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\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe Last Of Us: Part II\u201d is set for release at some point in 2018-2019. The sequel takes place five years after the end of the original, and moves Ellie, the deuteragonist of the first game, into the protagonist role. Contrasting the theme of love in \u201cThe Last of Us,\u201d the sequel will focus on hate as the central theme in the story.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Development began the year after the first game\u2019s release and motion capture filming started in 2017. Along with this, Neil Druckmann and Halley Gross will be returning to write this story while Gustavo Santaolalla will be coming back to compose and perform the score.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0Only two trailers have been released thus far. The first came out at the PlayStation Experience event in Dec. 2016 to show the main characters once more. The second was released on Oct. 30, 2017 at Paris Games Week and showed four new characters that are going to be integral to Joel and Ellie\u2019s new adventure. Their names are Yara, Lev, Emily, and the fourth person has no name at this current moment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Furthermore, \u201cThe Last of Us: Part II\u201d has already received awards simply regarding the hype surrounding its release. It won Most Anticipated Game at The Game Awards and on the PlayStation Blog as well as winning the award for Most Wanted Game later in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Developed by Naughty Dog, \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d is an action-adventure survival horror game released on June 14, 2013 for the PlayStation 3. Later on it would be re-released for the PlayStation 4 under the title \u201cThe Last of Us: Remastered.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe Last of Us\u201d plays from a third-person perspective where players must use firearms, improvised weapons, and stealth in order to survive in this post-apocalyptic version of the United States.\"Screen<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The basic plot of the game revolves around the character Joel, a smuggler who is assigned the task of escorting a teenage girl who may be part of the key to ending the apocalypse named Ellie across the ravaged United States. Along the way, they must defend against hostile humans as well as former humans that have been transformed into cannibalistic monsters due to a mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe Last of Us\u201d was originally announced in Dec. 2011 and was widely anticipated by people. Upon release, it received universal acclaim for several different categories including: depiction of female characters, sound design, visual design, gameplay, narrative and characterization. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Along with all of this, the game became one of the best selling games for the PlayStation 3 by selling 3.4 million copies within three weeks of its release. By July 2014, that total reached all the way to seven million copies. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Naughty Dog is a studio that primarily makes games for the Sony PlayStation consoles, dating all the way back to 1996 with the first \u201cCrash Bandicoot\u201d game. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0They made several more installments of that series for the PlayStation 1. They also made the \u201cJak and Daxter\u201d series on PlayStation 2, and arguably their most notable and successful franchise \u201cUncharted\u201d on PlayStation 3 and 4. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Overall, \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d earned 122 awards and 195 nominations, dominating several awards by winning most of the categories it was nominated for. Several sources called it their Game of the Year and the amount of awards it received has led it to landing a spot as one of the most awarded games in history. Many even consider \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d to be one of the greatest video games ever created.<\/span><\/p>\n

Erika Brandenburg<\/strong>
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