New Uncharted 2 screens, concept art leaked

by Randy Nelson { Dec 15th 2008 at 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?

[Via PS3 Fanboy]

Tags: naughty-dog, scea, uncharted, uncharted-2, uncharted-2-among-thieves

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

Arnon @ Dec 15th 2008 5:05PM

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 kinda look outdated to me for some reason.

Victor @ Dec 15th 2008 5:13PM

I think the character models are looking great (:

Arnon @ Dec 15th 2008 5:18PM

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

Squirtforce @ Dec 15th 2008 5:20PM

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

Maverick Saturn @ Dec 15th 2008 5:32PM

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.

anonim1979 @ Dec 15th 2008 5:55PM

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?

Hyams @ Dec 15th 2008 6:32PM

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.

Arnon @ Dec 15th 2008 7:45PM

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.

Hyams @ Dec 15th 2008 9:19PM

You said that Uncharted's character models looked 'outdated'.

^_That is what you said wrong._^

Arnon @ Dec 15th 2008 10:43PM

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! ^_^.

Levi @ Dec 15th 2008 11:58PM

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

Levi @ Dec 16th 2008 12:01AM

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!

Arnon @ Dec 16th 2008 12:02AM

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

anonim1979 @ Dec 16th 2008 12:06AM

@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.

ryan @ Dec 16th 2008 8:59AM

I think it looks pretty dang cool myself.

Hyams @ Dec 16th 2008 9:28AM

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.

ice~ @ Dec 15th 2008 5:06PM

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

.

Ihavepants @ Dec 15th 2008 5:22PM

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

Chainblast @ Dec 15th 2008 11:35PM

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!

Markez (Anti-Panda Death Murder Squadron) @ Dec 15th 2008 11:55PM

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.

dustandechoes91 @ Dec 15th 2008 5:09PM

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

Haggard @ Dec 15th 2008 5:27PM

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

Vidikron @ Dec 15th 2008 7:19PM

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

Noshino @ Dec 15th 2008 5:10PM

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

holy crap, look how detailed it is @__@

Strategy_Panda (The Sandwitch Poisoning Crew) @ Dec 15th 2008 5:30PM

Ravi Drums

-slycooper_rocker- (lorddshadow the amazing) psn: shahanasalam @ Dec 15th 2008 11:44PM

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

Doctor Spud @ Feb 7th 2009 5:58PM

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

kbomb1upc @ Dec 15th 2008 5:17PM

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

Strategy_Panda (The Sandwitch Poisoning Crew) @ Dec 15th 2008 5:23PM

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

FULL TUCK BITCH! FUCK YO' COUCH!

kbomb1upc @ Dec 15th 2008 5:32PM

@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...

Noshino @ Dec 15th 2008 5:35PM

Nah, it still half tuck in the back

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

Strategy_Panda (The Sandwitch Poisoning Crew) @ Dec 15th 2008 5:38PM

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

Squirtforce @ Dec 15th 2008 5:46PM

Hey Panda, was misspelling sandwich part of the strategy?

Strategy_Panda (The Sandwich Poisoning Crew) @ Dec 15th 2008 5:49PM

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

J @ Dec 15th 2008 10:26PM

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.

Markez (Anti-Panda Death Murder Squadron) @ Dec 15th 2008 11:58PM

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

JoeTheBlow @ Dec 15th 2008 5:17PM

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

SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread - XBL: SoCoolCurt) @ Dec 16th 2008 12:43AM

lol or they could just downvote and ignore you.

/flame off

ryan @ Dec 16th 2008 9:03AM

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?

Menchi @ Dec 15th 2008 5:22PM

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.

Strategy_Panda (The Sandwitch Poisoning Crew) @ Dec 15th 2008 5:22PM

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!

browntown @ Dec 15th 2008 5:30PM

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

Strategy_Panda (The Sandwitch Poisoning Crew) @ Dec 15th 2008 5:31PM

really? Are you sure about that?

kbomb1upc @ Dec 15th 2008 5:44PM

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

Strategy_Panda (The Sandwitch Poisoning Crew) @ Dec 15th 2008 5:45PM

oh well,

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

=Curve= @ Dec 15th 2008 5:46PM

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"