Uncharted: Fight For Fortune is "Casino/Card" Game
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Thank you, Australian Classifications Board.
Original Story: It looks like PlayStation gamers will be getting more Nathan Drake. Why? Because the Australian Classifications Board seems to have unveiled a new game in the Uncharted series.
Multiple sources have reported on the seemingly unintentional reveal, most notably GameSpot, which was re-Tweeted by Sony executive Shuhei Yoshida, all but verifying that the game is real.
So what does the classification listing tell us? Well, quite a bit, as it turns out.
For starters, the publisher, not surprisingly, is Sony Computer Entertainment, which owns the Uncharted franchise. What’s strange here is that the developer of Fight For Fortune is a studio One Loop Games. The Uncharted trilogy on PlayStation 3, as well as the PlayStation Vita iteration in the series, were developed in-house by Sony-owned developers Naughty Dog and Sony Bend, respectively. It appears this entry will leave the first party development stable.
One Loop Games’ website shows a picture of both an Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The company claims its “team has over 30 years of interactive entertainment experience behind it,” with projects having appeared on XBLA, PSN, and elsewhere. Interestingly, the studio worked on ? of War: Betrayal and Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, indicating it already has a relationship with Sony. The studio also had a hand in the development of consoles games like Full Spectrum Warrior and The Saboteur.
The rating also indicates that Fight For Fortune may not be your typical Uncharted game. Australian games are rated in six categories: Themes, Violence, Language, Drug Use, Nudity and Sex. Each of those categories can be ranked from “none” to “high impact”, with four other classifications in between. Fight For Fortune scores a “none” in Themes, Language, Nudity and Sex, with “very mild impact”, the next step up from “none”, in Violence and Drug Use. (Its overall rating -- G -- indicates a "General" game with "content... very mild in impact.")
Now, Drake and his friends have never been known for running around naked or using drugs -- so there are no surprises on that front -- but the four Uncharted games have, so far, relied a great deal on death-by-gun. So perhaps Fight For Fortune is something that deviates from the Uncharted formula. We'll have to wait and see.
Interestingly, the game is also listed as being multi-platform. Since Sony owns Uncharted and is publishing the game, this could very well indicate that Fight For Fortune is a cross-play PS3/Vita game. Or perhaps it’s a PS3/next-gen game. Again, we'll have to wait and see.
We’ve reached out to Sony for official comment, and will update when we hear back.
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Update: The eagle-eyed members of NeoGAF have struck again; Uncharted: Fight for Fortune has also received classification in Brazil, where it was classed as a "casino/card game" and listed for the PlayStation Vita. Original story and information follows.
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Damn
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LOL ironic @ someone talking about milking a franchise.
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LOL ironic @ someone talking about milking a franchise.
LOL. Whats "ironic" is that Sony is forced to milk a franchise that is not even popular like that. Only "popular for a PS3 game". LOL. -
Every exclusive game is only popular to that console. If Uncharted was on the wii or xbox it would be a popular game. If Nintendo made it you would be sucking Drake's ? instead of Mario's because you finally would have something else to play. The irony is that the Uncharted series has already eclipsed the Metroid franchise and it has not been out for over 20 years. You need a new gimmick focus because you get slaughtered on a regular basis in The Arcade.
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Uncharted as a series sold over 20 million in one generation. Drake is no Solid Snake but hes getting there. -
why is anyone even answering focus? hes still upset romney couldnt even win colorado lol
Anyway, this isnt surprising. a lot of big franchises try these card games once in a while. Metal Gear Solid and Kingdom Hearts come to mind.
