drakesfortune | "Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception" News Dump

After hack-attack, Sony promises epic games with U3 and All 4 One:

Sony Corp.'s Playstation lost a couple of gamers after hackers stole private information, including credit card information, from all 77 million members of the PlayStation Network. With the PlayStation Network back after a month-long layoff, Sony has updated its blog site with new information on upcoming releases Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One.

"We've developed a unique process for motion capture and performance capture for games," Uncharted 3 Creative Director Amy Hennig explained during a recent tour of Naughty Dog's cutting-edge new mocap studio in Culver City, California. "We're kind of ahead of the pack." [READ MORE]

Uncharted 3 Collector’s Edition Announcement Etched in Stone:

You can’t deny that Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 3 is set to make a huge splash on the PS3 when it lands in the hands of fellow treasure hunters. So it probably doesn’t come as a big surprise that one of 2011′s most-anticipated games will be available will some extra loot for you to plunder.

In a recent interview with France’s Gameblog, Naughty Dog’s co-founder, Christophe Balesta did not deceive the masses when he confirmed a collector’s edition for Drake’s Deception: 'There will be a collector’s edition (…) This version will incorporate it, we’ll talk about it soon … and it will be great!' [READ MORE]

E3 2011 Must-See: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception:

Uncharted 2 garnered particular praise for the quality of its storytelling, the depth of its characters and the movie-like nature of the actor’s performances. Amy Hennig, creative director at Naughty Dog, has spoken many times about the freedom Sony afford the studio in allowing them to see their vision through to completion with minimal interference. It’s this freedom and history of quality narratives that sets our expectations for Uncharted 3 so high; essentially, this is one of those games that will disappoint unless it’s incredible. By incredible we mean pushing a 10/10.

It’s not just the plot and characters that we’re hoping to be impress by, however. Uncharted 3 is coming in full 3D, a technology that has been adopted with mixed success by a number of skilled development studios. There can be little doubt that the studio were ‘encouraged’ by Sony to include the feature as a way for them to further tout the validity of 3D TV sets but, no matter what the reasons behind the feature, this is Naughty Dog and whenever Naughty Dog are concerned we expect quality. For many players, the biggest surprise with Uncharted 2 was the quality of its multiplayer component. A detailed levelling up and perk system, varied maps and satisfying weapons combined with the standard physics and mechanics present in the single player mode proved a massive success and helped keep the game out of bargain bins and off of eBay for much longer than most third-person adventure titles. [READ MORE]