Chuck Norris said:
Oh yes, seeing all the GOW3 awesome is like getting a warm hug. SO GOOD.
I hope this kind of stuff really pushes the Naughty Dog team to dig deep and out-perform the Santa Monica team
I too, like others here, have failed to have my "oh shit" moment with Uncharted 3 this E3. I've come close, but not like Uncharted 2.
When I first saw the screenshots and video footage for from the Nepal level, I FREAKING LOST IT. I REALLY REALLY love that level. I play it over and over again all the time. That environment blows me away all the time. *SWOONS*. Or the The Village map from the multiplayer level - my absolute favorite.
This time around, I've seen a tiny sliver of an environment that MIGHT give me the same feeling - that middle eastern town. The shot of Drake running down the alley way in the trailer and the shot of him looking over the tops of the building from that roof seem to reflect the Nepal environments in Uncharted 2. BUT, they haven't shown anything else from that level. So I'm kind of stuck wondering.
Also, the character models are looking a little half-baked, both in-game and in cutscenes. As some have pointed out, Sully isn't looking nearly as good as he did in the announce trailer. In fact, none of the footage from the most recent trailer has the polish found in that announce trailer, where Drake and Sully looked like pre-rendered CG models almost but we were told they used the in-game engine to produce that.
So yeah, I don't want Naughty Dog resting on their laurels. Perhaps they didn't feel the need to make a potent showing at E3 this year and are deliberating holding off until closer to launch. That's my hope anyway. I really want to see Naughty Dog do well because they do amazing work. And I love seeing talented people pushing the bar unthinkably high and exceeding expectations. Folks like the DICE team are blowing people away this year (albeit, with PC hardware), making it hard for Uncharted 3 to really impress.
I want Naughty Dog challenged so that they'll remain the graphics champs. But their E3 showing isn't going to cut it.