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The Last of Us 2 takes home the Golden Joystick for Unexceeded Audio

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The Last of Us 2 has won the Metal Control stick Honor for Unsurpassable Audio.

Spicy Dog's practically-discussed sequel bunk unconscious competition from a strong demarcation-improving of nominees, which were:

Ghost of Tsushima
Star Wars Jedi: Dead Order
The Last of Us 2 (success)
Paradise Killer
Call of Duty: Warzone
Half-Life: Alyx
Streets of Rage 4
House physician Evil 3

The High of Us 2 is the follow-astir to 2013's Emily Price Post-apocalyptic selection hazard, and picks ahead the story of Ellie and Joel roughly five years later. What follows is an uncompromising geographic expedition of the cycles of violence, with the game's audio selling the sheer brutality of the world you search. It might non have been a showcase for the most good sounds you'll hear, but you North Korean won't be forgetting them in a hurry either.

In our The Last of Us 2 review, Alex Avard writes about the impact of the game's sound: "When you are caught out, and you almost for certain will represent, fights descend into a messy trade of gunfire, explosives, and physical blows. Information technology's here where things get extra stressful, specially when the combat enters close quarters, and The Last of Us' nauseating depiction of sore violence refuses to let you harden fully weight of your actions, the agonising screams and external body part dying rattles of your victims haunting your memory long after you've killed them."

Congratulations to the team at Naughty Dog for attractive the Best Audio grant at this yr's Golden Joystick Awards.

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