Introducing Katherine Marlowe in UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception
We were busy last week during GDC 2011 - apart from the 4 sessions featuring current and former Naughty Dogs - SCEA held a press event for us to showcase 3D gameplay and introduce the main antagonist, Katherine Marlowe.
We've got more details, screenshots and video after the jump!
By arne | Twitter @arnemeyer | Tuesday March 08 2011
Last week, a few of us headed up to San Francisco to attend GDC 2011 for a busy week of sessions and an extremely well-attended press event. With the PlayStation.Blog blogger lounge at the W hotel filled to near capacity, we presented two new aspects to UNCHARTED 3: Drake's Deception - gameplay in stereoscopic 3D and the main antagonist, Katherine Marlowe.
It's awesome to now be able to talk about this as the press embargo lifted earlier this morning -- apart from our blog post here and on the PlayStation.Blog, be sure to visit any of the numerous publications who attended for their take on the event and the reveals.
The press event started off with a demo of the UNCHARTED 3 burning chateau gameplay sequence, but it was presented in stereoscopic 3D for the first time ever outside of the studio. As I had mentioned over on the PlayStation.Blog, I feel that with this small snippet of gameplay we’ve proven that we’re able to perfectly retain all of the spectacular visuals and effects that you’ve come to expect from Naughty Dog and UNCHARTED into the 3D presentation. During interviews Evan Wells and Richard Lemarchand pointed out that, in our experiences within the studio so far, playing in 3D provides some gameplay benefits, such as improved aiming around corners and an excellent read on depth for all traversal sequences, no matter how tricky. Unfortunately, there is no video available of UNCHARTED 3 gameplay running in 3D right now - you'll probably have to attend an event where UNCHARTED 3 is being shown in 3D or possibly when UNCHARTED 3 releases this November. In the meantime you’ll have to rely on impressions from all the press coverage to get an idea of how our 3D gameplay was received from the attending media.
The major reveal during our press event was unveiling the main antagonist Nathan Drake and Victor Sullivan will face throughout UNCHARTED 3. We'd like to introduce you to Katherine Marlowe.
Without a doubt, Marlowe is going to be one tough customer to deal with, and I think it's clear she's used to getting what she wants, and won't let anyone get in the way. Recapping some of the background information on Marlowe we provided on the PlayStation.Blog, Katherine Marlowe is the coldly calculating leader of a secret society whose roots date back over four hundred years to the court of Queen Elizabeth I. She has a long-standing rivalry with Nathan Drake over Sir Francis Drake’s ring – something they both contend is rightfully theirs and is also the key to an ancient mystery. It's obvious from the cutscene we embedded above that Marlowe is a much more cerebral enemy than Drake has confronted in the past, using both psychological and physical tactics to get what she is after. Marlowe also has the assistance of her team of highly-trained agents in this secret society – they are far more elusive and dangerous than the hired guns Nathan Drake and Victor Sullivan have faced before!
We’ve uploaded a set of stills from the cutscene, a high-res render of Katherine Marlowe and concept art of the agents and thugs Nathan Drake and Victor Sullivan will face in UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception to our Flickr page - check them out!
Don't forget to keep checking back on the UNCHARTED 3 tag on NaughtyDog.com to keep up to date on the latest UNCHARTED 3 news.
UPDATE
Our PR team sent me a bunch of links leading to online articles written about our GDC press event. I've put all the links below so you've got one easy place to check out all the different articles and impressions.
USA Today
G4TV
GameTrailers
GameInformer
IGN
GameSpot
Joystiq (Marlowe)
Joystiq (3D preview)
Kotaku
GamesRadar
Digital Trends
Escapist Magazine
PlayStation Lifestyle
Venture Beat
1UP.com
I'll add more links as I spot them.
Posted by: Maxamilius291 on 03-08-2011
A female villain! Should mix things up in multiplayer - won’t be able to automatically assume it’s a hero every time you hear a female jumping 
Tuxedo drake is awesome as well. 
Posted by: Stefdk on 03-08-2011
Nope, its not Jason Stalham. But that will be a kick ass video game anyway. No doubt about that!! 
Posted by: Bloodstalker_96 on 03-10-2011
I have reached level 80 since 2 months it was cool but I had spent the cash still many hours, D
NaughtyDog can now do so to level 90 or 100 because it’s sometimes boring Uncharted comes out to 3;)
And today I have maybe been playing a lot of people like Uncharted 2 is still online and there were about 30,000 and above 4-5 months there were still 40-50000 therefore the number drops dramatically
Posted by: xdjoendx on 03-10-2011
ND, i got a question…
would u guys pleaase fix the uncharted 2 MP
now it really sucks but when it was in the stores the first months it was like the best MP eva but now it reaally suckks so please do that
i am in a clan with like 70 members they all want that u guys fix the MP
every uncharted ‘freak’ wants that im sure
and thats the reason why there are less people playing uc2 and if u guys fix it then u guys got more players…
and dont let uc3 become a MP disaster as uc2 is 4 the moment so pleaase fix uc2
Posted by: MayhemKiller30 on 03-11-2011
Great Trailer! I am so exited about this game!
Posted by: Tigerishi on 03-12-2011
Don’t change Nate’s face!!! He looks different in this to me - I like his appearance in Uncharted 2!!
Thank you
Posted by: Ak_FoRce_ on 03-13-2011
Great facial animation!
/naughtydog
/naughty_dog
/NaughtyDog
/naughty_dog
RSS
Posted by: mojo206 on 03-08-2011
OMG
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: xxpur3zer0xx on 03-08-2011
OMG?
this cut-scene doesn’t really remind me of Uncharted, more reminds me of something like a cutscene from Heavy Rain… Hmm, well we shall see what ND has in store for us!
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: harmanprit507878 on 03-08-2011
i totaly agree with you thx for the coment
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: NightRyda32 on 03-09-2011
It actually does. Damn
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: Ak_FoRce_ on 03-13-2011
Huh? because it’s an alley?
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: harmanprit507878 on 03-08-2011
i cant wait to play this game im preordering this now and i mean that literaly
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: bishop0904 on 03-10-2011
Awesome ! I can’t wait !!!
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: yoghurt2000 on 03-10-2011
This got to be after the desert part, cause he has his ring-necklace on the trailer and even on game-play movies. But maybe he gets it back
And why he needs the ring? It just says ‘’Greatness from small beginnings’’ and coordinates for Francis grave
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