Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune video demo
Developed by the studio that brought blockbuster hit franchises Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter to PlayStation fans, Naughty Dog’s, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is the first game in a new fast-paced action-adventure franchise developed exclusively for the PS3 this winter.
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune promises to impress players with incredibly realistic characters and lifelike environments. Naughty Dog has created an elaborate plot that will have players guessing at every turn. Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, brings players into a world ripe with realism and unexpected juxtapositions. A fallible hero akin to those depicted in pulp-adventure genre films, Nathan Drake brings a humanity and believability never seen before in video gaming, enabled entirely through the PS3’s tech…
Get the HD Uncharted video at Gametrailers.
Storyline: A 400-year-old clue in the coffin of Sir Francis Drake sets a modern-day fortune hunter on an exploration for the fabled treasure of El Dorado, leading to the discovery of a forgotten island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
The search turns deadly when Nathan Drake becomes stranded on the island and hunted by mercenaries. Outnumbered and outgunned, Drake and his companions must fight to survive as they begin to unravel the terrible secrets hidden on the Island.
Key game features include:
* Using maps and ancient artifacts, uncover clues and unravel mysteries to find a forgotten island and a treasure that was thought to have never existed
* Explore exotic locations. Traverse through living jungles and spectacular 400-year-old ruins.
* Drake’s companions and allies play an important role in the adventure through cooperative mechanics, gun play and exploration.
* Experience fast-paced gunplay: use a variety of environmental elements for cover, shoot enemies off of moving vehicles in high speed chases and more.
* Use an array of hand-to-hand fighting moves to put your enemy off balance. Anything from wild haymaker punches to running drop-kicks.
* Naughty Dog’s advanced animation techniques allow Nathan to switch seamlessly between movements and achieve a whole new level of believability in gameplay. Nathan can reload his weapon while dodging bullets and find cover behind a wall, all in one smooth natural motion.
* Characters express lifelike emotion using gesture and facial expression through the use of Naughty Dog’s proprietary Wrinkle Mapping Facial Animation system.
* High-definition range lighting delivers full floating point color calculations yielding an unequaled level of realism and detail.
* Hyper realistic water through physics based Wave Simulation paired with cutting edge Refraction/Reflection rendering techniques.
* Utilizing next generation rendering techniques such as Bump Mapping, Parallax Mapping, Blend Shaders, Global Illumination, Runtime Shadows and Real Time Shadows, Naughty Dog has created a vibrant living environment.
Here’s the Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune trailer:
Click on the bottom-right corner arrow to view it full-screen.
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This game looks amazing. I would almost buy a PS3 for something like this. Looks excellent. I love that sense of exploration and adventure that Naughty Dog is using in this game.
Very cool indeed.
26 May 2007 23:07Reeteshinator back with a blast
WOW! Friggin awesome! I am going to GET this game no matter what!
Naughty Dog always did impressive graphics! This one really shows off how experienced they are in such things!
