Uncharted 2 has made an Impact on the Gaming community there is no doubt.  It has raised the bar EXTREMELY High for other devs. So high that most developers will be playing catch up with naughty dog for a while. This game isn’t something anyone can bash easily, I mean you have to look for glitches in this game and when you have to look for glitches you know the game is good. I’m gonna go ahead and break this down into 5 parts: Impact on the Gamers, Impact on Developers, Impact on the Industry, Developers that should be noted, and Long Term Effects.

IMPACT ON THE GAMERS

Uncharted 2 has an Impact on any person who plays it or actually watches someone playing it. It’s such a masterpiece game that anyone who does not like this game is either putting gaming politics first, hasn’t played the game, or is just not into action games/console games.  But not only is the quality of Uncharted 2 something amazing but any gamer will find it genuinely FUN, just on a basic level of how FUN a game is a Gamer will love it. Beyond Even the FUN of the game it’s also addictive, espically for trophy hunters/whores the achievements are not impossible, they are kind of easy at least until you beat crushing mode but it’s still good.

Of course you also have the online THE ONLY place in online where uncharted could have been lsightly better is a clan system but that’s something anyone can work around but this isn’t a review here. The Game’s great online will have an impact on gamers as well. But Uncharted will have a BIG Impact in the world of machinima!  With an machinima mode like it has that is where you will see a lot of productiveness (even I have already written a script for it).

IMPACT ON THE DEVELOPERS

With the bar set so high from Uncharted 2 will Developers attempt to match it in terms of quality? Or will they disregard it and focus clearly on the game THEY are making. In my opinion any GOOD developer will look at other games and use them as a target in terms of quality. Look at Naughty Dog and all the people they thanked in Uncharted 2. They clearly worked WITH other Developers to do whatever they could to make this game as good as possible.

This brings me to my next point. DEVELOPERS NEED TO WORK TOGETHER. If you have ever heard the saying “Many men make light work.” That goes for developers as well and I don’t mean just hiring a lot of people for a game development company I mean having Developers work together perhaps just give each other helpful hints as to how to accomplish certain things in a game or even to help solve certain problems. I know that there are Devs that do this already but when they really work together it’s the Consumers who win.

Where the music of Uncharted 2 was Recorded

IMPACT ON THE INDUSTRY

The Other Impact Uncharted 2 has in the Gaming Industry IS the gaming industry. They have shown that The best cinematic experiences are not movies really but rather games! Metal Gear Solid 4 accomplished the idea that Games can be the best place for a story. However for Metal Gear Solid it was more Story length that made it best rather than the experience. Uncharted 2 shows that not only the length of a story can best be told through video games but that the entire cinematic, STORY telling experience. When you think of the word Blockbuster you usually think of movies well not anymore. The directors seat is going from the filming stage to the office.

Another aspect of this change is financially, Games can cost millions of dollars to make sometimes. Luckily they can earn millions of dollars as well. The Gaming Market is always a good market. Gaming has never been so good as it is now.

The scenery is quite cinematic

DEVELOPERS THAT SHOULD BE NOTED

With Naughty dog setting the standard so high it will be intresting to see how Infinity Ward does with Modern Warfare 2 but the bigger question is, What Developers will be the first to attempt to top Naughty Dog?

Here is a List of Developers and their Games that will be coming out soon. This list will show you who’s next up for release so you can ask yourself questions like: will it match up to U2:AT in terms of quality?

Now look at that list. Will any of them set the bar Higher or as high as Uncharted 2? My opinion is that I don’t know? But Games that are entering development AFTER uncharted has set this bar is another intresting thing. Of course the only games that at least I know of so far are possibly Resistance 3, Killzone 3, and Games that Lightbox (formerly known as incognito) and Sucker Punch should probably start working on.

LONG TERM EFFECTS

Uncharted 2 is a game that will go down in history and possibly the start of the next milestone in terms of video game quality of course that is considering that other developers attempt to match uncharted 2.  What do you guys think? There is no doubt that uncharted 2 is a great game. Should Developers strive to make games just as good? Will we see that before next summer?

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