The game is beautiful and the sound design great but good graphics and sound are hardly revolutionary nowadays: we had photo realistic games for quite a while now and the player in me wanted more than that. It has it's moment (mainly the flashback scenes with Joel) but the main plot of the game is badly written with bleek characters and a story that drudge on for 10 hours too long. To be honest, I was bored half the time I played it and the ending just infuriated me.
If you liked the previous game for its graphics and gameplay then you will like this one. But if you were hoping to have the continuation of a great story about the survival of manking and further exploration on the lore of the infecteds then move along: it's just a basic revenge story that is set pretty shodily. I give it 2,5 out of five. :(