Uncharted videos map out better idea of gameplay
by Alexander Sliwinski 
{ Sep 19th 2007 at 1:35AM }
The video above and after the break look good, but we can't help notice that there are still some rough gameplay issues going on. Thankfully, we've seen solid development progression as we've reported on the title the last few months. We'll try to get more hands-on time with the game this week as we report from the Tokyo Games Show.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
D. Axel @ Sep 19th 2007 1:47AM
Looks like Gears of War did something with the cover element after all.
Killer Loki @ Sep 19th 2007 8:28AM
it's called killswitch, ditz
Hashbrown_Hunter @ Sep 19th 2007 1:53AM
Is the sound off in the videos or is it just me?
colin @ Sep 19th 2007 4:35AM
sound is there, music ... not so much
samfish (MSDF- Nurse Outfit!) @ Sep 19th 2007 1:55AM
The videos make it looks like there's a lot of shooting, but otherwise, that doesn't look too bad.
samfish (MSDF- Nurse Outfit!) @ Sep 19th 2007 1:56AM
Oh, wait – my bad:
Arrr, the 'ideos make it looks like thar's a lot o' shootin', but otherwise, that doesn't look too bad. Aye, me parrot concurs.
Neptune @ Sep 19th 2007 2:03AM
Might be intentional. Controls and camera.were criticized before so I think they wanted to show them being fixed.
I do hope they can find the right balance of shooting and platforming.
shivr @ Sep 19th 2007 2:27AM
samfish, your icon is very new and exciting =o
OGHowie @ Sep 19th 2007 2:02AM
This game better be good or else the only worthwhile PS3 exclusives for this year will be Heavenly Sword and Warhawk.
Marty @ Sep 19th 2007 2:04AM
Oh, another one of THOSE games...
Sean @ Sep 19th 2007 2:04AM
The animation is so pretty! They just need to work on the close quarters combat and I think this'll be a nice addition to the PS3's library.
Vegnagun @ Sep 19th 2007 1:29PM
What library?
Bud-um-ching
Sean @ Sep 20th 2007 5:07PM
I marvel at your cleverness
Rawtoonz @ Sep 19th 2007 2:09AM
looks above average but nothing mind blowing (but what does look mindblowing these days??) Crysis? :P
blooh (CDF - Ass Ring) @ Sep 19th 2007 2:10AM
think they'll port to 360?
Tom @ Sep 19th 2007 2:35AM
It's being published by Sony, so no, not a chance.
colin @ Sep 19th 2007 4:02AM
i'll see your bait, and raise you twenty ...
you think they'll port act zero to ps3???
you should change to cock ring, i think thats better.
colin @ Sep 19th 2007 4:33AM
and after re-reading my reply to you ... though i was trying to be funny, it may have come across offensively which was certainly not my intention ... ADD is a terribly wonderful thing (i say this because it is my blessing and my curse!)
shivr @ Sep 19th 2007 2:29AM
I laughed at the "what this game should be called" comment but after looking at the footage, it really -does- just look like a mashup of all those other games. Not that there's anything wrong with that ;)
Obie @ Sep 19th 2007 2:36AM
Raider of War = Meh.
colin @ Sep 19th 2007 3:51AM
double meh
rokobungi @ Sep 19th 2007 2:44AM
looks like this could be the best exclusive the ps3 gets this year.
from the title and the gameplay shown it looks like "FarCry:Raider of the Persian Ark"
colin @ Sep 19th 2007 3:56AM
or
Max Payne 3: Vacation in South America!
now with less violence, more sunlight, and puzzles... without the acid trips!
elmersglue @ Sep 19th 2007 4:55AM
graphics look pretty damn impressive. The puzzles kind of remind me of Soul Reaver (loved that game). Gun fights look pretty shitty if you ask me, but everything else looks pretty fun.
Sam @ Sep 19th 2007 6:24AM
"Raider of War." - Exactly.
This looks like tomb raider...Except they haven't been able to replicate the industry famous puzzles/acrobatic gameplay very well, so they've just chucked in some shitty cover system shooting system with shitty enemy AI which will probably get annoying after the first 2 levels and you'll wish you could just explore in peace instead of playing some toned down shooter/toned down explorer.
Really average looking.
Predicting another AAA PS3 title going down the drain here lads.
God why did i buy one ¬_¬
NeoAngelicPrince @ Sep 19th 2007 9:30AM
I totally agree.
Visually the game looks excellent but thats about it. Just another one of THOSE games...
DatGuy83 @ Sep 19th 2007 8:01AM
I think the game looks great.
The game looks fun. I don't know how people can say that the shooting and cover system looks just like GOW, it really does btw, and then say it looks crappy. The AI is really hard to determine from a short video montage. If they were all hardcore military savants then you would die in two seconds against the swarm of people in the first video.
I can't wait for this game.
Jake @ Sep 19th 2007 8:12AM
I'm often, and in my opinion wrongly, called a 360 fanboy but even I think this game looks really good. I would have rather the shooting elements were less Gears of War (swat roll and roll over cover is almost identical) because I already played a game full of that.
But, the graphics look good. It has puzzle elements. I liked the way the guns sounded and the way dust poofed from bullet impact on pillars. Gave it a cool little effect. Hopefully they add a nice multiplayer component that isn't tacked on or charged for.
flameofdoom666 @ Sep 19th 2007 9:59AM
Why does evetything have to be about multiplayer?
Benny @ Sep 19th 2007 8:31AM
The animation system is fantastic, graphics are pretty, the mix of genres could be a winner but, I can't help but feel it looks a little "loose".
RedJoggingSuit(MSDF-Battle Angel) @ Sep 19th 2007 8:48AM
Gears of War much?
kevin @ Sep 19th 2007 9:35AM
whats with morons like you, gears of war isnt original. there were multiple games before that gears copied off of.
NeoAngelicPrince @ Sep 19th 2007 9:51AM
@ Kevin
You're such a hater...
I can smell your jealous thru the internets
RedJoggingSuit(MSDF-Battle Angel) @ Sep 19th 2007 9:54AM
I never said Gears was original, but neither is this game. I don't know if we saw the same video but it looked like a femme Marcus Phoenix fighting non-locusts, right down to the weapon select, cover, and blind fire.
vinny @ Sep 19th 2007 9:58AM
can they possibly rip off gears anymore? this isnt even funny
Evan Brown @ Sep 19th 2007 10:12AM
"Naughty Dog, best known for the PS2's Jak and Daxter games"
i think they are best known for Crash Bandicoot
OrganicShadow @ Sep 19th 2007 10:22AM
To be honest im STILL not that crazy about the graphics. I love my PS3 and all but everything looks like it's covered in tin foil and then painted with acrylic paint.
It looks fun though, and I never liked Tomb Raider, so if this can give me the.....raiding(?) experience, without the lame main character then bring it on.
For some reason though watching him run around in the jungle makes me want to play Abe's Odyssey again. That game was hot sex.
Ironhide @ Sep 19th 2007 10:26AM
Well, if you're going to rip off a game, at least try to rip off a good game... or two, or three... and so on and so forth.
Deviation @ Sep 19th 2007 10:32AM
Wow, the trolls are really out in full force this morning.
JJ @ Sep 19th 2007 11:03AM
ALot of you guys DO know Gears of war wasnt the first game to use a cover system right?
I mean dont get me wrong, Epic can make great games... but GoW aint necessarily the first game to do...well anything really... its like saying all FPS games were copied off of Halo.
and as for the Tomb Raider comments... even Joystiq in an earlier post about uncharted said the only correlation it has to Tomb Raider is that you're a treasure hunter.
Trev @ Sep 19th 2007 11:41AM
I really think it's just people that see it's a graphically impressive game that does what Gears did but does it with less flat characters characters (do-rag and soul patch so Fenix is x-treme and cool, rite?) and in more interesting environments.
It's not so much that they're running scared, but they hope to prove Gears is still the "bestest game evar" by saying anything with which similarities could be drawn is a ripoff. We'll go through the same shit once Halo 3 comes out and Gears is all but forgotten. Any game with a gun in it will be "an inferior shootan game to Halo 3".
Guybrush Threepwood @ Sep 19th 2007 11:13AM
Why can't we be friends, why can't we be friends, why can't we be friends, why can't we be friends?
why not the LS2/LS7? @ Sep 19th 2007 11:42AM
Looks good. The animations do need some work at times (like when he falls in the water). It's gonna be a rush to get this one out the door this year.
I swear those ground textures are stolen straight out of Gears of War. It looks good in this game, in a few ways, this game actually looks better than Gears. But I have to imagine it would be a bit distracting.
It's interesting how it zooms in to reload (sometimes) and the way it switches to your map with a rapid zoom to your hands. I have to imagine that elements like this will become standard in the future. Maybe people will even say "this game rips off Uncharted" some day.
Trev @ Sep 19th 2007 12:45PM
Eh. Gears textures look like rocks, these textures look like rocks. There's only so much variation you can get when it's supposed to be a realistic material. They have a similar normal-mapping quality to them though, so while I can see what you mean, I think it's a stretch to say it's "ripped off from gears"
why not the LS2/LS7? @ Sep 19th 2007 2:18PM
Trev:
Gears doesn't look realistic, everything looks way over bump-mapped and crazy lit. Take a look at any building in Gears, do marble buildings really have huge black cracks in them in real life?
No.
Gears is stylized, not real. It's trying to be "more real than real" if anything.
Uncharted for some reason is copying some of these aspects of Gears. It's not a terrible thing, but it's not just a "convergence to real" as you imply.
Forsakyn @ Sep 19th 2007 12:26PM
Video didn't do much more me personally, but part of that may be the bad taste I got from some of the latest Tomb Raider games. I don't mind that there's a lot of shooting, though - I'd rather have puzzles here and there and lots of action inbetween.
The animations are nice, but the combat itself is sort of subdued. I'm fine that they're not going for super-bloody, but I'd like more of a violent shaking effect from blasting guys with the gun - maybe the shotun does that.
I'll still probably get it, though, as my PS3 has mostly been a blu-ray player to date.
fawazr @ Sep 19th 2007 12:36PM
The gameplay looks like it's all over the place. And while damage in Gears suspended disbelief because you played as a hulking, armor-clad barbarian, it's silly to watch a guy in a t-shirt take 12 shots to the abdomen and head without flinching.
At least the visuals are gorgeous even though the character designs aren't much my taste.
At best, this game will improve on a lot of gaming clichés. At worst, it will be a contrived heap of shit covered with a glossy veneer of colorful candy and wax.
na2ru1 @ Sep 20th 2007 7:57AM
Its the BEST looking game out there to date. No wonder all the xbox trolls are here panicking and trying to say otherwise. Fug off Xbots, PS3s graphics hav only sparked atm, and will unleash
1 of my most anticipated games, then Killzone, GT, not interested in mgs that much, oh and Haze, lil big planet, anybody heard of 8 days?