There have been plenty of games before that have had a variety and widespread modding community. Some games have even opened up their engines and provided tools so that amateur modders could delve into the system More deeply and more efficiently. Unreal, Half-Life, and Neverwinter Nights come immediately to mind. Now Uncharted 2 seems to be a console game to add such a comprehensive set of tools.
They aren’t as in depth as say Valve’s Source Engine or the ability to create levels like Little Big Planet, but Uncharted 2: Among Thieves offers a set of Machinima tools in a “Cinema Mode.” You can take recorded video footage from matches and change camera angles or alter things and upload the edited recording. But probably most impressive is a green screen mode that allows you to take the characters from the game and put them into any setting the game can offer and move them around as you will. It even allow you to use the blue-tooth headset to record dialogue that the game with lip-sync the character’s lips too.
I’m not sure how indepth the movie creation aspect of the game will be or if it will allow you to drop in you’re own features, but as a basic concept it is an interesting new look into the possibilities of user generated content.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves comes out October 13th for PS3 at $59.99.
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That game looks awesome!
I’m loving the progression of the gaming industry, in the last 5-6 years some revolutionary games have come out that completely raised the bar and I think this looks like one of them. Ive seen a few new games to come out of E3 2009 that will push this progression on more…super mario 4 aint one of them!!