
The preview we played consisted of two sections, the first of which seemed to be the setup for Ellie's crusade. We played about two hours of The Last of Us Part 2 at a Sony event in Los Angeles, and throughout the session, Ellie killed a whole lot of people. Now Playing: The Last of Us Part 2's New Additions Make For Tougher And More Brutal Combat Fighting other people was a huge part of The Last of Us, and in Part 2, Ellie embarks on a quest for revenge against other survivors.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's


In the wake of that event, every day is a fight for survival, both against the infected and other human beings who are willing to kill one another just to stay alive. The post-apocalypse of The Last of Us sees the world thrown into chaos by a zombie-like fungus that turns humans into unthinking killing machines, which has collapsed almost all of civilization. In The Last of Us Part 2, the spotlight is on an older, more capable Ellie, who's motivated by similar forces but which stem from a different place. In The Last of Us, those questions centered on the parental relationship between protagonist Joel and his 14-year-old charge, Ellie.

Throughout the first game in the series, developer Naughty Dog raised questions of what people are willing to do in order to survive, as well as what they will sacrifice for the people they love. Fighting for your life in a world that wants to kill you is part of the core of The Last of Us Part 2, with the game often putting its characters in situations in which survival requires acts of vicious brutality.
