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Add the Following code to your Website Where you Want the Login Box to Appear. <form action='http://yoursite.com/index.php?act=Login&CODE=01' method='post' name='theform'> <div align="left"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Username <input type='text' class='text' name='UserName'> <br> Password</font> <input type='password' class='text' name='PassWord'> <br> <input name="submit" type='submit' class='submit' value='Login'> </div> </form>16 points
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I want to make a app for my site but before i do i ned to no this. How can i connect my IPB database to c# so the members have to log in and it has be a certain usergoup to view stuff. Get meh drift. Hope you can help.13 points
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for the tut go to this link: tut for grav ham/brute shoot13 points
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EDIT: Just go here for the maps: https://xboxdb.access.dyn-net.com/0000000001/files-DB/web/Default.asp.net?act=category&id=5012 points
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Modder: Mattyovers (iBotModz: matty0) Website: http://www.game-tuts.com/ News Article: http://www.xboxic.com/news/5452 Description: Mattyovers decided to "hack" the achievements for the game Halo 3:ODST, which was to be released sometime in September 2009. Making them publicly viewable worldwide, he was questioned by a news reporter in his local city, as well as on Xboxic (link above), by a man by the name of Jason Andrews. In short note, Mattyovers was in beleif that because no where in the Microsoft/Xbox ToS (Terms of Service) did it mention unlocking unachievable achievements was not allowed, and that Microsoft could not legally do anything about it. He also so boldy clarified that if I am banned, I will leak more achievements. Good job Mattyovers, you have been banned, and your site was forced to be taken down. I hope you beleive you accomplished something, because you definitely pulled a stupid move.12 points
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This is his website http://****aroundfilms.darkbb.com/ his photobucket http://m628.photobucket.com/albumview/albums/Pwnage21 Kudos to rework3d for finding.11 points
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i downloaded exploror 360 from a post but it doest seem to open at all, it just says error and then it closes. can someone help me?10 points
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http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd83/xI_V3n93ance_Ix/halo3_odst_bonuslg.jpg There is no ConsoleLock on it, so you can simply put it onto your drive and use it. Heres a little Tutorial: How to get it working: Unrar the files Connect your HDD to comp Start Xplorer360 Browse to "Partition 3\\Content\\0000000000000000\\4d530877\\00000002 Drop the file in there DOWNLOAD HERE: http://www.filefront.com/14595431/B441B19DDD74CAF947994E5C2EFF4C73B6F13A184D PLZZZZ + REP8 points
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Does anyone just ever look back at this site and other sites, and say "wow that was 4 years ago". Most of us were just little kids interested in some part of modding. None of us really knew what we were doing, we were just vastly interested with this "modding". The community around Halo 2 built an empire, the amount of registrations on various sites was extreme. Sites were everywhere with the common idea: work together towards a goal. TMU Mods, Se7ensins, HaloMods, Xbox-Scene, HaloTech, HaloStrike, DarcNetworks, Zeromodz, and iBotModz all shared a part in this. Of course, the big one to remember was HaloMods. HM was the first site I joined, I was banned in about a month for something I still don't know. (hint why IBM was created). iBotModz started as a free forum software. I was a little kid. I had no money, no PayPal and no knowledge. Kudos to all the "hackers" that messed us up. You hacked a kid, hope it felt good. I was into action replay modding, and looking back at those files they all had 1000+ downloads, which is what brought a great deal of the members here. Halo 2 was removed from Action Replay sometime last year. I guess they couldn't hold what was probably 50+ GB of content and the constant stream of downloads anymore. We built a community and capitalized on a period of time that will probably never come again. We will never have the caring people, free tools, cheap modding, exploitable games, and cheap consoles again. I broke at least 10 normal xbox's and could afford to get more. Anyone could buy Action Replay for $15 bucks, and assuming they had the right games could softmod their xbox. It was cheap and easy. We're in a society now where this cheap form of modding is non-existent. You have to drop 100$ + to even begin modding. Point being, the time of the past isn't coming back. It's like Halley's Comet, its a once in a life time ride and we were part of it. I joined HaloMods, because I was spawned killed during a Halo 2 match and I was determined to find out and become just like that. Modding and online communities were a big chunk of my early childhood, whether I'd like to admit or not. These communities helped me find what I wanted to do with my life. I met some people online that I've known longer than some of my real friends. I still talk with some of you daily, and it was fun knowing you and watching where we all went as we grew up. Who knew that 5 years later I'd be a couple of years from a Computer Science degree, and that TheMasterSnail would be chasing storms in South Africa. Halo 2 and these online forums drove me into my college education. I'd like to think that iBotModz influenced a couple of people on their path of life. Kudos to everyone that was a part of this forum, and thanks for some great memories (as cheesy as it sounds). Here is a shout out to anyone I remember, who helped build iBotModz or this community. blacklabelfosho - Helped a ton with hardware and really always knew things that no one else did. fattwam - holy cow. We've been managing forums for a helluva a long time. nielsss - Most might remember him as 'nox from H3 modding days, but nielsss was a great admin on the forumer site. TheMasterSnail - I remember asking you to redo the permissions in the admin at least 5 times. Thanks for doing all of that, and bringing the constant funny to the site. Xx Anarchy xX - Quite the GFX guy back then, then got into H3 (very good player) and then lost contact with him AModderGuy - Was the first moderator and staff of iBotModz. We date back to Halo 2 online modding when I was still learning. big4wheeler - Always looked at things and kept the community intact. Left to form his own site, and lost contact with him. Dark Master - Always re-writing Xbox-Scene articles for our modding section, then lost contact after move to new site. evilomen - I think you had a family. You were fixing xboxes all day. You single handily brought members to our site, just for your service. IIx SnYpZ xII - You taught me host booting. You led me into security, and botnet research. My "botting" phrase of Halo 3 was caused by you. secretdrummer123 - Consistent moderator, who helped out a lot in the GFX sections. snowmon333 - Great moderator, always cleaning up those forums while I was away laxmonster54 - I think you lived around me. I never was sure, but helped moderate from H2 -> Reach. deathgrip_17 - You were our first "Moderator Leader". You looked over the moderators and really pulled them together. Halo Modder 2000 - One of the first 5 members to join iBotModz. I was talking to him over Xbox Live when I launched the first iBotModz. SmokiestGrunl - Perfection was always your goal. If it wasn't perfect, you wouldn't post it. You taught me how to make posts be neat. Helped administrate all the way to the current iBotModz. BlAcK SpArK 271 - died, or "faked" his death on our old iBotModz. Never really knew for sure, but he was a great sig maker. Zer0 Grav1ty -helped spark iBotModz weather he liked it or not, (I took content from his site). lostmodz - brother of Zer0, remember him learning extremely quickly and soon publishing some really cool stuff. JoeyBe11 - Hacked us. Don't really know what the point was. I don't know how we pissed other people off. I think it was because we grew soo fast, and were just a bunch of kids. xX Legacy xX - Showed me Gears, and led me to another great video game series. Always making some strange topics (go to Off-Topic back in 08). Helped with moderating a ton. melo - Has been every staff member position. Always had ideas for iBotModz, and some of them I didn't implement till years later. Your ideas were great, I was just stubborn. SpAnKyX34 - Another great moderator. Never saw him after the move to the ibotmodz.co.nr site. dyinghero27 - If my memory serves me, helped moderate the Xbox/Lobby section and was always moderating for nothing in return Happy Buddah - Always critiqing sigs. Never stop lol. Pyrosquirrell - Knew in real life, never gave up on my ideas. Dan - put up with shit, but always would keep the site clean of spam. Fatal Error - Joined the moderating team post Halo 2 and helped organize the forum moderating wise Korupt Data - Joined post Halo 2 modding as well, and helped moderate. Quinn - Never gave up and still helps to this day cleaning up spam and clearing those spam bots. Dark Slipstream - You may of removed your content and left, but you brought at least 2000 members to the site and really helped make it what it was. Rogue Modder - Holy cow. I watched you on various forums become quite a master at what you do. Your layouts and UIs are just beyond innovative. yungbol - Some of your applications led me into C# and started my pathway on learning .NET. I owe you for knowing C# gabe_k - Always talked online with you in some crazy xbox live parties. EazyB - Created a petition against the staff, but otherwise helped bring truth to some matters brought up on this site. mtwomg - Just starting fights with people. no, but really helped in the dev/debug area of Xbox 360 Slidell - Most posts without being Staff. Never asked nor seem to want it. Kudos for keeping the content up to date on IBM Bigstack - You led me into server administration. Now, I manage one. I owe you. AzzidReign - We started sites around the same time. Yours is doing amazing. Congrats. neodos - You taught me so much about Halo 2. You helped a ton with the Phantom Mappack DeToX - Holy crap. You were one of the best H2 program makers I knew. xbox7887 - (creator of Yelo). We talked on aim a few times. The knowledge you had amazed me. Prey - You had some tutorials that taught me some in-depth knowledge. Your 4 programs blew me away with their UI and usage that I wanted to program as good as you. Iron_Forge - The update posts about Serenity gave me the interest to learn how to mod. I was amazed with your explanations of problems and how to solve them Tural - You taught me how to solve problems. By constantly bashing me, and showing no interest to allow anyone in your "elite" group of friends. I learned how to solve problems by myself. A key thing in life, and I thank you for that. CaptainPoopFace - Your creativity kept me modding through the slow parts of this community robert_hehn - Your a windows server guy. Did you ever get that router I sent you? lol. darkshallfall - I filmed your terminal mod. Never got a chance to know you. matty0 - Always knowing your computer stuff. Added quite a lot of posts to the computer areas. Always helping members out. itchy - You don't even speak English. We had some great talks on msn Dataanti - You broke the forum layout with a garbage post. I posted it on IPB forums and got lots of credit for finding a bug. It was you though lol. gruntmods - You had plenty of ideas to bring members back to iBotModz. I always had an open ear and was interested in them. Kornman - Never had a chance to talk to you, but I'm envious of your engineering skills Anthony - Sorry for bitching about H2Core a lot. I was a kid. Now I know how difficult that application is. grimdoomer - Your applications are amazing and advance. Too bad its a few years late. To anyone I forgot. Its nothing personal. This was all from memory. If I forgot someone, I'll edit you in here. iBotModz has always been a hobby to me, never a business. I've never profited from this site. All money I ever received here was dumped back into the site some time in the future. It will always remain a hobby, and never a business. As long as I have the money to pay for the server, iBotModz will stay up. Regardless if there is 1 post a week.7 points
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This game was made in the year 1998, its very easy to mod and make maps and new ships, watever u want and its free cause pandemic doesnt care about it any more. This game has really good graphics if you max out the settings wich shouldnt be hard with todays computers. Also this game is NOT ILLEGAL TO MOD ONLINE!!!! OR ANYTHING, INFACT THEY ENCOURAGE IT!!! If u have a good PC then it should run no problem and the community is still VERY active at making patches and mods. check out the main site here http://www.bzunivers...forum/index.php and the mod dev site here http://www.bz2md.com/smf/portal.php and to DL it if you like it then DL from these links: NOT ILLEGAL ANY MORE part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 Then for the newest and l8est and gr8est patch so far DL here: 1.3pb6 If any of these links don't work then tell me wat 1 and ill fix it System Requirements: - Pentium 200MHz Pentium processor - 100% DirectX 6.0 or higher compliant 3-D video accelerator card with 4MB of RAM - 32MB RAM (64MB RAM will be required for certain video cards on lower end systems) - Windows 95/98 operating system - DirectX 6.0 or higher (download from Microsoft's web site at "www.microsoft.com/directx") - 100% Windows 95/98-compatible computer system (including compatible 32-bit drivers for video card, sound card, and input devices) - 100% DirectX 6.0 or higher compatible sound card - 100% Microsoft-compatible mouse and driver NOTE: It does run in Linux and maybe mac if you run it with W.I.N.E (W.I.N.E Wiki) but there could be some preformence problems. INSTALL: 1. DL all parts to its own folder 2. Extract to its own folder 3. Inside folder, go to \Setup\Setup.exe 4. Run game install (recomended to install to default) 5. DL the 1.3pb4a patch 6. Run patch install (recomended to install to default if the game install was installed to default) 7. Run game and play To host you will have to open ports, you can ask at the BZUniverse forum for instructions HAVE FUN!7 points
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First, you will need to be bridged host. Download: Auto Team Standby Cain and Abel and http://download.cnet.com/ZoneAlarm-Pro/3000-10435_4-10797433.html 1. When ready, have Auto Standby open already, and input UP: .7, DOWN: 1 for now. http://i30.tinypic.com/fn8whi.jpg 2. Then, while in game (and host), press start: http://i25.tinypic.com/30rqgpj.jpg 3. Then, go to your Zone Alarm, and click on the firewall tab: http://i32.tinypic.com/2qt8iyw.jpg 4. It should start moving by itself, you and also move it with the UP and DOWN arrows on your keyboard. If you go into black screen, press down on the arrow key so your tab is moving from Off-to-Med. If you need to set it at a high speed, may sure you press stop first, and then change the auto-standby times to your likings. Taken from Se7enSins If this helps Please give me a +rep.7 points
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iBotModz - Post Generator Made By: Dakote http://ibotmodz.rogue-mods.com/upload/uploaded/Post%20Gen%20logo.png Version Number: 1.0 OS's Tested On: Vista, Windows 7, XP Features: Post Generator Auto Login Simple GUI Bugs Login Issue, Just make a new Post and it will work Pictures: Halo 3 Programs http://ibotmodz.rogue-mods.com/upload/uploaded/H3Program.png Halo 2 Programs http://ibotmodz.rogue-mods.com/upload/uploaded/H2Program.png Halo 3 Mods http://ibotmodz.rogue-mods.com/upload/uploaded/H3Usermap.png Halo 2 Mods http://ibotmodz.rogue-mods.com/upload/uploaded/H2Mods.png Download Click Here! This post was Generated with the iBotModz post Generator, by Dakote7 points
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Welcome to IPB 3. I've stressed enough about it, I will keep this short and simple. Topic Markers are messed up, scroll to bottom left and click "Mark Board as Read" Important Things to Know -You need to change your uploader to the "flash" uploader so you can upload 20 images at once. -REP has been added -Forum stats are at bottom of Forum View -Lots of AJAX/Javascript -Forced to use Lo-Fi skin, if on iTouch or IE6 and lower -The Shoutbox and Downloads were just a conversion release, the new feature for those are coming later. Right now, they just converted them for the IPB 3 framework. -Your username will soon be the color of your usergroup. Tiny thing I forgot -IPB 3 works only good in Firefox 3, Safari 4 or Opera and kinda IE8. -I know people are complaining about the skin already. Frankly, I love it. I will add other skins once they come out -Signatures, Avatars and Posts are cached to a PHP file for increased loading times. So the more topics people visit the faster the site will become. Things you will hate -If your signature was past the limit, the upgrader removed it -All posts got re-counted Report all bugs in the Problems/Suggestions Forum. If you need help using the new IPB or anything, MSN me (ibotpeaches@ibotmodz.net) or AIM me (xboxhalopriceles) I'll be on for about 2 hours after the public release to fix problems and help people. Me and Twam did all the upgrading, hope you like it7 points
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1.Go to http://expertzone.microsoft.com/halo.aspx?&Feedback=1 2.Sign up with Live account 3.Do the Halo 3 survey 4.????? 5.Profit You can use the Best Buy store location finder to get store number http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?type=page&id=cat120906 points
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Hey this is a tutorial on how to mod Borderlands Exp.,Money,and other stuff Tutorial: -Download this program: BorderLandsSaveEditor.exe -Open up your Explorer 360 -Go to your Profile and go to the folder Labeled-This is the folder ID for Borderlands is 545407E7 -Drag it to your Desktop or were ever it doesnt matter -Then you open up the program that you downloaded then you open up your Gamesave -Then you can change teh lvl exp money etc. also (AMMO) Then you just Save it -After you saved it dont put it back in Explorer 360 YOU MUST REHASH AND RESIGN OR IT WONT WORK I REPEAT YOU MUST REHASH AND RESIGN OR IT WONT WORK... -After yu rehashed and resigned you put it back in then go to Borderlands and have FUN... Thanks and if it helped or you liked it or you wanna share it +rep and give me credits for this tut thx6 points
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I'm getting PSDs together for you guys right now. Just be patient, I am organizing everything right now. I'll post in the shoutbox when something is up. There will be multiple packs I will be uploading. It'll just take time, because, well, uploading is a b!tch. Keep watching the thread P.S. Most of the PSDs I'm uploading are ones I've collected through the years of friends/other artists, so respect their work and don't rip. Credit goes to the artists. I will mention if I am the maker. Other than that, if I don't mention anything, then I am not who made them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pack 1 Status: Currently Uploading Note:Once you download, read the .txt file Preview: Download:http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jijhnkznm5t Cesar's Tags(Pack2) Info:Now for this pack, I am definitely not releasing untill I get +REP from each individual person that wants it. +REP and PM me that you have, I will make sure you did, and I will PM you the link. There are about 59 PSDs when I counted, I took a few off. They are not pro, they are decent, they have neat tricks I like to do. It should help you learn your way around and give you tips. Also on most of the PSDs I marked the layers that stay hidden in violet. In other words, unecessary layers. I was experimenting. DONE UPLOADING POST ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANY OF THE PSDs! I'll be glad to help you out, explaining what I did if you may not understand. I'll tell you guys right now, I blend a lot of images together, so you'll definitely learn something from this one. Take advantage of blend modes, opacity, and fill + gradient maps, etc. About: If someone rips any of my tags/layers WITHOUT PERMISSION, this means you can if you ask, but if you don't ask and I find out I'd like to ask iBotPeaches to ban the person or for a Mod to give me the person's IP so I can hit them offline. I don't want my tags ripped. Respect my request, it's not that hard to follow my rules. Do we have an understanding? Mod/Admit reply to my request about the ban/DDoS Preview: The ones you are able to see are not the only ones in the pack, there were too many to fit them all. http://i31.tinypic.com/vhesfa.png The reason I want +REP is so I know you've read what I typed up. Plus, I am giving them out for free, clicking +REP shouldn't be that hard. You can wear any of my tags in your signature, but you may not change anything on the tag, this meaning, placing your name on my signature. Credit me if you place it in your signature also.6 points
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All research was done by Turk645, I just made this program. This program lets you get free avatar clothing from the marketplace, you must have downloaded at least one item already though (The cheapest item is the eye patch (40 Microsoft Points)). First, extract your item you downloaded. Partition 3/Content/0000000000000000/Game ID of Item/00009000/Item Download the program I made (attached to this post at the bottom). Open your item in the program and select the item you want to change it too, save. Now. Delete the item you downloaded from your xbox hard drive. Find a folder that has nothing in it in Partition 3/Content/0000000000000000/ Rename the sub-folder of that folder to "00009000" and add the moddified item in it. You're done! I will update the program when someone post's more ID's of the items. Avatar Clothes Tool.exe6 points
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Tutorial: How to make almost anything drivable using .Map mods in Halo 3 By Halodu03de/Halodu0DSTde Things needed to make it: -.Map file of the map you want to edit from http://secure.xboxgamefiles.com/data/web/index.php?act=category&id=19 (In this tutorial, we will be using the map Warehouse.map(aka Foundry)) -.Map file editor 1. Alteration-Download: http://xenon7.net/files/programs/alteration/Alteration_0052.rar (This tutorial uses Alteration, which I recommend over construct.) Things needed to play it: -A Developers kit(Dev, Stress Test Dev, Demo, Test, or Reviewers kit) -Xbox 360 Neighborhood -Halo 3 Xex 1.0 or 1.2 with checks disabled -Some other basic knowledge 1. Open the map file in Alteration and in the list of tags, expand the HLMT tag (This is the object properties). http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/IMG1.jpg 2. Find where it says "objects\vehicles\warthog\warthog" and click on it to open it up. http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/IMG2.jpg 3. At the top of the screen right above where it says "warthog.hlmt" click on 'Editors' and select 'Meta Editor'. http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/IMG3.jpg 4. Now, scroll down until you find where it says 'OBJECTS' in Bold. And right under that, where it says 'Child Object'. This is where the turret is attached to the warthog. http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/IMG4.jpg 5. Change it to whatever you want to be driving, I am going to change it to a truck, for example. (you can change it to anything within the following tags: Scen, Vehi, Weap, Bloc, Dctr, Eqip, Mach, Gint and a few more. So I would change where it has the dropdown box that says 'Vehi' which is the vehicle tag, to 'Bloc' which is the obstacles tag. Then I would look around in it until I found the Truck "objects\levels\dlc\warehouse\truck_cab_large_military\truck_cab_large_military" and change it to that. http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/IMG5.jpg http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/truck1.jpg 6. Now, Click the 'Save' button at the bottom. ONCE YOU HAVE GOTTEN TO THIS POINT, YOU CAN ONLY FINISH THE VEHICLE IF YOU HAVE A DEVELOPERS KIT TO TEST IT ON, OR ARE MAKING THE SAME VEHICLE AS WE ARE IN THIS TUTORIAL(a drivable truck on Foundry). Under 'OBJECTS' again, where it says 'Parent Marker', copy the number in the box (For example, the one I copied is "3.812933E-42", but it is different for every map) to your clipboard (Highlight it and Hold down the 'CTRL' button and click 'C'). http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/IMG6.jpg 7. Now in the tag list on the left again, expand the 'Mode' tag (This is the Model). Find where it says "objects\vehicles\warthog\warthog" and click on it. Next, like we did in step 3, Click on 'Editors' right above 'Warthog.mode' and select 'Meta Editor'. http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/IMG7.jpg 8. Scroll Down to where it says 'MARKERS' in Bold. Next to 'MARKERS' it says '0: markers chunk', click on the drop down box twice so that '0: markers chunk' is selected in Gold color, but not expanded, and click the down arrow button to scroll through the chunks (1, 2, 3, etc.) until the number in the box where it says 'Marker Name(SID)' matches the number you copied to your clipboard EXACTLY (to confirm the number, highlight the number in the 'Marker Name(SID)' box that you think matches the number on your clipboard, and Hold down CTRL and click 'V'. If the number doesn't change, you have the right one.) In my example, the chunk is '70: markers chunk' which has the number '3.812933E-42'. http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/IMG8.jpg 9. Now, right under where it says 'MARKERS', it says 'INSTANCES' in Bold. This is where the coordinates and rotations of the warthog's child object(s) are controlled. http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/IMG9.jpg 10. Using real time halo, or just testing the map over and over again on your developers kit, you need to adjust these coordinates and rotations to make the vehicle aim in the perfect direction. For the truck, the correct coordinates and rotations are as follows: Coordinates: X: 0 Y: 0 Z: 0.017 Rotations: i: 0 j: 0 k: 1 http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/truck2.jpg 11. Now, Save your changes at the bottom again. Since we have the truck facing the right direction, and at the perfect height, we need to make the warthog invisible so that all we can see is the truck. In the same tag that we have been in (warthog.mode), under 'INSTANCES' in Bold it says 'SHADERS'. Now for Each chunk '0: shaders chunk' through '13:shaders chunk'(14 chunks total), we need to change the tag in the LONG dropdown box to <<NULL>> which is at the bottom of the list in the LONG dropdown box, So that for all 14 shaders chunks, the LONG dropdown box says <<NULL>>. Make sure to click Save each time you change one of the boxes in each shaders chunk to <<NULL>>, so you will end up clicking save 14 times here. http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/IMG11.jpg http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/truck3.jpg 12. Now that we have nulled out the shaders we are almost done. The last things we need to change are the attachments, widgets, and seating position for when you get into the warthog/truck. In the tag list on the left, go down until you find the 'Vehi' tag which is Vehicle. Find where it says "objects\vehicles\warthog\warthog", and again at the top click 'Editors' and select 'Meta Editor'. http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/IMG12.jpg 13. Scroll down until you find 'ATTACHMENTS' in Bold. Now under 'ATTACHMENTS', where it says 'Attachment', just like for shaders, go through each attachments chunk (0 though 5) and change the LONG dropdown box in each to <<NULL>>, and make sure again to hit save for each one. You will end up changing the LONG box to <<NULL>> 6 times and clicking save 6 times. http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/IMG13.jpg 14. Right under 'ATTACHMENTS', Where it says 'WIDGETS' in Bold, change "objects\vehicles\warthog\attachments\warthog_antenna" to <<NULL>> and click Save. http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/IMG14.jpg 15. This step is optional, but I highly recommend it to make it look complete. If you want, you can change the camera distance from the vehicle for a more broad view of your vehicle while driving. To do this, While still in the warthog.vehi tag, Find where it says 'CAMERA TRACKS' in Bold and where it says Track right underneath, choose a different Track (Camera track) from the LONG dropdown box. For the truck I recommend "camera\board_large_camera". http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/trak.jpg 16. Now the last part, seating. In the same tag (warthog.vehi), scroll down to where it says 'SEATS' in Bold. Like we did in step 6, copy the 'Sitting Position Marker' to your clipboard (For example, the one I copied is "2.729729E-42", but it is different for every map). http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/IMG15.jpg 17. Now in the tag list on the left again, expand the 'Mode' tag. Find where it says "objects\vehicles\warthog\warthog" and click on it. Next, like we did in step 3, Click on 'Editors' right above 'Warthog.mode' and select 'Meta Editor'. http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/IMG7.jpg 18. Scroll Down to where it says 'MARKERS' in Bold. Next to 'MARKERS' it says '0: markers chunk', click on the drop down box twice so that '0: markers chunk' is selected in Gold color, but not expanded, and click the down arrow button to scroll through the chunks (1, 2, 3, etc.) until the number in the box where it says 'Marker Name(SID)' matches the number you copied to your clipboard EXACTLY (to confirm the number, highlight the number in the 'Marker Name(SID)' box that you think matches the number on your clipboard, and Hold down CTRL and click 'V'. If the number doesn't change, you have the right one.) In my example, the chunk is '3: markers chunk' which has the number '2.729729E-42'. 19. Using real time halo, or just testing the map over and over again on your developers kit, you need to adjust these coordinates and rotations to make your character sit in the perfect position when it gets inside the vehicle. For the truck, the correct coordinates and rotations are as follows: Coordinates: X: 0.67 Y: 0.28 Z: 0.576 Rotations: i: -0.1 j: 8E-10 k: -1.5E-08 20. Now click Save and you're done! http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh1/halodu03de/truck4.jpg Thanks to DarkShallFall and Detox for the research and program.6 points
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ä-[*DeToXeNoN*]-ä says: hi umm whats your gt andrew says: why ä-[*DeToXeNoN*]-ä says: just askin tell me im visocar andrew says: no ur detoxenon ä-[*DeToXeNoN*]-ä says: lol then who r u on XBL andrew says: xenon.7 ä-[*DeToXeNoN*]-ä says: r u serious you DETOXIC andrew says: yes ä-[*DeToXeNoN*]-ä says: OHHHHH SHITTTTTTTTTTTTT andrew says: why are you copying me ä-[*DeToXeNoN*]-ä says: im not ohh shit dude umm omfg im soo nervus6 points
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My great Grandma is in the hospital. They don't thing she will make it through the weekend. She is 95 years old. She means a lot to me.... I probably wont be on for a few days...6 points
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I have finally released the updated version of 'Xbox 360 Buddy List' that is '360 Buddies'. I hope many of you use it, it was fun programming it. For Screenshots, Features, Bugs, Future Updates and a Download, please visit my site: Dark Slipstream.co.cc Thanks! Screenshots:6 points
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Is there any way you could put in a top stats thingy? Like top 5 repped people, posters, topics stuff like that...6 points
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okay, i just got this random idea here. i think we should have a rating system based off of 5 star ratings. ill call it karma. okay so kinda like when you add rep, just make it so you decide how many stars you wana give that person (maybe make moderators, and vips votes). ratting will average themselves and as far as vip goes, lets say they have to have a 5, or 4 star rating with *insert number* of votes. and maybe make it mandatory in certain forums to rate after you post it or something so we get more voters. just a thought.5 points
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It has a 2007 word file in with all the turorials you need to mod .map files Includes: 1. Setting up how to .map mod Halo 3 2. Play as Covenant in campaign 3. Vehicle Mods 1. Really fast warthog 2. Make anything drivable 3. Make a Wraith Hog/ Tank Hog 4. Weapon Mods 1. Change weapon projectiles 2. Full auto 3. Unlimited ammo 4. Weapon Damage 5. Projectile Speed 5. Character Mods 1. Super Jump 2. Super Speed 3. Climb Walls 4. Invincibility 5. How to change character model 6. Map Mods 1. Move Death Barriers 2. Edit in-game messages 3. Change items in forge menu 7. Graphic Mods 1. Swap Model Shader 2. Swap BSP Shaders Made by myself and Jared777 Ultimate Halo 3 .Map Modding Tutorial.rar5 points
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Your right. I leave out one step, which is so easy to do and you think I screwed you over. I didn't alter/change anything. I left out a step moron. You then create a topic and post my PM, which is informative and answering your question. I don't sense rudeness. The scrubs and kiddies that are buying JTAGS just to take online are ruining this community. Everything has become charging for 10th lobbies and hosting them. No one understands that this destroys the community and promotes individualism. Your more than likely going to take your jtag online and do something stupid. JTAGS were meant for one thing. A poor man's dev kit. It allows us to run and enjoy the same amount of homebrew as the dev owners with less than half the price. Next time you take a topic about me public, get your facts right. I also fail to see how I tried to kill your jtag. It works perfectly, and you only need to do one thing to take it online. That one thing though I left out to prevent morons from abusing xbox live.5 points
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Step 1: Step 2: Identify Map, Then Swap Items This step is easier then the last one. Open up Forge 2.6. Then just open the map you dragged in step 1 to your desktop. Then click on the group in the sidebar where your item is held. I am going to swap the wraith on this map for a master chief clone. http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q430/gruntlord6/pic5.jpg http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q430/gruntlord6/pic6.jpg http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q430/gruntlord6/pic7.jpg http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q430/gruntlord6/pic8.jpg http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q430/gruntlord6/pic9.jpg Then select the group of the item you will swap it with. In this case thats the bipd group. Then click the item in the group you want, and click save. Then Rehash and Resign.5 points
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I did not make this. First- Start gow2 go into a local match and do one wave of horde. When you complete the wave copy down the amount of exp you have, the number on the bottom right. make sure you go back to lobby when you finish the wave. Second-Connect your hardrive to your computer using a transfer cable. Go to partition 3 than content. click on every folder until you find your profile. if this is not clear to you just google it on how to get your profile from the hdd. Oh yeah if u dont know which one is yours go to your dasboard than memory and user profiles look at yours and how much megabytes it is. If you dont understand this look up another tut online Third- Download a hxd hex program. open your profile with it and then go to hexadecimal conversion, convert decimal to hexadecimal-- once there put your EXP(the one you just got in the horde match . put it with out the commas.) in the convert tab. then click to hexadecimal. then you will get a hex code. My code was 2483b3(if you get a number that is like 31b3 a four digit number put two zeros behind it) . So then you go back in hex workshop and click find then put in the code you got mines is 2483b3. when you find it and theres more than one found look for gow2 next to the right of everything it found. Fourth- Go to GOW2 Ranking Calculator click on launch calculator and get the experience required for the rank you want if you want a 80 put current level 1 and desired level 80 then copy the EXP with out the commas . Then return to hexadecimal conversion, convert decimal to hexadecimaland put in the exp you just got for the level 80. Copy the code it gives you.. then go to her x workshop and write over your experience code with the one you just save it . once done use hash block calculator rehash and resign with modio. inject back into your hdd. Start your XBOX offline than play a local game than connect lo live +rep if this helped5 points
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CONTool (i couldn't think of an original name...) New app I made using gabe_k's CON 'research' . Pictures: http://i732.photobucket.com/albums/ww324/austin112345/apphurr.png It reads information about the CON and saves whatever you edit. I'll make it sign and hash later. Download is attached to the post. Update: now extracts images, injects images, and extracts the file inside of the CON. CONTool.rar5 points
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The board has been succesfully updated to 3.0.4. If you find any bugs, please post them here quickly and I'll address them. The REP description bug should be fixed The first 2 or 3 times you visit the site, it will be slow. Then once it has cached the java-script it will speed up. The loading times are 10x better than 3.0.3. Thanks.5 points
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Forge 2.7 Supports the all mythic maps XP Download Vista Download Clean http://www.virustota...f2a9b5a6ffe58c8 thanks to Unknown v2 for updating it5 points
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How to mod your PSP (Original-1001-series) Things you will need: A PSP original (1001 series) Safety Goggles PSP battery (3.6v, 1800 mav) A spare PSP battery **this is a necessity** A box cutter A safety pin This software <= download as free user to show your love Step 1: Pandora's Battery Allright, here we go. First thing, you need a fully charged battery (80%+) Okay, holding the battery so the Sony logo facing you, with the charge node on the right side. Now, going slowly and softly, slide the box cutter up and down the sides of the PSP. See pic below: http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd280/vv_condor_vv/pspcut.jpg Go VERY slowly, if you pierce the battery, you might break your battery, or have it blow up in my hand like I did. Eventually, if you keep sawing (do the corners too) you'll be able to wedge your knife up the SIDE of your battery, pic below (you should be able to angle and slide your knife UP the inside casing of your psp) : http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd280/vv_condor_vv/cut1.jpg This step, involving my battery took me about 30-60 minutes of sawing, trying to go slow. This step is SLOW, take your time. Okay, now that your PSP battery is open, go do a dance, swearing in all. Run up to your parents screaming "look what i did" then shove your battery in there face. Now, comes the intense part. Make sure you have steady hands. Once you have, take your battery and look for the motherboard side. Now search for a certain chip, there will be 3-4 of em. The one we are looking for is label "ICO4" Take your safety pin, and gently prod, poke, and slowly lift the pin closest to the "4" in "ICO4". See pic: http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc84/mmaaccaattaacckk/pandora3.jpg Once that pin is broken, you are all good. seal up your battery using tape. Step 2: Magic Memory Stick IF YOU HAVE VISTA THEN PLEASE READ THE BLUE TEXT, IF YOU HAVE XP YOU MAY SKIP THIS PART ALSO IF YOU GET "OPEN ERROR" OR "CANT LOAD IPL" OR ANY OTHER PROBLEMS IN COMMAND PROMPT THEN USE THIS METHOD IN BLUE..PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU ASK ME WHAT TO DO If you have vista download this 25mb file and then this 4.01 EPBOOT file. dont ask me how to use this program, because there is a Help file within. before you open the file, right click it, then click "Run as Admin". after you make the mms, hold down the L trigger, and pop in the modded battery, and you will be presented with a psp-like menu...again...read the help if you dont get it you are going to need a Sony, Lexar, or Sandisk memory card, (not a fake, but a real one) also make sure that they are no less than 256mb, but no more than 4gb You can make sure it is real by: 1) Sticking the stick in the psp 2) Going to Videos (don't press X, just go to it) 3) Press triangle 4) Go to information 5) At Supported, it should say MagicGate, if it doesn't then it is fake, and there is no way around this. Or, you know, you could just...read the stick!! After you have downloaded the software in the heading, it's time to make a magic memory stick. Easiest part IMO. extract the PSP hackzz.rar to your desktop (use WinRAR) Open READ1st Folder highlight and copy MSINST and MSPFORMAT FOLDER open My Computer Left Click the C: drive once NOT TWICE, you just want to highlight it. Now RIGHT Click on C: drive and hit paste format your memory stick through your psp (Settings>System Settings>Format Memory Stick) once that is done, enable USB mode make note of your drive letter (usually E: or F) open up command propmt (click Start, select Run, type in cmd and hit enter) Type in the following command "CD C:\" (note: with-out quote mark) HIT enter type the following command "mspformat\mspformat.exe Drive letter" ( mine would look like mspformat\mspformat.exe E) note: NO quotation hit enter button hit Y for yes, then press enter it should say "Drive succesfully formatted, and partition moved." disable USB mode, and take out the memory stick now re-insert the memory stick, and re-enable USB mode Now go back to the Desktop where you extracted the folder "PSP HACKZZ" double click it open the Despertar v3 folder, and copy its contents to your psp via your PC (just the contents, not the actual folder) now go back to your command prompt window type the following command "msinst\msinst.exe X msinst\msipl.bin" ( where X=psp drive letter) NO quotation press Y for yes and hit enter The last line should say " Write MS BOOT CODE " then type exit and enter WOOOOO!!!!! you now have a magic memory stick! Step 3: Changing firmware to 3.71 M33-2 Now, once again, i cannot stress this enough, MAKE SURE YOUR PSP IS WELL- CHARGED!!! Okay, now shut down your PSP, pop out the battery (so it will could boot) With pandoras batteries, you kind of have to jump start it, so first thing you do is: Take out the battery Plug in charger Turn psp on Quickly pop in battery. Now, that thats done with, you should have a funky screen. Press 'X' to install 3.71 M33-2 firmware this process should take about 5-10 minutes. At the end, it will says Process complete, press X to shutdown. Press 'x' Now, swap out that Pandora's battery (modded battery) for that untouched necessary battery i said earlier in the tut. If you dont, it will just keep booting to that screen that says press 'x' to install firmware. Now that you have a fresh battery, pop out your memstick. turn on your PSP, go to Settings>System Settings>Format Memory Stick, and push in your memstick, and press X. you are done, YOU KNOW HAVE A FULLY MODDED PSP WHICH CAN PLAY .ISO'S OR .CSO'S or homebrew. woooooooot5 points
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For awhile I've wanted to implement a system that forces users to login to programs released on iBotModz. Entering actual login info seemed to risky to code for the database info would have been attached to every program. I then saw the system used on TheBotNet. You don't ever have to login to any program, but it somehow knows who you are. That system is now on iBotModz. This system logs your username, post count, rep and group ID. Program makers then can use this to limit their applications to only VIP or only to users above 10 REP and 100 posts. The possibilities are endless. The system takes your IP and uses it to match towards an account which then is sent back to your program. So you can create dynamic programs sayings "Hello $username. If anyone decides to use this they can implement it via a button click, or forced on form load. This example gives an intro with no post count requirement. This is before you do anything. On a real example, it might say "200 Posts and 10 Rep needed" Then you click "Authorize" and wait a few seconds. Now it has grabbed my post count, username and rep. Now you can do simple if statements to determine if that user is allowed to your program. Now for some source code. /* * Allowed User Groups to post, edit this yourself * Remove the ones that you DONT want to use your program * For this demo, all the groups are there * * The ones that are missing are Bots, * Guests and some old usergroups that are hidden */ ArrayList aug = new ArrayList(); aug.Add(1); //Validating aug.Add(3); //Members aug.Add(4); //Owner aug.Add(5); //Banned aug.Add(7); //Sub Admins aug.Add(; //VIP aug.Add(9); //Global Mods aug.Add(10); //GFX Team aug.Add(12); //Retired Staff aug.Add(14); //Members+ aug.Add(15); //Donors aug.Add(16); //Donors+ //These are the the levels of which you want for posts and REP int minPosts = 0; int minRep = 0; //The client to download the string, which contains all login info WebClient client = new WebClient(); string info = client.DownloadString("http://www.ibotmodz.net/index.php/prog/api"); client.Dispose(); //Check if website online or not if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(info)) MessageBox.Show("iBotModz is offline"); //Gathering the 4 variables string user = info.Substring((info.IndexOf("[user]") + 6), ((info.IndexOf("[/user]") - (info.IndexOf("[user]") + 6)))); //Check if guest if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(user)) { MessageBox.Show("Please become a member on iBotModz.net." + Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine + "If you are a member....Make a post" + Environment.NewLine + "Without using the quick reply "); Environment.Exit(0); } int posts = Convert.ToInt32(info.Substring((info.IndexOf("[posts]") + 7), ((info.IndexOf("[/posts]") - (info.IndexOf("[posts]") + 7))))); int rep = Convert.ToInt32(info.Substring((info.IndexOf("[rep]") + 5), ((info.IndexOf("[/rep]") - (info.IndexOf("[rep]") + 5))))); int groupID = Convert.ToInt32(info.Substring((info.IndexOf("[groupid]") + 9), ((info.IndexOf("[/groupid]") - (info.IndexOf("[groupid]") + 9))))); //Check for posts if (minPosts > posts) { MessageBox.Show("You need more posts to use this program."); this.Close(); } //Check for REP level if (minRep > rep) { MessageBox.Show("You need more REP to use this program."); this.Close(); } //Check for memberID if (groupID == 0) MessageBox.Show("Sorry, you don't have a usergroup."); int flag = 0; // ((0 = failed)) ((1 = passed)) //This will go through each allowed ID, so lets hope we are in here foreach (int i in aug) { if (groupID == i) { //Yes we found it //Debug.WriteLine(groupID + " passed becuase it was equal to " + i); flag = 1; break; } else { //so far theres nothing, keep going flag = 0; //Debug.WriteLine(groupID + " failed becuase it was equal to " + i); } } //Check if passed or not switch (flag) { case 1: //Login passed break; case 0: //Login Failed this.Close(); break; } Its commented, so I'm not going to explain it. You may download the full source ibmAuthSource.rar The example program. ibmAuth.exe Or the AUTH image. If you need to post to generate your record, and don't want to spam some random topic, use this topic. Otherwise post normally. http://www.ibotmodz.net/forum/index.php?/topic/15948-login-system-test/page__pid__103350__st__20entry103350test/page__pid__103350__st__20entry1033505 points
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http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7058/titlezs.png For www.ibotmodz.net In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to make an animated sig with Trapcode 3D Stroke. It will look something like this when your done: http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/3448/sig1n.gif You can mix the 3D Strokes or make them bigger, but that is just a basic example of what yours could look like. ~Requirements~ - A Computer Running Adobe After Effects CS3+ - Trapcode 3D Stroke (Get here) - Basic Knowledge of After Effects - A Life - Friends First start out by creating a new composition. Go to Composition>New Composition: http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5337/17196577.png Use the same settings as mine: http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/1395/62966789.png Now we need to make a new solid to apply our 3D stroke to. So go to Layer>New>Solid or press Control/Command + Y: http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/6351/15121332.png This dialog should come up. The color dosen't matter, so as an example I made mine lime green. Make sure that you click "Make Comp Size" at least once: http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/697/18609207.png Now select the Layer that you just made and go to Effects>Trapcode>3D Stroke: http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/8076/21622449.png Now grab the http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/640/47731851.png tool and select your layer. Now draw random lines with that tool as shown below: http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/1980/48074959.png Now go to your Effects Controls for your layer, and use these settings: http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/7145/95431157.png It should now look somewhat like this: http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/6721/51613803.png Now go to the first frame of your composition and set a keyframe for the offset at 50: http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/448/60729285.png Now move your play-head to about 2 seconds and change the value of the offset to 100: http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/1765/64696157.png Now you can grab the http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/3259/98947695.png tool and add some text. Do a RAM preview and it should look like this: http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/618/sigd.gif You can mess around with the settings, add a background, duplicate the layers, change masks, or whatever you want to customize your sig. Once your done messing around, its time to render your sig into an animated image file. To do this make sure that your in your composition, and press Control/Command + Shift + / or go to Composition>Add to Render Queue. This screen should popup, click on "Lossless": http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7705/29257638.png Change the format to "Animated GIF": http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2293/76071319.png Now click on http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6012/45900358.png and use these settings: http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/8404/92783327.png Now click on "Output Module" and choose where you want to save your image: http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/4458/75637082.png Finally, click on http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/4453/31316818.png and wait for it to render. When its done you'll have your animated sig. Thanks for reading my tutorial, and please +REP me for this5 points
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Well I took the class and im spreading the love. If your school offers the class with this big fat white text book with nothing but HTML basics you're probably getting the same worthless projects that require you to type exactly what's presented in the book and "learn" it. Truth is I learned more about html from cheating in that class. After countless classes googling those huge projects in the book that were tedious and hard to catch up if you got lost I found this. http://jillniles.tripod.com/ It has most of the projects available in the text book and if it's not there you can probably find it on google. One problem though Cascading Style Sheets (css) is not as simple as right clicking and opening in Notepad to copy all the code. BUT!!!!! I have a little fix for that... Ok first here is a Web Page that is one of the assignments that deals with an external style sheet http://i32.tinypic.com/2j6x7a.jpg To find the external style sheet we need to know its name! soooo right click, view source and we find it is..... http://i25.tinypic.com/2a80mrr.jpg .."mws.css" http://i26.tinypic.com/2vx51ys.jpg Now that we know the name of the style sheet we can simply change the address from the page we're viewing to the address of the style sheet. http://i28.tinypic.com/2eb4oko.jpg And wala! we have the css file. http://i27.tinypic.com/97mgsn.jpg copy paste and get your A+! (just remember to make changes for your page to be unique) and if you teacher looks at the coding like he should you will have to delete all the java script which is self explainatory.5 points
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsjNU4SCuhQ&feature=fvw Here are the coordinates from the secret places for you: 01. Google Pool: 37ð25'20.41"N 122ð 5'6.00"W 02. Airplane: 50ð12'47.26"N 8ð52'7.31"E 03. Tent: 28ð29'43.15"N 81ð34'50.07"W 04. Indian 1: 6ð42'51.37"N 42ð11'42.82"E 05. Black Line & Fire on ice: 69ð 3'7.72"N 41ð 8'29.66"W 06. BAR: 39ð49'21.77"N 3ð28'44.50"W 07. Star: 37ð24'1.66"N 116ð51'58.85"W 08. Pyramid: 37ð37'38.49"N 116ð50'26.44"W 09. Eddie ****: 53ð32'18.35"N 1ð20'44.17"W 10. Nude Dutch People: 52ð 4'43.34"N 4ð19'58.12"E 11. Nude German Woman: 52ð30'31.46"N 13ð20'6.90"E 12. English Crop Circle: 53ð31'54.33"N 1ð21'24.93"W 13. Firefox-Logo: 45ð 7'25.87"N 123ð 6'48.97"W 14. Nazi-Building: 32ð40'33.83"N 117ð 9'28.36"W 15. Reversed Ship: 35ð 9'18.21"N 129ð 8'51.37"E 16. Bomber: 52ð20'10.98"N 0ð11'43.17"W 17. Indian 2 (with i-pod): 50ð 0'38.19"N 110ð 6'48.31"W 18. Donut Store: 25ð57'0.25"N 97ð 8'50.29"W 19. Giant of Tarapacá: 19ð56'56.86"S 69ð38'1.81"W 20. Italian Crop Circle: 44ð40'52.79"N 10ð19'6.39"E 21. Radar Station: 18ð20'39.01"N 66ð45'8.79"W 22. Sailing/Pirate Ship: 33ð51'13.07"S 151ð13'59.47"E I didn't made this video. I only uploaded it. Music: "Band Of Brothers" Theme song. Please +Rep I'm soo close to VIP5 points
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Me and rob have found, that if you change your clan tag just as it reaches 3 seconds it should work perfectly. Also if you get your friend to join instead of some random you can guarantee that he/she will not leave the game.5 points
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http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/3656/starglowtut00000.jpg Alright so if you've known me for a while then you know that I used to make tutorials. Well I thought that I'd start making tutorials in programs such as Adobe After Effects or Sony Vegas. So anyways today I'm going to show you guys how to remove the watermark from the demo of an external plugin called Trapcode Starglow. But there is a catch to it, you can only use it on Text. So in other words, I am going to show you how to remove the watermark that the Trapcode Starglow Demo makes to show that you have not purchased it. This tutorial will ONLY work for TEXT layers. Requirments for this Tutorial -------------------------------- A Computer (duh) Adobe After Effects CS3+ Trapcode Starglow Demo (Download Here) First open up After Effects and go to "Composition">"New Composition": http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/2382/69277025.png Use the same settings as my comp: http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/81/83620358.png Once in your composition, click the http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/4231/84152646.png tool and type your text in the composition window: http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4840/14972006.png Then, select the text layer and apply "Effects">"Trapcode">"Starglow". If you don't see it, then you haven't installed the plugin: http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/6197/93442608.png Your text should now look tike mine: http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/8004/26599392.png As you can see there is a watermark there. Drag your text below the X that the watermark makes: http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/4131/93299484.png Then make another composition with your own settings: http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/5866/61346283.png Now drag the other composition with the text in, into the composition that you made and be sure that it only shows the text: http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/9872/54213425.png End Result: http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/1254/66047050.png And now you can use your text. You may have to make the first composition bigger than 2000x2000 pixels if you still see the watermark, but it's the best way to use it legally. Thanks for reading and if you need help PM me or talk to me on XBL my name is ThronedCREATOR.5 points
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I made a few: the first one, I made http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3986/aaaf.png Maybe someone can litter a few of theese images around the site too? It'd make it look cooler http://img269.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=34019.gif5 points
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Finally, after a year of looking for glitches me and my friends discovered how to get COMPLETELY out of the last level of Halo 3 Campaign. First to show on YouTube on my lostmodz26, tutorial and more coming soon. WATCH HERE Also do me a BIG favor and subscribe while your watching. I'll give you a free sugar cookie if you do. BTW - this is FIRST on YouTube. I bet you 10 bucks on it, send it to everyone please, this is big shit. >>EDIT<< Yup, tuts up: Also songs are: 3OH!3 - Richman & Hollywood Undead - Everywhere I go5 points
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Please +rep me for this mega post Modern Warfare 2 http://xbox360media.gamespy.com/xbox360/image/article/966/966567/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-20090326051750466.jpg Trailer 1: Trailer 2: Trailer 1 Analysis First thing is the sweetness and comfort from the IW logo and some cool visualization work going on with a night goggles look. Then it startsââ¬Â¦ 0:13 - Car horns honking, unsure if this starts outside or we can just hear outside. 0:19 - You can clearly hear the word ââ¬ÅSubwayââ¬Â While I keep reading everywhere that this is an airport, Jared commented below that it is a subway station in Japan with this video provided. 0:22 - ââ¬ÅAttention customers, Do not leave bags unattendedââ¬Â Now Yoshi has commented below on something I had to re-listen to extremely closely, but I do hear itââ¬Â¦ the woman definitely says something about ââ¬ÅFlight number 25..ââ¬Â right before the elevator doors are closing. 0:29 - Elevator ââ¬Ëdingââ¬â¢ 0:34 - Elevator door closes, you can see three people inside the elevator with some text above the the person on the right. http://i41.tinypic.com/oivsq8.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/30awe3a.jpg 0:36 - ââ¬ÅEllelator go up, ellelator go downââ¬Â 0:38 - Bag is dropped, zipper is open, stuff is happening! 0:46 - L1 floor ââ¬Ëdingââ¬â¢ http://www.bingegamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/4605_l1.jpg 0:50 - Gun is cocked, seriously, now **** is going to hit the fan! http://www.bingegamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/4902_guncocking.jpg 0:53 - M floor ââ¬Ëdingââ¬â¢ http://www.bingegamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/5342_m.jpg 0:57 - You are behind some Russians that are either with you are unaware that bad ass stuff is about to happen. http://i43.tinypic.com/w70ute.jpg 1:00 - 1 floor ââ¬Ëdingââ¬â¢ http://www.bingegamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/10069_1.jpg 1:02 - *clears throat* 1:04 - Guy on the left says ââ¬Åslimy ballââ¬Â !? Certainly this is code for ââ¬Åfan being hit with **** soonââ¬Â Honestly, iââ¬â¢m not sure what that guy said, but zhe commented below that he says ââ¬ÅS nami bogââ¬Â which is Russian for ââ¬ÅGod is with usââ¬Â http://i39.tinypic.com/1042d84.jpg 1:08 - 2 floor ââ¬Ëdingââ¬â¢ and one of the men saying ââ¬ÅRememberââ¬Â¦ the Russianââ¬Â OR ââ¬ÅRemember.. no Russianââ¬Â Others believe he is saying ââ¬ÅRemember, no rushingââ¬Â http://www.bingegamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/10880_2.jpg 1:12 - Exiting the elevator. Security signs are directly in front. There is people around. Top right hand corner shows something way noteworthy, five icons, the first one being very recognizable as the ââ¬ÅStopping Powerââ¬Â perk. http://www.bingegamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/11200_perks.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/vhzsp4.jpg So it is definitely Stopping Power first. Then some sort of winged foot second. Knives third. And.. is that.. the Portal icon!? I canââ¬â¢t tell what it is. The last box is obviously an arrow, but I do wonder why it is larger than the other boxes. 1:19 - Ka Boom. http://i42.tinypic.com/et7791.gif http://i40.tinypic.com/2yor62h.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/2vxj8u9.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/2dl3kvr.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/1052x4n.jpg http://www.bingegamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/12368.jpg http://www.bingegamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/12492.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/2vl1s01.png http://i40.tinypic.com/2vwxkjk.jpg Trailer 2 Analysis -Snow. -There is a snowmobile that is shown with a first person view. Does this mean vehicles? -The man in the snowmobile is holding a Glock [Glock 17 with an OD Green Frame] -A man is supposedly holding an AUG (Red Dot Sight?) -SDV (SEAL Delivery Vehicle) Shown in the underwater part -There\'s a suppressed M4A1 on the back of one of the frogmen -In the underwater SDV part, there are visible flags on their arms. the flags have stripes, so they\'re clearly Americans and not SAS -Navy Seals confirmed... -Underwater pillar looking things are hard to tell what they are exactly. could be the support pillars on an oil rig from the first teaser -The water seems to have been updated a lot as you can see in the first sequence (waves, maybe using the fft algorithm, which can create realistic water movement and was used in Titanic and CryEngine, but it\'s too short to see if there\'s real-time reflection yet. -Smoke doesn\'t seem to have changed much, in the second scene you can see that it\'s pretty similar to that of MW1. Fire is also similar, but explosions look more convincing. -MK14 -AK47 -Possible UMP or G636c variant -The gun that is dropped when the snowmobile crashes looks like an AK-style weapon. Although the stock looks more like an M4-style collapsible stock. possibly a chop-modded AK for Spec Ops http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k321/Nutty_Nadim/MW21.jpg http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k321/Nutty_Nadim/MW22.jpg http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k321/Nutty_Nadim/MW23.jpg http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k321/Nutty_Nadim/MW24.jpg http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k321/Nutty_Nadim/MW25.jpg http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k321/Nutty_Nadim/MW26.jpg http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k321/Nutty_Nadim/MW27.jpg http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k321/Nutty_Nadim/MW28.jpg http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k321/Nutty_Nadim/MW29.jpg http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k321/Nutty_Nadim/MW210.jpg --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.gossipgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/modern-warefare-2-gameinformer-cover-494x590.jpg New Details - May 16th Many new key details have been emerging about the hottest upcoming shooter Modern Warefare 2 courtesy of the next issue of Game Informer. Some of these details that were leaked: * No co-op in story mode, but separate missions reminiscent of CoD4ââ¬â¢s Mile High Club include cooperative multiplayer. * In the wintery bits of the game, snowmobiles will be used to escape attack, but itââ¬â¢s unclear whether players will be driving or shooting from the vehicles. Ice walls can also be climbed by alternating between the two triggers. * A live-patching system will be implemented for online multiplayer, forgoing the need for a downloadable patch. * Game will run at 60 frames-per-second, with better detail than CoD4. * Riot shields, movable turrets and customized weapons for single-player enemies were mentioned. * Gameplayââ¬â¢s a bit more open-ended than CoD4 but is still linear. * Stealth can now be used if you like. * Infinity Wardââ¬â¢s working on fixing enemy respawn issues (CoD4ââ¬â¢s enemies would constantly respawn unless a player crossed a certain line). * The single-player campaign will be longer than it was in CoD4. Also according to PSM3, a UK based magazine: * Swimming mode enabled. * A ââ¬ËStealthyââ¬â¢ Oil pipeline Scuba Mission will be included in campaign mode. * A level will definitely be based in Rio De Janeiro. * Siberian Level will feature in campaign mode. * Vehicles (e.g. Trucks, Tanks etc.) will be introduced into the Modern Era. * A ââ¬ËHelicopter Basedââ¬â¢ Level will be featured. * An Oil Tanker level will also be featured. * Ken Lally (Wesker from Resident Evil 5) will be voice acting. Most likely as a Russian villain. Magazine Scans http://i732.photobucket.com/albums/ww324/austin112345/scan0003.jpg http://i732.photobucket.com/albums/ww324/austin112345/scan0006.jpg http://i732.photobucket.com/albums/ww324/austin112345/scan0007.jpg --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Soap is now a Captain in Task Force 141. # A co-op mode exists outside of single player known as Special Forces. # Confirmed Locations: * Russia * Brazil * Afghanistan # The game will run at 60 FPS. # They will use a \"Live Patch\" element to update the game without standardized patching. # The game boasts a more open style of gameplay. # A current theme in the game is the imperfect status of intelligence. # Riot shields are in the game, but unknown to their use in multiplayer. # The new villain is known as Makarov, an associate of Zakhaev. # New equipment and weapons exist. ------------------------------------------------------------------- May 21st Trailer. <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data=" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" />Cannot Be Displayed</object> http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv32/KAIZER_SOSA/MW23-1.png 1.) The first one isn\'t something SUPER spectacular okay. So this is obviously an Enemy NPC and he is armed with 2 Stun Grenades which obviously make their return in MW2. The real theory and purpose of this pic lies within the GI article mentions of customized NPCs with Multiplayer style weaponry. In Cod4 Enemy NPC Stun Grenades were not as often as the hail mary of Frag spammage we received from them, in MW2 will they be able to spam us with Stuns as well, since they will be outfitted like human players would be in MP. Special Grenades X3 for the Enemy NPCs? http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv32/KAIZER_SOSA/MW21.png 2.) Okay some of the obvious stuff - Russian SWAT Teams which you can tell by the Russian Letters on the black truck they hop out of, and that the location is an Airport Gate area (Where planes land and receive maintenance). The obvious stuff is out of the way now lets get down to the speculations and theory. Notice in the first teaser trailer (the green one) it is presume to be Russian Terrorists attacking an Airport with one of them reminding his fellow suited gun toting comrades \"Remember, no Russian.\" Most of us assumed they were posing as Americans, well to me at least this confirms that they were. We know they were in an Russian Airport of some sorts, chances are that this is the same exact Airport which takes place in that trailer. Its obviously in Russia due to the Russian SWAT Team coming along and engaging with our fellow NPCs (later photos). I think this action takes place right after the suited Russians hijack a possible plane with our good NPCs trying to stop them before take off, and in the confusion have to tangle with SWAT who probably came in to stop the suited Russians who eventually escape? Well I can\'t get too far into speculation now can I... http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv32/KAIZER_SOSA/MW24.png 3.) Okay here we have our first of many photo shots of our now popular Mohawk NPC. Some people think he is our playable character but I doubt that, in most of our COD games and COD4 our playable character is always faceless as in - we never see his face. I believe this tradition will carry on in MW2 (this is of course with the exception of Soap who is now an NPC and Price in his Flashback missions but our protagonist is usually a mystery). I believe he is a very valuable character in MW2 who comes off more as a supporting role similar to what Gaz portrayed in the first MW, with Soap playing our new residential badass ala Captain Price. More confirmation that this is a commercial Airport and undoubtedly civilians will play a huge role in this part of the game (as well as others as GI exclusive article confirms this). Also our Mohawk friend is wearing a vest, will this be somehow included into game play or is it just merely NPC eye candy like the vest in MW? Will it play a part in Multiplayer... a new take on Juggernaut? Only time will tell... http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv32/KAIZER_SOSA/MW25.png 4.) Ahhh... the rooftop shots, judging by these shots we are in a high chase pursuit of someone (similar to COD4\'s Sins of the Father) or hauling ass... I\'ll go with the former. In this image is a masked NPC (Non Playable Character) or is he? Is this masked soldier our playable character cleverly designed by IW to hide his identity from us as we scan these trailers for every detail? Obviously this is in the shanty towns of Rio de Janeiro but what exactly is our team after here? Brazilian Arms dealer? Mentioned in the GI article is a mountaintop objective with a great implementation of MW2\'s new open ended game play. Here in Brazil as confirm by GI exclusive MW2 article, civilians also play a role during combat as this South American Faction (which might be playable as in MP) is primarily dressed as common villagers as well (later photo). Speaking of Multiplayer, does this spell out a \"Hell Yeah\" for a rooftop MP map? Ummm I sure hope so... http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv32/KAIZER_SOSA/MW26.png 5.) Here is a close up of the fore mentioned masked character in the process of making a death defying jump. Speaking of these type of jumps, it reminds me of the very last timed event jump in the level \"Crew Expendable\". Is it possible we\'ll be making more of these type of timed event jumps on these level in MW2, I mean in \"Crew Expendable\" IW did a tremendous job portraying the need of urgency in contrast to impending doom when escaping that sinking freighter. Will they pull off that same type of fast pace action and timed jumps in the rooftops of Brazil? That would be an awesome concept I want to lean towards to. I know, I know... a lot of you guys noticed the gun in the masked guy\'s hand and spreaded the news already. For those who are still unwary of what it is - I\'m not even sure now but it looks like a rifle not an SMG like I first thought. I\'ll get back on that soon with an update. http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv32/KAIZER_SOSA/MW27.png 6.) Expanding more about timed event jumps here, this also looks very similar to the last part of \"Crew Expendable\" only thing is I don\'t think that\'s our chopper, it\'s the enemy. Notice as it looks like they\'re jumping for the chopper but the hatch is not opened... I believe its a deceiving angle and our guys are still involved in some roof hopping here trying to catch up with the chopper. Probably while chasing an enemy NPC through the rooftops, the enemy ditches our guys and makes it to a particular rooftop with an awaiting chopper to make a dashing escape? Nevertheless this Brazil shanty town is looking to be a very interesting location for the game with civilians, civilian dressed enemies, open ended level design and rooftop chases with choppers. Sounds \'effing exciting to me. http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv32/KAIZER_SOSA/MW28.png 7.) This photo here proves to be rather interesting... as far as theory goes for the time being I\'m completely stumped with this one so lets explain the obvious here. Another masked character, is this the same guy jumping the Brazilian rooftops who is our possible playable character? He\'s wielding a dagger or ice pick here in the process of stabbing some unfortunate soul. What looks like a hostage in some sort of red-orange suit looks to be tied to a seat in the back there, but is most interesting is the red lights in the background. I remember those red lights fairly well - C4? Since it looks to be a hostage situation, maybe the C4 is a certified way of keeping our hostage there, he possibly could even be tied to the C4 incase any would be rescuer would trip it and blow them both sky high? Or some type of other explosive device? Could this mean some environmental traps in single player mode? We know by GI\'s article that a snowy mission takes place where our new protagonist is accompanied by Cpt. Soap to rig up some explosives at an enemy base but does this mean disarming them as well? Maybe a new type of explosives in MP and a new Perk to disarm them? Who knows... http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv32/KAIZER_SOSA/MW212.png 8.) What is possibly to be believed to be some sort of lot on U.S. soil? Or maybe a wreckage site... noticed the burnt out colors the plane parts display which could\'ve been done by a bomb that was planted on this doomed plane... Mile High Club anyone? Further analysis leads me more to the bomb theory as it seems it fell to this piece of land in pieces as opposed to crashing of other causes (which would have made it seem more driven into the earth by impact not land in partly intact pieces). Due to the partly intact nose end of the plane I\'m assuming this bomb was placed somewhere in the middle of the plane to cause maximum damage and casualties, and it did a pretty good job at it. http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv32/KAIZER_SOSA/MW212-1.png 9.) The reason I mentioned Mile High Club is the fact of that plane having a bomb on it (or several), you can tell when you dive out with the hostage it blows up mid-air. Now was that chapter over or just the beginning? Is it linked to MW2? What would bring us to this location in MW2 among the wreckage, maybe the hostage wasn\'t the only thing important on that plane back in MHC... Maybe in MW2 we are after the black box that plane carried for more Intel on what the enemyââ¬â¢s intentions were? Being it was the SAS who took part in that Op and the muffled foreign language of that hostage, the plane itself was over international airspace. Maybe this lot is not U.S. soil as some of us might think? http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv32/KAIZER_SOSA/MW213.png 10.) Now here is a \"no surprise\" shot of the Christ the Redeemer statue located of the mountains of Rio de Janeiro. Also some sort of satellite tower, do the villagers of this shanty town enjoy the luxuries of premium cable television or is this an objective for our friends of Task Force 141? Well since this doesnââ¬â¢t resemble the wealthiest of towns I believe that satellite tower is definitely under control by the wrong side of the law? Spying on certain people or used as a way for our Brazilian arms dealer to communicate with his international clienteleââ¬Â¦ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Another trailer analysis (Sorry for links to images, I got this error: Sorry, but you have posted more images than you are allowed to) http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/4718/gttv1.jpg Theres a new gun here, please identify, also a riot sheild, and the badge looks like "TnT" written on it. Gun possibly: MP5K MP7 http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/3430/gttv2.jpg Here is what looks to be like a anti terror mission. With so many obvious signs of airports through the green line teaser and this trailer. Also what seems to be the M4 Carbine! Also possibly: REC7 (formerly M468), or a SCAR-H http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/7858/gttv31.jpg Now, its obviously set in the deserty urban areas (eg. Afghanistan and Brazil) Also a new gun, needs identifying. Possibly an M4 http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/3753/gttv4.jpg Im not so sure with this, this one is open minded for all. http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/3020/gttv5.jpg Seems more 'open fighting' than previous CoD's. Also.. LOT! http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/4818/gttv6.jpg The picture confirms Brazil, and also a new Melee move? http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/9851/gttv7.jpg Maybe thinking too far out of the box. http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/1331/gttv9.jpg Now if IW pull of Snow mobiles then it will be sweet, also.. a new gun to identify again Gun possibly: UMP Submachine gun G36c Iw are taking a new edge to this game. Snowy Russia, More open fighting, and riot sheilds, lets hope it all goes well! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Continued in post below.5 points
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Fancy yourself an Uncharted fan? Well you're not going to want to miss our next cover (sequel!). We've got Uncharted 2: Among Thieves featuring 10 pages of world-exclusive details. Nathan Drake returns with a whole new adventure which revolves around the 13th century explorer Marco Polo and his voyages. The new PlayStation 3 title will add a free climbing mechanic and action/adventure gameplay. Players can also expect all-new locations, characters and a focus on the game's story. -Game Informer.com http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/GMOF_Tucker/gami_189_cov_web.jpg The Trailer Cannot Be Displayed Glad I gots mah PS3 fixed =D The world premiere of our first trailer for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves! This trailer will be shown during the 2008 Video Game Awards show, airing on December 14, 2008, at 9:00 PM on Spike. Don't forget! On top of that, Game Informer has revealed the cover of their January 2009 issue today, which features none other than � you guessed it � Uncharted 2. The January 2009 issue will hit subscribers and newsstands in mid-December and will give you the first in-depth look at what lies in store for Nathan Drake. -Playstation Blog According to Game Informer, which is as you know is featuring Uncharted 2: Among Thieves on its January 2009 cover,the game will feature Nathan Drake going on an adventure that covers the voyages of 13th-century explorer Marco Polo.The gameplay will include a new free climbing mechanic as well as stealth gameplay as players work their way through new locations. -Daily Game.com The Uncharted 2 teaser trailer sent waves through the forums. One question that kept arising; is the trailer rendered in real-time, or is it fancy CGI? Naughty Dog has exclusively given Gamezine the answer. Richard Diamant, Naughty Dog's Lead Character Artist, told Gamezine; "Yes, the trailer was all rendered real-time in our engine." So there you have it. Naughty Dog are one of the few developers to dislike creating false expectations with CGI trailers, and just like Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, their very first teaser is rendered in real-time. -GameGrep.com http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/GMOF_Tucker/uncharted_1126214c.jpg Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, is one of the most hotly anticipated games of 2009. Although no release date has been set for the title, gamers are expected to be able to play a pre-release version of Among Thieves at next year's Game Developers' Conference in San Francisco.Among Thieves is also reported to feature all-new locations and characters, and a strong narrative thread and story arc. Some Screenys http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/GMOF_Tucker/thumb_124592.jpg http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/GMOF_Tucker/thumb_124591.jpg http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/GMOF_Tucker/thumb_124590.jpg Some "Gunplay" from Uncharted Drake's Fortune Cannot Be Displayed Uncharted Gameplay Mechanics Interview Cannot Be Displayed Update Release sometime in Fall 09 Newest video Cannot Be Displayed The original Uncharted used 30% of the PS3's power this time around Naughty Dog says they will use 80%-90% for Uncharted 2 Among Thieves The biggest thing in the article IMO is that there's a new girl named Chloe Frazer. GI asked about Elena and Sully's return but they had no comment. The story is about looking for the ships that Marco Polo "lost" while returning home to Italy. Melee combat is more dynamic now. A demo was shown to GI with Drake going through a city (I believe in Nepal), and he's stealthily taking out guards and escaping the city. Nolan North returns to be Drake and Chloe Frazer is played by Claudia Black (Stargate SG-1, Fargate). The Sixaxis mechanics were ditched for such things as throwing grenades. One of the weapons revealed is a rocket launcher that Chloe uses (might only be for the cinematic). There are no load screens. The score is being composed by Greg Edmonson (same guy from the first one). Weapons can be used in any stance (running, behind cover, hanging, climbing a wall, etc.). You can now move while aiming behind cover Contextual movesets help to ground Drake in his environment,basically if hes hurt he will look hurt if hes in water he will look like he is in water and wet of course Uncharted 2's plot is like an onion layer by layer.The initial such for Marco Polo's fleet takes Drake into a lush green swamp,and from there launches a quest to uncover the legendary wish-fulfilling Cintamani Stone.Cryptic clues lead him to a Nepalese city under attack by paramilitary forces after the same priceless treasure.Later locations include a massive ice cave,a moutain-side village,and finally,the high Himalayen peaks,the fabled lost city of Shambhala(never herd of it).A train takes Nathan Drake part of the way but as you see in the video he does'nt make it.... Any and all illusions that Uncharted is simply a "jungle" game should be washed away when the seaqual comes out http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/GMOF_Tucker/uncharted-2-among-thieves-200902030.jpg When you are on a ledge you can reach up and grab an unsuspecting gaurd and fling him off the side. The movment from a protected spot is much more relistic. I'll add more later I'm going to read it now. February 3, 2009 - Naughty Dog is a filthy tease. Yesterday, the folks behind the company met with a plethora of videogame journalists, went over the story and details of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and even played through a level set in a bombed out section of Nepal. Yeah, the gameplay looked awesome and the graphics were somehow better than the crisp stuff we saw in Drake's Fortune, but when all that was said and done, Naughty Dog kept talking -- about the possibility of a helicopter shooting out the foundation of a building and Nathan having to navigate his way out of the crumbling structure while the enemies around him try and do the same thing; about fighting on top of a train as it curves and careens through the environment and Nathan having to adjust his balance and shots accordingly; about picking to either run through the train cars or shimmy along the roof. The developers talked about these OMG moments, but they didn't show them. Naughty Dog gives you a taste and leaves you hurting for more. It's criminal. Uncharted 2 is going to drop Nathan into a quest to find Marco Polo's fortune. See, after spending about 20 years in the court of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo headed home with 14 ships, more than 600 people, and more treasure than you could shake a stick at. When Polo docked 18 months later, he had one ship and 18 passengers. The explorer, who many accused of telling ridiculous stories, would never speak of what happened during his journey. When Marco Polo was on his deathbed, his relatives begged him to recant his tales so he'd get into heaven, but Polo replied "I didn't tell half of what I saw." http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/GMOF_Tucker/uncharted-2-among-thieves-200902-4.jpg Where's Sully? Where's Sully? Eerie story, mountains of loot, and a historical mystery? Sounds like a quest for one Nathan Drake. Set about two years after Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Among Thieves finds our hero down on his luck and running with the looters and pirates on the seedier side of life. Naughty Dog has been tightlipped about what exactly is happening in Drake's world, but we do know that Chloe Frazer is a major part of it. Described as a reckless and brash Australian explorer, Chloe and Drake have had a previous "relationship" and quickly find common ground with the Marco Polo case. Somehow, the duo finds out that Marco Polo had set out on a secret expedition to Shambhala -- also known as Shangri-La -- to find the Cintamani Stone, a massive sapphire that's the Buddhist Holy Grail and would be worth billions today. Of course, a paramilitary leader who just so happens to be a war criminal is out to find the stone as well, and his private army is going to stop Drake and Chloe however it can. http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/GMOF_Tucker/uncharted-2-among-thieves-200902-3.jpg With that, the adventure is on and said to take Chloe and Nate from snowy mountain tops to cities packed with temples to murky swamps and beyond. My demo picked up with our girl and boy split up. They had known that the next clue in their journey to Shangri-La was in a temple in a Nepal, but that village was in the midst of a war. See, the bad guys knew the next clue was here as well, but rather than use their noggins to figure out which temple held the prize, they just rolled in and began ransacking the place. This got the locals in a tizzy, and the militia is now on the scene fighting the machinegun-packing masses at every turn. Chloe and Drake tried to sneak in via a Jeep and by dressing Nate as a reporter, but the bad guys saw through that pretty quickly, chased the vehicle through the city in their own armored vehicle, and fired a nasty turret whenever they got the chance. Navigating down a tight alley, Nate lost the foes but also ditched his ride. On foot and huddled behind a half wall of what used to be the interior of a building, the actual gameplay began. http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/GMOF_Tucker/uncharted-2-among-thieves-200902-6.jpg Pressed up against that wall, Nate tried to eye a group of paramilitary personnel that was slowly walking a destroyed street -- there was rubble everywhere, household objects littered the street, the buildings were smashed and smoldering. Suddenly, a bus careened onto the scene in an attempt to take out some of the bad guys, but it only succeeded in crashing and blocking the road. With the bad guys distracted by the bus, Drake ran into the street, picked up some ammo with Triangle, and baseball slid into cover behind an oven that was packed in with some other junk in the street. From there, Drake popped out, grabbed a straggler, and broke his neck. Two is the magic number. Giving players a choice in Uncharted 2 is something Naughty Dog drove home during its presentation, and the choice between stealth and straight-up combat is at the forefront of that philosophy. Whereas you could sneak in a few sleeper hold attacks in the original game, that line of offense usually meant you were spotted by the nearly omniscient cast of pirates. In Among Thieves, Naughty Dog is giving you the tools to get your Solid Snake on and silently take down the bad guys if you wish. If enemies haven't spotted Drake, he's going to move differently than if they had seen him. He's going to slink along walls, carefully peek over cover, and move silently. At one point, Nate leapt from one floor of a building to the ledge of the next. There was an enemy standing guard on the rooftop Drake was hanging from, but the foe had his back turned when Nate made the leap of faith, so the jerkwad didn't know our hero was there until the bad guy walked towards the ledge, Nate grabbed the guy 'round his belt, and threw the guard to the pavement below for the instant knockout and/or death. http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/GMOF_Tucker/uncharted-2-among-thieves-200902-7.jpg Like I said though, being quiet is just one half of the equation. After running from the oven to silently killing the straggler, Nate whipped out his gun and started a traditional Uncharted firefight complete with cover, crosshairs, and headshots. With the bullets flying, I did notice one small but welcome change. While the HUD is pretty much the same as the first game -- a tan rectangle featuring a picture of your gun and how many bullets you have left -- there is now a column of grenade slots on the left of the image so that you can easily see how many handheld explosives you're packing. With the small squad out of the way, Drake advanced on the beached bus, but as he got close to it, the vehicle exploded and knocked the lead on his ***. Now, although the explosion was something of a movie (i.e. you couldn't run from the blast) it there was no loading or noticeable dip when the action stopped and the scripted event took over. It was seamless. With that point of entry to the city cut off, Nate said "When in doubt, climb." Drake moved to a telephone pole, shimmied up the wood, leapt to some bricks on a building, grabbed onto a sign, and basically took all of his jungle antics into a cityscape. Naughty Dog's emphasis on player choice is parlaying into this climb/run mechanic as well. Nate's going to have more to climb in Uncharted 2, so it's up to you how or if you want to use it. Of course, some of these grab-able spots are old and crappy, so expect air conditioners to begin to fall off walls when you hang on them and signs to collapse under your weight if you hang out too long. Another interesting angle to this newfound ability to climb just about anywhere is that you can now fight from any position you find yourself in. If Nathan's clutching onto a thing of bricks, he can shoot from it, and if he's dangling from a sign, he can shoot from it -- Naughty Dog's calling it "traversal gunplay," and it seems pretty cool. But, as a full-blown Uncharted nerd, the things I dug the most about the Naughty Dog demo were the little touches. When Drake made a big old leap from rooftop to rooftop, he flung his arms backwards and kicked out his legs as he flew. When this is happening, it's easy to see the new animation for his kicking feet and moving hands. When he was looking down a street, it was easy to see the detail of the marketplace at the end of the road. When Nate gets into a hand-to-hand scuffle, it's easy to see that he's now a badass. Release Date: December 31, 2009 IGN: Enough is enough: where are Elena Fisher and Sully?! UPDATE Richard Lemarchand: Someone said they saw them arguing over by the water cooler earlier today - but we're really not ready to give away the details about what's happened to the characters you got near and dear with in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. You'll find out soon enough! IGN: Drake climbed and stuff in the first game; how is this new traversal system any different? Richard Lemarchand: In short, the climbing part of the traversal system in Uncharted 2 is much more realistic now. Reinforcing the sense of realism that the world of Uncharted has, by making sure that the characters and their actions behave just like you would expect in the real world, has been a key area of focus for us throughout development. To that end, we've added animations and technology that allow Drake to climb and explore the environment in a much more free-form and organic manner. Drake's movement has expanded by leaps and bounds (Pun intended!) beyond just jumping from handhold to handhold. Drake now freely clambers hand over hand on all sorts of objects like walls, ladders, signposts, monkey bars, ledges, ropes and so on. We added the ability for him to swing on free-hanging ropes across chasms, too. We've also made sure not to separate out the times when you use these new abilities from the combat sequences. We wanted to create a seamless experience of "traversal combat," flowing freely in and out of combat as you travel through the world. That means that you'll definitely find yourself in the middle of a firefight while running, jumping and climbing around the environment. Again, to keep things realistic, we've made sure that Drake can fire his gun during all of these actions. So if you're trying to get to higher ground and an enemy is already up there shooting down at you, you can fire at him and take him out as you're climbing your way up. This has opened up the design possibilities available to us in a massive way, since we can now throw combat into the game anywhere it looks like it will be interesting. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/963/963744/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090318093926979-000.jpg IGN: How do you make it feel fresh from the player's perspective? I mean, how do you keep it from being a stale mechanic of "Walk to this, press X?" Richard Lemarchand: Our goal with both of the Uncharted games has been to create an experience that is seamless and completely engaging - something that holds your attention from beginning to end, just like a terrific action-adventure movie would. Basically, we don't want you to put down the controller until you're done playing through the game at least once! Based on anecdotes we've heard, that actually happened to some people with Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and we were always happy to hear it. One of the ways that we approach our game design to make it feel wholly engaging is to make sure that you always have a strong idea about what you have to do to proceed, without relying on methods which pull you out of the experience. So, if we've done our job right, at any given point you'll always know where you're headed next. . If we've done that, we can then set things in any way that we want in order to keep the game fresh and interesting - whether it's exploring, solving puzzles or surviving through combat as you progress in the story and move from one amazing place to another. IGN: Drake will be climbing over more than just rock ledges this time around; how do you go about opening up his world and not having your team beat their heads in with keyboards? Richard Lemarchand: It all starts with level layout, really! Good planning and solid design is usually the key to stopping yourself going crazy when you're setting out on an endeavor as complicated as developing a story-driven character-action game. At the beginning of the development of Uncharted 2 we had a huge leg up in that we already had the engine that we used to create Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. This meant that, unlike with the first game, we could start building simple prototype levels from plain-looking geometry at the very start of the design process. We call these simple, rough levels "blockmesh", and they're the foundation of our level design process. We can very quickly rough out a space in 3D, build it in our tools, and then immediately run and climb around it to get a sense of the space: the feeling of scale that the environment has, how easy it is to perceive paths through the level, the lines of sight that you have from the various spots that you can climb or run to, and so on. At the same time we can start to throw in enemies, and get a sense of how well the space works for combat, as well as chucking in interactive objects to prototype out the puzzles that we're considering. At this point, the Naughty Dog Game Engine 2.0 is like a giant sandbox, where we can incredibly quickly create an interactive demo of pretty much any idea we can think of. We can easily add in or take out hand-holds and ledges to climb up to and run along, and because the geometry is still so simple, it's incredibly easy to improve based on the discoveries we make as we traverse around it. After that, it becomes an intense process of play-testing the level and iteratively improving its design, making small changes until the blockmesh plays really well, and we can pass it on the artists who will make it look amazing. It was really great to be able to hit the ground running as fast as we did with this game, and I think that when players see how freely they can clamber over and around the environment as they lock horns with the enemies, they'll get a sense of the fun we had laying out the game's levelsIGN: What about the snow we've heard so little about since that first trailer? How have you folks tackled weather this time around? Richard Lemarchand: One of the things that Uncharted: Drake's Fortune received a lot of praise for was the quality of our water effects. We'd set ourselves a goal to make the water in Uncharted look as good as anything that had ever been seen in a video game, and we collectively spent a lot of time working to make sure that our water looked as realistic as possible, and that it acted very realistically, too. For Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, we've taken that dedication and attention to detail, and applied it to snow and ice - which is really just water with the temperature lowered by fifty degrees! Unfortunately, we hadn't implemented a "freeze all the water in this level" button in our engine, so we had to do it the good old fashioned way - with lots of hard work and the skilful creation of new shaders and visual effects. We've spent a lot of time focused on the distinctive look that snow has as it falls and is blown by the wind, and of course on the way in which Drake leaves footprints as he trudges through the snowdrifts in the Himalayan mountains that he ventures to. When he's out in the snow he'll accumulate a layer of snowflakes on his clothes and in his hair, which will slowly thaw when he gets back inside under cover. Ice reflects light in a way that cleverly mimics the sub-surface scattering that goes on inside a chunk of frozen water, and gives it a look of incredible volume and density. We have a few more tricks up our sleeves, too - all in all, we're really happy with the way the weather's shaping up in Uncharted 2. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/963/963744/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090318093931385-000.jpg IGN: Will Drake have different animations depending on his surroundings --shivering in the cold, slipping on wet pavement, etc.? Richard Lemarchand: We're big believers that great animation grounds a character in the reality of a world better than almost anything else, and so we're paying lots of attention to giving Drake a very wide range of context-dependent animation that helps sell what's happening around him in the world. One new animation feature for Uncharted 2 is that, if he hasn't been spotted by the enemies in an area that he enters, Drake will hunker down and look as if he's trying to keep a low profile as he walks along, in order to get the drop on his foes. Drake still stumbles over uneven terrain or if he only just makes a jump, and he will look stressed while he's in combat, as we layer additional animations into both his posture and his facial features. Another huge new feature for us in that we've added technology that lets any character in the game perform all of their traversal and combat behaviors on any kind of moving object. This has expanded what's possible for our game design in an incredible way, and has given us the ability to easily create those big summer blockbuster moments from the movies that the Uncharted universe is so inspired by. Whether it's fighting on a moving vehicle as it races through the countryside, or running around inside a tower block as it starts to collapse - all of those tense, over-the-top moments can now be experienced by players in gameplay, while they're actually playing. IGN: How does the ice/snow function as a gameplay mechanic? Richard Lemarchand: We don't want to give away all our secrets - you'll have to use your imagination to figure out all the ways in which we might use sub-zero temperatures in the service of gameplay! One thing I will say is that if you've ever tried to fight an intense cover-based gun battle against a vicious enemy in the middle of a Force Ten snowstorm, then you'll appreciate how complicated the reduced visibility can make things for combatants on both sides� IGN: How long will this title be? Richard Lemarchand: We're not quite ready to say how long the experience will be, since we still have plenty of development time in front of us before we ship. However, we're making sure that the end result is not only a satisfying length to play through, but that it stays true to the needs of our story. On top of that, we're planning on adding several features to the game that will increase replayability and extend the gameplay experience for everyone. We'll be revealing those features at a later date, so hold tight for more info! http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/963/963744/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090318093922433-000.jpg IGN: What's your goal with Uncharted 2? Are you trying to make the most realistic traversal game featuring snow ever created? Richard Lemarchand: You left out amazing cover-based shooting, intriguing problem-solving, our gripping story, our awesome character performances, and� But seriously, if you distill all of the incredible variety of stuff that we're putting into this game into one simple concept: we really just want to create the most amazing and playable version of a summer blockbuster action movie that has ever been seen on the PLAYSTATION 3, or on any game console, for that matter. We want the quality of our performances and writing, and the careful way that the story interweaves with the very best action-gameplay we've ever created, to really transport the player into a world of adventure that they'll never forget. We really think that we're outdoing ourselves with Uncharted 2, and we can't wait to see what people think of what we're making! IGN: When can the fans expect to hear more about this game -- i.e. when will you stop torturing me and let me play it? Richard Lemarchand: But it's so much fun to torture you! Of course, that means not quite yet - but you'll get your hands on it when we think you've suffered enough! http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/963/963746/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090318093719469_640w.jpg http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/963/963746/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090318093707032_640w.jpg Well,I'm turned on. Exploring the Art of Uncharted 2 Naughty Dog guides us through its concept work for Nate's next adventure. by Matt Wales, IGN UK UK, April 9, 2009 - They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but sometimes even that's not enough. As Naughty Dog beavers diligently away behind the scenes on its upcoming PlayStation 3 sequel Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, IGN has rifled through the developer's pre-production concept work in a desperate bid to unearth some of the game's still plentiful secrets. Cast your eyes over the next few pages and you'll see for yourself that each select piece is packed with tantilising allusions to the final game's more elusive details. Stunning they might be, but there's only so much you can extrapolate without slipping into the realms of fanciful speculation. That being the case, we sat down with Naughty Dog to find out exactly how each piece of concept art encapsulates the team's ambitions for the finished game. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/971/971422/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090409042156637-000.jpg Richard Lemarchand, Co-Lead Designer This should look familiar to anyone who has seen our first full-length trailer! I think this piece of concept art communicates, in a really limited space, so much about what we aim to do and the emotions we want to express in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. One of the major themes of Uncharted 2, which this piece captures incredibly well, is that things are very, very different for Nathan Drake this time around. Not only does he find himself in a series of new, more hostile environments, but he's also going to find himself in stickier situations than we've seen him in before. We wanted to set the expectation that Uncharted 2 would deliver exactly what you want from an action-filled summer blockbuster, and creating these incredibly huge, almost over-the-top scenarios seemed to be a great way of doing that. The situations are not impossible or unbelievable, but they're just far enough towards the edge to make you wonder if Drake can really overcome the challenges and survive. You'll have to stay vigilant though � things can always get much, much worse without notice! http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/971/971422/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090409042351275-000.jpg Evan Wells, Co-President In Uncharted 2 we really wanted to emphasis the fact that we are providing a gameplay experience that no other game out there offers. Our hero, Nathan Drake, has a fully featured move set that lets him traverse his environment freely whether it be by running, jumping, climbing, swinging or swimming. In the first game we already had a leg up on other shooters by having a character that could climb and jump around his environment, but we were limited by the states from which he could actually fire his weapon. Now those limits have been lifted with what we're calling "traversal gunplay". This really frees us up to put Drake in some over-the-top, blockbuster film-like situations with combat setups anytime and anywhere - even when Drake is negotiating some tricky traversal sections that might require some problem-solving to overcome. To top it all off, we've added the ability for him to perform all of this climbing, jumping, and shooting while on moving objects, both large and small. The result is the ability to pull off some really memorable moments like the one inspired by this piece of concept art. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/971/971422/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090409042131981-000.jpg Robh Ruppel, Art Director What we're pushing in Uncharted 2 is making the world Drake explores more mythical while still based on real world locations. We're pushing the sense of scale and domain to make each location more interesting, more real and more intriguing than their true life counterparts. The Gompa concept exaggerates real structures but in a way that is only available in the Uncharted universe! More IS betterNeil Druckmann, Co-Lead Designer The environments in Uncharted 2 are much more varied than in Drake's previous adventure, which made it extremely important for us to provide a sense of continuity as you play through the game. We don't want to our locations to feel like disconnected levels, which may break the immersive experience we've worked so hard to create. We do this by making sure that you can easily understand how areas connect to one another. In this case, the mountain that houses this mysterious ice-cave can be seen from the village at its base, which is another area in the game that you will visit. What also helps us build a sense of space is that we have zero load screens during Drake's adventure, so that moving between areas and environments in the game is virtually seamless and feels more natural. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/971/971422/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090409042246745-000.jpg http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/971/971422/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090409042335338-000.jpg http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/971/971422/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090409042312213-000.jpg Evan Wells, Co-President We've already revealed that Drake will find himself in the snowy mountains of the Himalayas and in a war-torn Nepalese city. However, you'll definitely see a broad variety of new places in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. By the time you've completed the game, you will have visited a diverse set of environments throughout Asia � from lush tropical locations and urban locales, to the snow and ice of the far Himalayas. Sadly, we're not quite ready to give away the details on what you see here yet so you'll have to speculate on the significance of these images a little while longer. We'll be revealing more soon enough! http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/971/971422/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090409065352779-000.jpg And here's one final bonus image for you. Don't know what's going on here? Then you might want to check out IGN's extensive first look at Uncharted 2 and join us for more on the game soon. March 27, 2009 - If you ever get concerned that the Game Developers Conference is getting too much like a consumer-focused show, you should come hear Jason Gregory talk. The generalist programmer at Naughty Dog, Gregory spoke all about programming languages, syntax, data definition, and everything else that goes into "state-based scripting" at the show today. What's that mean to you? Probably not much -- state-based scripting involves managing objects in the game -- except that Gregory showed some footage from Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. To demonstrate how Naughty Dog's coding process worked, Gregory showed a clip that I saw a few weeks ago when I previewed Uncharted 2. Already off the ground, Drake hops to a sign attached to a building in that same colorful, war-torn area. The blue and yellow sign groans, Drake hops over the top of the structure to hang from the other side, the sign starts to give way, and Nathan shimmies to a windowsill just before the sign tears away from the wall and falls to the street below. Gregory went on to show more from my previous demo including a quick clip of that bus barreling down the street through some soldiers as well as Drake working his way up to that blue and yellow sign. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/967/967220/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090327011218324-000.jpg So, it was the exact same stuff you've already read about. The one new thing I noticed as Nate scaled the side of a building on his way to that sign was how his hands went to specific bricks. It wasn't like this part was just a climbing object and his hands could go anywhere -- he was moving his fingers to specific handholds. It's a little thing, but it looked good. NA Fall 09 EU TBC[1] AUS 2009 NewApril 27, 2009 - I'm a pretty big fan of the Uncharted franchise. I've got my Platinum Trophy for the first game, and I'm eagerly awaiting Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Still, when I've gone to events for the sequel, my biggest concern has been where Elena and Sully are and why they haven't been announced for this game. Sure, with titles such as Resident Evil 5 as ammunition, I've asked about the possibility of multiplayer, but I had always assumed that if multiplayer came to Nathan Drake's world, it would be your standard, side-by-side co-op affair. Turns out, I know nothing, and Naughty Dog was nice enough to completely level my perception of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves at a recent event unveiling both cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes. Both are online-only affairs. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/976/976163/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090427102611362.jpg Come see the action for yourself.Now, the Dogs said that there are going to be a bunch of different game types and options for you to check out, but for my hands-on time, they kept it limited to co-op, team deathmatch, and a few rounds of Plunder (capture the flag in the Uncharted universe). Cooperative matches were for three people at a time (folks played as Nate, Chloe, and Sully) while the competitive matches were for teams of five -- a villain team of SWAT-looking guys and a hero team featuring Nathan, Chloe, Sullivan, some dude in a hat, and Elena. Don't freak out fans; Naughty Dog said that the inclusion of Elena and Sullivan in multiplayer didn't technically confirm them for the single-player campaign because the two characters were using their skins from the original Uncharted (there'll be a few options like this), but it's close enough for me. Co-op was probably the experience of the night for me. Remember how much fun Uncharted was as you took cover behind crates, snapped the necks of bad guys, and earned medals? All that is here, but now you get to do it with two friends. However, this is not the same story as the single-player campaign. These co-op missions will be instances and experiences that are all their own. The level I got to tackle was a modified version of the one I got to see last time with the crashed bus, sun-splashed streets, and lush colors. The mission started with a cutscene of our heroes scoping a worn treasure map and Drake pointing in one direction and saying this is where we needed to go. When gameplay picked up, I was at one end of a long corridor that curved around a building and had plenty of cover objects in it. My two companions and myself stormed down the space, were greeted by the bad guys, and soon let our natural Uncharted skills take over as we leapt behind boxes and only popped up to rake in the occasional headshot. Of course, when someone on my team got cocky, he or she would get dropped. Like most co-op titles these days, you have the chance to revive fallen teammates. When hurt, the player will drop to one knee and clutch the ground while an icon mimicking the position pops up above the hurtin' hero. Around the icon is a red meter that's slowly bleeding out. The team has that long to get over to the downed comrade and hold Triangle to refill the meter and get the soldier back on his or her feet. If no one comes to the player's aid, they wait 20 seconds, restart at the last checkpoint, and run back to the battleground. If everyone dies, the mission restarts from the last checkpoint. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/976/976163/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090427083045620-000.jpg She's got your back.Sticking together is going to be key to besting the challenges in co-op Uncharted (duh), even though you will be competing to see who got the most points in a round -- something made more interesting by the point multiplier that's building in the upper right corner of the screen while you're shooting and brawling. Although most PlayStation 3 owners feel right at home when they're hiding behind cover and watching dozens of enemies setup camp in front, Naughty Dog has dropped a number of mission points and enemies that you just can't get past by yourself. After my squad had cleared the alleyway of foes, we popped out in that area where the bus had crashed in the single-player demo. Back then, Drake got around the obstruction by climbing a refrigerator, shimmying up a light pole, and leaping across the sides of buildings. In the co-op campaign, the fridge is gone so Drake can't just scale the pole by himself. Instead, a red icon featuring two silhouettes pops up by the pole to let you know some teamwork is needed to advance. As Sully, I walked to the red circle on the ground, Nate walked to his, and with the press of a button, I gave him a boost. Drake went about shimmying around up there, while Chloe and I fought off the waves of bad guys that decided to swoop in on us. With us engaging the enemy, Nathan climbed to a room, found a bookcase, and knocked out a window to the street below. He rejoined us, we beat the baddies, and then we all moved to the bookcase -- now marked with a set of three silhouettes -- and repositioned it as a ramp to the top of the bus. This let us get to the next section. In terms of the big bad enemies you'll need to gang up on, Naughty Dog says that there will be a few, but I only got to see a "grappler" and a massive dude who was armored like a tank and packing a gigantic chaingun. The grappler is pretty much a sneaky jerk who is using the choke moves Nathan showcased in the first game. He'll get up behind you, put you in a sleeper hold, and you'll be powerless to stop him; it's up to your team to pop the guy in the head and save your skin. For the chaingunner, my squad had to stick together, stay in cover, and shoot as fast as we could to take the opponent out without getting vaporized. At one point, our plan broke down and Chloe was taken out near the treasure we were after. I was pressed up against a doorjamb and doing a bit of blind fire in hopes that I could take out the chaingunner. Of course, I had been playing cowboy and not picking up the ammo enemies dropped, so soon I found myself without a bullet to my name. I tossed a grenade, made a mad dash for Chloe's body, and soon found the screen black and white while my body lay on the ground. It's unclear whether the gunner's bullets or my own grenade killed me, but I got the "Purple Heart" medal postmortem� whatever that means. .When you are successful and wipe out the big man, you can pick up his gatling gun and tear apart anything that moves just like your opponent did, but it's important to keep in mind that Friendly Fire is definitely alive and well in Uncharted 2. When I first jumped into another play session, I quickly reacquainted myself with the buttons and tossed a grenade right at Chloe's feet. It went off, she got blown into the sky, and I waited while she respawned. I was thrilled to find the rocket launcher on another outing, but I doubt my friend playing as Sully was as excited when I buried a round right between his shoulder blades as he jogged into combat. Some of the coolest new items in Uncharted are the graspable propane tanks that are littered around the levels. They'll slow you down, but you can grab them, walk with them, and toss them into the air before shooting them and taking out a mass of people� some of whom may be your own people. However, if you don't literally kill each other before making it to the treasure, you'll find the treasure chest and have to defend it for a set period of time. Wave after wave of enemies is going to be coming at you during this standoff, so you'll need to be gathering ammo and switching up your position every now and again, but some good communication should lead to the cutscene of Drake opening the chest and pulling out a big ol' golden idol. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/976/976163/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090427083055323-000.jpg Villain!That same idol will be the star of one of the competitive multiplayer modes. Plunder challenges your team of five to get across the map, grab the golden statue, and get it back to base for a point. Whereas team deathmatch rewards you for kills with points, the only way to get on the official scoreboard in Plunder is by banking the idol. Now, if co-op feels like your traditional (see: awesome) Uncharted experience mixed with friends, competitive play looks like your traditional Uncharted game but feels nothing like it. I mean, yeah, you're Nathan or one of his cohorts, but you're running, gunning, and trying not to get killed. You won't have the luxury of enemies who stay in one place, you won't be able to just chill out behind cover and catch your breath, and you won't be able to feel like the baddest mother on the planet with ease. I feel like I'm a seasoned Uncharted player, and I was getting thoroughly pwned in my first few games of head-to-head TDM competition. True, I turned it around in the end and kicked the butt of Naughty Dog Co-President Christophe Balestra (check out Podcast Beyond on Thursday, April 30, 2009 for the full report), but the beginning was rough because I was still trying to play the mode like I was playing the average game of Uncharted. Don't do that. Run, shoot, and run some more. These TDM brawls were taking place in a blown out plaza at night. The map was filled with torches, destroyed buildings, and things to take cover behind. On the other side, the Plunder missions were going down in a tiny village map that had huts everywhere. Some of these structures had ladders that you could use to crawl to the roofs and cherry pick from there, which I was all too happy to do. Both of these environments looked as good as you'd expect an Uncharted game to look and didn't seem to have any sections of slowdown or framerate dips. Even though nine more people were playing, it still looked like you'd expect Uncharted to look -- even when I fired an RPG into a dude hiding behind some cover and watched as his body spiraled into the air and the cover he was using exploded. What's crazy cool on top of all that competitive goodness -- well, besides the slew of weapons from the game such as sniper rifles, the Desert-5, the SAS-12 shotgun, and the Colt Defender? You're going to be able to save entire multiplayer matches to your hard drive and then edit them and view them in Cinema Mode. Rotating the camera at will and zooming in on specific fights will be just some of the commands you have for the ten cinema save slots at your fingertips. Naughty Dog didn't show the mode, but it definitely sounds interesting. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/976/976163/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090427083039651-000.jpg That was close.Believe it or not, that's just the tip of the Uncharted 2: Among Thieves multiplayer madness. Naughty Dog was sure to stress that there are going to be other modes and a number of co-op missions, but the examples you just read about were all the team was prepared to show. Honestly, I had always been a bit mixed on the idea of multiplayer in Uncharted; I liked the idea of the franchise being a solid single-player experience and nothing else. Still, co-op is a blast and I'm thankful it is its own entity so that the single-player portion can thrive and not be tied to having to have a friend playing to get the full story. Meanwhile, competitive multiplayer is fun, too, but I'm going to need to play more before I get crazy excited about it. Everything looked great visually, but the mode never really had the Uncharted feel to it for me. Anxious to get your hands on Uncharted 2's multiplayer? Well, you can keep checking IGN for news and previews, but if you buy one of the first copies of Infamous, Sucker Punch's new superhero game, you'll get a voucher code for Uncharted 2's multiplayer beta packed right in with it. Electricity-based abilities and Nathan Drake craziness? Sweet. .April 27, 2009 - Chances are you were going to buy Infamous already, but Sony just sweetened the pot. A lot. Turns out the Infamous copies that will be hitting stores on May 26 will have a voucher code inside them that grants exclusive access to the Uncharted 2: Among Thieves multiplayer beta. Wow. Yes, the multiplayer mayhem IGN told you about today can be yours if you just plunk down your cold, hard cash for Sucker Punch's superhero epic. The news came via a trailer at the Infamous preview party in Seattle, and during that video some small text ran underneath the Uncharted part that said "Beta available 6/23 to 6/29." Does that mean that's when you'll be able to play? Does that mean that's when you'll be able to download? We don't know, but we're looking into it. Until we get more on the subject, have fun filing those Infamous preorders! Cannot Be Displayed There will be a film system much like in Halo 3 you can take screenshot's save films,and move the camera around the world. You can upgrade your character,although all characters play the same the difference is simply aesthetic,you can upgrade them as I said before. There will be a strait up Deathmatch mode,anf there will be Team modes,Objective based game's and team deathmatch. Cannot Be Displayed Cannot Be Displayed -June 2, 2009 - Ever since info on Uncharted 2: Among Thieves began trickling out of the Naughty Dog and Sony camps, I've had one question -- "Where the hell is Elena?" At the end of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Nathan and Elena rode off into the sunset with love and dollar signs in their eyes. However, when I first got to see Uncharted 2, Nate was on his own and an Australian woman was wrapping her legs around his waist. Where was the happy ending? Where was the world I knew? Today, I began getting the answers I needed on the E3 show floor. Elena is back. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/990/990200/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090602075221349.jpg An E3 Trailer? Yay! With Naughty Dog Co-President Evan Wells driving a hands-off demo, I got the inside look at two levels from one of this year's most anticipated sequels. Now, it's E3, so I'm not going to hold your hand on what Uncharted 2 is all about because I've actually already written a fair bit about the subject in an attempt to make you an expert. Nathan Drake is back, that Australian woman is Chloe, they're after the Cintamani Stone, and there's an evil dude named Lazarevic who's willing to kill anyone that gets between him and said stone. What I can add to that summary today is that Elena's back with a cameraman and is chasing Lazarevic's story -- he's a war criminal who the world believes dead. We'll get back to Elena in a second, but the first part of my demo picked up shortly after the six minutes of single-player footage IGN posted left off. Nate and Chloe were about 15 stories or so above the streets of a Nepalese city chilling around the rooftop pool of Hotel Shangri-La. See, Marco Polo went through this town when it was all temples and such about 700 years before Nathan showed up to tear the place apart. In that downtime, a city grew up around the temples and changed the landscape. Now, our dynamic duo has to find a specific temple so that they can find the fabled stone. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/990/990200/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090602075217053.jpgDrake one, trees zero.OK, so maybe the pair wasn't chilling as much as they were on the run from Lazarevic's murderous men, but they were definitely high up there. From the top of this hotel, Wells spun the camera 360 degrees to take in the whole city -- the mountains in the way back, the smattering of buildings in below, and the bright blue pool in the center of the roof. Soon, Nate and Chloe were on their way and demonstrating the impressive-looking traversal stuff that allows the characters to grab individual handholds with breathtaking accuracy. If this sounds familiar, it's probably because this first section was actually demoed during Sony's E3 press conference today. If you didn't see it, I totally back you taking a break to watch that video so we can talk about it. I'll wait. You saw it? Cool, right? I about lost it when Drake hopped to that green awning, it dropped, and he scrambled to get his grip back. What was super-cool about my demo compared to the Sony demo -- well, beside the fact that I got to see a whole extra level no one had seen yet -- were all of the little differences. In the press conference demo, the helicopter pins Drake down on one part of the roof and takes out some flowerpots, but in my demo, Nate beat the 'copter to the punch and knocked them out himself. When the building Drake, Chloe and all those bad guys were in began to topple during the show, it was awesome and destructive, but in my demo, one of the desks got pushed in a certain direction and tumbled into a bad guy to take him out of the gaping hole in the side of the building. All the crazy cool stuff you see in Uncharted is dynamic and happening in that specific instance -- with stuff like this, there's no way to guarantee you and I will see the same stuff. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/990/990200/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090602075218928.jpg We've got some new gameplay for you, fanboy. This deep dive on Uncharted 2 also gave Naughty Dog a chance to point out how it is using the game's setting to drive home themes and emotions. Most of what we have seen in Uncharted 2 has been set in the sun-splashed streets of that war torn village -- things are bright, Nathan's making quips, and everyone's happy -- but from that hotel rooftop, I could see thunderclouds gathering in the distance. When the second part of my demo began, the rain had rolled in and the mood was definitely different. Jumping ahead a bit in the game's narrative, this point opens with Chloe and Drake exiting the temple with their next clue on the hunt for Shangri-La. Problem is the duo had left Elena and her cameraman Jeff at the entrance of the temple and now the whole area was crawling with Lazarevic's men. As Drake made his way out of the building -- killing bad guys and having his chest-anchored flashlight cast real shadows as he moved -- he eventually found the original blonde beauty pinned down by enemy fire. Both Chloe and Nathan took out a number of bad guys on their way to Elena and Jeff, but this gave Wells a chance to show off some more cool stuff that'll make shooting people in the face more fun than ever. For starters, depth of field rocks in Uncharted 2. Apparently, post-processing is happening on the SPUs so the PS3 can render like no other, but that's all Greek to me. What you need to know is that when you have enemies on the screen on different planes, the one you aim your gun at is clearer than the other folks on the screen - it's just like focusing your eyes in real life, and it looks great. After switching between enemies and making their way from the top of the temple entrance to the rainy ground floor where Elena was pinned, I got to see some of that Uncharted storytelling we're always lauding here on IGN. In the brawl, Jeff was shot, Drake moved the man's hand and found a bloody bullet hole above his right hip. If the quartet was to keep moving, Drake would need to sling Jeff's arm over his shoulder and carry him the best he could -- that's not exactly an ideal situation in the leaping/running/lunging world of Uncharted 2. Pissed, Chloe demands that they just leave Jeff behind, but Drake and Elena won't hear it. Drake picks up Jeff and the trek turns into an escort mission. Now, Drake can only use his pistol, he can't put Jeff down, and he's moving a lot slower. Normally, escort missions suck, but this one actually seemed pretty enjoyable. For starters, it's eye-sex to watch Jeff shift his weight onto Drake and swing his left arm lazily as he stumbles through the streets. Beyond the visual element of it, this played into Naughty Dog's "expectations and results" mantra. The developers want you and Drake to feel in control of a situation and think you know what is about to happen before getting knocked on your ass. Here, the group of people would turn a corner and find what looked to be a straight shot down an alley, but when they'd get going, a turret truck would pop up at the other end and make them duck into a doorway and work their way through a bombed out building. Some guy would pop up with a machinegun, Drake would quickly pop the guy with his handgun, and then a few more baddies would jump out to make the group change course again. Chloe passed a stairwell, and one of Lazarevic's goons jumped out picked her up by the neck, and began choking her against the wall. Basically, you were always on your toes. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/990/990200/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090602075215068.jpgGet'em, Drake!These surprises continued until the kids worked their way up a staircase and came to a section where the only way to advance was to jump across a giant gap. Seeing it as the final straw, Chloe told Drake he had done a good job but it was time to leave Jeff to die. Drake resisted, troops started advancing on the quartet's position, and Chloe pulled her gun and turned it on Nathan while saying "I was trying to save your skin, you idiot." With that, the demo ended. I don't know what's going to happen next, but I want you to remember that I've always been against this kangaroo-lovin' hussy and that true love like Drake and Elena's never dies. I could write volumes about everything I saw today -- when a bad guy catches your punch during a melee attack, you'll need to tap Triangle to counter; the new FAL rifle fires in bursts and packs a scope; and the super-armored enemies have skulls painted on their masks -- but I have a ton of other E3 write-ups to do this evening. What you need to know is that Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is fun and set to come out this fall. Sadly, Wells wouldn't narrow "fall" down for me, but he wasn't totally mute on the subject. "I can tell you that we don't have a lot of time left," he said with a grin. Game Trailers P1 Game Trailers P2 NEW July 21, 2009 - Hold on to your Naughty Dog hats -- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is coming out Oct. 13, 2009. Yes, the sequel to IGN's 2007 PS3 Game of the Year finally has a release date and is set to drop Nathan Drake into another life and death quest for riches. Elena Fisher is back, but things don't seem lovey-dovey with her and Drake, and the game even introduces a new love interest in Chloe Frazer. Fans have a lot to look forward to as October gets closer, but until then, the brand new box art below will have to do. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/100/1005768/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090721100153167-000.jpg June 30, 2009 - Over at the official PlayStation blog today, a couple folks from Naughty Dog stepped into a live chat to answer fans' questions about Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Evan Wells, co-president, and Amy Hennig, creative director, were on hand to field the Q&A and gave us a handful of new details on what we'll be playing this fall. In terms of the game's length, Evan chimed in to say that "the single player campaign is definitely going to be longer than Uncharted: Drake's Fortune." He pointed out that the online co-op and competitive multiplayer modes will add to the value, and the more than 90 minutes of cutscenes will offer up a more robust story than the first time around. The beta was apparently a big success. The team has already implemented a ton of features based on feedback from people in the beta. For example, there's now a skill rating that's used to match appropriately-skilled players against one another. As far as multiplayer Trophies go, Evan mentioned that while they're still finalizing the list, they may include a couple of online-centric Trophies, but they don't want to force players to grind just to gain them. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/999/999990/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090630033023786-000.jpg In terms of the release date, the official word is still sometime in the the fall, but Evan continued by saying "I assure you that an official date will be announced very soon", so we'll know soon enough. Split-screen support is a no-go. Naughty Dog only wanted to support online multiplayer as the studio would have had to compromise the visuals in order to get split-screen working. With regards to the movie, Amy said, "We're really excited about the development of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune as a movie -- we've been working with Arad Productions for the last year-and-a-half or so, and couldn't be happier about their enthusiasm for the project. We're looking forward to sharing more info with you all as soon as we can." Another multiplayer "demo" is planned to hit the airwaves before the game is released. While Evan didn't so much as say that it's going to be an entirely open demo, he said that "it should be available to an even wider group this time, so if you missed the last one I don't think you'll have any problem getting in this one." As far as newcomers go, Evan says that the team was very conscious about making Uncharted 2 a standalone experience. He said that folks who have played through the first game will of course recognize plenty of characters and those sorts of things, but new players should be able to easily figure out what's going on, who the characters are, how they relate to each other and so forth. With regards to the number of puzzles, Amy says that there will be roughly the same amount that we saw in the first game, but that you will have to figure out how to navigate the environment and make better use of it in combat. There's also a journal in the game, except that instead of Francis Drake's diary (like in the original title), it's Nate's own journal this time, and when players use it for reference to figure out puzzles, they'll have to thumb through it and find clues themselves rather than having it always show the correct page like in the previous game. When asked about the variety of the locales in the game, we were told that Nate's journey takes him around the globe, including stops in Turkey, Borneo, Nepal and into Tibet and the Himalayas. A fan asked about how the team implemented snow in the game, as it looks to play a big part in certain segments of the adventure. Evan hit on the technology behind it and said, "Drake and the enemies will leave footprints in the snow with 3D clumps that build up around their feet, and it even has gameplay implications when the weather really whips up and visibility becomes an issue." One thing's for sure - this live chat didn't make our wait for the game any easier. nJuly 23, 2009 - Sometimes, the San Diego Comic-Con can be a cruel mistress. The good news is that I finally got to play two levels of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves single-player. The bad news is that they were levels I've covered pretty extensively before. Yup, today I picked up a DualShock 3 and took Nathan into "Urban Warfare" and "Desperate Times." If you're too lazy to click on those links, Urban Warfare was the market battle with the exploding truck that's set in the same area as the co-op mission in the current Uncharted 2 multiplayer beta. Meanwhile, Desperate Times is the mission that starts Nathan and Chloe on the roof of a hotel and follows them through a helicopter battle and the eventual collapse of a building with them inside it. Awesome stuff, but somewhat old all the same. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/990/990200/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090602075221349.jpg Yeah, this game looks good. In terms of gameplay, it controlled and felt just like you'd expect -- it's Uncharted. Taking cover was still a breeze, aiming and shooting is still set to the shoulder buttons, and Mr. Drake can scale a wall like nobody's business. Personally, I'm still impressed with the level of detail as Nathan's hands seek out individual handholds, the draw distance from the hotel rooftop in Nepal, and so on. Good stuff, and I can't wait to play the whole game. Now, show me more new stuff. When I wasn't playing Uncharted 2 single-player missions today, I was actually moderating a panel all about Uncharted 2. That's right: it was IGN's Greg Miller alongside the likes of Naughty Dog Creative Director Amy Henning, the voice of Nathan Drake Nolan North, and Emily Rose the voice of Elena Fisher. Crazy, right? Anyway, in front of about 1,000 audience members, the cast and Naughty Dog dished on what it's like to rehearse for the game, work as a group, and be part of the Uncharted phenomenon. One of the hottest topics of conversation during the panel was that of the upcoming Uncharted movie -- mainly if the cast would be interested in reprising their roles. "As long as I get to be Nathan Drake in this game world and keep working with these people hereââ¬Â¦ it's ok if it doesn't happen," North said. "I get to play him for all you guys." Rose was a bit more blunt, "I would love to be her," she said, although she did echo North's comment later. http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/100/1007049/uncharted-2-among-thieves-20090723102254298.jpgDon't trust her, Nate!"I think a cameo would be in order at least," North said. Meanwhile, during the question and answer session, a fan asked Claudia Black, the voice of Chloe Frazer, about her time on The Dresden Files and if it was possible that she might make an appearance on Torchwood. Her answer was simple. "Write to them and ask," Black said. Comic Con Dev Interview P1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueKhMOFeIVc Comic Con Dev Interview P2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkWffCtdJqM&NR=1 n Uncharted 2 "Gold Rush" Mode Preview Even though what I really want to play is the epic-looking single-player portion of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Sony isn't letting anyone near that yet. Sony and Naughty Dog did premiere a new co-operative mode at Comic-Con, though, called "Gold Rush". It's essentially Naughy Dog's take on the capture the flag mode, with some interesting variations that ensure you'll only enjoy it with teamwork. THE SETUP On one side of the map, there's a treasure chest. On the other, there's treasure. Can you guess what the objective of Gold Rush is? Teams must fight their way over to the treasure, capture it and drag it back to the other location. The treasure isn't an idol that fits in your pocket, though; it's massive, heavy and disables the person who chooses to pick it up from firing a two-handed weapon. Pistols only here. By changing the way one player is able to contribute to the match, it quickly requires everyone else to begin paying attention to enemy combat patterns. While the player holding the idol is able to take out a few enemies with the pistol, it's not nearly as effective as the other weapons and you're not going to have a chance to run for cover when the situation heats up. You can choose to drop the treasure, but since it takes a moment to pick it up or drop it, it's not a light decision. MAKE SURE TO BRING FRIENDS If you're not playing as a team, Gold Rush is worthless. The sheer enemy numbers and respawn time means a team needs to be cooperating. That's not exactly an easy feat at Comic-Con, where the level of player skill varies wildly because the kind of person playing varies just as much. Then again, maybe that's a fantastic way to find out what playing Uncharted 2 multiplayer online will be like -- Comic-Con isn't much different from the Internet, you know? I lucked out, thankfully. My team eventually figured out a good rhythm for defending the player with the treasure, allowing us to score two times before it became clear the person behind me was going to beat me over the head unless the controller was handed over. It wasn't common for the treasure to ever make it to the other side, so I took some pride in being a successful treasure-holder during one of our matches. SOON ENOUGH Naughty Dog has already said another Uncharted 2 multiplayer beta is planned. If its showing "Gold Rush" publicly at Comic-Con, seems likely it'll show up there, too. Just make sure you're playing with some friends when it arrives. That's not soon enough. You never know who you're going to run into at Comic-Con. Take, for example, this interview with Naughty Dog Community Manager Arne Meyer, who G4tv.com's Dana Vinson ran into at the Planet Illogica party in San Diego. Arne graciously gave us some information on the game, as well as the cinematic devices that make it look like a seamless experience from start to finish. http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/GMOF_Tucker/0810092340.jpghttp://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/GMOF_Tucker/0810092341.jpg Preorder case and the inside Uncharted 2: Among Thieves PlayStation 3 Gameplay - Active Cinematic Uncharted 2: Among Thieves PlayStation 3 Gameplay - SDCC 09: Stealth Uncharted 2: Among Thieves PlayStation 3 Gameplay - SDCC 09: Run and Gun Uncharted 2: Among Thieves PlayStation 3 Gameplay - SDCC 09: Night Kill Go to the bottom of the post and click the links if you want pics.There not showing up here for some reason Naughty Dog used to be a more prolific studio -- remember when we got one Crash Bandicoot game a year from 1996 to 1999? Or how Jak II, Jak 3, and Jak X: Combat Racing came out between 2003 and 2005? But now with the Uncharted franchise on the PS3, the studio's taken a slower, more deliberate schedule to its development calendar. To that end, we asked Naughty Dog for some facts and trivia to show us what the heck is going on behind the scenes of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves' development. So here is Naughty Dog community manager Arne Meyer's round-up of fast facts about the studio and its work on Uncharted 2. Plus, we have seven new screens to show off what all of these statistics are helping to create. And be sure to come back each day for our weeklong coverage of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. * 1) Over 130,000 people participated in our Uncharted 2 Multiplayer Beta, covering players from 135 countries all over the world. * 2) The total of all multiplayer and co-op games played during the three weeks of our Beta was over 40,300 hours. * 3) In Uncharted: Drake's Fortune we had 104 individual environment files on the disc; in Uncharted 2 we have over 400. Click the image above to check out all Uncharted 2: Among Thieves screens. * 4) We spent over 30 days on our soundstage recording motion capture performances which resulted in over 90 minutes of cinematics -- along with a ton of in-game animations. * 5) Our daily back-up of data has been averaging over one terabyte lately... and that covers only Uncharted 2 assets and data. * 6) We drank a s*** ton of soda -- over 30,000 cans -- and one bottle of bourbon during the two years of production on Uncharted 2. * 7) Between the 100+ Dogs working at the studio, we have over 16 nationalities and over 10 languages represented. * We've moved twice in our history: From the Universal Studios lot next to Insomniac games to an office spot above a Santa Monica outdoor mall, and to our current space -- formerly Sony BMG's offices. * 9) We still have several of the "Original Naughty Dogs" with us, who started the first Crash Bandicoot game almost 14 years ago! * 10) We've always had at least one dog "mascot" at Naughty Dog since the beginning. Currently our resident dogs are Pogo, a French Bulldog, and Trumpet, a Bichon Frise. When you see a glass case chockfull of Crash Bandicoot schwag, then you're either at the headquarters of Crash Mania, or you're at Naughty Dog. Matt and I swung by to talk with co-president Evan Wells and creative director Amy Hennig, play some Gold Rush, and take some pictures. Here's a bunch of pictures from the studio, starting with the aforementioned Crash schwag. A lot of studios have a schwag collection case for their various games, but Naughty Dog has a pretty extensive collection. Offhand, the other studio that has a larger array of toys/magazines/awards would be Blizzard. This thing guards the entrance to the art area. Yikes. There's a similar Uncharted "oooh, scary!" item right at the front door, but we were way too frightened to take a picture. Two ways you know it's crunch time at Naughty Dog: the QA room looks crazy-messy and sometimes people in the office forget to dispose of empty water bottle boxes. Evan Wells was very apologetic about the state of this room, but considering the state of my own office, he has nothing to be sorry about. And the other way you know it's crunch time, the corner of the men's room has an array of hygiene products to help ease the fact that you're working seven days a week without going home much. EXCLUSIVE SCREENSHOT. Well, not really. Unless you consider, "an animator's desktop while he works on moving Nathan Drake's mouth open-and-close" a screenshot. SECOND EXCLUSIVE SCREENSHOT. Or, rather, a peek at the concept art wall, with some clear paintings of a warmly-dressed Nathan Drake. Finally, right outside Wells' office, is this neat frame of Jak's original moveset. Study this, budding designers! Study hard! We then had some hands-on time with the recently revealed Gold Rush mode. If you didn't catch what Gold Rush is all about during San Diego Comic-Con, here's Naughty Dog community manager Arne Meyer explaining it: Now, Naughty Dog likes to call Gold Rush "Plunder [an objective-based team mode] versus A.I." I'll be the mean journalist and call it "Gears of War 2's Horde mode, with an objective." Though, I can see this being really really fun -- when you're with a cooperative team. Matt and I played along with multiplayer designer Justin Richmond, and it was easy to figure out who was the Naughty Dog employee and who was 1UP. Naughty Dog guy: grabs the treasure, makes sure to protect his buddies, and throws the treasure like a grenade to gain distance faster. 1UP editors: constantly running into walls and finding themselves in the "down, but not quite out" state and waiting for the Naughty Dog guy to run up and revive them. As the team successfully places the treasure into the treasure box, the A.I. enemies become more aggressive, powerful, and smarter. Wave one usually has a buncha mooks that go down in a few hits (no matter where you hit them). By wave three or four, you get some medium-level guys who actually know how to use, and avoid grenades. By wave seven (as high as we got; at the moment, the game stops at wave ten), we felt like we were in some sort of ultra-heavy-guys-with-miniguns convention. Once Matt and I got a better handle, we actually followed a pretty solid strategy of "two guys protect the treasure holder" -- which worked until wave seven. Then we just got constantly cut down by the minigun guys. Even though I did a decent job of avoiding fire (heh) and then rescued either Matt or Justin when they went down down, when the screen was full of those fellows, they tore us apart. At the moment, Wells noted that four maps will support the Gold Rush mode; while I haven't played the regular co-op mode, I can tell that I already like Gold Rush more than regular Plunder or team deathmatch. Finally, here're some nuggets about the single-player story-mode that I hadn't really seen elsewhere. So if you haven't concluded that this is TL;DR territory, here're the gameplay highlights from talking with Wells and Hennig (a.k.a. the part I assume will be cut-and-pasted across forums): -While Uncharted had a 70/30 combat/exploration-and-puzzles ratio, many people assumed that Uncharted 2 will maintain that. Wells himself thinks that 60/40 is the accurate way to describe Uncharted 2, and sometimes depending on how you play, it might be an even 50/50 split. He credits that because Uncharted 2 breaks away from the "traversal, combat arena, repeat" formula, -Here's a "70-plus percent" stat for you: Wells stated, "75% of the game, Nathan is accompanied by an ally." Hennig jokes that having someone else with Nathan for most of the game makes him look less crazy than in Uncharted, where he'd drop one-liners that no one else were around to hear. We'll actually reveal the exact number of allies in our interview tomorrow. -Naughty Dog has learned from the lackluster boss battle at the end of Uncharted. Don't expect a lame QTE for boss battles (well, Naughty Dog prefers to call them "peak moments of excitation"); expect encounters to use your combat and traversal skills, rather than your ability to hit Square or Circle when prompted. "Peak moments of excitation" that Wells has mentioned include an encounter with a helicopter and another one with a freakin' tank. -If you notice in the initial Warzone gameplay footage, Nathan has to deal with two different factions at war with each other. Wells confirmed that multi-faction fighting isn't just in that level; there will be other areas where Nathan has to juggle multiple forces at work. Then again, at least that means that occasionally, people won't automatically focus on just you. -"There are no vehicles that Drake drives," is how Wells answers the, "are there still vehicles in Uncharted 2" question. "Every vehicle that he's involved in, someone else is driving or piloting," Wells continues. So if you were somewhat of a fan of those "Nathan drives a jetski while Elena shoots" sequences, sorry. "Driving just didn't fit with what we're doing for Uncharted 2." I asked some other resident Uncharted fans in the 1UP office, for their reaction. Sam Kennedy says, "I'm actually kind of disappointed, because while they could be better, those driving sequences did break up the action a bit." Alice Liang, on the other hand, quips, "Cool, I like being chauffeured around." And on a final note, here's a wall that declares the creed of Uncharted. Everytime someone on staff wonders, "what the heck are we working on," this serves as a reminder -- it still applies to Uncharted 2 despite being made for Uncharted. I made it clickable so that you can zoom in and absorb the creed. That's it! Come back tomorrow for my interview with Amy Hennig and Evan Wells. P.S. Alas, I saw neither Pogo nor Trumpet during my visit; so no new pics to establish which dog is cuter. Also, there is a designated "yoga area" of the office, but no one was partaking, so no yoga videos either. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Single-Player Developer Interview Details on Uncharted 2's story, character building, friendships, and trivia. By Thierry Nguyen Naughty Dog is in full-on crunch mode for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. "Last Sunday was my first day off, and we've been working seven-day weeks since Christmas," notes creative director Amy Hennig. When I sit down in co-president Evan Wells' office to play some Gold Rush, I notice something I don't usually see on an executive's desk: a pile of empty Mountain Dew cans. Yet despite the long days of testing and polishing and tuning, both of them took the time to sit down and talk about the themes, inspirations, and goals for Uncharted 2 for our cover story. 1UP: OK, first off: Should we consider Nathan Drake to be a sociopath? I ask this because I realized that while I was playing Uncharted, it felt odd that he would be this charming everyman kind of guy, but he also killed about 400 guys by the time the game was done, and it's just something that's been in the back of my mind that I can finally ask... Amy Hennig: Yeah, it's funny -- it's actually a dilemma that we're going to face more in this medium now that characters are getting more well-rendered -- I mean in all forms, not just visual rendering -- in characterization, in acting, the performances, and all that stuff. I've heard some people refer to this as a sort of "uncanny valley of characterization." I'm not sure how we deal with it in the industry. Because you don't want to constrain yourself to saying, "well, we can only tell certain kinds of stories and games, and it's all got to be soldiers; they've all got to be hard-bitten, and it's all going to be post-apocalyptic and grim; there can't be any humor or any romance or anything like that because it's still a game, and you want to be shooting things and having combat." Now, if you made a game that matched a movie... Let's use a literal example -- let's say you made a game out of Raiders of the Lost Ark. It wouldn't be any fun. Because [gaming's] an active experience; you have to have that interaction of shooting and having combat. On one hand, I almost take it as a compliment, that we've done our characterization so well that people have that potential cognitive dissonance of, "I'm this character, yet I'm doing these things." On the other hand, [sigh] you almost have to take the gameplay as a metaphor. Maybe that's going to sound like a cop-out, but, we want the game to be fun at the end of the day. It's not to be taken seriously. Yes, it's maybe a little bit over-the-top in the sense that when you compare it to a film -- or in our case five or six films because of the length -- you wouldn't have that body count. But it's a different medium, and you almost have to take all of that and say, "we want to keep the tone of that genre that we're trying to match." But if we only had you fight three guys over the course of two hours, you'd say, "this sucks." So I think we need a little bit of slack in regards to that cognitive dissonance. Otherwise, the only kinds of games anybody's going to get are... Evan Wells: Military. AH: It's a tricky question, and I'm not sure what the best answer is, because you don't want fewer types of games out there -- you want the variety. And you want the gameplay to be fun between all the story elements. EW: Without giving away too much, I can safely say that we do call it out -- we do make reference to it. AH: [Laughs] Sometimes you just have to hang a lantern on these things too, when you're like, "OK, we know this is an issue, so let's let everybody know that we know this is an issue." 1UP: OK, here's an easier question: can you talk about the sources and inspiration for this "modern take on treasure hunting?" A lot of other games tend to cite the same movies -- Aliens, Goodfellas, Scarface and so forth, and I'm curious what atypical influences Uncharted 2 has. AH: Obviously, we looked at a lot of stuff. When we started Uncharted, we did a ton of research and de-constructed a lot of movies, books, and comics in our genre. You're talking about everything from old adventure serials like Doc Savage to comics like Tintin, or old '30s adventure movies like Gunga Din and serials from the '50s, to adventure movies from the '80s and modern stuff like National Treasure and The Da Vinci Code. There's a lot of stuff -- we watched and read as much as we could, and plucked out the themes that we saw over and over again. Some of them were things that weren't really being taken advantage of in the medium, and a lot of it had to do with the humanization of the character and all that kind of stuff. One of the main differences, I think, is that some of the movies and things we use for inspiration came out of the fallible hero idea. Which isn't at all new in movies, but is pretty new in games. It's the idea of the sort of "sloppy" combat -- the "sloppy" gunplay, and the "sloppy" hand-to-hand combat. It's not martial arts or tactical SWAT guys or Navy SEAL stuff. It's this guy who probably learned how to fight on the street, and can handle his guns but doesn't really know how to shoot them "right." He's not trained; when he throws a punch he'll throw himself off-balance and he can easily get clocked on the head. There's much more of that scrappy style. Everything has been sort of precise and tactical up to that point. And actually, that created a lot of technical challenges; the only way you have organic sloppiness is by not playing the same animation over and over again. For example, all of Drake's cover animations -- he probably had literally about 150 to 200 cover-taking animations -- whether he was low or high, or how he had his foot angled, and that was all done via a proprietary layered-animation system that we developed. EW: Think of the effort we put into his run cycle, where he can be running for 60 seconds straight and you won't see the same loop twice. There will always be differences to his gait. AH: It's one of those things that when done right, nobody notices, but when done wrong, everybody will really notice. EW: I don't know if this is going to be completely obvious to people as they play though the game, but something that is different this time for Drake is that we beat him up like crazy. You probably can't count on your fingers and toes the number of times he gets completely knocked on his ass or on his head. You play through other video games, and you basically only fall down when you die. Drake is always getting knocked around. 1UP: Can you talk about where the story takes Nathan, location-wise? EW: You start in Turkey, and then go through Borneo, Nepalese cities, and then mountains in Tibet and the Himalayas, and more. AH: Actually, Nepal and onward are pretty much "in realtime." While early on, and in the last game, there were transition cut-scenes to mark the passage of time between locations. Once you reach Nepal, when it comes time to go to Tibet, you actually play through the journey to Tibet. So we have levels that model the transition between locations. EW: Let me touch on one of those transition levels: we have you go on a train. In fact, the train fight is the first thing we started with after completing Uncharted. In most games, a train level is simply a stationary area with the background moving all around you. We didn't want that, and we started early on and created enough real estate to have an actual moving train. Once we had the moving train, then we could do the things we wanted in a train level; it could go up hills or twist around bends. A lot of Uncharted 2's systems, like collapsing buildings, came from the train level. 1UP: Away from the nuts-and-bolts stuff: in some of the story elements we've seen so far, there are moments of clearly conflicting ideologies. Does Nathan go through a defined character arc, or will there be some sort of "player choice moment" on occasion? AH: In the overarching narrative, there's a defined arc. This isn't the kind of game where the narrative would take a different direction based on player choice; that's just a different kind of game. This is the kind of game that definitely has a clear and linear narrative. But within that space, the player chooses how they behave. Now, once we hit the points where we're trying to tell a certain aspect of the story, yes, things are going to play out the same way for everyone, but how they get to that moment might be slightly different. So their interpretation of that moment may be different based on how they played, if that makes any sense. But, I don't know, we'll see how people respond. I'm always in favor of leaving a lot to inference. I don't like to bang players on the head with a lot of exposition -- especially emotional exposition. I think you just let things play out a bit, and then let people then imply what they like to imply. Obviously, there's a lot of interesting characters in the story that you react to in different ways, and they're all meant to reflect or challenge different aspects of his personality. Part of the story is about making choices: self-sacrificing or altruistic choices versus ones that are purely self-preservational. Obviously, this isn't coming out of a choice-based game system. 1UP: So there's no "Hit Square to go with Elena; hit circle to go with Chloe" moment? AH: I wouldn't even want to try to make that game. "Here's the end: which girl?" No, it's a little deeper than that. I've said before, this isn't just "angel on one shoulder and devil on the other" -- everyone's written a little bit deeper than that. They all have their own conflicts and character flaws as well, and they're all coming from different places, so it's interesting to see when Drake is pulled in different directions by his allies. I think it'll be more interesting to the player as well, because as Evan showed you [when he demoed the single-player campaign], it's not a question of watching a movie and thinking, "OK, I saw how that played out." Now you're going to play something that then makes you feel, I hope, the emotion that's being carried out in the scene. Like, "OK, I have a dilemma: there's this wounded guy, and how do I deal with this?" And no, the player doesn't have the option to drop him, because we want him to play through this event, but they may be wondering, "Maybe Drake shouldn't have done this; I wonder what the right choice is." 1UP: I really like Eddie Raja from the previous game; hearing him yell at you in Indonesian was a great little surprise. Will there be another foreign language foil for Nathan in Uncharted 2? AH: Everyone's going to be really surprised by the languages in this game. We have Turks, we have Tibetans, we have Nepalese -- we have hundreds and hundreds of lines all in other languages. One of the main characters in the game is Tenzen -- this guy you meet in Tibet who becomes your partner for a while. The interesting interplay there is that Tenzen doesn't speak English, while Drake doesn't speak Tibetan, and their dialogue plays out that way. We don't subtitle the Tibetan either, so the player is in the same boat as Drake is -- in the "Uh, I have no idea what you're saying." I don't want to say too much about all the characters and the roles they play, but there's a lot of interesting foils in the game. 1UP: Actually, with Tenzen being an ally, along with Chloe and Elena, can you say how many different allies Nathan will have over the course of the game? EW: Hmm, at least four... AH: [Mumbling incomprehensible names while counting off with her fingers] At least six. EW: Six? Who am I forgetting? AH: I don't want to say; how about "five and a half?" EW: Oooh, OK. I got it. AH: Five and a half, because there's a dwarf. [Laughs] But seriously, there're also things like situations where you have multiple allies like Chloe and Elena together, or when you're in a defensive position and there're lots of people around, and the fight is more than just you against an army -- you got a bunch of allies with you. But yeah, six. And here's the thing: when we set off to make this game, we knew our number one thing was to capture that feeling of being in a great action-adventure genre movie that we all love when they come along, contemporize it, make you feel the same feelings you get when you watch them, and then put the controller in the player's hands. The number one thing is humanizing the hero. Not making a cardboard cutout that serves as your avatar in the video game space, but instead making him a living, breathing character with flaws and fears -- someone who can get hurt and all that kind of stuff. Not something you expect to see in a video game. There's a deliberate reason he was in a t-shirt and jeans in Uncharted. In video games, that was unusual; that was weird. And he had hair. Even though people say, "That's such a generic characterization," I'd say, "Not in this medium. Generic would be space armor and a shaved head." The other thing is: watching a movie, you don't put the protagonist out there with no one to bounce off of. You have to tell a character-driven story to bring your audience in. Video games haven't traditionally done that; it's usually just the sole protagonist charging along. For one, it's hard to have allies on-screen be A.I. controlled and just have that work. And also, it's a writing challenge; I think we've been a little bit immature in the creative writing of this industry to be honest. How you're supposed to tell a story that's not character-driven, that doesn't reflect off of other characters? I don't know. That's also where I think our wide demographic appeal comes from. Over and over again, we hear that it isn't just popular among the expected demographic -- girlfriends and wives and parents want to see the game. They want to play; they want play it in one sitting just to see what happens next. That's hugely gratifying for us to hear, because that tells us that we've done the character-driven story right. You're not just being propelled along by the visceral need to see what's next, but by the emotional need to see what happens next. 1UP: So have there been features or scenarios that were cut due to not "feeling in character?" AH: There might be some weaponry that didn't feel "right." EW: We definitely shied away from doing anything too gadgety or James Bond-like. Stuff that you'd expect to see in a spy thriller; we tried to make sure it stays in the action-adventure genre. Usually, everybody kind of "gets it" here -- not much gets brought up that needs to be shot down. 1UP: Except for that one guy quietly sobbing in the corner. EW: Sure, like the guy who suggested anti-gravity boots. AH: Every once in a while, something would come up and we'd go like, "that would be out-of-character or not appropriate for the franchise." Even with the possible cognitive dissonance of saying, "here's a guy who shoots at everything in front of him," there're still certain [lines]. We don't want him to be bloodthirsty -- we could easily go a lot further in terms of making everything gory. We try to keep everything to that "stunt" level of violence; a bit of a cartoony romantic veneer -- and when I say "romantic", I don't mean Cupid-and-hearts, I mean a little bit larger-than-life like when you're watching a stunt show and everyone goes flying in the air like in old Westerns. We try to keep that veneer on it. We don't want it to be like, "wow, that was graphic." It's a fine line that constantly moves and keeps us on our toes. 1UP: So, speaking of him being in t-shirt and jeans, who can claim credit for the whole "half-tuck" phenomenon? AH: Tim Schafer coined that phrase, right? Because we all love it, and now everybody says "the half-tuck." Of course, credit goes to the character modeler, but I remember a conversation about how you never want your character to be symmetrical. So when you see that he's a guy in t-shirt and jeans, you go, "hmm, we'll have to have something on him to throw the symmetry off." So we have things like the fact that his sleeves aren't pulled up the same way on each arm, his holster was on one side, and his shirt half-tucked-in, to give him some asymmetry. We didn't know how awesome it would look. For this game, now Elena is rocking the half-tuck. 1UP: Is there a conscious effort to tuck his shirt in more often now? AH: I don't know how conscious of it we were; we definitely knew that even though he does a lot of climbing and jumping, and a shirt wouldn't be tucked-in at all, that we at least want some sort of semi-tuck this time. At least it's more tucked-in for the front than last time, since we have to attach his pouch. It's still half-out in the back. 1UP: So it's official: Nathan Drake's shirt is more tucked-in. EW: It's a little more than last time. You can notice if you put [the two games] side-by-side. AH: It's the three-quarter-tuck this time. 1UP: Moving on, we recently saw Gears of War 2 put out a deleted scene as DLC. Would you be interested in doing something similar? AH: We don't really have deleted scenes; we have altered versions of some scenes that we'll probably include on the disc... [looking at Wells] if you allow us to. EW: Are you thinking of Lazarevic [the main villain in Uncharted 2] in the...? AH: Yes. But I mean we have lots of bonus material to include, as long as we can fit them onto the disc. EW: We're bursting at the seams already. AH: I didn't think we'd fill a Blu-ray disc, but we do and we did, and we're constantly fighting it now. But DLC is always a possibility. EW: Yea, but with multiplayer now. We'll probably make DLC multiplayer-focused, but we haven't made a final decision yet. AH: But we do have lots of outtakes and fun bloopers to include, if we have the room. 1UP: Wait, how long do you have to decide on those outtakes and extras? Shouldn't that be decided soon? EW: We're actually pretty good at deciding things at the last minute. The bonuses and stuff you unlock is always something you put in the tail end, since the artists get freed up and can start to wrangle the assets. We have already planned more than we had in the last game. It really does just come down to disc space. And of course, you have to wait until the end to make that call, as game content comes first, and if space is tight, the extras are the first to go. 1UP: And you guys are doing a demo, correct? EW: We have the multiplayer demo starting on September 15 as a two-week exclusive with GameStop initially. So that takes us to the end of September, and then the next two weeks leading up to our launch date -- October 13 -- it will be open to everybody. 1UP: So multiplayer demo, but no single-player one? EW: Yeah, it's probably not looking like we're going to do one. AH: It's always tough to do a single-player demo. You can always argue whether it benefits you or not in the long run, because so much of it depends on you understanding where you are in the narrative, and then appreciating what's going on in the single-player demo. EW: Not to mention that it's a 12-15 hour experience and you have to somehow collapse that into 15 minutes. I mean, we have something like hundreds of moves to train you over several hours, and if you just drop somebody into the fire... AH: It's hard to take a slice. But what's nice is that multiplayer actually gives you that, "if you're enjoying this gameplay, you're going to enjoy single-player gameplay," which is certainly a benefit that we didn't have last time. EW: You certainly get to see the quality of the graphics and animation. So yea, the multiplayer demo is the only one we've got. 1UP: Hmm, it seems like it might be more intimidating to just drop a player into multiplayer though. EW: Well, I think it's about different levels of expectation. Because in single-player, you want the story and the adventure, and you want to experience the narrative. If you're only taking a slice of that, you haven't developed the attachment to the characters; you haven't developed the motivations these characters have; all the stuff Amy was talking about. These are all critical parts of the experience; people just sit down [and finish the game] in one or two sittings because they get engrossed in the environment. If you just plunk any 15 minutes out of the game, it's not going to be the same. AH: We sort of got that anecdotally from the first demo. Some people loved it; some people thought, "eh." I read over and over people saying, "Oh yeah, I played the demo and I didn't think much about it, but I bought the game and it's the best game ever and I love it to pieces." And, well, how do you solve that? A 15 minute slice just doesn't give you all that. I'd rather have people play the multiplayer, get the feel for the mechanics, and then look at the game, and think, "Yeah, I want to see the single-player experience." Yeah, I think we're giving people a lot of value for their money. EW: The game is enormous; the first one just looks like child's play. AH: It's a longer single-player experience. EW: Significantly longer single-player. We've got competitive and cooperative multiplayer. We've got 90 minutes of cinematics compared to 50. AH: It's literally a feature-length film, with fully-fleshed out multiplayer and co-op experiences. That's why we all look so tired. Source 10 Things You Don't Know About Naughty Dog and Uncharted Uncharted 2 Cover Day 2: Our visit to Naughty Dog Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Single-Player Developer Interview New A new video in the first post of page four.I can't put anymore in this post. This will probably be my last update on this topic.4 points
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