STACK #188 June 2020

GAMING FEATURE

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From post-apocalyptic survival to bloody revenge, The Last of Us Part II is one cold dish that we can’t wait to devour this winter. Words Nathan Lawrence F or PC gamers, a ‘clicker game’ is a somewhat mindless title that requires you to repeatedly click specific objects to advance. For PlayStation 3 and 4 gamers, Clicker Game is another fitting name for The Last of

settled enough – as settled as one can be in a Walking Dead -type post-apocalyptic setting – an act of violence pushes Ellie to carry out the kind of justice that’ll likely rival the Rambo series for highest franchise body count. While The Last of Us was more about family and

Us , wherein you fought off mindless hordes of mutated horrors, including the eponymous Clicker: a terrifyingly relentless foe whose neck- nomming tendencies would make you pray for Dracula’s comparatively softer love bite. If, like us, your spine is tingling at the memory of their guttural chants, get ready for more sleepless nights as your future nightmares are set to include Clickers and other mutated horrors in The Last of Us Part II . It’s been five years since the events of the most brutal father-and-daughter story since Taken . While Ellie took a back saddle to father- figure Joel in the original game, this second outing sees Ellie as the protagonist with a fistful of reasons to want to delve into Dolores Abernathy-like violent delights in this west world turned worst world. While life in Part II promises to start out

finding a semblance of peace in a world gone mad, Part II is more concerned with the consequences of what happens to people who mess with that. Developer Naughty

...get ready for more sleepless nights as your future nightmares are set...

Infected 2.0 The presence of less-than-neighbourly

human inhabitants is still true of this world, but five years between bitter post-apocalyptic drinks means the infected have had time to mutate further. While familiar horrors return, the all-new Shamblers are damage-absorbing bloated beasts that attack with noxious clouds and combo with their fungal friends. Stay on your toes around them or you’ll quickly find yourself wearing a toe tag.

Dog has somehow managed to make the eye candy even tastier with Part II , in a

game whose visual sheen is as impressive as it is disturbing. Fans of the original will recall the unflinching violence that hits like a brick to the face, and that makes a teeth-clenching return. While the visceral violence is par for the course of this universe, you might think twice before annihilating everyone, given the effort

JUNE 2020

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