Tidbit - Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Uncharted (Naughty Dog, PS3)
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Main character Nathan Drake has a set of animations in place allowing him to walk and skip over surfaces with utmost realism and visual feedback.

The Good
The animations allow for an incredibly natural feel in controlling Nathan, to such an extent that it seems to be eerily similar to real life. ‘Lazy stairs and steps’ which would feel very laboured to traverse in real life, come across just as laboured in the game and the small skips are the same as any normal person would perform them.

The Bad
Though these animations are wonderful, they do tend to make Nathan seem a bit slow.
This is countered by slowing down Nathan’s speed overall. While such a change would cripple any other game, in Uncharted the movements are again kept realistic by never making Nathan run. Instead he never goes faster than a simple jog to, again, acquire a more laboured feel. The result is that though Nathan moves slow, he never actually feels slow.

The Ugly
As natural as Nathan’s movements are, his super-human climbing powers are just completely over-the-top in comparison and diminish the built up realism.


Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (2007)
  • Naughty Dog (PlayStation 3)
  • Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

Posted by Vincent Leeuw - 2007-12-14 12:00.
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