Naughty Dog has confirmed that The Last of Us Part 2 will, contrary to previous word on the matter, jettison the first game’s multiplayer mode, and will instead be a strictly solo affair.
Word of The Last of Us 2’s returning multiplayer originally surfaced during E3 2018, when co-directors Kurt Margenau and Anthony Newman told various gaming sites that the first instalment’s surprisingly enjoyable Factions mode would be back for the sequel, once again sat snuggly alongside the core story campaign.
Newman, for instance, assured Gamespot that “Factions is coming back”, while Margenau revealed that although the studio wasn’t “going to talk details yet about what form that takes…we can confirm there will be multiplayer.”
