This summer’s multiplayer beta for Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception was the most successful beta ever in the history of the PS3. The demo not only served as a proving ground for Uncharted 3‘s multiplayer component, but it also whet the appetites of players the world over – who are eager to jump back into Uncharted. There is certainly a plethora of content within the competitive multiplayer experience. A quick look at the levels required to unlock some weapon mods goes into the mid-50s despite there being a level cap at 35 – meaning that there will still be plenty for players to do when the game releases.
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That said, the demo may undercut the value of Amazon pre-order bonuses for Uncharted 3 – since the online retailer is offering early-access unlocks for the Para 9 pistol and G-Mal rifle clip size mods as well as a code for the “Carpet Bomb” kickback. All of the mods are available in the demo and, by level 35, a player will have the ability (and very likely the money) to purchase all three. Since unlocks from the demo carry-over into the retail game, regular Uncharted 3 demo players may find that their pre-order bonuses aren’t all that exciting anymore. The Uncharted game series debuted in 2006 with the launch of the PlayStation 3. With each installment, Uncharted has been getting better. The visuals are so well done that you can’t tell the difference between cinematics, which are pre-scripted movies that advance the story, and actual game play. The action seamlessly moves back and forth between cinematics and game play, resulting in a feeling of total immersion in a blockbuster movie. playstation 3 uncharted, ps3 uncharted 3, uncharted 2, uncharted 2 ps3
Uncharted 2 was 26 chapters long and had a great deal of variety. The new game is going to have dozens of levels as well, and it looks like sand is going to be one of the ever-present environmental effects in the game. The game play is both familiar and novel.
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune was the first title in the series developed by Sony-owned game studio Naughty Dog. The second game was far more advanced, striking the right balance of great movie-like cinematics that advanced the story, harrowing combat scenes where you took on helicopters, and outstanding graphics and physics, such as a firefight that took place aboard a physically accurate moving train.
Overall, the competitive multiplayer experience is very smooth (with minimal lag issues). The new demo builds upon many of the great ideas the beta had already established and shows that Uncharted 3‘s online offerings will be an attractive alternative to all the FPS war multiplayer games arriving this holiday season. I started by playing a level called the French Chateau, which is an old multi-story building that is being consumed by flames in a most spectacular way. In this level, Drake and his old friend Sully have to escape a burning building even as they deal with large numbers of thugs shooting at them. Drake has to climb walls, scoot along ledges, and tiptoe across balance beams to get to safety.
With Uncharted’s combat, you have to duck behind cover and shoot when you have a chance to surprise your enemy. You can use a variety of weapons, but you can’t carry the whole kitchen sink with you. Enemies can cause you trouble, particularly when they shoot at you while you’re in a precarious position on a ledge.
The fire animations in the game look outstanding. They give off a roar when you open the doors and a gust of wind blows flames right into your face. The colors of the environment are still sharper and more vibrant than you would ordinarily see in real life. You have to jump from one platform or pipe to another as they collapse into the burning flames.
The second level I played was the “Cargo Plane,” which Sony revealed at E3 in June. On this level, the scene starts with a long cinematic that reveals more of the relationship between Drake and Elena, the heroine from the love triangle of Uncharted 2. You feel a tug of emotion as Drake moves on to certain doom and forces himself to separate from Elena.
Drake shoots his way to the giant cargo plane, which begins taking off. Elena returns in a jeep and enables Drake to jump onto the landing gear of the plane and board it just as it’s taking off. That’s a true Hollywood action scene. From there, Drake is in for a wild ride. He gets into a nasty fight with a big enemy and the hatch ramp of the cargo plane opens. Everything starts sliding down the ramp and flying out the door. Meanwhile, a bunch of bad guys arrive and start shooting machine guns. uncharted wiki, uncharted 3 release
Last Saturday, Naughty Dog, in conjunction with Subway restaurants, launched a promotion that granted players access to a new Uncharted 3 multiplayer demo. There’s a lot going on in this demo so we’ve put together our impressions of the pre-release beta to help new players and Uncharted veterans alike quickly jump into the fray. The new demo offers six maps – including three new maps (in addition to the ones from the original beta). The new maps include Syria, Desert Village (which was actually seen in at Naughty Dog’s panel at Eurogamer Expo this year), and London Underground. Unfortunately, several of the returning maps are missing the action-cut scenes from the original beta. Whether or not they’ll be absent in the final game however, is still unclear. That said, each of the new maps do feature similar random action events during each match. As an example, Syria has a helicopter that will actually fire rockets from time to time – and the Desert Village map features a sandstorm that decreases visibility.
Here are the game's key features:
* Diving back into the story of Nathan Drake, players will learn more about the events that brought him and his longtime friend and mentor Victor Sullivan together, as they undertake a perilous quest that tests the bonds of their partnership. Nolan North and Richard McGonagle reprise their performance capture roles of Nathan Drake and Victor Sullivan.
* Explore memorable new locations from around the world—from a derelict chateau deep in the forests in France to the merciless Rub’ al-Khali desert in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula.
* Bigger set pieces and more explosive adventure, driven by Naughty Dog’s signature storytelling and cinematic presentation.
* Competitive and co-operative multiplayer return with brand new experiences and massively expanded feature sets. The UNCHARTED universe provides online players with a unique Action Adventure multiplayer experience, bringing the cinematic elements of the single-player campaign into multiplayer.
* Nathan Drake can now take on opponents in more ways than before: hand-to-hand combat with multiple opponents, contextual melee attacks, and new stealth options. UNCHARTED 3 also features expanded and diverse traversal moves with deep gunplay, and constant problem solving scenarios that encourage player exploration throughout the environments.
* Naughty Dog introduces new physics, visuals, and environmental effects. The harsh desert environment of Arabia’s “Empty Quarter” is faithfully created with distant mirages, heat distortion effects and sand that drifts, displaces and flows realistically. The developer has also revisited nearly every visual effect in their repertoire, such as fire, smoke, and water.
* UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception will be playable in Stereoscopic 3D.
Thing is, though, that Uncharted 3 almost never seems to slip up. Its signposting is much improved since Drake's Fortune. You're guided seamlessly through action sequences so intense and high-octane that spectators can't help but laugh out loud as Drake climbs up the cargo plane's landing gear as it takes off, or hangs by his fingernails from a crumbling banister as everything around him goes up in flames. If these two scenarios represent the overall pace of the full game, we're in for one hell of a ride.
I wish they still made movies like this. The fact that they don't, though, is good news for games – and great news for the people who play them.
As we speak, Uncharted 3 review code is winging its way to our offices. Look out for our final verdict on what looks like Nathan Drake's greatest adventure in the near future. that's where Home's strength lies. I know Sony would love to see Home become a destination where players show up and play the free games the service has -- as evident by the recently announced redesign -- but most players will compare the titles they're playing in Home to full downloads off the PlayStation Network and be disappointed. If Sony can set Home up as a service that supports big budget games, it'll bring more people in, and I'm sure some of them will stick around for unique experiences such as Scribble Shooter.
Sony wouldn't tell me when the Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception content would come to PlayStation Home, but seeing as how we're right on top of Nathan Drake's return to the console, I'd assume later this week.
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That said, the demo may undercut the value of Amazon pre-order bonuses for Uncharted 3 – since the online retailer is offering early-access unlocks for the Para 9 pistol and G-Mal rifle clip size mods as well as a code for the “Carpet Bomb” kickback. All of the mods are available in the demo and, by level 35, a player will have the ability (and very likely the money) to purchase all three. Since unlocks from the demo carry-over into the retail game, regular Uncharted 3 demo players may find that their pre-order bonuses aren’t all that exciting anymore. The Uncharted game series debuted in 2006 with the launch of the PlayStation 3. With each installment, Uncharted has been getting better. The visuals are so well done that you can’t tell the difference between cinematics, which are pre-scripted movies that advance the story, and actual game play. The action seamlessly moves back and forth between cinematics and game play, resulting in a feeling of total immersion in a blockbuster movie. playstation 3 uncharted, ps3 uncharted 3, uncharted 2, uncharted 2 ps3
Uncharted 2 was 26 chapters long and had a great deal of variety. The new game is going to have dozens of levels as well, and it looks like sand is going to be one of the ever-present environmental effects in the game. The game play is both familiar and novel.
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune was the first title in the series developed by Sony-owned game studio Naughty Dog. The second game was far more advanced, striking the right balance of great movie-like cinematics that advanced the story, harrowing combat scenes where you took on helicopters, and outstanding graphics and physics, such as a firefight that took place aboard a physically accurate moving train.
Overall, the competitive multiplayer experience is very smooth (with minimal lag issues). The new demo builds upon many of the great ideas the beta had already established and shows that Uncharted 3‘s online offerings will be an attractive alternative to all the FPS war multiplayer games arriving this holiday season. I started by playing a level called the French Chateau, which is an old multi-story building that is being consumed by flames in a most spectacular way. In this level, Drake and his old friend Sully have to escape a burning building even as they deal with large numbers of thugs shooting at them. Drake has to climb walls, scoot along ledges, and tiptoe across balance beams to get to safety.
With Uncharted’s combat, you have to duck behind cover and shoot when you have a chance to surprise your enemy. You can use a variety of weapons, but you can’t carry the whole kitchen sink with you. Enemies can cause you trouble, particularly when they shoot at you while you’re in a precarious position on a ledge.
The fire animations in the game look outstanding. They give off a roar when you open the doors and a gust of wind blows flames right into your face. The colors of the environment are still sharper and more vibrant than you would ordinarily see in real life. You have to jump from one platform or pipe to another as they collapse into the burning flames.
The second level I played was the “Cargo Plane,” which Sony revealed at E3 in June. On this level, the scene starts with a long cinematic that reveals more of the relationship between Drake and Elena, the heroine from the love triangle of Uncharted 2. You feel a tug of emotion as Drake moves on to certain doom and forces himself to separate from Elena.
Drake shoots his way to the giant cargo plane, which begins taking off. Elena returns in a jeep and enables Drake to jump onto the landing gear of the plane and board it just as it’s taking off. That’s a true Hollywood action scene. From there, Drake is in for a wild ride. He gets into a nasty fight with a big enemy and the hatch ramp of the cargo plane opens. Everything starts sliding down the ramp and flying out the door. Meanwhile, a bunch of bad guys arrive and start shooting machine guns. uncharted wiki, uncharted 3 release
Last Saturday, Naughty Dog, in conjunction with Subway restaurants, launched a promotion that granted players access to a new Uncharted 3 multiplayer demo. There’s a lot going on in this demo so we’ve put together our impressions of the pre-release beta to help new players and Uncharted veterans alike quickly jump into the fray. The new demo offers six maps – including three new maps (in addition to the ones from the original beta). The new maps include Syria, Desert Village (which was actually seen in at Naughty Dog’s panel at Eurogamer Expo this year), and London Underground. Unfortunately, several of the returning maps are missing the action-cut scenes from the original beta. Whether or not they’ll be absent in the final game however, is still unclear. That said, each of the new maps do feature similar random action events during each match. As an example, Syria has a helicopter that will actually fire rockets from time to time – and the Desert Village map features a sandstorm that decreases visibility.
Here are the game's key features:
* Diving back into the story of Nathan Drake, players will learn more about the events that brought him and his longtime friend and mentor Victor Sullivan together, as they undertake a perilous quest that tests the bonds of their partnership. Nolan North and Richard McGonagle reprise their performance capture roles of Nathan Drake and Victor Sullivan.
* Explore memorable new locations from around the world—from a derelict chateau deep in the forests in France to the merciless Rub’ al-Khali desert in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula.
* Bigger set pieces and more explosive adventure, driven by Naughty Dog’s signature storytelling and cinematic presentation.
* Competitive and co-operative multiplayer return with brand new experiences and massively expanded feature sets. The UNCHARTED universe provides online players with a unique Action Adventure multiplayer experience, bringing the cinematic elements of the single-player campaign into multiplayer.
* Nathan Drake can now take on opponents in more ways than before: hand-to-hand combat with multiple opponents, contextual melee attacks, and new stealth options. UNCHARTED 3 also features expanded and diverse traversal moves with deep gunplay, and constant problem solving scenarios that encourage player exploration throughout the environments.
* Naughty Dog introduces new physics, visuals, and environmental effects. The harsh desert environment of Arabia’s “Empty Quarter” is faithfully created with distant mirages, heat distortion effects and sand that drifts, displaces and flows realistically. The developer has also revisited nearly every visual effect in their repertoire, such as fire, smoke, and water.
* UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception will be playable in Stereoscopic 3D.
Thing is, though, that Uncharted 3 almost never seems to slip up. Its signposting is much improved since Drake's Fortune. You're guided seamlessly through action sequences so intense and high-octane that spectators can't help but laugh out loud as Drake climbs up the cargo plane's landing gear as it takes off, or hangs by his fingernails from a crumbling banister as everything around him goes up in flames. If these two scenarios represent the overall pace of the full game, we're in for one hell of a ride.
I wish they still made movies like this. The fact that they don't, though, is good news for games – and great news for the people who play them.
As we speak, Uncharted 3 review code is winging its way to our offices. Look out for our final verdict on what looks like Nathan Drake's greatest adventure in the near future. that's where Home's strength lies. I know Sony would love to see Home become a destination where players show up and play the free games the service has -- as evident by the recently announced redesign -- but most players will compare the titles they're playing in Home to full downloads off the PlayStation Network and be disappointed. If Sony can set Home up as a service that supports big budget games, it'll bring more people in, and I'm sure some of them will stick around for unique experiences such as Scribble Shooter.
Sony wouldn't tell me when the Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception content would come to PlayStation Home, but seeing as how we're right on top of Nathan Drake's return to the console, I'd assume later this week.
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