Uncharted 2 Megathread

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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is an upcoming video game in development by Naughty Dog and to be published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for the PlayStation 3. It is the sequel to the highly successful Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

This entry follows the adventures of protagonist Nathan Drake as he uncovers the mysteries behind 13th-century explorer, Marco Polo, and the ships that he "lost" while returning home to Italy. Following him on his quest will be Chloe Frazer, a new character voiced by Claudia Black of Stargate SG-1 and Farscape. Drake is looking for the Cintamani Stone, a crystal which is said to grant the holder of it a wish, but someone else is also seeking the treasure.

The title will feature new gameplay mechanics, such as stealth action segments, and will change the climbing mechanic to allow free movement over walls. Nathan will now be able to flip over certain pieces of furniture to use as cover. The game is also stated to have no loading screens. Drake himself will have a darker side in this outing, and the player will learn what makes him a thief, hence the title.

Bruce Straley, the game director for Uncharted 2, has revealed that the Artificial Intelligence of the enemies will be updated to match the new action-stealth gameplay. Now, the enemies will have peripheral vision, so that they will hunt for Nathan if he briefly appears in their cone of vision. Additionally, the enemies will interact with the environment more, following Nathan as he climbs on buildings or jumps off of ledges.

In addition to new gameplay mechanics, the graphics engine will also be revamped to take advantage of additional PS3 capability. Naughty Dog are aiming to maximize the utilization of the Cell's SPUs, as their estimates for utilization in the first Uncharted were around 30%. As a result, the game is expected to have more realistic environments and animations.
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[jefXfree]

August 17th: New UNCHARTED 2 Multiplayer Skins and Dynamic Theme

While this may not come as a surprise for some of you – as part of Naughty Dog’s continuing support of our multiplayer community, we’re glad to say we’ve got some new UNCHARTED 2 DLC coming next week.

On Tuesday, August 17, the UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves Sidekick Skins pack will be available for purchase with the PlayStation Store. After the last two sets of multiplayer skins we released, we heard that you wanted more Sully, more Chloe and more Elena (among many, many other things) – and that’s exactly what we put into the pack. Not to neglect the villains team, we also threw in two enemy characters from UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune – Dillon and Mac – who complete the set we started with Blain and Dutch.

 

[jefXfree]

Uncharted 2: Game of the Year Edition coming according to Play-Asia!!!

 

[jefXfree]

Elena to appear in new Uncharted 2 DLC

Uncharted actress Emily Rose has confirmed via Twitter that she is in the process of recording fresh dialogue for her character Elena Fisher in L.A. this week.

However, the voice work isn’t for the inevitable and eagerly anticipated Uncharted 3, Sony has said, and instead pertains to some new downloadable content for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.

Writing on Twitter, Rose commented, "filming my first Night show today 4 #HAVEN then work on #UNCHARTED!"

As for Uncharted 3 itself, Nathan Drake voice actor Nolan North said earlier this year that a third instalment in the adventure franchise is “common sense,” so it’s only a matter of time before we hear something on Drake’s latest globe trotting exploits.

 

[jefXfree]

UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves Game of the Year Edition coming October 12th

It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a whole year since UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves was released! Since then we’ve sold over 3.8 million copies worldwide of UNCHARTED 2, hosted more than 125 million online multiplayer matches and won more Game of the Year Awards than we know what do with... Not exactly a bad problem to have.

To commemorate UNCHARTED 2 as the definitive Game of the Year in 2009, we’re proud to reveal the UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves Game of the Year Edition!

On October 12, 2010, copies of UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves Game of the Year Edition will start hitting retailers all over North America. For just $49.99, you’ll get the regular retail Blu-ray of UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves along with a “super voucher” for the PlayStation Network Store that lets you download ALL of the following DLC content:

1. PlayStation Heroes Skin Pack
2. UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune Multiplayer Pack
3. UNCHARTED 2 Siege Expansion Pack
4. Currency Multiplier which grants Double XP up to level 10 in Multiplayer
5. Golden Guns option for the AK-47 and the 92FS 9mm pistol for use in Multiplayer
6. Early access to “Revenge” Booster – you still have to purchase it with in-game cash!
7. UNCHARTED: Eye of Indra – Motion Comic Bundle (which includes Episodes 1-4)
8. UNCHARTED: Eye of Indra – Rika Raja and Daniel Pinkerton Character Skins
9. UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves – Avatar Pack 1
10. UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves – Avatar Pack 2
11. UNCHARTED Avatar Pack 3
12. UNCHARTED Avatar Pack 4
13. Pinball Heroes – UNCHARTED for the PSP

Sparing me the need to bust out a calculator, I’m told the total value of all the content we’re including in our Game of the Year Edition comes in at more than $35.00 if you purchased it all separately — and some of the content isn’t even available for purchase separately, so the bonus just got even better.

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Releasing our Game of the Year Edition in the same week as our one-year anniversary of release is not without benefits – we have set aside Saturday, October 16, 2010, as the date to join us online for some awesome anniversary festivities!

We’ll be running a special one-day only playlist which compiles a “Best of…” selection of gametypes we’ve chosen from previous episodes of “The Lab.” We’ll also have plenty of Dogs online nearly all day in that playlist to play against. But that’s not all – we’re not ready to reveal everything yet, so please check back on NaughtyDog.com in the next few weeks. We’ll be posting more details on all the awesomeness we have in store for our fans!

And last but not least, head on over here to check out the IGN exclusive interview with our very own Evan Wells and Justin Richmond for an inside look at how they are feeling a year since launch, multiplayer stats, accolades, and more!

 

[dboy99]

bought time probally pick this up around the holidays gotta have it in my collection.

 

[jefXfree]

bought time probally pick this up around the holidays gotta have it in my collection.

Yeah. I agree. I bought it at launch but beat and sold it quickly. Now that the GOTY is coming out I'll get that for sure...

 

[Groo The Perverted]

Can anyone confirm how much all that DLC is if you bought it individually?

I realize there's some of that that you can't buy separately like the Golden Gun or whatever, but was just wondering.

I've already pre-ordered it, but would be interesting to see how much over 35 bucks all that stuff is.

 

[jefXfree]

Official PlayStation Magazine crowns Uncharted 2 as greatest PlayStation title ever!

Readers of the Official PlayStation Magazine have voted Naughty Dog’s stellar adventure sequel Uncharted 2: Among Thieves as the greatest PlayStation title ever released.

The poll comes in light of the publication's 50th issue and the15th anniversary of the original PlayStation in the UK, with Nathan Drake’s treasure hunting escapades beating out the likes of Metal Gear Solid, Shadow of the Colossus and Final Fantasy VII to the top spot.

Check out the full top ten below.

01. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
02. Metal Gear Solid
03. Final Fantasy VII
04. Grand Theft Auto Vice City
05. Metal Gear Solid 4
06. Metal Gear Solid 3
07. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
08. Shadow Of The Colossus
09. Red Dead Redemption
10. Resident Evil IV

How do you feel about the results of the poll?

 

[jefXfree]

I disagree with the list. FFVII should be number one. It changed the face of RPGs as we know them. Uncharted 2 is amazing, but not game-changing.

 

[jefXfree]

UNCHARTED 2 One Year Anniversary Event Details!

The UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves One Year Anniversary Event will run a FULL 24 HOURS from Saturday, October 16, 2010, at 12:01 AM PDT (what time is that in my city?) through Saturday, October 16, 2010, at 11:59 PM PDT (what time is that in my city?).

We will be running a special, one-day only episode of “The Lab” on October 16, featuring a compilation of the most popular previous episodes of “The Lab” based on your votes.

The “Best of… The Lab” playlist will rotate through the following gametype variations:

Shotguns Only
Plunder Pistols Only
No Power Weapons
Desert-5 Shootout
Deathmatch – No Boosters
All of the gametypes will be played on the following maps:
The Plaza
The Sanctuary
The Temple
The Train Wreck

Looking to hit level 60? Or level 80? This is absolutely your day to get a massive leg up on your run to the highest levels of the game. We’ve lifted the cash cap in ALL playlists – that’s right, NO CASH CAP. Period. But that’s not enough to celebrate our anniversary! For only these 24 hours, we’ve opened the floodgates and you’ll be getting 5x cash in all playlists, all day!

If that isn’t enough, all weekend you’ll have the option to equip an exclusive Anniversary Nathan Drake skin for multiplayer. If you play on our anniversary, you’ll have this skin available to you permanently. As soon as the clock strikes midnight and Saturday rolls into Sunday, the skin will be no longer available!

The Anniversary Drake skin will be removed from all players when our Anniversary Event ends at 11:59 PM PDT. Everyone who has PLAYED at least one match during our Anniversary Event will then have the skin reactivated in their profile early next week.

 

[jefXfree]

Uncharted 2 celebrates Hanukkah with Double cash (and more!) Week

We observed Hanukkah on Wednesday, December 1, with 1x cash; Each subsequent day the multiplier will go up by one, ending with a never before seen 8x cash on the last day of Hanukkah!

 

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Uncharted 2 stimulus package: Triple cash for Presidents' Day weekend

In honor of Presidents' Day weekend in the U.S., Naughty Dog is offering triple cash (experience) to players who jump back into Uncharted 2's online multiplayer modes. The promotion runs in all online game modes until Tuesday, February 22 at 1:00 PM EST, at which point Uncharted 2's virtual economy will return to normal.

 

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UNCHARTED 3 Lights Up GDC

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Last week, Naughty Dog and SCEA held a packed-to-the-rafters press event at the PlayStation.Blog lounge at GDC 2011 focusing on UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception. The anticipation from the invited press was palpable as they all filtered into the PlayStation.Blog Lounge – afterwards, word on the street was that we delivered.

Evan Wells, Christophe Balestra, Richard Lemarchand and yours truly were to give the demo and speak with the press – the embargo just lifted this morning, so be sure to visit your favorite gaming media outlet for their take on the event and the reveals.

We kicked off the press event with the first-ever demo outside of Naughty Dog halls of UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception in stereoscopic 3D. We chose to present a portion of the burning chateau sequence we premiered in late December. Since most people would already be familiar with the way the sequence looked and played, we thought it would make all the more evident the stellar work the Naughty Dog team has put into making the 3D presentation part of the core Naughty Dog Engine. In my opinion, with this small snippet of gameplay we’ve proven that we’re able to perfectly retain all of the spectacular visuals and effects that you’ve come to expect from an UNCHARTED game into the 3D presentation. Playing in 3D gives you some added benefits to gameplay as well, such as improved aiming around corners and an excellent read on depth for all traversal sequences, no matter how tricky. Unfortunately, until you get to see UNCHARTED 3 running in 3D at an event or in your home this November, you’ll have to rely on impressions from our attending media for how good it looked and played.

The real meat of the press event was the unveiling of the central antagonist that will try to foil Nathan Drake and Victor Sullivan at every opportunity – meet Katherine Marlowe in the video above.

Marlowe is definitely not one you want to get in the way of, or worse, double cross! To give you some background, Katherine Marlowe is the coldly calculating leader of a secret society whose roots date back over four hundred years to the court of Queen Elizabeth I. She has a long-standing rivalry with Nathan Drake over Sir Francis Drake’s ring – something they both contend is rightfully theirs and is also the key to an ancient mystery. As you can tell from the cutscene above, Marlowe is a much more cerebral enemy than Drake has confronted in the past, using both psychological and physical tactics to get what she is after. Marlowe also has the assistance of her team of highly trained agents in this secret society – they are far more elusive and dangerous than the hired guns Nathan Drake and Victor Sullivan have faced in the past.

Additionally, we’ve uploaded a set of stills from the cutscene, a high-resolution render of Katherine Marlowe and concept art of the agents and thugs Nathan Drake and Victor Sullivan will face in UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception.

We hope you’ve all enjoyed meeting Katherine Marlowe in our GDC 2011 reveal. Stay tuned as we still have a ton of information we want to reveal – with little to no spoilers! – over the next eight months leading up to UNCHARTED 3’s PS3 release on 11-1-11.