Uncharted : Drake's Fortune*

Shifty Geezer said:
the video jayco linked to above has a good mix of gameplays, all from that first level. The fire-fights are much improved from early showings. Enemy AI is better, along with bullets actually having real effects! The gun hasn't got the 'natural' aiming that in its earliest days I thought it had. It can be held rock-steady rather than moving around a bit. That's probably a good thing from a game-players perspective, but my peculiar tastes would have preferred a more natural approach.

It is a game that has appealed to me, I think as much due to the story and anims as anything. I'm not a fan at all of the 'platformy' aspects. Ledge crawling has never sat well with me in any game. I dislike the 'spot the regularly spaced outcroppings' minigame with the occasional 'you guessed wrong!' plummet to the ground! I think I'd be okay putting up with that for the game's experience though.
Click to expand...

I've only watched the vids that are available on gametrailers. I'll have to check that link out.
 
I've been wondering something lately and wondering if someone could help me out with it, what shadowing technique are they using?, some of those shadows look phenomenal.
 
XeRo said:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6181783.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;1

Q&A with ND. Enjoy.
Click to expand...

Well then, to answer my own question from a while back:

Gradthrawn said:
Of course (I didn't mean to imply native rendering). And my speculation still stands. They got 960x1080 native rendering (for the horizontal scaler) that quickly? Or maybe he was just being facetious. Or maybe they had enough headroom to do it. Would fillrate be the most effected performance aspect by the increase in resolution (from 1280x720 to 960x1080)? Is fillrate proportional to the games frame rate? If so, perhaps they had it running happily at ~45 fps, and the bump to 960x1080 still kept them at 30+.
....
That's what I'm thinking (and tried to describe in my edits above). I'm just surprised they could do it so quickly.
Click to expand...

GS AU: We understand the team actually surfed forums a bit and implemented some gamer feedback into the final game. Is that right?

EW: That is correct. One of the most noticeable ones was just a few weeks ago, I had put a blog entry up on the US PlayStation blog, and I got a bunch of responses asking me about the resolutions we support. Up until that day, we were only supporting 720p and it never really crossed our minds to support anything else. In the US, we have this issue where a lot of early adopters with HDTVs have TVs that only support 1080i. So if you have a TV that supports 1080i and the game only supports 720p, the PS3 will default to 480p, which isn't even high-def and is not the way Uncharted should be experienced. So they bought that to my attention--I mean, it was kind of embarrassing that we didn't know that before--and literally within the hour we had 1080i support up to take care of all those people.
Click to expand...
 
They really fixed the water in the ocean scene.

They REALLY fixed the water, previous versions were clearly placeholders.
 
Betanumerical said:
I've been wondering something lately and wondering if someone could help me out with it, what shadowing technique are they using?, some of those shadows look phenomenal.
Click to expand...
yeah i asked that about 6 months ago, theres some multisample/softening technique applied.
its part of the reason why this game sets a new benchmark, theres so many facets in it that technically are near the top or are the top. if i was a publisher ild be going bugger the epic/id engines i want whatever theyve made
 
Last edited by a moderator:
I understand ND aiming for a particular art style with the painted textures, but I'd really like to see their engine with photo-realistic textures. Perhaps their next game...
 
Gradthrawn said:
Well then, to answer my own question from a while back:
Click to expand...

is their 1080i actually a 60 frames of 960x1080i pictures that are horizontally scaled into 30 frame 1920x1080p pictures? Certainly they are not natively rendering 60 1920x540 frames?!, which a real 30fps 1080i would need.
 
chris1515 said:
HD version of Uncharted video:

http://ruliwebfile.empas.com/mpeg3/scek/ruliweb_unc_cam_ps3hd.wmv
Click to expand...
For those wanting to know, this is off-screen video of the first 7 minutes of game, from introduction through the level and on to the next cut-scene. The game presents gameplay as payed by a total NOOB!! It's embarrassing to watch! There's also nothing there we haven't seen in bits and pieces elsewhere save the intro.

The take-home points IMO -

1) The voice acting is stellar. It sounds like real actors instead of coders given a microphone. That adds considerably to the experience, especially in portraying Drake's character in a convincing way. Along with the acting and animations, it's a fantastic improvement on the norm for computer games.

2) The sea suffers from tiling in the distance like Lair. This shows a bottleneck in current algorithms for portraying large bodies of water.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Cyan
Wholly unique/special ways to play in the next gen! Surprises inside
2
Replies
30
Views
9K
pjbliverpool
P
A
  • Locked
News & Rumors: Xbox One (codename Durango)
613 614 615
Replies
12K
Views
2M
BRiT
BRiT
J
4K displays announced at CES 2011
5 6 7
Replies
128
Views
34K
Silent_Buddha
S
Arwin
  • Locked
Playstation Move Games
52 53 54
Replies
1K
Views
124K
Shifty Geezer
Shifty Geezer
A
Holy Wall of Text: My impressions post Playstation 4 (PS4) unveil
2 3 4
Replies
70
Views
20K
(((interference)))
I
Back
Top