Name: 'The Last of Us Part II' offers a tender, brutal look at humanity, as you'd expect, at E3 2018
Uploaded: 2018-06-12T01:25:21+00:00
Description: 'The Last of Us Part II' comes to E3 2018 with a look at familiar gameplay and equally familiar narrative gut punches.

'The Last of Us Part II' offers a tender, brutal look at humanity, as you'd expect, at E3 2018

'The Last of Us Part II' comes to E3 2018 with a look at familiar gameplay and equally familiar narrative gut punches.

Sony kicked off its E3 2018 PlayStation showcase with a fresh look at The Last of Us Part II, Naughty Dog's follow-up to the critically acclaimed adventure that somehow turned a mushroom zombie-filled post-apocalypse into the perfect backdrop for an unflinching character-driven exploration of the human condition (with a cool resource-dependent survival game on the side, sure).

Part II looks... similar? A game like The Last of Us depends more on story than anything else, and we're only going to see snippets during a pre-release press conference. This particular snippet framed a stealthy creep-and-kill sequence as a flashback Ellie flashes through while she wrestles with her sense of identity during a community dance.

Yup. Naughty Dog AF. Bring it.

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