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Multiplayer has been brought to life in The Last of Us Part 2. Not by Sony, sadly, but by an enterprising modder who’s released a new video showing some tense one-on-one shootouts.<\/p>\n
Created by Specilizer, a creator with a history of making modifications to The Last of Us Part 2<\/a>, the multiplayer kicks off with a September release date. The mod shows a lobby system as well as matches played out on both a custom map and a map pulled from the story.<\/p>\n In development since January of this year, this mod was made following the announcement of The Last of Us Online getting cancelled<\/a>. That project, reportedly 80 percent complete by the time it was culled<\/a>, had a loyal early base of players, many of whom were fans of the original Last of Us’ multiplayer game mode. Even former PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida thought it was great<\/a>! Alas, it was not to be.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There’s a series of videos documenting the development process of this multiplayer mod on Specilizer’s YouTube channel<\/a>, which provides further insight into the why’s and how’s of this project. It’s been a fairly long journey to get to this point, but to see it finally almost playable is certainly tantalising.<\/p>\n