The Last of Us Pt. II headlines PlayStation event with trailer, Feb. 2020 launch ~ USA Latest Games

Joel's back in The Last of Us Pt. II. [credit: Naughty Dog / SIE ]

Sony's latest "State of Play" video event ended with a release-date unveil for the highly anticipated PlayStation-exclusive game The Last of Us Part II: February 21, 2020.

The release date came at the end of a new, revealing trailer for the Naughty Dog game, which finally showed original hero Joel in real-time gameplay, as opposed to his brief cameo in a 2016 Part II teaser. Every trailer since the game's 2016 reveal has focused on Ellie as the lead character, and Tuesday's trailer opened up with more backstory about Ellie and her apparent new partner, an unnamed woman, surviving in a snowy outpost.

After embarking on horseback and taking on apparent open-world missions, Ellie suffers a vague setback, prompting her to return to the jungle-overgrowth cities that marked so much of the 2013 original. The trailer includes a smattering of new, dangerous foes, human and monster alike, along with a vague call by Ellie to face a rising, unexplained threat: "I have to finish it. You can't stop this." Once Joel appears, he seems to be in agreement with this plan: "You think I'd let you do this on your own?"

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