★★★★★ OUT NOW PS5
The new No Return mode allows players to choose their own survival challenges
The recent cancellation of Naughty Dog’s long-awaited The Last of Us multiplayer game – after several years in development – highlights the difficulties of developing blockbuster video games for modern consoles. So, too, does the release of this new version of a game that only recently celebrated its third anniversary. The cutting-edge late-PS4-era title receives a number of visual enhancements on PS5, but it says much about the narrowing leaps between hardware generations that most who played the 2020 sequel will barely notice.