Looks like Sony held a press event in the States recently to show off Uncharted 3’s multiplayer portion. Details are starting to emerge, which include talk of split-screen multiplayer and a reason, if you didn’t have one already, to get very excited about inFamous 2 – apparently the game will come with a beta key for Naughty Dog’s new baby.
Here’s a video interview with Naughty Dog’s Chris Balestra from the event that’s going around:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4-Kqaz9pes
Some of the information eeking out includes comprehensive player / weapon customisation, split screen multiplayer (with a beta starting in July) and various modes including 3 team deathmatch and an eight player free for all.
There’s also talk of Facebook integration. “Our goal for Facebook is to really make sure you can interact with your Facebook friends the way you interact with your PSN friends,” said Balestra. “You can talk to them (and) you can invite them to your party. You are going to see icons of people’s faces and their real names. So right away it is going to feel bigger.”
The best clips uploaded via the social network (which is transparent and fully in-game) will appear on “Uncharted TV” which plays in the lower corner of your screen, should you opt-in.
We’ll hopefully hear more about the multiplayer aspects in due course.
The Lone Steven
There better not be sitautional awareness this time around as i loathe that booster. It is every camper’s favorite booster. Apart from that it will be interesting to see how it will turn out. I hope they include 10 player arena matches. UC3 is on my to get list along with my damm, i can’t afford it list.
Akuar
I’m pretty sure they won’t include it. Doing so would lead to a shitstorm of massive proportions spawned by angry fans, I’m sure.
And notching the number of co-op arena players up to atleast 5 would indeed be sweet…
SolidSnake1324
In other games you see people who are running or shooting on a mini-map, not in this game!
i hate that even more than situational awareness!
bap10
Happy days, eight player free for all.
Love a bit a of free for all me.
SolidSnake1324
If there’s indeed splitscreen multiplayer, I hope they include dual-login. That would be awesome. The possibility’s definitely there as they have good connections with Insomniac.
I loved their inclusion of dual-login-splitscreen coop and competitive in Resistance 2 :)
colmshan1990
It’s there, complete with seperate PSN accounts.
Can’t wait! :D
TheShepanator
The most important part for me was 1:44, on the screen in the background you can see a melee attack performed while climbing, on sobebody else who is climbimg!!
Smallville2106
Looks and sounds great. Pre-ordered this already.
mrbojangles
Holy crap at 36 seconds in there is Greg Miller.