Naughty Dog artistic director Shaun Escayg posted an image of a cannon in Trinidad & Tobago alongside the tease, “Analysis,” and followers assume it has to do with Uncharted 5.
The Uncharted collection has been dormant ever since 2017’s Uncharted: The Misplaced Legacy, which Escayg himself co-directed. Whereas Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Assortment got here out in 2022, followers of the motion journey franchise are eager to know whether or not Naughty Dog intends to make a brand new mainline Uncharted recreation.
Maybe it does. As noticed by Kotaku, Escayg’s image was taken at Fort George in Trinidad and Tobago. A cannon in a fort in Trinidad and Tobago actually feels very Uncharted, however in fact this might be for something. Maybe Escayg merely has a private curiosity in historic British fortifications. Perhaps he’s placing collectively a photograph album.
Or perhaps Naughty Dog is definitely engaged on a brand new Uncharted recreation. Escayg is artistic director of… one thing. And the Sony-owned studio is rumored to be engaged on a number of single-player video games, together with the introduced Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. If a brand new Uncharted recreation is within the works, it begs all kinds of questions. Is it a sequel or a prequel? Will we see Nathan Drake return older and wiser? Or will we see a brand new protagonist take the stage, maybe his daughter, Cassie? What a couple of Sam and Sully journey? There are many methods Naughty Dog may take Uncharted, given the state of issues on the finish of Uncharted 4. However then, simply this week we obtained a possible The Final of Us 3 tease from Naughty Dog chief Neil Druckmann. So, if all this strains up with actuality, Naughty Dog has quite a bit on its plate.
Triple-A video games are taking an more and more very long time to make, regardless of stress from company overlords to chop prices and pace up improvement. So we might not discover out what Naughty Dog’s submit Intergalactic recreation is for a while to come back, Uncharted or in any other case. Till then, although, followers are satisfied the Drakes are on the way in which again.
“It must be,” one fan mentioned. “Palms and cannons = Uncharted. It really works 99% of the time.” “Undoubtedly Uncharted or I am simply hopelessly wishing,” one other mentioned. “This implies it is tremendous early,” mentioned one fan, seemingly satisfied.
In July final yr, Druckmann introduced he wouldn’t be creatively concerned within the upcoming Season 3 of HBO’s The Final of Us TV collection, opting as a substitute to focus completely on recreation improvement of Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. However simply a few months beforehand, he revealed the studio had a secret, unannounced second recreation within the works.
In an interview with the (*5*), Druckmann mentioned his ongoing roles at Naughty Dog. On Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, Druckmann works with two recreation administrators: Matthew Gallant and Kurt Margenau, and is co-writing the sport with narrative director Claire Carré. Druckmann didn’t say which director is engaged on the second recreation, nevertheless.
“There’s one other recreation that’s being labored on at Naughty Dog the place I’m extra of a producer function and I get to mentor and watch this different group and provides suggestions and be like the chief within the room,” he mentioned.
“I take pleasure in all these roles, and the very fact I bounce between one to the subsequent, it makes my job very thrilling and all the time feeling recent. I’m by no means bored.”
Is that this recreation Uncharted 5? Even whether it is, or had been, it may all the time find yourself canceled, as so many video games are. Certainly, Naughty Dog has latest expertise of this, canceling The Final of Us On-line again in 2023 so it may concentrate on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet — one thing its director solely came upon about 24 hours earlier than the general public.
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