It ought to come as no shock to followers that The Final of Us Half 2 might need a remastered model in growth for PlayStation 5, ever since The Final of Us Half 1 — the PS5 port of the unique sport — got here out in September 2022. The remastered model of the sequel simply bought much more stable, due to a leak courtesy of the PlayStation Retailer and a follow-up by Naughty Canine. The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered will arrive to PS5 on Jan. 19, 2024.
Though The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered isn’t on the PlayStation storefront presently, it seems to have been within the database in some unspecified time in the future not too long ago, as a result of web sites that monitor updates to the PlayStation Retailer scraped the related knowledge in regards to the sport. PSdeals.internet has a itemizing for the sport that hyperlinks to a now-broken PlayStation Retailer web page. The PSdeals itemizing consists of screenshots that seem like from the remaster, with the phrase “captured on PS5” (as is normal apply for Sony) seen within the nook.
Insider Gaming first reported the the sport’s launch date and even discovered the brief teaser trailer that Naughty Canine later launched. The teaser begins off with footage of the Half 1 remaster after which progresses to Half 2 footage. Wario64, the offers aficionado made well-known on X (previously Twitter), corroborated the unique reporting with a hyperlink to the identical trailer that seems to be hosted on Sony’s personal servers. An official model hit YouTube inside hours.
The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered will arrive bundled with a bunch of particular options and a wholly new mode: No Return. Described as “a roguelike survival mode designed to let gamers show their mettle in randomized encounters and expertise The Final of Us Half II’s fight in a recent expertise.” With a variety of new playable characters, every with their very own skillset, the hope is to offer even essentially the most acquainted gamers a brand new problem.
It’s value noting that the trailer makes no point out of a Home windows PC model of The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered. Whereas Sony has been bringing a lot of its first-party video games to PC in recent times, there’s usually been a lag time of greater than a 12 months earlier than these PC ports arrive.
Replace: Following a leak of the announcement and trailer, Sony issued its official information launch and trailer. We’ve up to date the story to mirror the main points.