Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

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Fancy yourself an Uncharted fan? Well you’re not going to want to miss our next cover (sequel!). We’ve got Uncharted 2: Among Thieves featuring 10 pages of world-exclusive details. Nathan Drake returns with a whole new adventure which revolves around the 13th century explorer Marco Polo and his voyages. The new PlayStation 3 title will add a free climbing mechanic and stealth gameplay. Players can also expect all-new locations, characters and a focus on the game’s story. The new issue also feature the first details on Guitar Hero: Metallica plus tons of the latest news, previews, features and reviews. As an added bonus, we’ve also got the brand-new teaser trailer for Uncharted 2, so click the media tab above and enjoy!

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Op dinsdag 2 december 2008 00:18 schreef Wessiej het volgende:
Kut spel, slotje.

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Voor de rest ook nog altijd interesse in Amerikaanse sporten

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Op dinsdag 2 december 2008 07:52 schreef Moe_Szyslak het volgende:
Man, nu al een topic openen?

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Naughty Dog: Uncharted 2 Teaser is Real-Time

Wednesday, 03 Dec 2008 09:46
Nathan Drake - Cold and Weary The Uncharted 2 teaser trailer sent waves through the forums. One question that keeps arising; is the trailer rendered in real-time, or is it fancy CGI? Naughty Dog has exclusively given Gamezine the answer.

Richard Diamant, Naughty Dog's Lead Character Artist, told Gamezine; "Yes, the trailer was all rendered real-time in our engine."

So there you have it. Naughty Dog are one of the few developers to dislike creating false expectations with CGI trailers, and just like Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, their very first teaser is rendered in real-time.

To watch the trailer, please follow this link to our previous story on the title.

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UNCHARTED 2. Nathan Drake is back for an entirely new adventure, and at the VGAs you’ll get a first-ever glimpse at this PlayStation 3 exclusive from Naughty Dog…again, it’s all real-time, in-engine action. No CG here.

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UNCHARTED 2. Nathan Drake is back for an entirely new adventure, and at the VGAs you’ll get a first-ever glimpse at this PlayStation 3 exclusive from Naughty Dog…again, it’s all real-time, in-engine action. No CG here.

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Uncharted 2 is four weeks from completion and, thanks to those of you who played the game's June beta, the development team from Naughty Dog learned a couple of things. Adding a jet-ski level was not one of them.

Sony was showing its full holiday line-up for PS3 and PSP in New York yesterday, including a hands-off demo of Uncharted 2's single-player campaign. The level, set in a town amid the Himalayas, was previously shown by Sony at E3 and even back in New York in the winter. Seeing something polished but familiar, I sought news about Naughty Dog's anticipated action-adventure sequel.

The multiplayer beta for the game wrapped up in June, and Sony producer Caley Roberts told me yesterday that the approximately 5000 players who registered to participate influenced some elements of the game's gunplay. Players used a rifle called the FAL too much at close quarters even though it was made to be an effective long-range weapon. So the single-player campaign was tweaked to better teach how best to wield that gun. The AK-47 in the beta proved not to be accurate enough, so, Roberts said, the developers "need to tune up" its accuracy.

Aside from beta lessons learned, Roberts wasn't able to reveal much else about Uncharted 2 that Kotaku hasn't already covered. Sony is keeping most of the game's levels secret for a while more, opting to reveal less of this title in advance than the company did for the first Uncharted. Roberts did say he likes the story of the new game a little better than that of the first and that there are many levels he'd love to talk about. But he can't. Those are the rules.

Roberts did confirm some omissions though that probably won't break fans' hearts. Sixaxis motion control, which was used to steady hero Nathan Drake as he walked across log-bridges, is not returning to the sequel. And Drake won't drive any vehicles in this game, though there will be some on-rails vehicle missions. None of them will take place on a jet ski, the clumsy vehicle of some of Uncharted's few criticized low points.

Development studio Naughty Dog will be working on the game for four more weeks. After that, it's off to disc manufacturing and into stores for a mid-October release, exclusive to the PlayStation 3.

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Editor's Note: Post-E3, Pre-Release

For those who care about things like buzz and hype and words like "trending," E3 was good to Uncharted 2. Naughty Dog's follow-up went into the show as an anticipated sequel, and came out winning game of the show awards and being called one of the prettiest games ever made. Which is impressive hyperbole, since it's still in development. But what we've seen of the game is worthy of ridiculous statements, so we decided to embrace that approach in our cover image to the left (one of my favorite of these we've designed), and put together a week of coverage revealing a lot more about the single-player campaign. Hope you enjoy it!

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10 Things You Don't Know

Naughty Dog used to be a more prolific studio -- remember when we got one Crash Bandicoot game a year from 1996 to 1999? Or how Jak II, Jak 3, and Jak X: Combat Racing came out between 2003 and 2005? But now with the Uncharted franchise on the PS3, the studio's taken a slower, more deliberate schedule to its development calendar. To that end, we asked Naughty Dog for some facts and trivia to show us what the heck is going on behind the scenes of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves' development. So here is Naughty Dog community manager Arne Meyer's round-up of fast facts about the studio and its work on Uncharted 2. Plus, we have seven new screens to show off what all of these statistics are helping to create. And be sure to come back each day for our weeklong coverage of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.

# 1) Over 130,000 people participated in our Uncharted 2 Multiplayer Beta, covering players from 135 countries all over the world.

# 2) The total of all multiplayer and co-op games played during the three weeks of our Beta was over 40,300 hours.

# 3) In Uncharted: Drake's Fortune we had 104 individual environment files on the disc; in Uncharted 2 we have over 400.

* 4) We spent over 30 days on our soundstage recording motion capture performances which resulted in over 90 minutes of cinematics -- along with a ton of in-game animations.

* 5) Our daily back-up of data has been averaging over one terabyte lately... and that covers only Uncharted 2 assets and data.

# 6) We drank a s*** ton of soda -- over 30,000 cans -- and one bottle of bourbon during the two years of production on Uncharted 2.

# 7) Between the 100+ Dogs working at the studio, we have over 16 nationalities and over 10 languages represented.

# 8) We've moved twice in our history: From the Universal Studios lot next to Insomniac games to an office spot above a Santa Monica outdoor mall, and to our current space -- formerly Sony BMG's offices.

# 9) We still have several of the "Original Naughty Dogs" with us, who started the first Crash Bandicoot game almost 14 years ago!

# 10) We've always had at least one dog "mascot" at Naughty Dog since the beginning. Currently our resident dogs are Pogo, a French Bulldog, and Trumpet, a Bichon Frise.

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Op dinsdag 11 augustus 2009 07:50 schreef Mickey_Blue_Eyes het volgende:
Zijn er al zombies gespot......?

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No Single Player Uncharted 2 Demo

The single player in the first Uncharted was compelling, good old fashioned story-telling. Before we shell out to buy the upcoming sequel, wouldn't it be lovely to check out Uncharted 2's single player?

Yes, yes it would. Too bad we won't be doing that. The game is getting a multiplayer demo on September 15, but it will not be getting one for single player.

"It's always tough to do a single-player demo," says the game's creative director Amy Hennig. "You can always argue whether it benefits you or not in the long run, because so much of it depends on you understanding where you are in the narrative, and then appreciating what's going on in the single-player demo."

"Not to mention that it's a 12-15 hour experience and you have to somehow collapse that into 15 minutes," says Evan Wells, co-president of the game's developer. "I mean, we have something like hundreds of moves to train you over several hours, and if you just drop somebody into the fire..."

Instead, folks are going to be dropped in multiplayer.

Take heart single player players! The game's developer Naughty Dog confirmed that the single player is "significantly longer" than in the first game with 90 minutes of cinematics compared to the first game's 50 minutes.

"It's literally a feature-length film," says Hennig, "with fully-fleshed out multiplayer and co-op experiences."

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Check out five minutes of gameplay footage, then our own analysis of that footage.

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Op maandag 24 augustus 2009 19:35 schreef wolfrolf het volgende:

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Ik heb ook deze gevonden, tot en met middernacht ¤2 extra korting, ¤43,99

http://www.cdwow.nl/games(...)product/view/9839119

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Op vrijdag 4 september 2009 17:55 schreef wolfrolf het volgende:

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Jaja.

Dinsdag is bij BlahDVD Arkham Asylum verzonden, mooi dat ik hem vandaag nog niet binnen heb. Worden zendingen van BlahDVD regelmatig bij de douane gepakt, of valt dat wel mee?

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Op vrijdag 11 september 2009 12:14 schreef Cheiron het volgende:
Ik wil ZO graag eerst deel 1 spelen voordat ik deze aanschaf bij release. Dus: opschieten met die patch Naughty Dog. Ga daarna maar verder met het ontwikkelen van Uncharted 2

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UNCHARTED 2 Officially Goes Gold, Plus Sneak-Peek Cinema Events!

Posted by Asad Qizilbash // Marketing Manager, SCEA

UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves has officially gone gold in North America! That means only 32 days until it hits store shelves. I couldn’t be more proud of the teams at Naughty Dog and Sony who have put their lives on hold to make a truly exceptional game.

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Uncharted 2: Multiplayer Demo Details

September 11, 2009 - Back in June, a handful of PlayStation 3 owners got tapped to participate in the multiplayer beta for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Players could take on a co-op mission, blast each other in deathmatch, and go after some golden idols whenever they felt like it. People seemed to be having fun and enjoying the taste of what was to come.

Now, Naughty Dog's going to blow that "taste" out of the water with a massive Uncharted 2 multiplayer demo that is open to anyone with a PS3 and the Internet.

There's so much going on in this demo that's it's really hard to pick where to begin describing it. I talked to the developers the other day, and they said the purpose of this freebie is to give you as much of the multiplayer game as they can in a reasonably sized file. So, you give Naughty Dog 1.5 GB, and they're giving you four maps, four competitive modes, two co-op modes, the much-hyped cinema mode, the ability to create custom games, access to new skins, about 80 percent of the boosters you'll find in the final game, and so much more.

If they weren't planning on shutting the demo down around the time the game ships on October 13th, there's a good chance people would play this forever.

In terms of maps, you're getting the same Plaza and Village settings you played on or at least saw during the beta along with the Ice Cave and Temple. Both of these locales are described as smaller venues that are going to be a blast for close-quarters combat. The Ice Cave, of course, is going to feature that snow you're always seeing in the Uncharted trailers while the Temple will pack water sections and plenty of opportunities to flank opponents.

Similarly, Deathmatch and Plunder are back this time around -- both packing variations such as different difficulties for Plunder and weapon sets such as shotguns/snipers and pistols/grenades for DM -- but joined with Elimination and Chain Reaction. A round-based game, Elimination has two teams squaring off with the objective of killing everyone on the other team. Wipe out the other guys three out of five times, and you're the big winner. Chain Reaction has you capturing flags, but you have to do them in a specific order - one team works out from their base needing to capture 1 through 5 while the other team starts out from their home and needs to snag 5 through 1.

If you don't like any of the default settings, this demo's going to allow you to mess around with the options for sore limits, friendly fire and so on as well as letting you set up matches for just your friends. If you play with strangers, the new skill ranking system will pair you with similarly experienced players.

Of course, all of this multiplayer mayhem plays into the game's cinema mode where you can save matches, replay them, move the camera around, and do nifty green screen stuff. All of the tools that will be in the final cinema portion of the game are going to be here for you to play around with.

A final feather in the demo's cap is that it's going to have the fully fleshed-out money/store system so that you can take the cash you're earning in multiplayer and buy new skins, boosters, co-op weapon upgrades and taunts.

Sadly, none of the stuff you unlock and none of the cinemas you create will carry over to the retail release of Uncharted 2. Similarly, your multiplayer rank will be wiped when the final game hits stores. However, Uncharted 2 packs a built in Twitter link and it's going to be active in this demo. If you enter in your Twitter username and password, the game will automatically Tweet your special accomplishments.

So, when is all of this greatness coming to a PS3 near you? Well, if you preorder the game from GameStop, you can get into the demo exclusively from Sept. 15 to Sept. 28, 2009. On Sept. 29, 2009, the demo will open to everyone and stay that way until Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is out on the streets.

Happy hunting.

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"Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. It looks amazing, plays like a dream and the voice-acting/story-telling will hook you in right from the off."

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You'll love
Voice acting and scripting are of an award winning standard
The action just keeps on coming
Attention to detail

You'll hate
Some jump and grab sections can be a bit tricky
There are enemy types that are a pain in the ass
It has to end

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If you're reading this, it was unlikely that you weren't already going to buy Uncharted 2: Among Thieves on day one. Really, you just wanted to know how good it is, and fortunately I can say that it's very, very good. It's easily one of the best games on the system, blending fantastic presentation and visuals with gameplay that is practically second to none. And then there's the stellar multiplayer which you'll probably be playing until Uncharted 3 ships. No, Uncharted 2 is not perfect, but it's closer than pretty much any other game out there these days.

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Another Take

Roper's right; Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is fantastic. I'm probably one of biggest fans of the franchise in the office, but even I had trouble believing that Naughty Dog could surpass its original gem. I mean, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune had one of the best stories the PS3 has ever seen, it packed some of the best graphics I had ever seen, and it was some of the most fun I have ever had in a videogame.

Uncharted 2 keeps all of that and builds on it.

There came a point when I was early in the game, and I couldn't wipe the smile off of my face as I took cover, shot bad guys, and did all the stuff I remember making the first game great. This was like putting on an old pair of jeans or picking up one of your favorite books again -- it just felt right. Toss in the fact that the new stealth kills are awesome and reward you for being sneaky, the game's prettier than ever, and that this game gives us an ending cinematic that's the perfect nightcap to this chapter of Drake's story, and you've got something amazing.

Admittedly, I think I set my expectations a little too high. The reappearance of rooms filling with waves and wave of baddies was annoying, the story felt a bit too familiar at times, and the fact that I would've liked to have seen some new Trophies dampened my spirits a bit, but there's no denying this is one of the best games on the PlayStation 3.

Oh, and the multiplayer is awesome enough to get a loner like myself out of the single-player campaign and chasing the next rank online.

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9.5 Presentation
Fantastic cutscenes tell a very good if not perfect story.

10 Graphics
Absolutely the best of the best these days. Your jaw will drop.

9.5 Sound
Great weapon effects, fantastic voice acting and a mostly brilliant (though sometimes overdone) soundtrack.

9.5 Gameplay
Great gunplay, stealth works very well (mostly), the puzzles are rewarding and, maybe even best of all, a killer online component.

9.5 Lasting Appeal
The game is give or take about 10 hours in length, which feels right, but then there's the multiplayer. Yes, you will be hooked.

9.5
Incredible OVERALL
(out of 10 / not an average)

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Uncharted 2 dated for Europe

Today 13:15

Sony has told Eurogamer that Uncharted 2: Among Thieves will be released here earlier than expected on 16th October.

The PS3 exclusive had originally been poised for a 23rd October launch, although that date was retracted quickly by developer Naughty Dog on Twitter.

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Op dinsdag 22 september 2009 20:28 schreef Chocobo het volgende:

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Dat is echt de slechtste special edition ooit

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Op dinsdag 22 september 2009 20:32 schreef Chocobo het volgende:

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Weinig verschil, maar ga je voor PAL of US?

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It may not have the heritage of pre-PS3 franchises like Metal Gear or Gran Turismo, and Nathan Drake may not be your typical hero with a croaky voice, eye patch, superpowers or pointy blue ears. But in our books he is the exclusive defining star of PS3.

It takes elements from a lot of games - the exploration of Tomb Raider, climbing of Prince of Persia/Assassin's Creed, combat from Gears of War and stealth from Splinter Cell, yet it amalgamates all of these elements perfectly into one package. You can't compare it to any other game.

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"Whether or not the multiplayer sticks, however, is arguably a footnote, because at the core of Uncharted 2 is an action-adventure masterpiece whose minor flaws are washed away on a tide of rhythm and spectacle - one that would still be an essential experience even without the option to pull your friends off cliffs and play capture-the-heirloom. For over a dozen pulsating hours, Nathan Drake is among thieves, just as Naughty Dog was when it made the first game by ransacking surrounding genres. By the end of Uncharted 2 though, Drake has found his place in the world, and so has the developer - among giants."

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Op dinsdag 29 september 2009 20:56 schreef wolfrolf het volgende:
For fucks sake, kan iemand mij (nickname wolfrolf) ff toevoegen als vriend? Ik wil spelen maar niemand add mij

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Again, these are minor quibbles. Uncharted 2 is simply a vast improvement over its predecessor, and it's a damn great PS3 game. Let's leave the "are games art?" question for another time; what Uncharted 2 proves is that games are, at the very least, craft. Just as Raiders is Spielberg at the top of his game, Uncharted 2 is Naughty Dog at the top of theirs, and further proof that they are masters of their craft.

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Uncharted 2 does so many things right, that its problems (a less than perfect cover system, some frustrating combat and unfortunate glitches) are easy to overlook. The single-player adventure packs in so many incredible moments that you'll be talking about it with friends for months, the multiplayer functionality is superb and rammed with content, and the whole game looks beyond anything you'll have seen before. Uncharted didn't quite make the grade as a classic, but Uncharted 2 should earn the series a place among the very best exclusives to hit the PlayStation.

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I’m not 100% certain when it happened. I think it’s when I had Nathan Drake atop a building in a war-torn Nepalese city, cornered and being fired upon by a helicopter, engaged in a fist fight with the screen slowly draining of color, snapping my enemy’s neck and quickly rolling into cover to reload my grenade launcher only to turn and fire upon the chopper one last time as I watched it crash and explode. I think this is when I realized that Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was the best single-player game I have ever played.

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While the multiplayer components are outstanding, the real price of admission is the single-player campaign that should stand up over time as a seminal achievement on the level of Final Fantasy VII, GTA III or Half-Life. Uncharted 2 delivers on what so many other games just promise: Immersion. Lost not just in a world but in a collective fantasy of the impossible made viable. That 8-year-old me in the movie theater sat yearning for the adult world to be as filled with adventure, discovery and importance as what I saw on screen. Well-situated in my 30s, content with good health and a paycheck, I pine nostalgically for when life still held that pre-adolescent potential. For the hours I played Uncharted 2, those two selves were bridged in a wonderful equanimity, a digital compromise.

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Op woensdag 30 september 2009 00:20 schreef wolfrolf het volgende:

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Op woensdag 30 september 2009 18:48 schreef intraxz het volgende:
Matchmaking

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Op woensdag 30 september 2009 23:51 schreef Athlon_2o0o het volgende:
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Waar is Uncharted 2 het goedkoopste?

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Op vrijdag 2 oktober 2009 18:34 schreef FinalD87 het volgende:

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Ik ga denk zelf een paar dagen voor release langs bij de lokale gameboer. Op deze game wil ik niet wachten

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Op vrijdag 2 oktober 2009 23:33 schreef Deacon_Tigra het volgende:
k durf eigenlijk geen filmpjes te kijken uit angst voor spoilers

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Op zaterdag 3 oktober 2009 16:49 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Waar kan je de replays bekijken die je geupload hebt?

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Op zaterdag 3 oktober 2009 20:41 schreef mrPanerai het volgende:

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uitknippen en dan met prit op je scherm plakken. Goed aandrukken anders is het niet zichtbaar voor de mensen die van buiten Nederland op de site komen.

graag gedaan!

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Death Match (Shoot your enemies in the face)
Elimination (Eliminate Other team)
Plunder (Fight for treasure)
Turf War (Hold as many zones as you can)
King of the Hill (Hold the Hill)
Chain Reaction (Captures the zones in order)
Survival (Survive the waves of soldiers)
Gold Rush (Steal the treasure fom the soldiers)
Co-op (Survive with your friends)
Machinima (Machinima mode)

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Op dinsdag 6 oktober 2009 16:08 schreef SoldMayor het volgende:
Mwa.. heb net ff online gespeeld.. voelt niet echt lekker aan maar dit is spel vind ik ook meer een single player. Ook qua graphics was het wel mooi maar niet zo .. wow wtf !!!!!!!!!

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"There will be downloadable content, yes," he told us at Sony's London HQ.

"What you'll probably see is more of the competitive type: more maps, more modes, stuff like that. The co-op stuff is hugely time-intensive and the size of it - the physical download size - is huge, so that's probably not an option.

"I'm not going to say never," he added, "but for the foreseeable future we're not going to be doing that."

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Richmond revealed that programmers are already optimising on the engine, and have been split into groups to work on "whatever we're going to do next".

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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a complete package. The perfectly paced campaign is pure joy from beginning to end, seamlessly combining top-notch shooting, smooth platforming, clever puzzles, and a playful story into one of the most engaging and satisfying adventures around. Competitive multiplayer is just as compelling, displaying the same fun gameplay elements from the main quest in a chaotic battle against other players. The cooperative mode has its own unique pull, letting players merge their efforts to take down an unrelenting force of angry attackers. The few flaws--touchy cover controls in tight spaces and linear platforming sections--are so slight they barely stand out among the sea of fantastic features. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is an incredible game.

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Op woensdag 7 oktober 2009 23:36 schreef intraxz het volgende:

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Wat is daar wazig aan

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Op woensdag 7 oktober 2009 23:36 schreef jimjim1983 het volgende:
is die beta in nederland ook gratis te downloaden?

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De multiplayer-demo van Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is nu meer dan een week beschikbaar en dat is niet onopgemerkt gebleven. De demo is razend populair met de cijfertjes als bewijs.

Evan Wells van Naughty Dog heeft namelijk wat simpele statistieken vrijgegeven op het PlayStation Blog. Tevens is bekend geworden dat de demo op nummer één staat in de 'top five first-week' downloads. De demo is hard op weg om de meest gedownloade demo ooit te worden op het PlayStation Network.

* Total Number of games played – 1,217,424
* Total Number of Kills – 92,110,787
* Total Number of Treasures Captured – 1,860,645
* Total Amount of Money Earned – $38,841,367,350
* Total Time Played – 9,905 days (or 27+ years!)

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Op donderdag 8 oktober 2009 19:12 schreef torn_Machina het volgende:

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Jullie hebben geluk. Net even de officiële bluetooth ps3 headset gekocht voor 18 pond.

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Op donderdag 8 oktober 2009 22:04 schreef Deacon_Tigra het volgende:
Nou ik kwam der heull niet in