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  1. Jul 1, 2020
    3
    Two aspects of this game are worth noting:
    1- Technical: It is obvious that the developers did a lot of work under the hood to create incredible visuals, audio and controls. I can't find fault with the technical aspect of this game.
    2- Story, and this is where the audience goes for this series, is absolutely atrocious. I've never seen such a blatant middle finger given to customers, and
    Two aspects of this game are worth noting:
    1- Technical: It is obvious that the developers did a lot of work under the hood to create incredible visuals, audio and controls. I can't find fault with the technical aspect of this game.
    2- Story, and this is where the audience goes for this series, is absolutely atrocious.
    I've never seen such a blatant middle finger given to customers, and i've seen a few. To those dismissing this as "oh no, another homophobe because of the relationship", wrong. Gay male here.

    The anti-male agenda is also very strong in this sequel. Guess what, I like men. They should not be just inneffectual cannon fodder.

    Overall, this is a huge waste of money even if you are a die hard.
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  2. Jul 1, 2020
    0
    A mi consideración, destruyeron una de las peores obras maestras de los videojuegos, esto sólo es una película de asesinatos, venganza y perdón sin justificación, una historia vacía que no vale la pena jugar, digo esto con lágrimas en los ojos, mi expectativa era muy alta para terminar jugando esta basura
  3. Jul 1, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. No respeta en lo absoluto a la primer entrega y sus personajes
    Con un guión mal ejecutado Podría haber sido un gran juego si fuera un título separado en lugar de una secuela de otra franquicia
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  4. Jul 1, 2020
    10
    Naughty Dog took a risk in creating a game that did not follow the generic post apocalyptic game. Everyone expected a happy ending or a game with the same basis of the first with their theme. Instead, Naughty Dog gave us a realistic game where not everything can go the way you want. Love was the theme for the first and hate was the theme for the second. Boy did we feel hate. The gameNaughty Dog took a risk in creating a game that did not follow the generic post apocalyptic game. Everyone expected a happy ending or a game with the same basis of the first with their theme. Instead, Naughty Dog gave us a realistic game where not everything can go the way you want. Love was the theme for the first and hate was the theme for the second. Boy did we feel hate. The game caused us to feel emotion whether it was uncomfortable or not. If the 2nd game was modeled after the 1st exactly, there would still be mixed reviews for not being unique. It is good that Naughty Dog took the risk they did for it payed off in the end even with the leaks. Expand
  5. Jul 1, 2020
    3
    The gameplay and graphic are amazing but if you have a story that doesn't even work out, you have also a game that doesn't work out
  6. Jul 1, 2020
    9
    Una historia que juega con tus sentimientos de principio a fin, haciéndote cuestionar lo que estás experimentando. En definitiva no es lo que esperas y eso es lo valioso, es una visión muy humana de lo que representa la "venganza". Un gameplay completamente disfrutable que a pesar de que no cambia mucho el sneaking del juego pasado sí abre nuevas posibilidades en la narrativa misma. UnaUna historia que juega con tus sentimientos de principio a fin, haciéndote cuestionar lo que estás experimentando. En definitiva no es lo que esperas y eso es lo valioso, es una visión muy humana de lo que representa la "venganza". Un gameplay completamente disfrutable que a pesar de que no cambia mucho el sneaking del juego pasado sí abre nuevas posibilidades en la narrativa misma. Una experiencia diferente a la que muchas personas no entenderán. Le pongo 9 por los pequeños bugs que tenía el juego pero nada grave que no te dejaran disfrutar el videojuego. Neil Druckmann y Naughty Dog lo vuelven a hacer de la mejor forma. Expand
  7. Jul 1, 2020
    0
    Could have been 10/10, but the pacing was a nightmare. Tried to hard to be profound and ended up being very cliche and robotic. Characterization was nowhere to be found. they abandoned the linearity that was so essential to making the first game a success in exchange for a nightmarish timeline that has zero pattern or consistency. I cannot imagine why they concluded this was necessary. ItCould have been 10/10, but the pacing was a nightmare. Tried to hard to be profound and ended up being very cliche and robotic. Characterization was nowhere to be found. they abandoned the linearity that was so essential to making the first game a success in exchange for a nightmarish timeline that has zero pattern or consistency. I cannot imagine why they concluded this was necessary. It leaves the story feeling very unpolished. This is why so many people feel it did not hit right. The pacing does so many disservices to the story it is trying to tell, which I'm not sure is a good one at that. The first game was so much better. I'm glad I got that satisfaction of Ellie learning the truth, but apart from that, story wise I ultimately was left feeling pretty much nothing. Sad that it took them all this time and they **** up something that shouldn't have been that hard to do well. The worst part is I feel like they will always think they are right and gamers' criticisms are illegitimate. This mentality is part of the problem leading to this dismal game. Oh well. I will not be running to buy the next Naughty Dog game on opening day, that's for sure. Expand
  8. Jul 1, 2020
    0
    Well I played it and I was the biggest fan of this Franchise. I really was. I even wanted to know how to play guitar to play that song in the first trailer. But this game broke everything. The gameplay is really good but that don’t matter if the story is bad. Anyways I won’t ever buy a game of naughty dog and I want my 70 bucks back. Please don’t buy it if you still don’t know.
  9. Jul 1, 2020
    3
    Gameplay and controls weren’t much more innovative from the first game and in some cases the first game has better things going for it like for example the dodge mechanic is very abusable bringing down the strategic value the first game had. This game still feels fun to play but the same can be said for games over a decade old so I don’t think that’s a big achievement. Various bugs thatGameplay and controls weren’t much more innovative from the first game and in some cases the first game has better things going for it like for example the dodge mechanic is very abusable bringing down the strategic value the first game had. This game still feels fun to play but the same can be said for games over a decade old so I don’t think that’s a big achievement. Various bugs that ruin the immersion which is basically the only thing this game has got going for it really. The graphics are good, it’s not super advanced graphics from older games on the system but more of a super polish and detail that makes the graphics stand out so much and give great immersions to it. The world is still super linear which is a bummer and a huge miss on ND’s part. The setup was there to search these outposts for information in an any order in an open world type of way which would have boosted the immersion of the this games world and just world exploration in general but instead the game keeps to being linear for story reason I guess? The story is pointless at best and a hot mess at worst. A personal revenge story is that last thing a fan would want for this game especially the way from the way it’s gone about the way it did. I believe what fans wanted to see the most was how the arguable bad decision Joel made at the end of the first game impacted the world in a plot that took a grander scale than what was shown in the game fans got and how the characters would try to fix this dangerous bloodthirsty world without a cure. As for the story we got I won’t go to into my points too in depth but on a rundown I can say most of the side characters were boring and had too much screen time, the main characters were out of character or were just also too boring to get attached to. The small talk when roaming is stupid. It’s like it’s trying to be uncharted but in that game it makes sense or even in the first TLOU it makes due to the way the characters aren’t absolutely at some of their worst times in their life it made sense for them for through out some casual words here and there. This game tries to be all brooding but then you get some causal dialogue from those brooding characters and it’s like a complete disconnect form the actual story. At last but not least the pacing and direction is all over the place. This could have easily been fixed if the game was like the first two hours all throughout the whole game where you hop back and forth between characters within reasonable time. Two problems fixed with one solution. I would rate this game lower if I took the marketing into consideration with the model swapping lie, the lighting changes and I think graphical changes(not sure about the graphics), and more realistic gameplay and enemy AI lies but there could have been limitation reasons for the latter two points(but not the deceiving model swapping) so I’ll subside my feelings to that. Over all this game is boring, dragged on, and had much lost potential. 3/10 Expand
  10. Jul 1, 2020
    0
    I loved the Last of us with all my heart. Part 2 methodically stomped on that love until I just couldn't bring myself to continue playing. I gave up about half an hour before the end and just watched what remained of it on YouTube - just to be done with it.
    The game tried to persuade me to hate the characters I love and care for the characters that don't deserve it - no matter all their
    I loved the Last of us with all my heart. Part 2 methodically stomped on that love until I just couldn't bring myself to continue playing. I gave up about half an hour before the end and just watched what remained of it on YouTube - just to be done with it.
    The game tried to persuade me to hate the characters I love and care for the characters that don't deserve it - no matter all their good deeds without actual logic behind them. It succeeded in only one thing - making me regret I ever started playing.
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  11. Jul 1, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. They totally lost the plot with this game, a severe disappointment. You spend more time playing as Abby (the enemy) than playing as Ellie. Seems they had no story ideas so they had you play the story from to sides. They might have thought that was clever but nobody cares about Abby & the Scars. It was supposed to at least be Eliie's adventure, but they failed on that. The story (if you can find one) is full of plot holes & useless cutscenes. The fact that they spent years writing this steaming pile is just mind boggling. The ending is lame & I'd be surprised if they make a followup to this as they screwed the story up so badly that there is hardly any way to rectify it. Expand
  12. Jul 1, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Gameplay mechanics are enjoyable, but I feel like crafting could’ve been built on a bit more. While I can understand what they were trying to accomplish in terms of trying to get different perspectives across, they wound up making Ellie a very unlikeable character bu the end of the story. They also didn’t make any of the new characters stand out enough to be enjoyed. Even if they’d given us more time with them, because of the way they were introduced to us I already had a disdain for them. Had they brought the story to us differently, and let us get to know them and their motivations better before the terrible act, then maybe I’d have been more open to empathize with them. Because the story tends to make you want to walk away from it for awhile at points, I can’t justify the roughly 25 hour run time. The game is held up by fun, solid gameplay, and the voice acting, despite the writing doing it’s best to want to make you think about things, it results in unlikeable, or dull characters that I don’t care to spend another 25 hours with. All in all it’s a solid game, but not one I care to play through again. Expand
  13. Jul 1, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The gameplay and design is stellar, with some of the most detailed mechanics and concepts I have seen for a game. There are so many small but extremely detailed systems running in this game that will blow you away once you realize they are there. However, the actual core mechanics of combat, exploration, and resource management do not remain fun for the entire course of the game and start going stale by the end.

    The game has some serious pacing issues, by the 2/3rds mark or so you are going to be pretty bored and sick of the game. The gameplay does not stay fresh and the story fails to keep you interested due to poor layout.

    I strongly disagree with all of the people that are jumping to one extreme or the other over this game. Everyone seems to want to call it a 10 or a 0. When it hardly deserves either of those scores. Issues with characters derive not from them being out of character, but the game not showing the time and actions that drove characters to think or act the way they do, alienating the player. The way characters act IS logical, but it is not conveyed correctly to the player.

    The game also does a terrible job making you CARE about characters that it wants you to. It takes too long to build on some, and stops bothering to build up others. Characters you are just starting to care about will suddenly be dropped from the story for 10+ hours, show back up at the end and suddenly you are supposed to still care about them in all of this. Meanwhile, people you have barely seen at all will suddenly be in a position or situation you are MEANT to empathize with when at best you MIGHT be able to sympathize.

    To conclude, the story was a GREAT idea with terrible execution that alienates people in a series that relied heavily on its story, and the gameplay grows too stale to keep people entertained over this long and overplayed plot. Also, the devs lied about several things certain people had concerns over like dog killing. Which doesn't matter to me, but the fact that they lied to the people really pisses me off.
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  14. Jul 1, 2020
    0
    To put simply this game is a failure of a sequel. A terrible story coupled with poor pacing makes it a meh game.
  15. Jul 1, 2020
    0
    useless narrative. you can see that he only cared about money and the story went through his eggs. honestly Neil Druckman made a mess.
  16. Jul 1, 2020
    1
    The last of us 2, a game that is like cheap wine but will never age well. Many waited 7 years for the same game mechanics and terrible story. Naughty Dog take a page from Horizion zero dawn. And start over!
  17. Jul 1, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bad history game , no buy the game is bad.
    Los juegos son para jugarlos no para perder tiempo razonando sobre la vida en un game
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  18. Jul 1, 2020
    0
    The gameplay great but the story drag out and lack luster and throw away the good part about every character from the first game DO NOT BUYㅤㅤ
  19. Jul 1, 2020
    0
    I played the original. Brilliant game, pretty bad combat. This new installation improved on the combat, but left the story and pacing of the original behind. Extremely disappointing
  20. Jul 2, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Overall, I give it a meh 7.5 for me

    First off, I can't understand why so many Critics gave The Last of Us: Part II a 100 Rating... Nothing about the game could be improved, noting at all? its just so perfect? I find that hard to believe. Same goes with all of the 0 ratings from the User Reviews. Nothing could be worse?

    Graphics 10/10
    I think it was absolutely great, there was several times where I stopped just to take in the scenery. Its not often I find myself to just stop and enjoy something visual in a game.

    Mechanics 8/10
    I enjoyed being able to upgrade your weapons, traits, and then crafting useful tools to assist you with the enemies. Breaking glass to get into a room that is locked. Crawling on the ground to get to different places even to hide sometimes. What i didn't like was, every encounter was like TAP SQUARE to get out of a situation. About 1/3 into the game I found my self hitting square before it was even promoted to do so. I wished it was switched up with other buttons or actions. The AI, I feel could have been a bit better.

    Story 6/10
    So much to say.

    I never seen any of the leaks, and still haven't, but I had a feeling the story would revolve around Ellie getting revenge for the death of Joel. The reveal trailer had Joel coming from a white light type background and then when it was confirmed by Neil Druckmann that Ellie was the "only playable character." So it didn't surprise me that Joel was killed. The way Joel is murdered, it felt like Ellie deserves to get revenge. All though she had been resenting to Joel for two years before. That is when she learns what really happened at the end of the first game.

    The slap to the face came after knowing what has happened your forced to play as Abby, the one that kills Joel. At that point I wanted to stop playing because I simply did not care about her story or her background. After a while I did understand why she wanted killed Joel, but not enough for me to care or overlook it. I found dying as Abby to be satisfying, especially when as Abby you have to fight Ellie. The first several "attempts" I walked out in the open just to let Ellie kill Abby.
    From a story telling perspective your player base shouldn't want to die playing as one of the main characters. It was such a disconnect for me from the game. I think it would have been better to tell most of the story (other than the ending) in a different order, such as building Abby's character before she kills Joel.

    The ending was mostly a waste in my opinion. After Abby lets Ellie live for a second time only because a supporting character that you save as Abby is there. She goes off to live on the farm with Dina (which you find out is pregnant early on in your search for Abby) and her baby. At least ten months have passed since the last encounter with Abby, and it seems like Ellie has moved on. Or at least one would think until Tommy shows up with information on Abby's whereabouts. Ellie then decides again that she must get revenge for Joel at the cost of her and Dina's relationship. Ellie saves Abby from torture and possibly death so she could fight Abby one on one. During the fight Abby bites off two of Ellie's fingers at which point Ellie goes to drown Abby to ultimately let her go free, out of nowhere. in ten plus hours of playing as Ellie there is no hint that Ellie would let Abby live. It comes out of the blue, out of left field. In the end Ellie's quest for revenge left her with nothing. Dina and he child is gone, not to mention one of her friends killed at the end of her quest to find Abby. As well a missing two fingers hindering her abilities to play the guitar (that Joel gave her) and leaves it behind in the empty house. I guess its supposed to be her finally moving on and having closure.

    I sorta get that Ellie is supposed to "end the cycle of revenge." However who is not to say the hundreds if not thousands of people that Ellie kills on her way to get to Abby, that their loved ones wouldn't want to seek out Ellie and kill her. That is quite literally what happened to Joel.

    I feel like the whole game rely on you believing what Joel does at the end of the first game was horribly wrong. So that you can get past Joel's death and accept Abby's actions. It make me think that Naughty Dog wants to expand the Last of Us series beyond Ellie and Joel to tell other stories. However the game was marketed heavily on Ellie and Joel and kept Abby a secret, I think just to sell the game.

    This is a story driven game and I believe it falls to deliver what they was trying to accomplish. For me that is half the score. The game is just okay, nothing to write home about.
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  21. Jul 1, 2020
    0
    Как можно было все запороть?! Игра хороша ровно до середины. На первой части история закончилась, а остальное высер феминиста!
  22. Jul 1, 2020
    6
    The gameplay and over all production is top tier, but for a game that’s essentially all about the story, they really dropped the ball. I gave the original TLOU a 10/10, and although this game improves on graphics and gameplay, the story just wasn’t compelling for me and I left extremely disappointed. It’s not an “awful” story by any means like most people are arguing, but I walked away notThe gameplay and over all production is top tier, but for a game that’s essentially all about the story, they really dropped the ball. I gave the original TLOU a 10/10, and although this game improves on graphics and gameplay, the story just wasn’t compelling for me and I left extremely disappointed. It’s not an “awful” story by any means like most people are arguing, but I walked away not caring about any characters, including those that I adored in the 1st game. I’m not sure how they managed to mess this up but here we are. Expand
  23. Jul 1, 2020
    0
    This is the worst game I've ever seen. Don't buy this game if you care about the characters or anything the previous game set up.
  24. Jul 11, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Don't pay attention to what most people are saying. The Last of us Part 2, is far from a bad game, much less a game with 3/4 notes.

    I understand people's indignation about this game, but that's no reason to say the game is bad, because it's not. People confuse quality with personal taste and that's a big mistake.

    In general, the thing that most revolted the fans was 3 aspects: The death of Joel; The character "Abby" and the fact that we have to play with it, and the end of the game. All of them understandable, but not justifiable from so much hate. The purpose of a game is to have fun with it, right? Generally speaking, yes, because what's the point of me doing something that doesn't bring me any benefit? But this game is different. This game brings a narrative that no other game has ever brought, it's a cold and depressing story, where it shows us that "Revenge is a game for fools".

    Joel's death is something very shocking, yes, capable of being one of the saddest moments in the history of games, but we have to take into consideration that it's not the protagonism that will save a character's skin. If we didn't want Joel to die? Of course we would. But the last of us already has a whole narrative prepared and we can't change that unfortunately.

    About the character Abby, many said they had no empathy with her during the whole game, even after they knew it was Joel who killed her father. And that's completely normal, and I realise it can be frustrating to play with her, but the game doesn't make you like the character. You don't have to just agree to understand. You can say that the fact that her father was one of the surgeons who operated on Ellie is cliché and a weak point in the game script. I completely disagree, "Abby" is important to show the 2 sides of the coin, 2 different points of view, 2 different lives. Abby is not the villain of the game and never will be, as well as Ellie, only each one has their motivations and their reasons to practice such acts during the game.

    Finally the final, which I personally didn't think was brilliant or perfect either, but it's not bad either. The ending shows us that nothing Ellie did was worth it, Dina left her, she's now alone, far from home and completely aimless in life. She lost 2 fingers, which makes her lose Joel's only legacy which was playing guitar and also makes her not be able to draw anymore (something she was very good at and liked to do). It's a tragic and very sad ending but it gives us a moral lesson that is, never too much to say that we love a person, sometimes a simple hug would make all the difference. Instead we prefer to keep our feelings to ourselves and be proud. The fact that Ellie didn't kill Abby was because she wouldn't be happy about it, Abby's death wouldn't fill that void and stop her from having that trauma, which is done, is done. At least Ellie saw a little hope in Abby with Lev in the end, which she couldn't have with Joel, unfortunately, and that she didn't want to take from Abby.

    In conclusion, I'm not saying this game is perfect in terms of history because it's not. The first game is still a thousand times superior. What's really perfect about this game is the gameplay itself and the innovations they've given since the first game. And just for that, the game already deserved more than 3 or 4 marks.
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  25. Jul 1, 2020
    0
    Very poor effort by Sony and Naughty Dog. You had one thing to do: make the sequel just like the first game, but you failed completely. Where are the good characters and story? None in this game.

    Gameplay is the same thing also, I got totally bored around half of the game.
  26. Jul 1, 2020
    3
    The game has 10/10 graphics and almost close to that in gameplay and environment. But the story is appalling, their execution and pacing is just straight-up bad.
    The choices they made in what happened and when it happened, is just something that deserves a 0/10. But the gameplay and the rest is good, but the game is not worth playing in my opinion.
  27. Jul 1, 2020
    0
    *NO SPOILERS, THIS REVIEW IS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE WANTING A GENUINE REVIEW FROM A LONG TIME LOU FAN* The last of us part 2 is a game that sets a new bar for action/adventure/zombie video games. I know there's alot of controversy surrounding this game but if you play with no knowledge of leaks or other review bombers opinions and jump in blind, it's a perfect game. I do believe this game is*NO SPOILERS, THIS REVIEW IS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE WANTING A GENUINE REVIEW FROM A LONG TIME LOU FAN* The last of us part 2 is a game that sets a new bar for action/adventure/zombie video games. I know there's alot of controversy surrounding this game but if you play with no knowledge of leaks or other review bombers opinions and jump in blind, it's a perfect game. I do believe this game is wrongly reviewed a 5.0. The score has been going up quick due to people actually playing this game for themselves. None of the leaks or opinions of the negative reviews made sense to me while playing. I never once seen any problems with political pushes, LGBTQ+ representation, and I also haven't seen a problem with religion. BUT the only reason I do not give this a 10/10 is due to some part of the story. I won't spoil anything in this review Because I've had it spoiled for me and it effected the fun I had slightly. Some parts of the story just seem out of order sometimes. Nothing that really bothers me or effects the game or story, but it just had some weird choices on certain events and when they happen. But overall this game is an amazing experience everyone should try before reviewing. If your someone who is debating on this game, I would say if you played and enjoyed the first game, play this one. Like seriously this game is hugely underrated. You'll kick yourself in the ass for agreeing with review bombers. And most people are forgetting. There's is a multiplayer coming out in the future. It looks cool. Expand
  28. Jul 1, 2020
    1
    Bad story. Graphics and gameplay was good. But characters story was horrible.
  29. Jul 1, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bunu yazmak kalbimi kırıyor, ama bu kadar uzun yıllar bekledikten sonra gerçekten böyle kötü bir hikaye beklemiyordum. Birkaç gerçekten iyi anlar olsa da, oyunun çoğu arsa delikleriyle doluydu. Onları neyin zorladığını anlamadan ilk oyunda neyin işe yaradığını gördü. Bu oyun diğer stüdyo tarafından yapılmış gibi görünüyor, ama değil !!. Temel oyun aynı kaldı (daha iyi veya daha kötü için), çevre bulmacaları neredeyse gitti. Hikayeyi masadan kaldırın ve başka bir oyun aramanızı sağlayacak sığ oyun oynamaya bırakıldınız. Expand
  30. Jul 1, 2020
    1
    The gameplay and graphics are highlight of the game. The story brings you to a climax then basically has you restart the game with a different character that is very hard to sympathize with along with having un-like able side characters apart of their storyline. Although thought provoking, the ending leaves a bitter taste for fans of the series and the message Neil Druckmann/ Naughty DogThe gameplay and graphics are highlight of the game. The story brings you to a climax then basically has you restart the game with a different character that is very hard to sympathize with along with having un-like able side characters apart of their storyline. Although thought provoking, the ending leaves a bitter taste for fans of the series and the message Neil Druckmann/ Naughty Dog was trying to convey through this story is nothing special and nothing players haven’t seen before. Expand
Metascore
93

Universal acclaim - based on 121 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Negative: 0 out of 121
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  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]