Sony takes Uncharted 2 on tour, with 4K digital projection to make you forever loathe your home setup
By Paul Miller 
posted Oct 3rd 2009 12:24PM
posted Oct 3rd 2009 12:24PM
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That is one sexy negative button! [-]
No love for the east coast...?
Anyway, I've been saying this, and I'll say it again:
Game of The Year 09!!
The game certainly is fun, but I'm not sure about Game of the Year. It doesn't do anything original, but what it does do it does great (though I personally haven't had any fun in multiplayer yet.) So far it is my favorite PS3 game this year though.
I could see this getting game of the year. If it's even CLOSE to as fun as the first one (And from what I've been hearing from early reviews, it's better) it'll be a shoe-in. Great story, good v-acting, fun gameplay, a steller musical score (the dude that did the awesome music from Firefly! :) ) and great graphics make for a pretty awesome game :) And those features were all in the first one, and it did quite well.
@Comet: I've played both Uncharted games and am wholly unimpressed with them both. The first game, while graphically pretty, wasn't nearly as groundbreaking as the "must-own!" advocates were touting it to be. It lacked originality in execution and gameplay, but were adequate in both to be considered a decent launch-era title.
The second Uncharted, excluding movie cutscenes, is less than 90 minutes playtime. That is not an exaggeration. I believe it has the better story-line, and with included multiplayer, it might have some value past an initial playthrough. However, this doesn't excuse the obscenely short gameplay.
@shiftyeyedgoat
excuse me? less than 90 minutes of gameplay excluding cutscenes?
You know you cant sell a game like that?
You know all the reviews say its around the standard 10 hours?
You know Naughty Dog themselves have stated 10 hours?
Don't know where you got that figure.
@HIR3DPILOT
At first I thought your name said HARDPILOT. It would have fit your comment so much better.
I'm just pissed at the way Sony is acting with there new Psp Go, that bullshit is one of the worst gadget they came out with and they are going to fail miserably (one reason: psp 3000). Cheaper and better versions of the psp is already out in multiple colors and can do almost everything that the psp go does. Sony thinks people are idiots like commenter above.
wrong post much?
Well he's a monkey with glasses after all.
Would the game even run in 4k?
not unless they have made a PS3 that runs a 4096×3072 pixels rez (quad hd)
or an amp that can take that signal?
or something that 'upscales' but meh its not like you could tell the difference (and this is coming from a videophile).
shiiiiiitt... sony did demonstrate the ps3's power to output DUAL FULL1080P HD w/ gt i think ;j
im sure dual ps3s connected could do 4k no problem ;p
lol actually the ps3 struggles to run some games at 720p so several games run at 640p thats cause of the weak GPU it has. no games run at 1080p on PS3 (or 360) they all upscale. same for 360, all games run at 720p. All games on ps3 & 360 have low res textures unlike the PC counterparts so higher display resolutions are pointless but most console gamers are clueless generally & just bang on about 1080p etc...
@Sethix
Not entirely true. A number of games (sadly a very small number) run in native 1080p mode with no upsampling, including Wipeout HD, Ridge Racer 7 (the Xbox360 version of RR runs upsampled) and GT5 Prologue. The clarity of these titles on a 1080p panel is astounding.
The GT demo was running on 4 synced PS3s, each rendering a quarter of the screen for a total resolution of 3840 x 2160. It also ran at 240fps O_O
Umm, what does the 4K matter, when the game only runs at 720p? :)
Multiple ps3s :)
I was wondering the same thing myself, I guess they're using some sort of emulator on a more powerful computer to render it at the 4K resolution, but it'd still need tons of AA and improved textures to look good...
Exactly. If the textures are the same, who gives a fuck?
My guess is that it upscales and that'll look marginally better and reduce the jaggies compared to just a 720p projector. Individual pixels should be slightly less noticeable.
IIRC, Gran Turismo was set up to render quads of the screen. PS3-1 renders the top left, PS3-2 top right, and so on. PS3-1 is the one actually playing the game (interaction logic, sound, controllers, etc.) and is using the other devices as a render farm.
Honestly, it's pretty cool that the PS3 architecture supports this. Maybe, one day in the future, you'll be able to upgrade your PS3 to play PS4 games by buying a second PS3. :)
@StreetStealth
And this technique is not unique to the PS3. The Xbox 360 supports this also. Forza 2 allowed you to hook multiple Xboxes to multiple TVs for surround video, while not quite the same as having one large display, it uses the same principle.
Hm... I think they did the same trick back in 4K Gran Turismo. I presume that the multiple playstation systems are linked using the Gigabit ethernet? If so, maybe they can make an expansion that plugs into the ethernet rather than a whole new system.
Hmm, will there ever be a need for more than 4k?
Alas, we will need technologically improved eyes before we can enjoy much more than that (unless the screen is several hundred feet diagonally... and you are sitting several inches away)
Just use drugs
There is a need for 4k now. Its mainly used in movie archiving and the dlp digital projection in movie theaters. The next step will be 4 k plasma and lcd screens for the consumer market in about 15 years from now. The red one cameras are capable of 4k as well.
I once saw a special screening of a remastered Blade Runner on 4K cinema here in Melbourne and it was so outrageously clear and stunning that I realized that once you go bl4K you dont want to go back!
you realize 4k is the same resolution as the actual film that the movie theaters show it at right? Basically that special screening you saw wasn't special at all, every movie theater projects at 4k, just not always the digital equivalent.
So I guess the Sony digital rigs mounted inside the Astoria and the invitations saying it was a digital 4k presentation were just a figment of my imagination.
Theslax was right! It was the drugs that made me see the tack-sharp spinners flying through the buildings.
I'm waiting for a TV wall like barney's from HIMYM
no you saw a 4k version of it, but so did the rest of the world when they saw it on a film projector.
Ummm... Are you gay? Jkjk
I actually have a 720p DLP projector with a 110" screen. Since that is the native resolution Uncharted 2 runs at, I'm not jealous at all. If it actually ran a 4K that would be something, but it doesn't.
Now if the game was for PC and you hooked up multiple GPUs to run the game. : )
PC Gaming is expensive.
(I'm an Ex-PC gamer.)
Yeah... but why? It's already looking so facking good.
What they should be doing instead is showing it in S3d... after having played the demo, and viewing the trailer it's clear to me it would look amazing in 3d.
It LOOKS designed for s3d... i wonder if this game actually is.
Wonder how many people will be disappointed with how the game actually looks running at a quarter of the resolution.
I wonder how many people would actually be able to tell the difference.
So marketing just decided to use this complicated setup for fun?
@Ethan ... SO ?!? .. I would much rather marketing spent time on showing some glimpse of the future rather than doing stupid pointless ads or trying to encourage people to have weird house parties. I mean since when was showing new technology a bad thing ?
When you're advertising a product that will never, ever, be able to use that technology.
I heard Uncharted 2 was real good. Maybe I'll have to get a PS3 after I catch up on some more 360 games and get a Wii.
The reviews point to it being an amazing game. And for me Uncharted was an extraordinary game. Not because it was better technically than any other games (it definitely wasn't) but because it was the first game I've ever played that felt like a movie. Uncharted 2 seem to continue and build upon this.
The reviews point to it being an amazing game. And for me Uncharted was an extraordinary game. Not because it was better technically than any other games (it definitely wasn't) but because it was the first game I've ever played that felt like a movie. Uncharted 2 seem to continue and build upon this.
Echo!
Nathan seems really excited about his game.
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Maybe some of Us know "Someone" with a 4K projector already.... Hmmm... Never saw that one coming now did you? I do. Time to make a call..........but I'll play MAG!