The Last of Us Part II

The Last of Us Part II is an upcoming third-person action-adventure survival-horror video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment exclusively for the PlayStation 4. It was announced at the PlayStation Experience event in December 2016, and will serve as a sequel to 2013's The Last of Us''. ''

Development
Development of The Last of Us Part II began in 2014, and commenced motion capture in 2017. Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson reprise their roles as Joel and Ellie, respectively. The game's story is written by Neil Druckmann and Halley Gross. Gustavo Santaolalla returns to compose and perform the score. Bruce Straley, who acted as game director on The Last of Us, will not return to co-direct Part II due to his departure from the company. Anthony Newman and Kurt Margeanau were chosen to lead development as game directors.

The game was announced at the PlayStation Experience event in December 2016, and serves as a sequel to the 2013 game The Last of Us''. ''The first trailer revealed the return of Ellie and Joel, whose story takes place five years after the first game; players will assume the role of Ellie. In contrast with the first installment, which was centered around love, Druckmann has stated that this game will be centered around hate. The game's second trailer was released on October 30, 2017, as a part of Paris Games Week. The trailer revealed four new characters: Yara (played by Victoria Grace), Lev (Ian Alexander), Emily (Emily Swallow), and an unnamed character played by Laura Bailey. Druckmann stated that the characters "are intergral to Ellie and Joel's next journey.

Plot
The Last of Us Part II takes place approximately five years after the original, about 25 years after the outbreak of the Cordyceps Brain Infection began, will feature the return of a 19-year-old Ellie, whom players will assume control of, as well as Joel in his mid-fifties. Ellie is fueled by hate, which will be a major theme within the story. The story will be centered in Seattle, Washington.

Characters

 * Ellie (Ashley Johnson) - The playbale protagonist of the game. Ellie was formerly a denizen from the Boston Quarantine Zone and is immune to the Cordyceps Brain Infection. She returns from the original game and is now nineteen-years-old and sports a tattoo on her right arm. She is fueled by hate and wants to "kill them all."
 * Joel (Troy Baker) - The deuteragonist of the game. Joel is a survivor of the CBI outbreak who returns from the original game, alongside Ellie. He is now in his early to mid fifties.
 * Emily (Emily Swallow) - A member of a religious cult, set to wipe out all the 'sin' in the world after the outbreak. Yara killed her in retaliation for torturing her.
 * Yara (Victoria Grace) - Yara and her brother Lev were former members of Emily's religious cult.
 * Lev (Ian Alexander) - Lev is Yara's younger brother. The pair left Emily's religious cult for unknown reasons.
 * Unnamed woman (Laura Bailey) - A stocky woman whom Emily hunted for unknown reasons. Her name remains a secret.
 * Unnamed woman (Shannon Woodward)
 * Unnamed character (Robin Atkin Downes)

Gallery
For the main gallery, see The Last of Us Part II/Gallery