Free new Uncharted 2 Multiplayer map coming this week

Naughty Dogs has a present for this coming Thanksgiving holiday. The new map titled "The Fort" will be available to download this weekend and is based on the game's first series. And the most important of all, it will be free! You can play the map in all competitive modes and co-op mode.
To add to that, this week will also grant you double cash should you jump into Uncharted 2 multiplayer.
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Uncharted 2 gets a patch and double cash reward this weekend

Uncharted 2 will get a patch to fix bugs and balance issues. Most probably to fix 1 shot 1 kill bugs that help players to get by the otherwise impossible crushing mode.
As a bonus, this weekend players will also get double cash reward in multiplayer mode. So pump up some caffeine in your blood now. Its time to get charted!
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves review

Title: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Developer: Naughty Dog

Publisher: Sony

So I was just finished playing Uncharted 2: Among Thieves single player and tested some of its multiplayer from day 1. It does live the expectation. Every aspect of the game is awesome.

Firstly single player mode. The story itself is pretty light, but enough to get your attention and interest. The voice actors/ actresses did a very good job, it matches the situation where the characters are in. The dialogue is funny sometimes, Nathan joked a lot and you can quickly feel the characters.

The camera angle, actions are very well executed, I love the scene when Nathan got chased by the tanks, and the moving train. Its a very rare experiences.

The multiplayer mode consisted of Coop and deathmatch. Both are addictive, the coop lets you and other two friends to do a survival, gold rush, or scenario mode. Survival is just like Gear of Wars horde mode. Gold rush need you to steal a treasure and get to certain drop point while trying to pass a horde of enemy. Scenario mode is when you progress like in single player but with other friends.

For deathmatch, it is simple but not hollow. It probably won't match COD in terms of deep. With little choice of weapons, makes the game feels like grab whatever guns you had and start to kill. You can equip perks to enchance your combat situation.

The only drawback is the network. Sometimes during deathmatch, I freezed for about 5 seconds, and frustratingly, you can be killed. There are a lot of times that I already got behind the enemy, but only to shoot 2 bullets then freezed. The enemy turned his back and began shot me until dead.

It very frustrating and makes the game unplayable. I think in this area, Naughty Dog has to learn more from Infinity Ward how to handle multiplayer.

But to sum up, Uncharted 2 is like a three star restaurant meal with dessert. It keeps your stomach full, you get to taste everything and it tastes awesome!!

Score: 9.5/10

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Uncharted 2 is second best selling PS3 exclusive

Uncharted 2 has moved around 836.000 copies worldwide within a week since launched. It represent six times the number copies sold of Nathan's first adventure. It replaced previously second placed Killzone 2 with 770.000 copies.
At the number one spot is still claimed by Metal Gear Solid 4 with a huge 5 millions copies in its first week since launched.
Good job by Naughty Dog though, they deserved it.

Source: Qj.net
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Uncharted 2 sales beyond expectation, DLC will come before the end of 2009

Uncharted 2 plus reduced PS3's price is equal winning formula. This is no doubt given that every aspect (single player, multiplayer) of this game is awesome. Naughty Dogs said that Uncharted 2: Among thieves is "exceeding expectation" and outselling the original by many, many times.
DLC is planned to roll out before 2009. While Naughty Dogs hasn't been specific, it could be maps, additional characters. Some of those will be free, others might not.
Good news except maybe Naughty Dogs could immediately gives a patch that fix connection problems during Multiplayer. Most irritating is the freeze. You could freeze for maybe 5 secs during deathmatch and get killed most of the time because of that. It makes the game totally unplayable.
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Uncharted 2: Among thieves scores high in Metacritic

Review for PS3 exclusive Uncharted 2: Among Thieves popping out on every metacritic's websites despite half a month away release date. Nevertheless below are the summary of the scores courtesy of Joystiq.

• Eurogamer: 100/100
• Gamepro: 100/100
• 1Up: A+
• IGN: 95/100
• Videogamers 90/100
  

If you want to try the demo, Uncharted 2: Among thieves multiplayer demo is up at PSN and it will crunch 1.3 GB of your hard drive.
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Twitter on Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Upcoming blockbuster PS3 game Uncharted 2: Among thieves will link to twitter. It will tweet when you complete a chapter, unlocking a throphy, making an online game, etc. It is not mandatory, you set turn it off in the setting.
Is it useful? Depends if your friends don't find it annoying to receive spam on your Nathan Drake's progress.
Is it nice? Well, yeah. It is the first game that collaborate with social network services, and I bet somebody will find it useful.
Is it smart? Hell yeah! Sony will get much of free advertisement of its game,and I expect other games will follow soon.
But hey, no hurt in getting additional cream to your cake right?
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