Uncharted 2 to use all the PS3's power
Better combat and new female lead feature.
Naughty Dog has said Uncharted 2: Among Thieves will come close to using all of the PS3's power, after the first game used just "30 to 40 per cent".
That's according to the Game Informer reveal (read by a poster on the Gametrailers forum), which provides the first details and images of the sequel.
We're told to expect a brand new female lead in the shape of Chloe Frazer, who'll be played by Claudia Black from Stargate SG-1 and Farscape. She may use a rocket launcher, as suggested by cut-scene footage.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, revolves around Nathan Drake finding the lost ships of Marco Polo. Action adventure will still very much be the focus, and Naughty Dog has made significant improvements to combat.
Apparently melee will be more "dynamic", and Drake will be able to shoot while running, climbing and hanging, as well as simultaneously move and aim from behind cover.
Firefly composer Greg Edmonson will return to score the game, and Nolan North will once again provide the voice and movements for hero Nathan Drake.
Naughty Dog apparently refused to comment on whether original heroine Elena or grizzled friend Sully will make comebacks.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves will be unveiled properly on Sunday at the 2008 Video Game Awards. Expect more information to tumble out then.
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune was released at the end of 2007 and is one of the best games on PlayStation 3. It can be picked up as part of the PS3's budget Platinum range for around GBP 20.
We heavily recommend the game, as our Uncharted: Drake's Fortune review points out.
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/completely ignores the title and actually reads article
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cheers...
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not sure i like the sound of a new female lead though, hopefully it is to just throw you off and the trio will be back together as the main cast again.
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"Kannavrel, this is Fargate 1. I'm drunk and can't remember what my ship is called, or my name. Hope I don't get thrown across the galaxy and end up with a tall dude with an awesome gunblade thing, a tiny helium farting guy, some gun toting chick who'll rebel, and a plant. That'd screw my day right up."
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This game was a highlight for me too. Played through it twice and loved it. I reckon they can wring a bit more out of the PS3.
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I was referring more to people who use comically misspelled versions of bluray and cell on Eurogamer for mockery purposes
e.g. 'what about TEH CELLZ?' in any games comparison rundown
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But seriously, these 'exploit the full power of the console' news items have been around since SNES days and they are all just PR bollocks to get the fanboys cumming in ther pants.
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its called Farscape not Fargate.
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You typed a percentage sign using only one finger? Kudos.
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You typed a percentage sign using only one finger? Kudos.
No problem with Caps Lock.
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Why didn't they use it in the first game? Were they saving it for later?
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You typed a percentage sign using only one finger? Kudos.
No problem with Caps Lock.
Are you mental??
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Anyway, I gotta go yo! I'm gonna, you know play some of that N64 and then get on to some of that Triple-120.
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Stickykeys will though.
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Thank god I'm not the only one who noticed this, I thought the whole world except me thought this game was amazing.
Don't forget the shitty camera that zooms out so you can't see where you're jumping, and the bugs, like dropping off a ledge only to land on your sidekicks head and not reach the ground, followed by death because it thinks you've fallen too far.
But the puzzles, oh my god the puzzles. Did they even qualify as puzzles?
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Guess it now finally runs in 1080p.
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And yes - fix the tearing this time!!
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Luckily, there's a difference between using 100% of the power, and using 100% of the power well.
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In two years it'll be "We've barely tapped the power of the ____!"
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/Nelson laugh
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Although, I must say when I first played Gears I was shocked at how much they'd ripped off GRAW.
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Also, yes, you do need to install that first patch that was released shortly after release, as I think that improved performance. I hate tearing, but after that update I've only seen framerate slowdown here and there personally.
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> You typed a percentage sign using only one finger? Kudos.
I can do it with 1 and a ½ finger.
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GOW V's Uncharted? WTF!!!!
That's like the age old one comparing Sonic and Mario. Its pointless, they are two diffrent types of game.
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Or was that a different meeting?
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Also, I'd like it to be a little longer, or have larger areas to explore.
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As for the GoW v.s Uncharted thing: I played through GoW, disliked the boring characters, felt the one-note gameplay was okay but nothing special, and was immensely underwhelmed by the whole experience which had been greeted as the second coming by many magazines and even more 360 fans. I've not touched it since. I played through Uncharted, felt the one-note gameplay was okay but nothing special (although I personally preferred the looseness of the controls to the heavy-feeling marines in GoW), but loved the characters. I've since played through the whole game three more times because I enjoy the story so much.
For me, it's a clear win for Uncharted because it keeps on pulling me back for one more play-through. I've never craved playing through GoW again, but that's just my personal experience of the games. I thought that it might be worth adding a bit of balance to the general tone of 'GoW is an untouchable classic' in this thread. Yes, it's good, but if you prefer a good story and great script over homoerotic grunting space marines then that can heavily sway you towards Uncharted!
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Well said
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Great. Realistic simulation of plastic bags anyone?
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Me too. Lasted me 4 hours but those where very entertaining indeed. Check the Eurogamer review if you doubth the quality of Surfs Up.
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Q) What percent of the PS2’s power are you using?
A) People think of systems as glasses and ask: “how full is the glass”. Unfortunately, that isn’t how it works. Any developer who gives you a “percent of system used” answer is blowing smoke. The truth is that every developer uses 100% of the systems power on every game. Some just get more out of that 100% than others. And game after game, we ALL get more out of systems than we did on the previous title. Think of it this way. If the system is a glass, some developers pour in rocks till the glass overflows and then call it quits. They would claim that they use 100% of the systems space. And it is true that no more rocks fit. Some will even put in a rock too many and the game plays slow or runs funny. But there is still some space left for smarter developers. They pour pebbles into the cracks left by the rocks, and they get more into the glass. Then they call it 100% full. But some Developers will then pour in sand, to fill the cracks between the pebbles. They get even more out of the system, yet it is still just 100% full. Some developers go the extra distance, and they pour in water. Then the glass is truly full, right? Sure, but just for this title, because some of the rocks can be replaced with pebbles that do the same thing, if you work hard at it. And some of the pebbles can be made into sand. And some sand can be pressed to water. No developer ever gets a glass filled with only water, no developer has that much time, so no developer truly fills the glass. We just get more and more out of the 100%.
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Totally loved her in Farscape. She's a brilliant actress. As nice as Uncharted 2 seems to be coming along, this is like the icing on the cake.
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keep it up son, got them on the back foot... farticus slating drakes and then defending surf's up, priceless, fricken priceless..
oh, and whats it got to do with you square, or are you farticus trying to back track from getting totally owned!!!
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Anyway, regarding Uncharted, from what I've seen and played, liked it a lot. Though, the X% used is bollocks. With 4-5 lines of code I put a 32 CPU server at my work on its knees (if I ever want to be fired, and maybe arrested...). It all depends on code's quality, imo.
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everything starts from somewhere, was sonic a ripp cause mario did it first, cause if you say yes to that then all platform games are ripps of the first. so uncharted has a cover system WOW barstards using something thats been used for years by a hundred different games, what cunts!
and to all the fanboys xbox and ps3 get a life.
xbox fanboys unfortunately uncharted was a great game that you didnt get to play
ps3 fanboys its not the best best game ever its just good 1.
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lol
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WTF?!! 90's lexicon is back ?
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oh, and owned!!!!!!!!!!!! lololololololololololol....
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every ps3 related topic that this site cares to show and there you are slating it regardless of what it is.
why not just concentrate on 360 news?
are you a troll or is my definition of troll out? (genuin question)
im lucky enough to have both consoles (360 & ps3) and have no need to try and diminish every wii product out there.
gears is great uncharted is great and thats the TRUTH!
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keep it up you retards. I am bored
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That's so weird: I've got a shelf full of more great games for my PS3 than I have time to play at the moment.
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Cloetta Fazer is a Scandinavian chocolate & sweets manufacturer.
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'tis Wii that is the enemy... trust me
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so bloody true, the wii is turning the gaming industry on its head with this casual gamer crap, in reality the 360 and ps3 fanboys should be joining forces.
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i love the way you call vanmunt a disadvantaged teenager.....methinks you doth protest too much.........i dont see him playing surfs up or nuts and bolts.
Is that why you wont play dead space either....tooo young to buy or it might give you nightmares.
lol
and not owned.......................pwned
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@onyxbox
Both very true.
i have all three,but the fact that i havnt even turned on my wii in 3 months, and use the other 2 nearly every single day speaks volumes.
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Personally I'm expecting the 360 to generally outperform the ps3 now and into the future. The main limitation of the 360 is disc storage. The ps3 still has the potential to do larger game worlds with more movies, music and detail. Ambitous games with large amounts of fmv are obviously better suited to ps3.
Sony are their own worst enemies as they seem to have little regard for developers. The ps3 would have been more powerful than the 360 if they had gone for a better gpu, just two main cpu cores but faster memory. I think the cell approach of 7 cpu cores is a ridiculous approach unless you can provide the necessary memory bandwidth for all 7 cores simultanously.
I remember developers complaining about getting the best out of the saturn as it was so difficult with its two main cpus. Just two cpus and they were complaining so I dread to think how difficult it is to program for 7 cores.
Don't get me wrong the ps3 is a fantastic system I have both a ps3 and 360 but I've seen enough games now to see that many developers fail to match 360 standards on ps3 and as a general rule you should think yourself lucky if a ps3 game is near enough the same as 360. You only have to look at haze to see how a developer failed to achieve on ps3. Its ended up looking like a game halfway house between the original xbox and the 360 and that was a game written from ground up for ps3. Drake's Fortune, Motorstorm, Resistance 2, Wipeout HD, Killzone 2, Ratchet and Clank show the potential to move slightly ahead of 360.
The 360 definitely takes the title for technically most impressive console overall but its only marginally ahead by the average but its still ahead and the ps3 was meant to be better.
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Edit: tearing is screen-dependent. On my SD TV I had a lot of it (including slow-down and "sluggish" geometry). Had the same problem with Devil May Cry 4, which irked me because I thought the PS3 could do better. Then, I got some cables, connected the PS3 to a Samsung monitor and bam, everything runs perfectly smooth at 60Hz.
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Anyway I dont have a problem with people disliking this game, but they even have to admit that the general concensus is that many more people loved the game.
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That's true. It was a bad decision to release a new hardware architecture at the start of the HD era. On top of already sky rocketing development costs, developers also had to deal with something completely new which, besides the fact that people hate change they don't choose themselves, increased development costs even further. Sony should have known from the previous gen that if developers can get away with shoddy ports, they'll do it. They're in the business to make money after all and they catch every opportunity to cut corners to save some costs. And you can't really blame them. It was Sony's job, by introducing something new, to make life as easy as possible for the developers and in that they failed. They probably bet on their brand strength forcing developers to pay more attention to the PS3 but they didn't count on Nintendo's resurgence.
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I do have lbp.. Which I try and play with my 4 year old daughter... She can't get used to the 2.5d aspect and can't get up the jumps. BUT when I downloaded the surfs up demo for her(when she was 3!) she could steer, pull off tricks and even got a medal......... That says it all.
Dead space, uncharted , et al must be a bit hard for u with more than 2 buttons.
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37? Then stop acting like a fanBOY.
Actually, at 37, that makes you a fan-man..... Which has such a sad ring to it......
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You might want to try a few of the levels created by BeardyBrave - he has created some specifically for his 3 year old to play and they have gone down well. They don't use a lot of the mechanics which would be too complex for a young child but still provide something fun for them to try. He's even trying to include some education elements in them. Interesting and innovative use of the game.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm