‘Move like Nathan Drake’ will let them submit a video of themselves demonstrating their moves and agility. ‘Name like Nathan Drake’ will ask entrants to come up with their action hero name for the character. There will be three challenges as part of the contest to determine whether entrants have what it takes to become an action hero like the game’s protagonist Nathan Drake – ‘Name like Nathan Drake,’ ‘Move like Nathan Drake’ and ‘Act like Nathan Drake.’ Entrants must audition to be a playable character in multiplayer mode. The competition launches on Friday, 9 March on the Sony Ireland Facebook page. It will be available in-game as a pack update. Ten finalists will be chosen across Europe to compete at a live event in LA where one winner will be chosen to visit Naughty Dog to create their character. They’ll get to see how motion capture works for animating video-game characters and they’ll be able to create their own character for the multiplayer mode of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. The winner of the competition will get the chance to fly to LA and meet the Naughty Dog creative team behind the game. “I feel we tell some cracking good yarns and I don't see why we can't carry on for much longer.Sony Ireland is offering gamers the chance to become a playable character for the multiplayer mode of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception for the PlayStation 3 in a new competition. “We've always said that we'll produce Uncharted games for as long as people want them,” he says. Certainly, Lemarchand is in no mood to stop now. With a handheld version of the game on its way too – it will be released for the new PlayStation Vita – it seems Sony is keen to capitalise on the game's success. As you make an input the character performs an action.” “It's been a dream for a lot of us – both game developers and players - that there would be an action game where you are almost always in moment-to-moment control of the main character. “We share a common vision for action videogames: we want to create a cinematic storytelling experience that is truly playable,” says Lemarchand. The result is a game that is naked in its cinematic ambitions. “It brings out a performance that is emotionally rich and that is what all of us, as humans, respond to.”
“When we get the actors to perform together on the motion capture stage, they play off each other,” Lemarchand explains. There are also multiple scenes that look to be based on the games, from a marooned pirate ship to the sequence from Uncharted 3 in which Drake is dragged behind a cargo plane. The scenes are filmed so that the graphic artists can study the facial expressions when they animate the characters. Antonio Banderas character is the antagonist, a rival treasure hunter with seemingly a lot more resources. Lemarchand says it opens up the greater possibility of ad-libbing and makes for a more natural performance. They act the scenes out using props, grabbing plastic guns, for instance. While the vast majority of other games have actors record their lines separately, Naughty Dog asks its performers to wear motion capture suits and go through the scene together as a group. While that decision has yet to the made, the case is certainly a compelling one. North's impact on the role has been so great that many fans petitioned Sony Pictures to have him play the character when the game is turned into a movie, pencilled in for a 2013 release.
Voiced by Nolan North, he is one of many recurring faces in the series to date. Instead it relies on the strength of its characters.Ĭentral to proceedings is Nathan Drake, a character based on actor Harrison Ford and Jackass' Johnny Knoxville. While much of this is due to its Indiana Jones style of gameplay that could come straight from a pulp fiction adventure novel, it is also due to the work that has gone into the characters which populate the game.Īlthough many recent games have been more successful in blurring the boundaries with film – from the dark thriller Heavy Rain to the detective-driven LA Noire with all of its realistic faces – Uncharted 3 does not try to appear real, even though the graphics are undoubtedly impressive. But Uncharted 3 aims to be something different, hovering in the space that lies between gaming and film. Conversely, there have been many flop films based on games, a sizeable number of them directed by German helmer Uwe Boll including the terrible Alone in the Dark and Postal.