Has Uncharted 2 Achieved Game of The Year Status?

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When Naughty Dog unleashed Uncharted 2: Among Thieves upon the PlayStation gaming universe last October, it effectively turned the series into one of the most recognized franchises in the gaming industry. The game went on to win dozens of awards including PlayStation LifeStyle’s Game of the Year. In this day and age when a developer releases a GOTY quality title, that usually means a re-release later that next year under the GOTY label and all the DLC it can squeeze on a Blu-Ray disc. It seems Nathan Drake has discovered his own Game of the Year Edition and for those who have missed out on this masterpiece of a game, now’s your chance.

According to a recent listing on the most popular importing gaming site around, Play Asia, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves will be receiving a GOTY edition come this October. If you believe everything you read, you can go ahead and pre-order it for $60. Expect all the DLC and skins released so far and who knows, maybe even some new content thrown-in for fun.

If and when this much talked about GOTY Edition turns out to be true, you know us Uncharted fanboys here at PlayStation LifeStyle will let you know all the juicy details! [source]


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Pre-Sim’ed and Realtime Physics in Uncharted 2

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Over at Develop, they have an exclusive excerpt from Ballistic Publishing’s ‘Art of Uncharted 2′, where they get very in-depth on the creation of some of the iconic scenes from Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. I really loved the opening where they discuss the marriage of presimulated physics run in Maya to real-time physics done via their in-game Havok engine.

We also wanted to increase our use of pre-simulated physics so if we had a major destruction effect like a building collapsing, we’d pre-simulate all that in Maya, bake all that animation down, and then run that through the game engine. So you’d have real-time control of the player, but the building collapsing is a pre-simulated event.

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