Joystick Radio Previews - Uncharted: Drakes Fortune

Joystick Radio Previews Uncharted: Drakes Fortune

Some info from the preview:"Uncharted: Drakes Fortune is a AAA title for the Playstation 3 as far as I can tell from playing the demo. Graphically Uncharted looks splendid and the details in the environment gives off this exciting atmosphere to roam around and the lighting is perfect, as the sunlight from above shines down through the trees and creates shadows on the ground and as you walk through the water you can see the after effect on Drakes legs. The facial expression on either Drake or Elena gives you a real idea how they feel and above all it's brings them to life as close as possible."

[wil4hire]

First Gt5p owned forza...
Now Uncharted owns Gears. Cant wait till the 19th

[dude_uk]

"Now Uncharted owns Gears. Cant wait till the 19th"

I fear you shall get some disagrees because of that coment...lol

i think you know why.....

but fear not... heres some bubbles

[MrWonderful]

its the 15th now

[Strange]

lol, no disagrees yet :P

[hazeblaze]

"The gameplay is really smooth, cover system is very fluid and if you have played Gears Of War (a class game btw) on the Xbox 360 before then you find the cover system on Uncharted feels much more smooth and less painful when performed. Most of the time you be covering behind objects because the enemies are much smarter then you think! "

Gears is still one of the better games on the 360 & I would never take anything away from it. But fanboys that claim that Uncharted is biting Gears has not played both games... b/c Uncharted's gameplay is just far deeper.

[demolitionX]

what i really liked about the demo too, the enemies are so smart. AI is so advanced in this game and so agressive on normal, not sure how it will look like on hard?????

[games4fun]

the AI is a little bit better and you cant take nearly as much damage, i was shouting an expletive the moment my screen went gray with just stepping out of cover for a second and then i had to make sure all my head shots counted and done fast before i would go gray screen for stepping out again.
I played the game demo multiple times and i still had trouble on hard even when i knew where each character was coming from.

ya i forgot about all the extra grenade throwing they did.the flanking alone makes me appreciate the AI.

[wh0am1]

It's AWESOME on hard!
It kicks everyting into higher gear.
Your enemies are more aggressive, you will get flanked constantly!
They will use grenades more often to force you to another cover.
the shot gun guys will run at you kamikaze sytle!
And they change their positions more often!

Gah...I can't wait for the game!

[TheExecutive]

the main difference on hard is the amount of hits you can take. AI is a tad more aggressive and a little smarter but thats about it.

[eagle21]

Why only 4 bubbles? Don't worry, I'll help you. Bubble 4U.

[hazeblaze]

Hard is AWESOME!!! I plan to beat the game on normal first, but I'm REALLY looking forward to playing the game again on Hard mode. It's definitely a different experience, lol.

I just can't say enough about the AI in this game... it's hands down the best enemy AI I have ever played against.

[remix]

watch how good this guy is playing and how good he makes this game looks.

wait till it gets the the big open area though. i think its about 3 minutes in, im not sure but this video was freakin crazy good.

i dont have the demo yet but im tellin you this video is freakin amongst the best

http://youtube.com/watch?v=... (bad quality though)

[wh0am1]

it looks like he's on Easy mode
the screen would've turned gray in 3 shots if it was on hard

meh...still it's a nice video

[xg-ei8ht]

Flanking is great, demo is great, A.I reminds me of farcry:) Awesome demo.

I'd like some bubbles:)

[resistance100]

Give bubbles and you shall recieve ;)

Anyway now that you do mention it, the Ai is simalar to Far Cry which is never a bad thing ^_^. Bubbles for pointing that out

[Daishi]

Thank you! Someone finaly mentioned FarCry, but the cover system reminds me far more of Killswitch than Gears. Mainly because in gears the camera was closer to you when you were behind cover to make you rely more on your alies, in Killswitch it panned out farther because you were all alone...

[iceice123]

Maybe you guys finally will get your 1st triple A game, that wasn't already played at least a year ago on my 360!

http://www.metacritic.com/g...

Wait wait wait, so you guys don't think this game will be triple A? Hmm, even Sony fans arn't excited for this game.

Awww poor baby, don't cry now.

Danja, sony girl, what ever that list fails as much as your console. triple A = 90% or higher average. So no Sony exclusive has reached it. Sigma...I played that on my Xbox years ago. Sigma wouldn't count it's a port and Oblivion was on the 360. None of the others, those laughable games, are triple A.

[remix]

rachet was also tripple aaa. most the reviewers said it was, idc if a couple really low reviews brought the average. and actually gamerankings.com still has it above 90.

metacritics never fixed there mistake with game revolutions score.

and not only that but, think about how fuc*ing stupid you sound.

if almost everybody thought the game was tripple AAA and then TWO PEOPLE GAVE IT A REALLY LOW SCORE, AND BROUGHT DOWN THE AVERAGE.

so basically what your asking is for EVERY reviewer in the world to think its tripple AAA. you young mind has alot to learn

[Danja]

when did metacritics score make agame AAA..?? I thought it was all about huge production values and what not..??..ne ways...

so were these games on the 360 last year.??

RFOM
Heavenly Sword
Warhawk
Motorstorm
R&C
NG:Sigma

[thereapersson]

You must be one of the most angst-filled fanboys on this website. Did Ken Kutaragi come to your house and touch you while you slept or something?

[QuackPot]

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[Imalwaysright]

Played the demo and this game is AAA+A

[remix]

i never heard of shi* like that in my life.
so all of a sudden if that last 4 reviewers that still have to review the game give it all 90 and up, then it ALL OF A SUDDEN BECOMES TRIPPLE AAA.

you my friend are the biggest dumbass on the planet

@icewake http://www.gamerankings.com... OWNED! dont cry now. they actually almost got game revolutions review RIGHT unlike metacritics

[iceice123]

Are you that much of an idiot? Metacritic>gamerankings anyday. They update way more often. Uhh yeah, gamerankings also says 89.5 for R&C: ToD. You FAIL again.

[Bebedora]

Tripple AAA ? so bad math it's funny. Had to pick note about it.

[Gamingisfornerds]

Thanks.

[pwnsause]

you do like to troll dont you. Are you an elementry school kid or somthin to be trolling around? people, please ingore this smallbrain, click disagree evertime he speaks and take away his bubbles, cause what comes out of his mouth is Diharrea.

[iceice123]

Is not trolling. Then defending them isn't trolling. You're ignored by 14 and tracked by none, hmm wonder what you were doing?

And I do the same to you lemmings, you see? There are many many times more of you kind on this site than "xbots". It is obvious by news that's approved and what's rejected. Ignore me now, you're another who hates the truth.

[pwnsause]

what was I doing, im stating the facts to xbots, its ok if you ignore me, just click the ignore button on your screen. i dont care. now how about you

ICEWAKE
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wow got ignored by 69 users. wonder why? oh, thats right, for trolling. Its ok, I wont turn it into 70 though, im a nice guy. i like to hear peoples opinions, not trash on something like you. I wonder how many ignores that the mart currently have? anyway, im expecting more people to ignore you since you are trolling and now talking about me, since i am accusing you for trolling.

BTW instead of talking about me publicly, why dont you PM me instead, you have no internet education dont you.

[tk]

You know... when companies give low rankings to keep a game from the suddenly "official" AAA rating - and detractors keep on looking for reasons why a game not on their platform should not be this "official AAA" ranking - just sad.

Uncharted will not be "officially AAA", because - of course - two or three sites will come out with a 4-6 score - depending on how much is required to keep it from the "official AAA" ranking.

Now the ranking is not going to make the game any better or worse. It was as good as it was when it was released. The ranking don't change the game.

R&C has many 10/10 scores. I played R&C on PS2 - my kids still play it. It is AAA. I played J&D. It was AAA back then. Naughty Dog produce good solid playable titles. Uncharted is more of the same attention to detail. So the reviewers can slap down a 4/10 score - I trust Naughty Dog and the many individual's all over sites who actually played the game more than some little fat FPS obsessed klutz who is on the take obviously. We don't need reviewers to tell us if a game is good or not. We decide for ourself what is AAA and what is not by the time we spend playing the games.

[Gamingisfornerds]

Do you really believe there are companies deliberately handing out low scores to certain games to prevent them from becoming AAA titles via gamerankings?!

Sound a bit silly to me. Different people just have different opinions and sometimes, some are way of "norm" but that just happens. There's no conspiracy theory going on, or anything.

I remember when Gears of War pretty much outscored Resistance in just about every review and by a fair margian as well. But Gametrailers gave both games the same score. Does that mean Gametrailers were on a mission to bring the overal score of the two games closer to eachother? I don't think so and it would be quite arrogant of Gametrailers, or any other site, to think they could actually be that much of an influence.

[Maldread]

I agree, and that`s why i don`t always like an reviews on average to determine AAA-status (even though they usually give a good impression of how a game is). If a game like Ratchet scores 90 % and then isn`t a AAA, but is an AAA, if it had 90,1 % on average, then it`s just stupid.

What if people don`t like a site, and dosn`t trust it`s reviews , like Gamespot`s for instance, yet still would have to let it count ? AAA can be determined by more than review scores. Gamers opinions and sales to mention some other ways to look at it.

[Gamingisfornerds]

Only silly fanboys look up exact scores on Gamerankings to determine if it's AAA or not. Most of the sane people will know by the general reception it's gotten and the production value of the game whether it's an AAA game or not. And in that respect I myself definitely consider R&C AAA material even though I don't like the game one bit.

Also, there's a bit of a grey area there. So to say that game only becomes AAA when jumping from 90% to 90,1% at Gamerankings is just plain idiotic and like I said, only silly fanboys think that way so I don't understand why it bothers you so much.

[Maldread]

Correct me if i`m wrong, but i think we agree completely here.

I was only trying to use fanboy logic against themselves, so they could see how stupid it seems. Although i`m sure they won`t change it, it still needs to be pointed out, i think.

Because what some of them is saying, is that a game has to have above 90% to be an AAA, like Icewake above me, but since Ratchet "only" has 89,5 it is not an AAA. All i was doing was pointing out that i disagreed with that kind of thinking, that`s all.

[Gamingisfornerds]

Judging from your post and in the context of you agreeing with TK, it seemed like you were refering to reviewers as well, not just fanboys.

But, it seems I misinterpeted your post then. My bad. ;)

[Maldread]

Yeah, i was talking about fanboys, not reviewers. Although since reviews on average is in a way about reviewers too, i guess i was referring to them indirectly ;)

But i was talking about fanboy behavior mainly here yeah ;)

[znu]

Ice wake, u like ur 360, good

i like my ps3, u dont see me going onto 360 forums and dissing them

PS3 has got its AAA titles and 360 has got its AAA titles.

These titles arn't defined by their review, they are defined by how much people like them. Gamespot doesn't like ratchet and clank, the rest of the world does, if you dont like ratchet and clank then i still dont give a dam because i like it.

Uncharted looks amazing btw. Sure its taken from the books of Gears but are u telling me that no game has ever taken something they liked from another game and incorporated it. Its like saying that halo has guns, it stole from every other FPS game in the world. Uncharted has a cover system, big whoop.

I agree with u tk, thats basically what im trying to say

[techie]

I have now played the demo. There are definitely some wow moments.

Things I noticed and enjoyed:

+You can pause the movies - helpful when somebody rang me during it (damn them!)
+The best layering of textures I've seen. The rocks are wet when they need to bet wet, and on some walls, you have damp moss,very wet moss etc. Looks godly.
+Shadows and lighting...just amazing. No jaggy shadows! incredible.

+Love all his animations when you're not doing anything...getting out his gun when he hears a sound, patting himself down, crouching down, putting his arms on his hips (lol) And in general...by being responsive and having smooth animation...certainly the best animation to date.

+Shooting a toucan was fun
+Walking through deep water, felt like walking through deep water
+Wet drake...and more importantly, partially wet drake
+Crossing the log wasn't as hard as some people said - I didn't fall over once, sixaxis was a nice touch
+Oh and getting him right to the edge and watching him trying to balance on one leg is very entertaining lol.

+The music was godly...and reacting to what I was doing.

+Destructable cover was very fun - especially the stone ones.

+Nate's hair shader...and generally nate in the whole is amazing looking.
+His facial expressions during punching and combat, and his heavy breathing...all really adds the this.

+What I think is really important...is both here and at neogaf we were complaining about him floating...or partial floating on non-horizantle edges. This is completely gone - and spectacularly gone! People were commenting that it was a problem we were always going to have, but Naughty Dog have solved it. On leaning edges his feet would angle correctly, if there was a hole, one of his feet would go in the hole. He would rest his feet on the bodeis. Really really well done. Does even AC do it this well? I've seen him on roof tops with floating feet...Drake's bend down the right angle!

+Walking on bodies! Wow...this was cool...I'd just stand on a body and jump up and down on them watching them react...and then I'd push them off the edges. Very funny! lol

+Control wise...very good, very responsive, he did what I wanted to do, and jumping from cover to cover was very easy. I was worried I wasn't going to like the shooting...but it is very good fun, and running around trying to punch them out and pick up their grenades was really cool.

[Gamingisfornerds]

Though, I disagree with the 'floaty' bit. In the vids I've seen of the demo he still seems to 'lack weight' and comes across very, well...floaty.

It's one of the few technical gripes I have about this game and to be honest, most games suffer from this, but it's very apparent nonetheless.

[Danja]

Great review..I played the demo also..it's amazing...BTW you should check out if Gamespot is hiring I think they'll do well with you..HAHAHA..j/k...

[Maldread]

You`re probably not the best person to ask since you seem to have a deep crush on Drake, but i gather the game is fun then ;)

Maybe i`m wrong here since i havn`t played the game, but is the animation really that great ? I`m not trying to flame here, but i can`t say it looked that mindblowing in the videos i watch recently. Could be that they were in to bad resolution for me to notice everything.The overall game still looked ace though, hope it turns out great.

[Danja]

Yes the animations are out of this world and im not saying this bcuz I have a PS3..I mean they went down to the little details in this game

like even when he's breathes you can see his shirt wrinkles ..
he reacts to the environment like a real person would
I did a roll in the water and only one side if Drake was wet..
if a grenade explodes near it's as if ur own ears is ringing..lol...you get what im trying to say...

Deep said everyone though and he's right....this game is the real deal..

[Maldread]

Yeah, and it seems like a great game too, so i`m thinking of maybe picking up a PS3 for it too. I guess you need to play it for yourself in order to see how good the animations actually is, so maybe i`ll have to do just that.

I trust Deep`s recommendations though, so i`m sure both he and you are right about the games quality ;)

[Gamingisfornerds]

But I think you might be refering to the animation transitions while other are refering to the seperate animations.

The seperate animations in this game are incredibly natural and fluid and are probably the best I've seen yet. But the animation transitions, as with any other game out there, are twitchy and quirky. Going from one animation into another, for instance: from standing to jumping, is just not on the same level as the animations are themselves.

Edit @ Maldread below: Aha, yes. I'm starting to understand how to interpete your posts even better than yourself now! ;)

[Maldread]

Hehe funny use of my own quote above there, nice one.

Yeah, you`re right about that. I guess i did a horrible job of specifying it though ;)

[hazeblaze]

Yes, there are a few awkward transitions... but actually far less in this game than any other I've ever played. Which is saying something considering that there are more animations in this one than any other I've ever played. Definitely the smoothest animations I've seen in a game before... in addition to the enormous amount of animations they included to capture all of the little details. I'm picking up Assassin's Creed next week so I'll be interested in comparing the animations in that game as well.

[scrillakiller]

dont pay that kid any attention hes a moron.360 fans are getting sick because they see the ps3 is starting to show its the stronger/better of the two.i noticed it since rfom.that was a launch title and while 360 had better graphics at the time rfom pawned all in amount going on onscreen at once.not to mention the mp was/is great.inbetween lines the xbox is a good system it was the first to take graphics to a new level.ps3 is taking graphics to a new level now along with everything else in a game.get used to this phrase beind said about ps3 games alot.wow ive never seen that in a game before.example uncharted.play it ull see what i mean.in the end play what u like though

[QuackPot]

Should be a great new franchise. Damn, starting to get alot of them.

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[wangdiddy82]

360 = over rated FPS games

PS3 = Its all about variety

People keep saying the ps3 has no games compared to the 360. I honestly think its the other way around.. The only type of game the 360 has that the ps3 doesnt have right now is a sim racing game like forza 2.. But that will change once GT5 drops soon.. Sure the 360 has a lot of shooters but so will the ps3 at the end of the year..

But the 360 doesnt have any type of games like heavenly sword, ratchet and clank, eye of judgement, warhawk, motorstorm, and now uncharted.

You would think the 360 would have more different types of games for being out a year ahead of the ps3 but the ps3 has more variety in games and a lot of them are really good..

[Bebedora]

I think I will enjoy R&C more. But since I havent played through ND's Uncharted I cannot tell really. But if it's as hard as J&D I can tell...

[Danja]

I say you get Both R&C is great i've played/beaten it..no PS3 owner should skip this game

Uncharted is just IMO..the most stunning PS3 exclusive to date ..and you don't have to worry about difficulty Normal is just perfect....and the story seems really intriguing...DUDE this game ROCKS...GET IT..!!

[Sevir04]

i was taken to a new level of graphic fidelity and game play. akin to the day i played Gears on my friends xbox 360 for the first time. break through graphics, breakthrough AI, and breakthrough gameplay. unmatched fun, and totally unparalleled animations, completely fluid and believable, the most emotional and grippingly enthralling characters i've ever seen since Heavenly Sword, you cant help but be amazed at how the believable the characters are, you see every emotion, and can't help but feel it with them, you become frantic when gunplay gets out of hand and when you flinch, it's not like the generic 3rd person shooters even so like gears... you dont really flinch when the locus are firing much. it's almost perfection, making it only longing to have more weight in feeling a bit heavy. drake some what feels alittle floaty. still it's amazing, and breakthrough in almost breakthrough in everyway.

and the Story is just amazing and and very cinematic. and the water physics and rendering is just amazing and traversing through water looks and feel like you are traversing through water with amazingly accurate physics and weight displacement, and animation match completely.

just mind-blowing this is the PS3's game to show what it's truely capable ofshowing of graphics and gameplay story telling and being addictive much the way gears was for the 360, amazing and is AAA all over it. while ratchet was awesome and was great at leveraging the PS3's hardware, and COD4 shows 3rd devs how to do multiplats for the PS3 but this is totally owning everyone much the same way gears own people for the 360 for quite some time.

and killzone2 will do just that but thats next years gamne.