Videos: Uncharted 2 First Online Reviews for PlayStation 3

[PS3 News]

Naughty Dog's Senior Manager of Marketing Communications Arne Meyer has shared some Uncharted 2 PS3 reviews today on the PlayStation Blog... including IGN and GamesRadar, to quote:

Things are picking up steam for us as we head into the final weeks before Uncharted 2: Among Thieves releases worldwide in October. It's hard to believe that just nine months ago, we announced UNCHARTED 2 with our http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzy2-UuFPJg at the 2008 SPIKE Video Game Awards.

We took the next few months to slowly tease out more information on our single-player campaign until we dropped the bomb in late April that we were including multiplayer gameplay modes in UNCHARTED 2. Everyone at Naughty Dog worked exceptionally hard to get those modes ready to provide everyone with a small preview of what we were up to when we launched our Multiplayer Beta during E3 2009.

Not only did we feel great that everyone was finally getting some hands-on time with UNCHARTED 2 multiplayer, but we were equally stoked to end E3 2009 with over 20 awards, including 6 "Best in Show" awards.

Since then, we've spent all our time putting the finishing touches on the game and we were able to recently announce that UNCHARTED 2 had gone gold. Since then, we've been eagerly waiting to see what game critics have thought about our game and we're just now starting to see the reviews come in.

Earlier this week, we were absolutely thrilled to see our first review garnering a 5 out of 5 and Editors' Choice Award in the November 2009 issue of PlayStation: The Official Magazine.

Then, today, we received two more reviews - http://ps3.ign.com/articles/102/1026373p1.html had the exclusive review and gave UNCHARTED 2 a 9.5 out of 10 and http://www.gamesradar.com/ps3/uncharted-2-among-thieves/review/uncharted-2-among-thieves/a-2009091875511998094/g-200812159395546092 UK chimed in with another perfect 10 out of 10. Needless to say, we can't wait to read the rest of the reviews over the next few weeks!

Don't forget that just because we release on October 13, 2009, doesn't mean you can't get some hands on time with UNCHARTED 2 before we launch - our Multiplayer Demo will be available to everyone via PlayStation Network on September 29 or, if you pre-order a copy at GameStop now, you can jump in today!

If you do play the Multiplayer Demo, keep a sharp eye out as you're playing anytime over the next four weeks - a bunch of Naughty Dogs will be playing with you!

You can spot us by the red paw next to our PlayStation Network ID in Multiplayer matches and some of us will also be using unique Naughty Dog character skins - Nathan Drake and a pirate from UNCHARTED: Drake's Fortune, both wearing a Naughty Dog shirt.


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[DSpider]

I think this is probably the first game that pushes the PS3 to it's limits really taking advantage of The Cell Processor <insert thunder here>.

[semitope]

I'm thinking they can get even more from the ps3 though.. It's just reaching 3 years old!

[GZA1984]

Originally Posted by DSpider I think this is probably the first game that pushes the PS3 to it's limits really taking advantage of The Cell Processor <insert thunder here>.

I think you missed Killzone 2 then. since naughty dog and the creators from GT helped on it as well and used new techniques to get more out of the ps3 hardware

[zentsang]

Just curious for anyone who has played the Multiplayer BETA. I logged in and connected to the server and joined a game. I could hear lots of people talking to each other (voice chat). So I grabbed my bluetooth Jabra headset ... the one that came with Warhawk ... but could not talk to anyone. I double checked and it was paired to the PS3 just fine ... but I could not get it to work in Uncharted 2.

So I figure this must be a situation of holding a button on the controller when I wanted to talk. Being that it's a BETA and the controller options do not display the controller scheme ... I began randomly holding buttons while in-game and displaying the score screen (displayed by the Select button). I noticed a speaker symbol appeared next to the names of people actively chatting but I could never get one next to my name no matter what buttons I pressed.

This lead me to believe that the headset (although being the one that came with Warhawk) is not compatible with Uncharted 2. So I went to my local Gamestop and purchased the Sony Playstation 3 Bluetooth headset created specifically by Sony for the PS3.

I have yet to try it because it was so late but figured I'd throw this question up for anyone else experiencing a similar issue and hopefully someone will have an answer.

If this new headset works tonight ... I will come back and post an update.

UPDATE - The new Sony Bluetooth headset works perfectly. That Jabra from Warhawk is just crap.

Once I changed the Audio settings to use the new headset ... that was it. Launching any game with headset ability worked.

Last edited by zentsang; 09-23-2009 at 12:26 AM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost