The Last Of Us Part 2 does build on those stages in other ways, which I won’t go into here, but the Shambler fits between the Clicker and Bloater. In the first game, the evolution of the Infection was pretty simple, Runner, Stalker, Clicker, Bloater, and then it was assumed that Infected just died and stuck to a wall where their bodies spread spores to infect more people. While they’re a new evolution of the Infection in the franchise, they also fit well within the established lore of the world, at least in my opinion. These guys featured in marketing videos and screenshots for the game, and they look just as gross in the game as they do in every other place you’ll have seen them. The first new type of Infected to be added to The Last Of Us Part 2 was of course the Shambler. If you want to totally avoid spoilers, it might be best to stop reading until you’re at least 15 hours into the game.

While I’m mainly going to be talking about the Shambler, one of the new types of Infected in The Last Of Us Part 2, I’m also going to be talking about other sections of the game that you’ll be playing through. Spoliers ahead for The Last Of Us Part 2.

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