'all put social justice the game or som'.
  20. omarkab2
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    this game is great-me a person who has actually played it and didn't just make this account just to **** on this game
  21. DaysGone123
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    story is -7
    story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7story is -7
  22. zifta
    Jun 23, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. i love the game but the ending really isnt the best its sad to see such a good game series good to waste they could of made the game so much better ellie talk all loses and abby got to go with no Ls the last of us is my fav game but i waited 7 years for this game and im just so dissapointed hope they make a part3 and make it good… Expand
  23. Toruu
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This game is trash, you naughtydog **** homo LGBT, **** transgender, **** storyline, we wait for 5 years to get this trash come on man....
  24. Lornmacdonald
    Jun 20, 2020
    10
    Perfect game. Huge fan of original and this has done the impossible and is even better. Wonderful story telling and attention to detail.
  25. Puddingcup
    Jun 23, 2020
    9
    Amazing game, music,story,atmosphere and nothing about lgbqt so give the game a chance, itll make you ps4 sound like a jet engine but it's well worth every penny
  26. HellDShot
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    Bom, Eu acabei de Fechar o The Last of Us 2, e a Únicas Palavras que posso usar para Descrever sem dar Nenhum Spoiler é que é
    O Jogo Mais Emocionante que eu Já Joguei em Toda Minha Vida.
    Nesses quase 5 dias jogando direto Fechei a Campanha com umas 35h Aproximadamente e Foram um Carrossel de Sentimentos, Eu Fiquei com Raiva, Triste, Com Ódio, Chorei, Fiquei Ansioso, Indignado, Com Medo,    Bom, Eu acabei de Fechar o The Last of Us 2, e a Únicas Palavras que posso usar para Descrever sem dar Nenhum Spoiler é que é
    O Jogo Mais Emocionante que eu Já Joguei em Toda Minha Vida.

    Nesses quase 5 dias jogando direto Fechei a Campanha com umas 35h Aproximadamente e Foram um Carrossel de Sentimentos, Eu Fiquei com Raiva, Triste, Com Ódio, Chorei, Fiquei Ansioso, Indignado, Com Medo, Pensativo...

    Assim como em um filme de Terror que te conduz a sentir o medo, a Naughty Dog Conduziu todos esses Sentimentos de uma forma que eu Nunca tinha sentido.

    Esse Jogo te faz pensar muito.
    Sobre como lidamos com Sentimentos, Sobre Ideologias e o que acreditamos tbm.

    Eu Sempre Tive Problemas com Coisas que acho Forçadas. Como por exemplo quando todas as protagonistas viraram femininas só para levantar Bandeira.
    Não gosto disso. Quer Fazer um Protagonista Gay, Negro, Mulher, Anão, Não me importa com tanto que não seja Forçado.
    Seja Natural.

    Tem Todas as Minorias, Lésbicas, Deficiente, Negro, Asiatico.

    Mas é tudo tão Humano e Natural.

    Esquece um Pouco o Sony x Microsoft, Todos aqui somos Fãs de Vídeo Games, É o Nosso Hobby, Nossa Válvula de Escape.
    O que esse Jogo fez é algo para ser Jogado por Todos !!!
    Ele Vai mudar coisas daqui pra frente, assim como o The Witcher 3 Mudou as Sidequests, The Last of Us 2 Mudou a Narrativa.

    Você vê gente que nem curtia jogos, da Indústria do Cinema/Teatro que Acharam Maravilhoso. E isso é ótimo. Quebra esse Karma de que Vídeo Games são Coisa para Criança.

    Assim como o Thanos foi tão bem Feito que você esquece que é CGI, Os Personagens foram tão bem Construídos que você esquece que é um Jogo.

    The Last of Us 2 para mim é o jogo que Fechou essa Geração e com Certeza o Melhor jogo que eu Já Joguei na Vida.
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Well, I just closed The Last of Us 2, and a single word I can use to describe without any spoiler is what it is
    The Most Exciting Game I've Ever Played In My Life.

    In those almost 5 days playing straight I closed a campaign with approximately 35 hours and a carousel of feelings, I was angry, sad, comedy, blushed, be anxious, indignant, afraid, thoughtful ...

    Just like in a horror movie that causes feeling or fear, a Naughty Dog handles all those feelings in a way that I never felt.

    This game makes you think a lot.
    About how we deal with Feelings, About ideologies and what we also believe.

    I've always had problems with things I think are forced.
    For example, when all the protagonists become female only to raise the flag.
    I do not like it. Wants to Make a Gay Protagonist, Black, Woman, Dwarf, I don't care how much it is not Forced.
    Be Natural.

    It has All Minorities, Lesbians, Disabled, Blacks, Asians.

    But it's all so human and natural.

    Choose a Little or Sony x Microsoft, We are all Video Games, It's Our Hobby, Our Exhaust Valve.
    What this game did is something to be played by everyone !!!
    It will change things going forward, like The Witcher 3 Changed as Sidequests, The Last of Us 2 Changed the Narrative.
    You see people who don't even like games, from the Cinema / Theater Industry of Acharam Maravilhoso. And this is great. Break this Karma that Video Games are a Thing for Children. Just as Thanos was so well Done that you forget that it is CGI, The Characters were so well Built that you forget that it is a Game. The Last of Us 2 for me is the game that closed this generation and for sure or the best game I've ever played in Life.    … Expand
  27. UmaRani
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A very big disappointment. How much for a 9? My dream is becoming a game journalist :)… Expand
  28. RedhotSlick
    Jun 23, 2020
    1
    I’ll just start with: wow, what a disappointment. The graphics, animations, and voice acting are actually good, but that’s it.
    The story, narrative and creative choices regarding characters are almost unforgivably bad, especially compared to the first game. While trying to subvert expectations, The Last of Us part 2 still goes with a generic revenge plot, and doing so (quite literally)    I’ll just start with: wow, what a disappointment. The graphics, animations, and voice acting are actually good, but that’s it.
    The story, narrative and creative choices regarding characters are almost unforgivably bad, especially compared to the first game. While trying to subvert expectations, The Last of Us part 2 still goes with a generic revenge plot, and doing so (quite literally) spits on legacy characters. And all this without any significant payoff.
    1/10, partially due to my high expectations.    … Expand
  29. stentwo
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    gameplay 10/10
    visual 10/10
    music 10/10
    atmosphere 10/10
    details 10/10
    God job Naughty Dog
  30. thissine
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    Everything built up in the previous game was destroyed here. Side characters weren't memorable, story made no sense, and the ending was absolutely garbage. The devs tried to go for realism by killing characters randomly, but this makes for horrible story telling where all your favorite characters will end up dying.
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 »