Naughty Dog had a pretty major showing at PlayStation Experience 2016. While most of the focus was on The Last of Us Part II, there was another trailer that made a quite a few waves for how unexpected it was. I'm talking of course about Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. As you can see from the trailer above, The Lost Legacy does not bear much resemblance to Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. If anything, it looks a lot closer to The Last of Us, given its slower and more methodical pace.
Official PlayStation Magazine UK caught up with a couple of higher-ups from Naughty Dog who gave a little insight into what we can expect from The Lost Legacy.
Creative Director Shaun Escayg said:
"It [will] be tonally different, but in the same context of the Uncharted world. India’s got really nice iconography: hidden temples and weird deities we can play off of, so it’s a perfect setting for Uncharted: The Lost Legacy."
He continued:
"It started as DLC, but we couldn’t find… well, we needed a longer time for the story to develop, and now I would say it’s a story expansion. That’s how we’re terming it."
Escayg is right regarding its tone being different. Uncharted has always been about replicating the feel of a summer blockbuster movie, with running, gunning, explosions, and chaos everywhere. That is not what The Lost Legacy is going for if the trailer above is any indication.
Game director Kurt Margenau chimed in on the gameplay side of things:
"I would say we’re going a little more wide this time. I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s something we’re excited about on the gameplay side, this kind of contrast of an urban setting and a rural setting; a tighter experience and more open experience."
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is due to release sometime this year.
Source: [Power Up Gaming UK]
