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The Playstation 5 is announced – but the time the Playstation 4 is not over yet. Shortly before the end of the life of its console, Sony released “The Last of Us Part 2” a real Blockbuster. However, not for the whole family.
With the sequel to one of the best games of the Playstation 3, developer Naughty Dog has to meet big expectations. “The Last Of Us” persuaded players such as critics in 2013, especially with its thrilling story of the surly smuggler, Joel, the Protagonist of the game, and his foster daughter Ellie. The two crossed the living dead ravaged United States to find safety and a glimmer of hope for the future.
A False Sense Of Security
Since the end of part 1, several years have passed. In part 2, everything now revolves around Ellie. She’s not a Teenager anymore, but a young, adult woman. She lives with Joel in a small town, sets up against the Infected and hostile humans successfully fight back. There is stability and security.
However, a traumatic experience sends them on a campaign of revenge in the largely destroyed and decayed US city of Seattle. In Seattle, Ellie between the fronts of the two warring groups. And also the fungus-Virus infected Zombies are an ever-present danger.
All of the Ellie up the way to your target for revenge to comply with. The best way to do this is to quietly turn Off a single opponent. Players can hide and seek with Ellie and to fight the enemies and then targeted with a knife stab to the ground. The goes wrong, Ellie has also a variety of firearms. Who is always going on aggressively and loudly, it will fail in most cases.
A game full of violence
Violence in this game is omnipresent. However, while in Games such as “Doom” brutality is unrestrained Exaggeration to Slapstick, it is in “The Last Of Us Part 2” realistic, blunt and repulsive. So much So, that you can’t Fight out of the way, because that would be the easier way, but simply because you don’t want to see any more blood.
This is no accident, but a deliberate act: “The Last of Us Part 2” aims to show what effects the desire for revenge and the resulting vicious circle of violence is difficult to stop.
Technical Masterpiece
Whether this works or whether or not the game with this realistic representation is more likely to be violence-Porn is in the eye of the beholder. The author of this article, it led to do not want to continue to play.
Craft, The Last of Us Part 2 “but, without doubt, a masterpiece is”. Rarely do we see such real looking Gestures and facial Expressions in Play. In the Test, not a single Software was error. And even the older, weaker variant of the Playstation 4 shows the part of stunning images without the dips in Performance.
Real diversity – in every respect
Also positive: While the vast majority of the characters white in many other Games, as before, male and heterosexual is that it is in every respect more diverse.
Also the level design is mixed terrific good: most of the time it goes linearly through the game sections in between, the game can end, but individual areas are largely free to explore and limited itself to decide how to get to your destination. Important decisions Ellie meets, however, without the Input of the player. It is with these decisions do not agree, results in an increasing dissonance between the protagonist and the Game.
Hard to swallow in Corona times
That makes it partly difficult to enjoy the story – just like the conditions of your release. Because it is precisely in the actually experienced in the context of a global pandemic, The Last of Us Part 2 of” hard stuff “is.
Because the game shows the dark side of humanity – a world that is drifting even 25 years after the outbreak of the fungal infection further and further into hatred and violence. Without very thick nerve costume which is to endure after months of social Isolation difficult. This is what makes “The Last of Us Part 2” is not a bad game, quite the contrary. To enjoy it, however, especially now, with caution.
“The Last Of Us Part 2” appears on the 19. June for the Playstation 4, is released from 18 years of age and costs around 60 euros. For the Test, a pattern of the game was provided by the manufacturer.
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