Looks like great news on the game side... on the devs rep it also promises to be a good buy game. I just wish this site would call it a Tombraider, for example... like Driving games... the first simulator was GTurismo... you do not hear that Forza or PGR are copies... why not? Because there is a lot of BIASED opinion here. Uncharted looks like a colorful, innovative game with a lot of very preferred game play elements intertwined (3rd P shooter, structured action fighting, jungle / environment acrobatics, NICE cinematics, puzzle solving, and then some more...). THis is a great game and IMO - a great buy for the PS3 library at home.
Uncharted development on course
Gamers are one step closer to treasure of El Dorado; Naughty Dog says Drake's Fortune has gone beta.
Uncharted will soon find itself on store shelves. Naughty Dog copresident Evan Wells has posted on Sony's PlayStation blog that the PlayStation 3 action adventure game has hit beta.
"The team really pulled together to help achieve this deadline and we couldn't be more excited about the progress we've made," Wells wrote. "Finally, most everything is in the game and we are just chasing down the last bugs and making a few minor balancing tweaks here and there."
Wells also mentioned that the team had finished its last major round of focus testing on the game last week. Focus testing has been a staple of Naughty Dog games since Crash Bandicoot, he said, noting that the feedback from testing is used to help tune the difficulty of the game, among other things.
Naughty Dog has just under four weeks to finish the game, Wells said. Sony Computer Entertainment America has scheduled Uncharted: Drake's Fortune for a November 20 release. There won't be any shortage of competition for the game, given that it will launch the same week as Rock Band for the Xbox 360 and PS3; Kane and Lynch: Dead Men for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC; Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games on the Wii; and Mass Effect on the Xbox 360. However, Uncharted has the distinction of being one of the holidays' highest-profile PS3 exclusives, along with Haze and Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction.
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Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
- Publisher(s): SCEA
- Developer(s): Naughty Dog
- Genre: Action
- Release:
- ESRB: T





