Naughty Dog Re-Confirm that The Last of Us 2 will Have a Multiplayer Mode, but no DLC

When speaking to Kinda Funny, Naughty Dog developer, writer and director Neil Druckmann, re-confirmed that The Last of Us Part II will have a multiplayer mode at some point in the future and that it will be a separate standalone title.  For me personally, I was a fan of the multiplayer in the original game and I loved that it had a focus on factions, and had a true sense of working together as a team.

However, it never didn’t gain the online player numbers that it perhaps deserved and if you go in it on your own, teaming up with randoms, against a proper team, the game was a struggle to say the least.  So I’m hoping that it will retain much of the features from the previous multiplayer mode and with The Last of Us 2 being even more of a commercial success in terms of sales, I’m hoping that it will generate a much larger online player base.

 

Druckmann also stated that unlike the original game, which had the fantastic Left Behind expansion, The Last of Us 2 won’t be getting the same DLC treatment or at least it seems.  Druckmann said that there are “No, with Last of Us I think we had some Season Pass or something that said ahead of time we have some story DLC–no there’s no plans for that [with The Last of Us Part II]”.  But we’ve heard this many times before from some developers, claiming that a successful game won’t have DLC, to only get some later down the line.

Do you think The Last of Us Part II will get an expansion and what do you expect for the standalone multiplayer offering?  Share your thoughts across our social media channels.  Finally, after spending more than 30 hours with The Last of Us Part II, expect our review to be coming soon.