We didn't do that, and when we saw BioShock come out, we breathed a sigh of relief and said, 'whew, dodged that bullet.' So obviously it was a good idea: just not for us.' Even when Zero Point transformed into Project Big (the internal codename for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune), the underwater base was planned to constitute about 75-percent of the game, with the tropical island environment serving as the first 25 - a far cry from how Uncharted ultimately went 90:10 in terms of island-to-base ratio. Hennig briefly shows me the title page of the May 2005 concept document for 'Zero Point,' while Scherr describes that pitch as focusing on 'zero point energy, eco-terrorism, dark energy, and all sorts of crazy nonsense.' He continues, 'At one point we wanted to set the entire thing in a vast underwater facility or city type of thing.

Sitting down along with Wells is fellow co-president Christophe Balestra, creative director Amy Hennig, lead designer Richard Lemarchand, cinematics animation lead Josh Scherr, and actor Nolan North. For two and a half hours, I get to hear developers discuss topics such as the creation of the original game, and some of the major hurdles in creating this next installment.

Two weeks before Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception hits shelves, I find myself in a conference room in Naughty Dog's office in Santa Monica. But then the PlayStation 3 got delayed, and we back-burnered all those ideas for about a year, and picked it up again right after Jak 3.' Yes, Naughty Dog had already started prototyping ideas for their first 'next-generation' console title way back in 2003 though, Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells elaborates, 'When Jak 2 closed, that's when we started thinking about it. Those were some of the ideas that the developers at Naughty Dog threw around at the conclusion of Jak 2's production. Or that instead of playing 'Uncharted' - which was about finding El Dorado, the mythical city of gold - you instead played a game called 'Zero Point,' focused on the concept of dark energy. Try to imagine an alternate universe where, instead of playing through a rollicking action-adventure with affable treasure hunter Nathan Drake, Uncharted took the form of a post-apocalyptic survival horror game.

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