All of The Last of Us Part 2 has been filmed, now we just need that release date

Ellie smiles in The Last of Us Part 2.

Update: In a more recent tweet, Druckmann confirmed that all planned cinematic shooting on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Last of Us 2 has concluded, which🎃 answers the question of whether the team was shooting out of order and how many scenes remain. Apart from potential retakes, The Last of Us Part 2 has been shot. This makes it that much likelier it'll get a proper release date soon.  

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Don't worry, no spoilers here. According to a recent tweet from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Naughty Dog vice president and The Last of Us Part 2 director Neil Druckmann, the final scene of the hotly antไicipated sequel has been shot.

It's worth noting that even if the ending scene of The Last of Us Part 2 has indeed been filmed, it's possible Naughty Dog is shooting out of order, meaning overall shooting isn't necessarily finished. Likewise, while motion-capture and voice acting is a huge chunk of the legwork for games like The Last of Us, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:God of War, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Red Dead Redemption 2, it's only one part of the production process, and that production is just one part of game ꦍdevelopment.

I say all this not to rain on the clicker parade, but to temper expectations regarding The Last of Us Part 2's release date, which is currently unknown. Druckmann's update is exciting news and it's good to know the sequel is ticking along, but knowing that th🅠e ending has been shot is not the same thing as hearing that the game is f𝕴inished. The Last of Us Part 2 hasn't gone gold or anything. 

That said, this does suggest that development is well over the hill, so to speak, and that lines up with all the rumors and purported leaks we've heard regarding the sequel's release date. Several sources - 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:including the PlayStation Store - have suggested The Last of Us Part 2 will release in late 2019, and Druckmann's update doesn🍃't necessarily rule out that time frame. For comparison, Druckmann the mo-cap ﷽shooting for Uncharted 4 was finished roughly seven months before the game's release. Timelines can differ wildly between projects, but it's an encouraging precedent if nothing else. 

But again, Naughty Dog has yet to commit to a release date, so it's possible the sequel will roll into 2020. Incidentally, that would put it closer to the launch of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5, which will be backwards compatible with PS4 games but could also tap The Last of Us Part 2 for a cross-gen release. The same thing happened to The Last of Us on PS3 and PS4, after all. Anyway, hopefully we can put these rumors to rest with an official release date soon. Sony won't be at E3 2019, but news𓆏🐓 could still arrive this summer. 

For reference, in December 2017 Druckmann said The Last of Us Part 2 was 50 to 60% done. 

Austin Wood
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