The Last of Us Part II Will Not Have A Multiplayer Mode - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 October 2019 / 2,334 Views

Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer Emilia Schatz speaking with USGamer announced The Last of Us Part II will not feature a multiplayer mode.

"We're focusing on a single-player experience, so we're just making a single-player game for this," said Schatz. "Correct, it is a single player game," said a Sony representative in an email.

The Last of Us Part II will launch on the PlayStation 4 on February 21, 2020.

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8 Comments

hunter_alien (on 26 September 2019)

Interesting. The multiplayer part of the first game was pretty decent, but it was most deffinitely overshadowed by the terific single-player. So good for them :-)

Ganoncrotch (on 27 September 2019)

Good. Focus on the best aspect of the game, don't waste time on the mode that reviewers will not be gushing over.

S.Peelman Ganoncrotch (on 27 September 2019)

Yes, this is a singleplayer experience, good singleplayer experiences don’t need tacked on multiplayer modes.

Replicant Ganoncrotch (on 27 September 2019)

They don't need them, no. But TLOU's mp is so good. I loved the sp and mp equally.

Ganoncrotch Ganoncrotch (on 28 September 2019)

I'll give you a thumbs up to counter the red thumb on your opinion Replicant, but I'll just say, I think you would be in the minority when it comes to what people would be looking forward to if you were waiting on TLOU2 for its multiplayer, awesome that you loved the first games MP offering though, there's a fan for everything. Maybe when TLOU2:Remastered launches with the PS5 it could have the MP restored to it, I wonder though, how successful will this games remaster on next gen be... when you consider that the ps5 will be fully backwards compatible, I know TLOU remaster done great because there was no option to put the ps3 disc in the ps4.

Replicant Ganoncrotch (on 28 September 2019)

Yeah, I'm in the minority here for sure. For the record, I'm fine with mp coming later as standalone. That'll probably only make it even better. At the time, I simply thought it was cancelled and therefore quite disappointed.