Preview: Uncharted 3 - Drake's Deception

The third game in the Uncharted series, created by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation 3, and due for release in North America on November 1, 2011 Uncharted 3 will see protagonist Nathan Drake and mentor Victor Sullivan travelling around the world to such places as the Rub' al Khali desert, in search of the legendary lost city, the Iram of the Pillars. T

Release Date: November 1, 2011
MSRP: $59.99
Exclusively on: PlayStation 3
RP-T+ for Rating Pending, Targeting a Rating of Teen or Above
Genre: Third-Person Action Adventure 
Publisher: Sony Computer EntertainmentDeveloper: Naughty Dog Software

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Creative director Amy Hennig has explained that the desire for a desert-themed Uncharted stemmed from wanting to push the team creatively and technologically, as "organic" elements such as sand, water, and fire are "technically difficult to credibly render with animation".

New features in Uncharted 3 will include "enhanced backward climbing", automatic ammunition pickup, and the ability to fight multiple enemies at once. Enemy AI is improved, providing the ability for enemies to form squads. Multiplayer and co-op features will also be greatly expanded. It will also support stereoscopic 3D.
Game director Justin Richmond explained that the game will feel more open than other Uncharted games. "We're not an open-world game, we're never going to be an open-world game. It's still up in the air how much gameplay we're going to let you wander around. But we're never going to let you just ride a thousand miles off into the middle of nowhere. Ultimately the feel we want to get is, yeah, you're lost in the desert. So it needs to feel like that. But it's not going to feel open-world."

Naughty Dog said "A Great Move game is a game made around Move and we started Uncharted long before that. It would be very difficult for us to adjust it. We tried a couple of things but it wasn’t making a lot of sense."

Naughty Dog community strategist, Arne Meyer, has said that Uncharted 3 is created like a Hollywood film. "The Uncharted series has long been praised for its movie-like sections - something Naughty Dog it is keen to take to the next level in its new game."