The Last of Us Part II Will Have Ellie as Main Character

<p>In the PlayStation Experience panel for <em>The Last of Us Part II<&sol;em>&comma; a couple things were revealed about the game which was <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;last-us-part-ii-brings-joel-ellie-back-heartache&sol;">only just announced today<&sol;a>&period; Andy McNamara of Game Informer hosted a panel with Neil Druckmann&comma; Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson where they divulged a bit more information about the game&period; Perhaps the biggest reveal is that the game will take place from Ellie&&num;8217&semi;s perspective&comma; with her serving as the main character and Joel becoming the Ellie character from the second game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ellie is 19 years old now&comma; as <em>The Last of Us Part II <&sol;em>takes place a few years past the events of the first game&period; Druckmann explained that the central themes of this sequel were very much in opposition of the first game&&num;8217&semi;s themes&period; He specifically described the relationship between Ellie and Joel as more &&num;8220&semi;hateful&&num;8221&semi; than the first game&period; It makes a lot of sense based on the events of the first game and the demeanor of Ellie in the trailer for this game&period; As for gameplay&comma; Ellie will play differently than Joel and will feature mechanics that are both an &&num;8220&semi;evolution&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;reinvention&&num;8221&semi; of past mechanics&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some of the motion capture performance was gone over as well as Druckmann described the new process they are doing for the sequel&period; Instead of just doing &&num;8220&semi;digital doubles&&num;8221&semi; of the actors&comma; they make a &&num;8220&semi;digital double&&num;8221&semi; and then rework the digital version to have the same textures as the actor&&num;8217&semi;s avatar&period; A video was shown which demonstrated how much more work is involved&comma; but the results are undeniably lifelike&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>The Last of Us Part II <&sol;em>will be composed by Gustavo Santaolalla&comma; who also did the previous game&&num;8217&semi;s music&period; A new theme from him was shown alongside some concept art from the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s no surprise that the panel was mostly Baker and Johnson being extremely excited about being a part of the game again&comma; but most questions had to be dodged relating to specifics of the game&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s clear that everyone involved is excited and Druckmann stated that he cares just as much as the fans and doesn&&num;8217&semi;t want to screw up a sequel&period; Which is a fair reaction&comma; since many people defend the game&&num;8217&semi;s isolation from being a series&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let us know in the comments below if you&&num;8217&semi;re excited for the game and if you&&num;8217&semi;re ready to go back into the post-apocalypse with Ellie and Joel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; PlayStation Experience 2016<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;