The Last of Us 2 rumours: release date & trailer

The Last of Us was one of the most critically acclaimed games released on the PlayStation 3 - but what about the sequel? Read about the Last of Us 2 release date, price and gameplay rumours, and watch the trailer.

Naughty Dog's The Last of Us is one of the past decade's best games, cementing itself as a modern masterpiece in the thanks to its incredible characters and storytelling with a harrowing post-apocalyptic tale. Joel and Ellie remain iconic characters that made us laugh, cry and cringe as they journeyed across a battered and broken North America.

In the reveal trailer she is seen playing a guitar, slathered in blood amongst a pile of corpses. After finishing her song she says to Joel: "I'm going to kill every last one of them." We've no idea who Ellie is so pissed at, but it's clear anger will act as a core theme in The Last of Us Part 2.

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The Last of Us Part 2 release date – When is it coming out?

The Last of Us Part 2 was revealed with a teaser trailer at PlayStation Experience 2016, but Naughty Dog caveated the reveal with the fact the game is still very early in development, so it'll be a while until we can get our hands on it.

It has been more than a year since rumours about the sequel were 'confirmed' by voice actor Nolan North. The rumour mill wound down as developer Naughty Dog was busy developing Uncharted 4. But back in the summer in a livestream where some of the crew discussed The Last of Us, animator Josh Scherr did an accidental-on-purpose Freudian slip by writing, "All the facial animation in the Uncharted series was led up by Eric, here . . . and [on] the first The Last of Us. Uh, did I say the first The Last of Us?"

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What's the game about?

In the trailer at the top of this page very little is given away. An adult Ellie - dripping with blood and with a bruised and bloodied hand sits next to a corpse playing a soulful tune on the guitar, interspersing sections from Psalm 23 with her own lyrics, saying she can't be on the side of the right because she's wrong.

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Joel appears and asks if she will go through with her plan and she responds with, "I'm gonna find and I'm gonna kill every last one of them."