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Developer: Naughty Dog
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Genre: Action
Sub-Genre: Adventure
Release Date: Nov 20th, 2007
Additonal Info:
Developer: Game Republic
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Genre: Action
Sub-Genre: Adventure
Release Date: October 9th, 2007
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Developer: Luxoflux Corp.
Publisher: Dreamworks
Genre: Action
Sub-Genre: N/A
Release Date: May 27th, 2008
Additonal Info: Also available on PlayStatio...
With Uncharted: Drake's Fortune set to release next week, PSU decided to hit up Naughty Dog for last minuet details on the technology behind the game and what makes Uncharted stand out from other titles on the market.
In our interview, we chat with Christophe Balestra, Co-President of Naughty Dog. The interview will touch base on such topics as the necessity of Blu-ray and the power of the Cell processor. So onto the interview!
PSU: How does the animation system and graphics in Drake's Fortune benefit from the Cell and SPU's?
Christophe Balestra: One of our first goals when we started Uncharted: Drake's Fortune was to push what's been done in animation for video games. We developed a brand new animation system that took full advantage of the SPU's. Nathan Drake's final animation is made of different layers like running, breathing, reloading weapons, shooting, facial expression, etc; we end up decompressing and blending up to 30 animations every frame on the SPU's.
And this is just for Nathan Drake; we have a lot more than that when you add the NPC's and enemies.
PSU: What are some things Naughty Dog has planned for PlayStation Home?
Balestra: I can't give you specifics about our plans, but I can tell you that we are looking forward to working with the team to bring Uncharted to Home.
PSU: Any plans to introduce downloadable content in Uncharted Drake's Fortune?
Balestra: No, there is no plan as of today.
PSU: When looking at the size of games, are you happy that Sony provided Blu-ray built in with PlayStation 3? And to tag along with that, how big in Gigabytes is Uncharted currently standing at?
Balestra: As I said earlier, we couldn't have done Uncharted without the Blu-ray, at least at the quality we wanted to make it. To get such high-resolution textures and movies, a Blu-ray was indispensable to achieve the graphic quality of Uncharted. We fill the disc at 91 percent and it's optimized, meaning we don't duplicate any data. That includes all our game data, sounds, 7 spoken languages and 102 minutes of movie.
Talking about movies, I wanted to mention they are pre-render using our engine ... (continued on next page)
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Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Japanese Commercial
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Japanese Commercial HD
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Making of
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Making of HD
anyone who doesnt get this game may as well have a 360 (no not really never get a 360 but it is a good game no a great game)
Legend, while I do have a 360 and a PS3, I will completely agree with you that anyone who does not get this game is a damn fool
4 OF US
5 of us!
6!!!
7
8 and the list continues
guess we'll be thousands at the end :)
11 I guess. Pre-ordered the game months ago. ND has always delivered!!!
12, this game is to good to pass yup
Sheesh!! There are 2 people who don't even know what we're counting lol!!
That makes 9 of us. Yes, I know what we're counting, lol.
13, this game is so fluid the controls are awesome- I've played th demo 6 times now. I will own this game!!!!
14. This is one of the best games I've ever played. The living world and animations mixed with the graphics and extremely fun gameplay makes this one of the best.
Not thinking of getting this hahaha killed it for you guys; XD j/k this game is teh shiznit.
15 count me in, I ve been waiting for years to play a game of this quality and setting.
how do you go from 8 to 11?
since assassin's creed just dive bombed, uncharted will see more light of day. I have faith in this title, and from the demo its an amazing game. This game is top on my wishlist.
17!!!!!!!!
I just got my Dual Shock 3 and cant; wait to play this game with it.
That makes well over 500,000 of us, I think we can stop counting as it's clearly going to be well past the million point before it's all said and done. The game is a quality title... of course probably every site aside from Gamspot will see that.
I'm quite suprised that the cinemas are done in FMV, there are absolutly no artifacts at all, compared to Heavenly sword which did the same thing to remove the delay from scene to gameplay but had very noticable compression artifacts in comparison.
Are they talking about the single layered or dual layered?because that is a big size difference.@ Motorhead98
May be the guy who said 11is gonna buy 2 extra copies?
I cannot wait to get this game...
18!!!
19! lol
20! I absolutely LOVE this game! I'm about 75% through with it but I've only found 8 treasures. I think there's like over 60 so I'll have to play it through it again and again until I have them all. Overall, probably the best game on the PS3 right now (next to Call of Duty 4). On a side note I think the PS3 has the best upcoming line-up of any other console. Halo 3 and Mario are already out. That's just about it for big exclusive titles from the competiton. We still have FFXIII, FFXIII Vs., MGS4, Gran Turismo, SingStar, LittleBigPlanet, Home, and of course, Killzone 2.
most beautiful game ive ever played... and i only played the demo =[