This is a good news and bad news kind of situation. The bad news – Uncharted 3 isn’t getting a stitch of single-player DLC. The good news? Naughty Dog says this is because they’d rather work on a new game instead.
While the studio assures us that we’ll be getting co-op and multiplayer content and plenty of post-release support, just like the 2nd iteration of the franchise, single-player is going to remain unchanged.
Game director Justin Richmond, in an interview with Eurogamer, explains, There’s a very specific reason. Whenever we sit down and think we should do some single-player DLC, someone pitches something and we realize – that’s a five hour level.”
The studio’s community strategist, Arne Meyer, confesses that keeping the team’s ambition at bay can be “difficult”.
“We’d rather build out another game than we would do episodic content,” Justin Richmond continued. “We’re so small that we can’t afford to have a whole team working on DLC.”
“That’s why we don’t do it,” said Richmond, “we’d much rather be working on the next game, producing the game quickly and having people play another adventure.”
If you’re unfamiliar with the kind of manpower used in the creation of these AAA titles, Activision has over 500 employees working on Call of Duty, while Naughty Dog utilizes a comparatively tiny team of 50.
With all the overflow of ideas, we should all be expecting a diverse experience from Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. We can see for ourselves in less than a month, with the game’s release date set at November 2nd.
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