The Last of Us 2 video lays out Ellie's enemies: the WLF, the Seraphites, and the infected

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Ellie's enemies in The Last of Us 2 will force you to make tactical choices as well as moral ones.

The latest in-depth documentary video goes "Inside the World" of the upcoming game. It contrasts Ellie's home of Jackson County, Wyoming with her eventual destination of Seattle and the broader Pacific Northwest, and it also delves into the inhabitants of those places - both human and not so much anymore.

"The WLF has a lot of military equipment that they're able to use to defend this area, and they have large numbers, whereas the Seraphites are very quiet and stealthy," director Neil Druckmann explains in the video. "They're able to use the large amount of foliage to their advantage, and they fight more with this kind of guerrilla warfare."

Fighting the Seraphites sounds terrifying, especially as they turn Ellie's stealth tactics around on her. Probably not as terrifying as the infected, admittedly.

"Infected are still a threat in this world," Druckmann said. "We first wanted to take the basic classes we had in the first game and say, 'What's different about them now?' So we'll have scenarios where we'll have way more runners, sometimes hordes of runners coming after you. It might be about just escaping because the odds are overwhelming. This thing just keeps mutating, there's certain evolutions of infected that you haven't seen before, for new classes."

"If you just go in guns blazing and throw caution to the wind, you could easily get overwhelmed and regret that strategy," Druckmann said.

Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.