Exploring The Full History Of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves | Video Gameography

After tackling Metroid in season 1 after which Halo in season 2, Recreation Informer‘s Video Gameography podcast turns its gaze to certainly one of Sony’s largest properties: Uncharted. Final week, we kicked issues off with Drake’s Fortune, and now we transfer on to Uncharted 2: Amongst Thieves, the excellent sequel that catapulted the franchise into the stratosphere.  

Uncharted 2: Amongst Thieves launched October 13, 2009, simply shy of two years after Drake’s Fortune. Now that it had a stable basis to work with, Naughty Canine got down to create the online game equal of a summer season blockbuster movie. That included eschewing cutscene setpieces in favor of technically spectacular gameplay moments that also supplied management over the motion, corresponding to the sport’s well-known prepare sequence. The writing and characters shone even brighter, from Nate himself to newcomer Chloe Frazer to everybody’s favourite lady subsequent door, Elena Fischer. Uncharted 2 additionally launched a surprisingly stable multiplayer mode, rounding out a stellar bundle that went on to win quite a few Recreation of the Yr awards (ours included). 

Be a part of hosts Ben Reeves (@BenjaminReeves), Marcus Stewart (@MarcusStewart7), and IGN Senior Editor Jonathon Dornbush (@jmdornbush) as we unpack the event historical past and impression of Nathan Drake’s magnum opus. 

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