New Uncharted 2 screens, concept art leaked

by Randy Nelson on Dec 15th 2008 5:00PM

Somewhere in Holland, a dike holding back a slew of new Uncharted 2: Among Thieves screenshots and concept art just broke wide open. Full-resolution screens from an area in the game not seen in either of the two videos released thus far have appeared on Dutch gaming site XGN, and are quickly saturating the rest of the 'net.

Naughty Dog has confirmed via the NeoGAF forums that these are, in fact, in-game shots. They show protagonist Nathan Drake shooting, sneaking up on, and grabbing a riot shield from new, decidely non-piratey enemies. There's also been a breach of a reservoir carrying concept and character art, one piece in particular showing Drake's new sidekick, Chloe. All told: head explode?

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Environments look great.. but for some reason, I don't like the character models too much.. kinda look outdated to me for some reason.

I think the character models are looking great (:

From the pic above.. his clothes look like they're made of plastic or something.. Facial expressions look good as well.

Well, I guess we wouldn't be videogame nerds if we didn't PICK APART EVERY LITTLE THING.

You've just summed up most games on the market today, I can think of few that look different to Uncharted, plastic is the new thing these days.

Those are PR shots, incredible AA and AF etc. - probably scalled from extremaly high resolution.

The real game will be more rugged - and the plastic effect will be masked.

Looks great.

When will it come out?
Christmas 2009 or somtime in 2010?

anonim1979:

Has Naughty Dog ever released a bullshot before? All the stuff they released for Uncharted 1 ... well, the actual game ended up looking even better.

Why in the world was my comment down voted? I didn't say anything wrong.. at least, not in a gamer's eye.. Fanboy? Yeah, probably.

You said that Uncharted's character models looked 'outdated'.

^_That is what you said wrong._^

And.. so saying something that's my opinion is wrong? Because now I know that Uncharted has to be loved no matter the flaws or you are a bad person.. thanks people! ^_^.

Your comment was not crazy off the wall rude like most idiots that get down voted, so I totally gave you a plus click. Shouldn't get downvoted if your post was rational.

Though, have you seen Uncharted in action? The detail they put into the character models, especially the clothes, is amazing. When you walk into water, like just enough to get wet up to your knees, only that part of your pants are wet when you get to dry land - the rest of your body is still dry. It's crazy.

Though, you're definitely not wrong for posting your opinion. You would be, however, if you said "This game looks totally stupid and you're all idiots of you bought the PS3 for this!! Gears of War beats the crap out of this crap!!@"

Then you would be wrong XD

Well, lemme clear that up... it wouldn't be wrong to say you liked GoW better... I meant if you worded it like that...

...Back to real life! Cya later!

THANK YOU! That's all I wanted for people to get out of it.

@Hyams

Those ARE PR bullshots - no jaggies in sight AA X32 or higher incredible AF.

Compare it with realtime trailer relased today - it has a little of jagged edges (2xAA or 4xAA - and 4xAA MAX on PS3!).
You wont find anything like this on those leaked screens.

The screen that came out - the ones you/we are seing now are PRESS materials - specially prepared to PRINTING in paper mags.

I think it looks pretty dang cool myself.

anonim:

"we didn't touch the lighting, animation, texture, shader, post-processing, etc., etc. systems when taking these screens during actual gameplay.

doubt and challging us is healthy though, so no worries. we've got a year ahead of us to show the proof in the pudding once everything is in place."

From a ND employee on GAF.

Really, when they released the first screenshots of Uncharted 1 as well, everyone thought they were bullshots too. Look how that turned out.

I. Want. This. Game. period. . .

.

Saying period at the end of a sentence with so many periods is silly. You're silly.

You and me both man. I cannot help but notice how colourful these screens look. It's making me really happy in the "green" kind of way!

The first Drake looked really good to me. That along with Ratchet & Clank made me know it was only a matter of time before I buckle and get a PS3 at some point :P All these goodies aren't helping my willpower.

The level of detail is amazing. My only problem is naughty dog's policy of making all textures by hand(no photos). In a lot of places is makes everything look nice and smooth, and prevents that "it looks so real that it seems unreal" effect, however sometimes it just looks weird, almost like they just kinda cell-shaded random things

I know what you mean. There's a slightly odd quality to all the colour and environments, not just the character models.

Is this necessarily a bad thing? I like the look personally.

http://hdimage.org/images/tamnhnsp080shj25mk34_snapshot20081215125341.jpg

holy crap, look how detailed it is @__@

Ravi Drums

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know, the amount of detail is incredible, ESPECIALLY since all the cutscenes (like this one) are made with the game's engine.

This game will rock like the first one because of one simple equation... Half Tuck Shirt + Guns = Cool....

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5093/capture5cl8.jpg

FULL TUCK BITCH! FUCK YO' COUCH!

@Strategy_Panda
Yo Panda... lighten up on the caffine, I get the point. But the half tuck still looks better. He looks a little less cool with the whole full tuck thing going on...

Nah, it still half tuck in the back

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/97/capture7kb9.jpg

SORRY I JUST DID THE DEW!!!!!!!!!

Hey Panda, was misspelling sandwich part of the strategy?

i don't know what your talking about sir....

no, panda, look more carefully.

the front is also still half tucked on HIS left side.

he hasn't sold out just because he's on the best looking console game, yet.

HAHAHHAAH YOU STUPID BEAR, EHEHHEAHHAHAHH AH AH AHEHEH, YOU STUPID, STUPID BEAR!!!! YOUR MIND IS MELTING, SOON YOU'LL BE DEAD, AHAHHAHEHEHEHAHH!!!

Just incredible, almost too detailed for the eye to take in!
THIS is what you get when you're not held back by the 360's outdated tech.
/flame on

lol or they could just downvote and ignore you.

/flame off

No, this is what you get when you have awesome developers like Naughty Dog working their asses off.

Being "PS3 exclusive" didn't seem to help Haze very much did it?

These are the images in the Game Informer Article. There are these and about 15 more in the actual article, though obviously not as high def. Quite a great read really made me look forward to the game even more so then the trailer did.

Lovin' that KZ2 engine. It seems like detailed environments and lighting effects are the bread and butter of the technology.

Plus it looks even better in the day time!

THis is not the k2 engine. This is naughty dogs own engine from uncharted.

really? Are you sure about that?

When they made the first Uncharted they used their own engine and I doubt they've switched engines since then.

oh well,

I thought I read somewhere that they were using KZ2. I will stand corrected until someone tells me otherwise

Naughty Dog (God amirite) use a variant of the EDGE toolset and engine that they, Gorilla Games, Sony Santa Monica, and I think Sony Liverpool created, not sure on the last one. But in essence, and if you really want to reach, they share some portions of their engines amongst themselves.

Gorilla Games actually came up with the shadowing technique that produces clean shadows. Watch the credits for Uncharted: DF again and look at the studios listed under "Thanks to"

i believe your thinking of god of war.

I may be wrong though.

I know god of war does. I thought this game had the same thing going for it though.

Maybe I heard a variation of Curve's explanation

No game but Killzone 2 is currently using the Killzone 2 engine.

@ Hyams

God of War III. i win.

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