Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

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We’re really excited (and can now breathe a sigh of relief) to have announced UNCHARTED 3—we’re absolutely looking forward to working hard on the game over the next year and telling you all about it along the way!

You can get further details about we’re able to currently share from my blog post that just went up on the PlayStation Blog. A brief, top line look at all the info that’s been released so far is copied below.

UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception features the return of famed fortune hunter Nathan Drake and follows him through a gripping, action-packed storyline that will take you all over the world. In his search for the fabled “Atlantis of the Sands,” Nathan Drake and longtime friend and mentor Victor Sullivan set off on a daring trek into the heart of the Arabian Desert. But when terrible secrets of this lost city are uncovered, their journey becomes a desperate bid for survival that will force him to confront his deepest fears.

Throughout UNCHARTED 3, you’ll be taken to spectacular new locations around the globe that will showcase all of the work we’ve taken on to take our physics, particle and visual effects to a new level.

Competitive and co-op multiplayer will return as a key ingredient to the UNCHARTED 3 package, where all of the new features we have planned will combine with our signature single-player cinematic gameplay to create a unique action-adventure multiplayer experience that can only be found in the UNCHARTED universe.

Oh, and there’s one more thing – UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception fully supports high-resolution Stereoscopic 3D.

Our announcement has now put a lot of things we’ve been planning carefully for a long time in motion, and you’ll start seeing a lot of that over the next few weeks. As you can see on the Entertainment Weekly article, you’ll want to watch the Spike VGA 2010 show on Saturday, December 11, for more UNCHARTED 3.

UNCHARTED 3: Drake's Deception teaser - Spike VGA 2010 [Official HD]

Uncharted Territory - Video Game Awards [VGA 2010]

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Everytime I watch the Uncharted trailer I am more and more blown away. You guys will be doing frame by frame analysis, I promise you that.

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After Naughty Dog finally announced Uncharted 3 Drake’s Deception today it has also been announced that there will be live footage and a trailer coming soon. Being released this Saturday the first official trailer for Uncharted 3 Drake’s Deception will be sure to make players ask as many questions as they get answered from the trailer but next week a live demo will be shown off.

On the December 13th episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Naughty Dog have revealed, there will be a live demo of Uncharted 3 Drake’s Deception! So keep watching for some major Uncharted news over the next week.

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Op zondag 12 december 2010 14:15 schreef SToRM81 het volgende:

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception "behind the scenes part 1"

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(Update) From Sony Spokesperson: “Now that Emily is just back from filming Haven she will be working with Naughty Dog on some DLC content.”

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From a technical standpoint, the animations will receive the most noticeable improvements in the third game. "We're doing some crazy stuff where we're actually going to stream some animations in," Richmond said excitedly, "so Drake will actually change animation state based on what's happening." Drake might brush his hand against a wall as he passes by, for example; or he could more realistically react to dangers, like smoke and gunfire, as he encounters them. "We don't want to let you walk through fire without reacting," Richmond added, "but most of these animation changes are just like he's doing the right thing based on what's around him, rather than taking away player control. It's about making him seem more realistic."

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Richmond also revealed that brawling -- fist-fighting with multiple enemies -- will be added to the combat. "The fact that you can fight multiple guys at the same time, hand-to-hand, makes a big difference," he suggested. "You couldn't do that last game. So things like a bar fight in the game -- you can put five or ten guys around him and actually have Drake punching them out." Drake will also be able to seamlessly use objects in the environment to aid in a tussle, like grabbing a bottle to smash over an enemy's head or even an enemy's gun to end the fight quickly.

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"We feel like if you're going to build a Move game, you should build a Move game. You shouldn't take a game that already exists with all of these control mechanics, and then build over the top of it."

"We haven't really found a cool way to use it," he added. "If we did, we would." The team did experiment with Move, getting "simple movement" to work in a prototype build, but the technology eats up a significant chunk of memory in calculating player movements (and Uncharted 3 won't have much to spare), so Naughty Dog decided against making any sacrifices, especially in considering the likely majority of players who wouldn't be using Move to play the game.

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Multiplayer, however, will be a major feature of Uncharted 3, including post-release updates, though Naughty Dog has learned quite "a lot" from its implementation in the last game. "The biggest thing we learned was don't significantly change the bullet damage of the game after you launch," Richmond recalled. The team got caught up in tweaking the multiplayer after Uncharted 2 launched, and Richmond said Naughty Dog was drowned in feedback after the changes were made -- much of which has aided in the development of the new multiplayer.

"Next game we're going to blow it out," he promised of Uncharted 3's multiplayer. "We're going to really take it to the next level, listen to what the fans said, do all of the things we wanted to do last game but didn't have time to, because we really did the whole thing in just a year."

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Having mastered ice, water and snow in previous Uncharted games, Naughty Dog has set its sights on groundbreaking fire effects in the forthcoming PlayStation 3 threequel.

Speaking in an interview with the PlayStation Blog, Naughty Dog mouthpiece Arne Meyer explained that the game would feature realistic flames that slowly reduce the environment to ashes.

"We're always on the lookout for new technical challenges and we're really happy with what we're achieving with our fire effects," he boasted.

"It's not just a static asset – the fire deteriorates the wood realistically and there are blowback effects, like you would expect. The smoke is looking much better this time around."

Referencing a level, trailered below, in which you have to escape a burning mansion, Meyer added that, in theory, you'll be able to stand still and watch the building burn down before your eyes.

"You could sit down and watch the chateau burn around you, if you sit there long enough," he claimed.

"However, we want the player to proceed through the game at a decent pace so that's not going to happen. Even in this demo, you can see beams deteriorating as they burn, and you can even take cover behind them when they give way and fall to the floor, only for that cover to disappear when the beam has burned away completely.

"Procedural fire is a pretty difficult technical challenge, especially on top of everything else you're trying to get in the game, but it produces some brilliant effects, like the corners of the wallpaper starting to roll and then igniting, and then the embers flickering in the air.

"Essentially, we're programming oxygen and then having the fire follow it around the environment," he explained

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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.

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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.

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Issue 57 of the Official Playstation Magazine has an exclusive look at Uncharted 3, as well as a chat with the developers, which brings to light a bunch of new information regarding story, characters, and sand. Endless, endless sand. The magazine should be available in stores now.

- Drake spends most of his time exploring the Arabian dunes of Rub' al Khali.

- The game features "all the things you'd expect in a desert" - including sandstorms and mirages.

- The sand creates a 'dynamic environment' for Drake, with altering geography.

"We've done a ton of research...The way sand blows over and curls over the tops of dunes, the way it displaces and flows - it's almost a liquid" - Amy Hennig, Creative Director

- Drake and Sullivan are in the Empty Quarter, looking for the Iram Of The Pillars, a kind of Arabian Atlantis.

- Not all locations are dry and arid; you'll be taken all over the world to places like London and a jungle temple.

- The story is based around Lawrence Of Arabia, and his fascination with Iram Of The Pillars.

- Bike sections are all but confirmed. There's a newspaper cutout in the teaser trailer that mentions motorcycles, and Naughty Dog says "We have a strong tradition of vehicular gameplay, and we try not to repeat ourselves".

- The story to the game is still being written and altered, but villain Katherine Marlowe is part of an secret order that dates back to Queen Elizabeth I.

- Drake's Deception will most likely not be his last outing; "The Uncharted franchise was never conceived as a trilogy"

- "Of course, there are recurring characters from previous games" - I guess that's Elena confirmed, then?

- There's a new melee system, with features like Drake picking up a bottle from a table and smashing it over an enemy's head. There are also new stealth moves and mechanics.

- "We'll be sure to alert everyone if a public beta is in the works this time around".

There's loads more info, as well as brand new screenshots, within the silky pages of the magazine. We implore you to rush to the newsagents and snap Issue 57 up now.

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#uncharted3 multiplayer ahoy. http://twitpic.com/4kx2q6 Can't talk details yet, but this is shaping up to be one special game.

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Op vrijdag 15 april 2011 12:53 schreef FinalD87 het volgende:
Dat mag in een spoiler-tag als je het mij vraagt

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Well, just as Uncharted: World of Deceit, these renders aren’t official Uncharted 3 assets and don’t represent the game in any way.

Naughty Dog’s Community Manager, Arne Meyer, has clarified the situation and stated that the renders were nothing more than an art test

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Other video games may connect to Facebook, but upcoming PS3 title Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception is headed into uncharted territory by bringing Facebook and other social media connections directly into the game.
Game developer Naughty Dog is working with Facebook and YouTube to expand the ability to share experiences from within Uncharted 3— sequel to the 2009 title named Game of the Year by multiple outlets — without the need for external tools.

At the start-up menu, players can view a "feed" that shows which Facebook friends on the PlayStation Network are currently playing and whether they've posted updates or videos. Clips can be viewed without leaving the game. Previously, videos had to be handcrafted and exported for uploading to YouTube.

While PlayStation Network and Xbox Live let players send automated updates to Facebook, "I don't think anyone else has gone to that level to bring Facebook within the game. People usually do it the other way around," says Christophe Balestra, co-president of Naughty Dog. "We are the first ones who are doing this."

None of these social-media upgrades affects the single-player story mode, an adventure starring Indiana Jones-ian franchise hero Nathan Drake. But when players get the game, due Nov.1, they can opt in to Facebook connectivity.

The developers hope that the changes make the multiplayer game environment less intimidating and more familiar.

"Our goal for Facebook is to really make sure you can interact with your Facebook friends the way you interact with your PSN friends," Balestra says. "You can talk to them (and) you can invite them to your party. You are going to see icons of people's faces and their real names. So right away it is going to feel bigger."

Players can post screen shots and video clips that show off their customized characters and team emblems. After a game finishes, a player might send out a post that he found a treasure during the game. The first five friends who "like" the post could get an in-game gift. Players also can post videos of multiplayer game action of up to 90 seconds.

"We're trying to create unique stories every time you play, to continue this feeling of a familiar and close-knit community, sort of like how Facebook already operates when friends upload photos and videos of their travel or parties," he says. "We're not just updating your wall with basic things happening in the game."

Those who want to tinker with their videos will have a battery of new in-game post-processing tools. Each multiplayer session is stored on the hard drive of the player's PS3. You can go into that video file and direct the scene to your liking, moving the camera around, adding voice to a character and even sharing the video so a friend can help edit. "You can create your own movie and tell a story," Balestra says.

Past games such as Halo 3 have included filmmaking tools to make scripted videos, but Uncharted's direct link for uploading videos to YouTube is unique.

The best uploaded videos might wind up on "Uncharted TV," which will play in the bottom right corner of the pregame menu.

"People can watch the best plays that we selected," he says. "We want to give you access to all the media being generated by Uncharted within Uncharted."

Uncharted 3 will have some new multiplayer game types, too. A new Deathmatch mode pits three teams of two against one another, and Free-for-All lets eight players compete until the last player is standing. And for the first time, players can sit side by side and play on a split screen.

"If you watch a football game, you talk about it the next day because everyone watched the same game," Balestra says. "This is (to) get people who play to have a better experience."

EXCLUSIVE! UNCHARTED 3 MULTIPLAYER REVEAL LEAKED!!!!! VIDEOS INSIDE

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Power Plays are LIMITED in time. They're only active for a short period of time, not permanently for the rest of the match. So, for example, the Elimination-type sequence will only be active for 60 seconds. Then it's back to normal DM rules.

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The new Buddy System (which is in other modes and pairs you with a friend or a random) allows me to respawn next to my partner if he's not in battle. We're a squad, and it's all on our shoulders to win. I need to communicate and make big moves, and as long as the person on my screen isn't my buddy, I can blast the hell out of them.

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We have 10+ massive premiere trailers to unveil before the doors of E3 open, including our worldwide exclusive gameplay for SoulCalibur V and Uncharted 3 co-op reveal!

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Op zondag 29 mei 2011 23:59 schreef wolfrolf het volgende:
Is het nu nog steeds niet 1-11-'11? [ afbeelding ]

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This week, we're bringing you brand new Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception news, videos and features. Each and every day, there's going to be something Nathan Drake-related on IGN.

It all kicks off tomorrow with news and videos about what you're going to get to play in the very near future. From there, it only gets better. Go ahead and bookmark this page as we'll update this story with each and every Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception piece we post in the coming week.

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Everything you wanted to know about the trial period of Drake's Deception is right here.

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - Chateau Multiplayer Map

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - Airfield Multiplayer Map

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Last but not least… a sneak peak at the European Collector’s Edition which we’ve named the ‘Explorer Edition’. We’re putting a lot of efforts and care on this particular edition as well and will uncover more details in the future but I’m pleased to say that it will include the Nathan Drake figurine, ring and belt buckle from the US Collector’s Edition. We are also designing an antic style replica traveller box with a real authentic feel to it: a definite collector item you won’t be disappointed with if you’re a true Nathan Drake fan. Content wise, the Explorer Edition will include the Special Edition (and its DLC of course!) as well as all the pre-order bonuses listed above. We’re also looking to add a few more items like a Nathan Drake passport holder and a 3D lenticular image like the InFamous 2 Special Edition. More news and visuals to follow in the coming weeks but for now, check out the visuals for the Nathan Drake figurine, belt buckle and ring below.

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Next on the PlayStation E3 livestream: an exclusive Q&A with the UNCHARTED 3 actors! http://bit.ly/l1x4DR Send questions!

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Op woensdag 8 juni 2011 12:52 schreef FinalD87 het volgende:

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Story-trailer is die van het eind van de Sony Conference. Of heb je die niet helemaal gekeken?