PS3 News
'Uncharted 2: Among Thieves' debuts exclusively on the PS3
By Hector Cortez Oct 13, 2009, 13:04 GMT
Sony announced today the North American launch of UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves exclusively for the PlayStation 3.
Sony announced today the North American launch of UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves exclusively for the PlayStation 3.
Developed by Naughty Dog, the team that produced UNCHARTED: Drake's Fortune for PS3 and the Jak & Daxter franchise for PlayStation 2, UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves is a story-driven, single-player action-adventure game with competitive multiplayer and cooperative modes.
UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves follows Nathan Drake, a fortune hunter with a shady reputation and past who is lured back into the treacherous world of thieves and mercenary treasure-seekers. In this adventure, Drake seeks to discover the truth behind the lost fleet of Marco Polo and the mythical Himalayan valley of Shambhala, and ultimately recover the legendary Cintamani Stone. Along the way Drake encounters a rogue paramilitary leader and fugitive war criminal who's seeking the treasure for his own nefarious purposes. Accompanied on this quest by allies both old and new, Drake is forced to confront crises of loyalty and betrayal within an underworld of smugglers and thieves.
The Naughty Dog 2.0 engine provides UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves with an open design, which allows players to take an aggressive or stealth approach to combat. While in combat Drake can jump across gaps in buildings during a rooftop fight, or drop off of a ledge to use the building as protection, opening up the opportunity for players to use the environment itself as a cover. In addition, free-flowing traversal gunplay adds a unique vertical element to familiar cover-based third-person shooting mechanics, allowing the player to engage in combat from any position in the environment - even while climbing or hanging. The environment also serves to challenge the player to interact with moving set pieces. Players will find themselves fighting through collapsing buildings, or battling enemies on a train taking sharp turns and moving around obstacles.
In addition to the single-player campaign, UNCHARTED 2 offers cooperative and online multiplayer modes. Competitive multiplayer supports up to 10 players, and offers a wide selection of match types from Deathmatch to Gold Rush across 7 different maps. Utilizing a robust party system, groups of players will remain together in ranked and custom matches while earning currency, which used in combination with currency earned in single player missions, will unlock additional content and upgrades. The competitive multiplayer also includes Cinema and Machinima modes that enable gamers to automatically record gameplay data for any match in any map and game type. Players can then head into Cinema to watch the recorded matches. Replays, screenshots and footage can then be made into videos in Machinima mode. Cooperative mode allows gamers 3 distinct scenarios for up 3 players to progress through a variety of environments by working together to accomplish set objectives.
