News that we missed as the GTA VI trailer debuted
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The Grand Theft Auto VI trailer was supposed to drop tomorrow morning, but a leak caused Rockstar Games to launch the trailer early on Monday afternoon.
While we were distracted with that news, we missed out on some news that on any other day might be pretty interesting. For instance, Sony and Naughty Dog announced that The Last of Us Part Two remaster will get a survival mode coming in January where you make a roguelike run through a gauntlet to see if you can survive all of the beasts that the post-apocalyptic world can throw at you.
This mode, The Last of Us Part Two — Survival Mode, is part of the remaster of The Last of Us Part Two coming on January 15 for the PlayStation 5.
In this mode, Sony said you have to survive as long as you can “in each run as you choose your path through a series of randomized encounters featuring different foes and memorable locations from throughout The Last of Us Part II, all culminating in tense boss battles.”
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The devs also said unique gameplay modifiers can offer new and unexpected challenges as you fight to succeed – and survive – in a host of different encounter types. Play as a variety of characters including never-before-playable characters like Dina, Jesse, Lev, Tommy and more, each with unique traits to offer different playstyles, and unlock skins for them as you progress to use in the mode. It looks pretty brutal.
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