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Developer portfolio spills beans.

An unwitting modeller at Naughty Dog has accidentally revealed the name of the team's upcoming PlayStation 3 game in his online portfolio, referring to the upcoming 2007 release as Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

Along with this he also posted new screenshots showing lush jungle environments (in the game, that is). Unfortunately, this has all mysteriously disappeared, leaving us with only PlayFrance's word for it.

Publisher Sony was unavailable for comment at the time of writing, but we expect little more than what it said to US gaming sites: "We do not comment on rumors or speculation. No official announcement has been made."

Naughty Dog's game was shown at last year's E3, and has had no previous name associated with it. All we knew about it was from a one minute-long teaser trailer, showing a third-person action title that looked strikingly similar to an Indiana Jones adventure, with the protagonist monkeying around in a tropical forest with shotguns and pistols.

It sounds like a fairly convincing rumour to us.

Meanwhile, you can adventure over to the game's website to see the trailer from E3. Which is about as in-game as an idea not derived from Aliens.

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lambtron #1 5 years ago

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Oops - definitely not a cool thing to do (provided it wasn't a publicity stunt). People can never work again for this sort of thing.
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SBfistfun #2 5 years ago

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Naughty N00b angers Naughty Dog
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killest #3 5 years ago

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Bad dog... sit! and never lift up your leg again!
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dirigiblebill #4 5 years ago

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That lead character looks about as 'Indiana Jones' as a Gap advert.
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dominalien #5 5 years ago

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Actually, the trailer is pretty cool. Will have to watch this one. That's now _two_ games I want to play on the PS3.
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Rich72 #6 5 years ago

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damn.... thought it was cave dog for a minute
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ST.. #7 5 years ago

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What a bloody awful name......
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Royal Fool #8 5 years ago

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Doesn't really have the same ring to it as Jak & Daxter or Crash Bandicoot, does it?

Then again, Naughty Dog have been going downhill ever since Jak 2... oh, sorry. Jak II, according to the European release. Yet the third was named Jak 3... marketing people have no sense of continuity.
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spongebob #9 5 years ago

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This might very well be the first real must-have exclusive for PS3 for me.
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dirigiblebill #10 5 years ago

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@ spongebob

Er, why?
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Steroyd #11 5 years ago

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Pitfall + 3D = Sold

Providing the 3D part is done right.
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JediMasterMalik #12 5 years ago

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These are makers of Jak, they know how to make things move. It will be a good game, whether it will be spectacular remains to be seen.
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dirigiblebill #13 5 years ago

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Ever hear of Pitfall: The Lost Expedition?
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spongebob #14 5 years ago

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@dirigiblebill:
First of all, I've loved every single Naughty Dog game, even if they're not all perfect. Second, I dig the Indiana Jones premise. Third, the graphics look nice.
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dirigiblebill #15 5 years ago

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@ spongebob

Naughty Dog are the cat's pyjamas alright but I'm not so sure about this one. Premise looks a bit po-faced for the creators of Jak, plus the protagonist is some designer-stubbled weed. The gameplay seems to be generic third-person running and gunning.

No doubt it'll be good fun but I wouldn't call it a 'must-have', at least on the basis of that trailer.
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Steroyd #16 5 years ago

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WHAAAAA!?!

/googles

OOOH Pitfall Harry I gave that one a miss because it went the more comical cartoony look than following the tone of the snes version.

Don't give me a heart attack like that again.
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monkey-ken-wizard #17 5 years ago

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In the absence of a distinctive art style and original game idea, Naughty dog have gone for a generic looking Tomb Raider/Indiana Jones clone.
The main character is particularly poor, his proportions are all over the place.
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JediMasterMalik #18 5 years ago

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Nothing released is new btw (other then the name), it's all roughly over 5 months old. From what I hear a lot has improved, and they have redesigned the main character.
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alexg #19 5 years ago

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Are people in this thread looking at the same game? Even in this early stage this game looks a cut above. You do not see animation of such high quality in games often enough. Which is a disgrace really given the technology available.
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Rayn #20 5 years ago

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"Are people in this thread looking at the same game? Even in this early stage this game looks a cut above. You do not see animation of such high quality in games often enough. Which is a disgrace really given the technology available."

But the trailer footage isn't in-game. Even as pre-rendered graphics that doesn't look very good.
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Steroyd #21 5 years ago

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It is in-game or as some people like to call in-engine. :/
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JediMasterMalik #22 5 years ago

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Quite how anyone could call that pre-rendered is beyond me. It's obviously in-engine.
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yaywalter #23 5 years ago

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It looked in-engine to me. When I saw it, I did not even feel it necessary to acknowledge the possibility of it being pre-rendered.

And for the people who think it's pre-rendered: Even if it was, what was shown can definitely be pulled off on the PS3.
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