Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Official Discussion

BladeofTheImmortal

I just got the latest issue of Game Informer, and I must say that this game is going to be amazing.

I also believe it is the new benchmark for graphics in this console generation. Nothing I have seen has looked this good(not even Gears). What are your thoughts on this game, and will you be getting it? I know I will.

Axen

Every time I see this game come up I keep thinking its a new Uncharted Waters game.

hamburger helper

Url? Images? Anything? No?

Super.

Narian

I have never heard of it. Not ever. Not even in my dreams.

BladeofTheImmortal

hamburger helper wrote: »

Url? Images? Anything? No?

Super.

Well, I don't own a scanner so I can't scan the pages, there is a nifty device I've heard of though that lets you find things throughout the internet, I think its called Google.

Gyral

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/untitlednaughtydoggameworkingtitle/index.html

Go there for some actual pics and info.

Nothing yet to make me interested.

spectra

Here is a link to the E3 trailer:

http://www.naughtydog.com/comingsoon/index.html

darkmayo

BladeofTheImmortal wrote: »

hamburger helper wrote: »

Url? Images? Anything? No?

Super.

Well, I don't own a scanner so I can't scan the pages, there is a nifty device I've heard of though that lets you find things throughout the internet, I think its called Google.

Its called dont make your first post suck.

GimpyBoy

Wow those pictures on Gamespot had better be outdated already. Because that's nowhere near the OPs claim of best graphics this generation.

FatBaby

GimpyBoy wrote: »

Wow those pictures on Gamespot had better be outdated already. Because that's nowhere near the OPs claim of best graphics this generation.

Yeah, those shots are from E3 2006. It looks much better now.

Axen

FatBaby wrote: »

GimpyBoy wrote: »

Wow those pictures on Gamespot had better be outdated already. Because that's nowhere near the OPs claim of best graphics this generation.

Yeah, those shots are from E3 2006. It looks much better now.

Now that I looked at the pics on Gamespot I thought we had a thread on this just a couple days ago. It had the cover art with a generic looking hero and an adolescent boy.

GimpyBoy

Oh, good. I'll have to pick up the new game informer when I get a chance to see what all the hubub is about.

BladeofTheImmortal

You could just read it at the stands.

Unco-ordinated

TERRIBLE first post. Here's some info from NeoGAF:

-Release is "winter 2007"
-single player only it seems

"After hearing about the game's cinematic story, seeing the technology that backs up the exciting plotline, and playing the game for ourselves, we're sure about one thing. This is one title that should give hold-outs against the pricey PS3 a reason to pause and look again."

-They want an emotional story, and so far there's fifty minutes of cinematics.
-They have an awesome animation scheme that allows for over 1,200 different unique ways of doings things like taking cover. There's nine screens of Drake taking cover behind a pillar...all of them completely different stances. Freaking awesome. (the final game will have 3,000)
-Sixaxis allows for some tilting moments, like crossing a narrow log and balancing, Kratos-style.
-more on the unique animations: if Drake is running across an open field, he will visibly become more and more out of breath, his entire body shaking if he runs enough. His face will show all these emotions as well.
-Everything in the jungle shifts and sways, with dynamic shadowing, and high-dynamic range lighting.
-soundtrack is also dynamic
-graphics are really, really good looking. I can't imagine how this thing is gonna look in real time...crazy.

And that's it...most of the time was spent on the tech and the story, less so with gameplay...which sounds like it's still a ways off.

MORE INFO:

While much of the article explains how great the story will be while not actually getting into details, the opening paragraph gives us a nice clue:

"Sir Francis Drake had a wealth of titles to his name by the time he died at sea in the winter of 1596. To his English Countrymen, he was a hero...an explorer who circumnavigated the globe, a sea captain who sunk dozens of ships in the Spanish Armada, and a knight by Queen Elizabeth's own hand. To his enemies, he was the worst sort of villain...a marauder that heartlessly destroyed their ports and colonies, a pirate that ceaselessly stole their chests of gold, spices and jewels. Whatever people called him, his infamous adventuring career came to an end when his body was tipped over the side of his ship off the coast of Panama some 400 years ago. But what if that lead coffin held no body? What if there was instead a mysterious book that hinted at his last great adventure? What if you found that book?"

The Audio Director speaks: "If I could have a metric for how well the game is doing sound-wise, it would be how far I can get through this game with my eyes closed."

While vehicles aren't a main focus in the game, they'll be there. One concept screen shows a jeep with you in the turret seat, another level has you piloting a jetski navigating submerged buildings and looking for clues. Still another has white-water rapids in another chase scene.

Naughty Dog (paraphrasing here): "With PS1, we had to go very simplistic...cartoonish. With PS2, we could take it up a notch with Jak but not quite human yet. With the PS3, we can finally do full-on human gaming while taking all of our great gameplay from past games we've done into this."

All cinematics are motion-captured with a director on the set...it's like a real movie (a la Heavenly Sword).

You won't be alone, as the girl in the mag cover shows (like Half-Life 2 in a way).

GI sums up the game: It's Die Hard meets Indiana Jones, with gameplay that goes back to Prince of Persia and Tomb Raider and gun segments like Gears of War. Ultimately however, it's a new genre that's unclassifiable at this point.

Oh, and graphics are Blue Steel, but will be Magnum in videos and when it comes out much later in the year for sure.

FINAL INFO:

Here's the part where GI gets some hands on time with the game:

"Control of the action was in our hands in the level that followed. Nathan finds himself in a stunning moss-covered forest, with a streaming waterfall nearby. Climbing the rocks, we ascended up out of the basin. A wide gap between the cliffs above required a wild leap to the opposing ledge. Barely grasping the far edge, Nathan banged hard against the hard rock wall, knocking his breath away before we pulled up and over onto the far side.

A downed tree in the next area served to illustrate one of the game's uses of the Sixaxis controller. As we walked Nathan across the narrow beam, we controlled his balance by twisting the controller from side to side, which unsurprisingly resulted in him tumbling belly first onto the log before we managed to inch him across.

Once there, we heard the shouted arrival of enemy pirates, soon to be followed by whizzing bullets. As Nathan instinctively ducked, we ran him for cover behind a nearby boulder. Leaning out amid heavy returning fire, a few wild shots from Nathan's pistol dropped his foes, and we ran forward to a hanging vine to continue our climb.

Next, we saw the first signs of the strange, misplaced Spanish ruins of the island as more scruffy pirates arrived to attack us. Diving from rock to tree amid a hail of gunfire, we occasionally scurried aside at the sound of a grenade dropping by our feet.

Standing still for very long is almost never an option, as enemies are constantly flanking for a better position. With another wave of pirates defeated, we platformed from one ruined Spanish wall to another to reach an ancient metal grate. A button press event sent it spinning off its rusted hinges, and beyond, another troop of pirates poured over an old wall as the music swelled into high gear."

Some pictures (linked because of h-scroll):
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Picture 05

And lastly, a comparison between the E3 2006 pictures and the current pictures[/url. While a couple of the comparison's are a bit of a leap, there's still a pretty noticable upgrade.

bruin

Looks great (though definitely not as good as Gears of War, OP), and is one of the reasons I'm getting a PS3 within the next couple years hopefully. That descriptions from GI just sounds awesome.

zilo

That OP is awfully shill-tastic.