Uncharted 2 demo on PS3 Store today

By Robert Purchese Published 28 January, 2010

No sign of Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Sony's released a single-player demo of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves on the PlayStation Store.

This belated sampler hopes to do what a 10/10 score and Game of the Year award from Eurogamer couldn't, and pursuade you to buy this magnificent PS3 game.

Sony's also released the PlayStation Heroes Skin Pack for Uncharted 2, which offers costumes from inFamous, Killzone 2 and Resistance 2.

The first batch of DLC for Assassin's Creed II, The Battle of Forli, is also available today. We'd suggest saving your money, as our freshly-published Battle of Forli review explains.

There's little else besides an Army of Two PSP demo and free car pack for Gran Turismo PSP to get excited about.

PS3 Demos

  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (not in Germany)

PS3 Games

  • Thexder Neo (free trial, £6.29/€7.99)
  • Polar Panic (free trial, £7.99/€9.99)

PS3 Game Content

  • Assassin's Creed II: Sequence 12: Battle of Forli (£3.19/€3.99)
  • PAIN: Hilde Gunnagrope Pack (£0.79/€0.99)
  • LittleBigPlanet: Groundhog Day Costume (free)
  • Guitar Hero 5: Creedence Clearwater Revival Track Pack ("Bad Moon Rising", "Proud Mary", "Travelin' Band") - £4.39/€5.49 (£1.59/€1.99 each)
  • Rock Band: "Bulls on Parade", "Godzilla", "Hair of the Dog", "Killed by Death 08", "Levitate", "Master of the Universe", "Transmaniacon MC" (£0.99/€1.49 each)
  • Uncharted 2: PlayStation Heroes Skin Pack (£3.99/€4.99)

PSP Demos

  • Army of Two: The 40th Day (free)

PSP Games

  • Mytran Wars (£15.99/€19.99)
  • MX vs ATV Untamed (£15.99/€19.99)

PSP Game Content

  • LittleBigPlanet: The Gardens Theme Pack (£2.39/€2.99)
  • Gran Turismo: Special Vehicles Pack (free)
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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

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Comments (32) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • kangarootoo #1 2 years ago

    Anyone tried the AoT PSP demo?

  • Beano #2 2 years ago

    EURO 5 for Uncharted 2 theme ?

    Is that a dynamic theme??

  • onezeonx #3 2 years ago

    FFS BF demo best appear today!

  • sinelinden #4 2 years ago

    I swear that said a free Car Park for GT PSP. I should learn to read more carefully.

  • Darren #5 2 years ago

    Woooh... £3.99 for a theme?!?!? :o

    The few dynamic themes I've bought have all been a reasonable £1.19 or so... what makes the Uncharted 2 one worth the three-fold increase in price?

  • Malek86 #6 2 years ago

    Can't say no to free stuff.

  • Kenshin001 #7 2 years ago

    I could be wrong but there is no UC2 Theme. It's the Heroes Skins Pack. At least that's what is showing on the store at the moment.

  • jag10 #8 2 years ago

    'No sign of Battlefield: Bad Company 2.'

    probably because PS3 got the beta.

  • gjgjg #9 2 years ago

    so ACII DLC is slightly more expensive on PSN eh?

  • Malek86 #10 2 years ago

    Wow, 3 gigs. That's one of the biggest demos I've ever seen.

  • jag10 #11 2 years ago

    @gjgjg

    not if you pay for live.

  • Beige_Alert #12 2 years ago

    How come the Store updates have had so little of interest these last couple of weeks considering the amount of high profile games on the verge of release in Q1?

  • BabyJesus #13 2 years ago

    I hope alot of people try the Demo and pick up the game.

    Uncharted 2 deserves to be one of the best selling games of all time imo.

  • Syrok #14 2 years ago

    "EURO 5 for Uncharted 2 theme ? "

    It's not a theme as the news article implies but rather a bunch of multiplayer skins.

    Which of course is still too expensive.

  • NorUraeus #15 2 years ago

    As mentioned by others it is not a Uncharted dynamic theme, its a set of costumes/skins for use in Uncharted multiplayer. A little pricey, but considering how much I enjoy it I think I am still game. Would have been funnier though if they had managed to acquire the rights to make a Lara Croft skin :)

    But I guess that would be to embarrassing for the Tomb Raider developers as the (lack of) quality of their own game graphics and character rendition would be very much on display then :)

  • FogHeart #16 2 years ago

    Pursuade?

  • BOBBYLUPO #17 2 years ago

    'No sign of Battlefield: Bad Company 2.'

    Someone on the PS3 blog suggested it's been delayed to push sales of MAG. Would make sense.

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #18 2 years ago

    It's a PlayStation Heroes Skin Pack for Uncharted 2, not a Theme. I'm an idiot - sorry!

  • darc #19 2 years ago

    Weird that the UC2 demo took so long. Had it arrived ~2 weeks earlier it would have saved me $60!

  • penhalion #20 2 years ago

    Hu? How has it taken so long for an uncharted demo, given that the games been around for a while and I played some multiplayer stuff pre-release. Have comapnies simply forgotten what the purpose of a demo is?

  • Cappy #21 2 years ago

    The Demo for Drake's Fortune came out a while after the game had been released also.

    I guess Naughty Dog were so busy trying to beat the crunch for year end releases they couldn't put together a demo without losing time they needed for the game.

  • MrMarbles #22 2 years ago

    Having seen how demo development affects schedules and resources, I'm more than happy for a demo to be worked on after work on the main game has concluded so as not to negatively impact its development. The makers of games have enough on their plate on the run-up to release as it is.

    Demos are a luxury - not a necessity - and it annoys me when people react like they're owed such things.

  • darc #23 2 years ago

    LOL I guess I was asking for those "-" clicks. I don't think Uncharted 2 is a bad game. In many ways it's a damn good one. I just think it's wildly overrated. Somebody's gotta keep it in line. :p

    Maybe I'm just an iconoclast. Hell, my 2009 GOTY was Risen!

  • betahoven #24 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:36:16 17-12-2011

  • cherryuk #25 2 years ago

    Anyone having trouble downloading this? I've got more than 5000 mb on my hard disk, plenty of room, it says not enough disk space - any thoughts?

  • el_pollo_diablo #26 2 years ago

    Did this game not sell too well or something? That'd be a crime.

  • Geordiemp #27 2 years ago

    on Ps3 you can download up to 5 times on any ps3....

    So, if you have 2 ps3's.....Live is expensive

  • penhalion #28 2 years ago

    @MrMarbles

    Given how untrustworthy reviews are these days I think it's vital to have a demo of a game before buying it. Imagine if there had been no demo for Dark Void for instance! It doesn't even bare thinking about!

  • MrMarbles #29 2 years ago

    Is this the same Dark Void that is currently languishing on a 59 Metacritic thanks to "untrustworthy reviews"?

    By all accounts, that game went through developer hell. Having to get demos ready in a fit state for submission to Sony and Microsoft alongside finishing the game itself can't have helped matters. Every day spent working on those demos is a day away from working on the main game - multiply that day by however many people are making those demos and you get a considerable number of man-hours that aren't being devoted to bug-fixes and polish.

    I refuse to believe that the Dark Void demo was more successful at putting people off buying the game than the sea of mediocre reviews. Yet I'm damn sure that the Dark Void demo resulted in a less polished game and plenty of over-time for quite a few coders.
    Edited by 1 at 28/01/10 @ 23:37

  • pdb #30 2 years ago

    I wish I had waited for the UC2 demo, purchased the game last weekend and not really enjoying it at all. I find the combat to be a chore rather than fun, and controlling Drake feels very cumbersome, though I suspect this may be because I just finished AC2 and Ezio was fantastic to control. UC2 is obviously a great game, sadly just not for me ;)

  • EggyDeth #31 2 years ago

    Awesome game. Awesome.

  • Jelly_Head #32 2 years ago

    "LittleBigPlanet: Groundhog Day Costume"

    So... I went into WHSmith and - would you believe it - they had no "Happy Groundhog Day" cards? I asked them why and that explained that we don't celebrate obscure Pennsylvanian holidays here in Europe. Who would have thought?