Hi there,
As some of you may know, the Uncharted 2 public beta has been running for the last couple of weeks, but only for those who pre-ordered the game from certain retailers.
But no longer! Because you can download it from PlayStation Store at 7pm UK, and play all the way up to October 12th!
The Public Beta contains:
- Four maps – The Ice Cave, The Temple, The Village and The Plaza
- Deathmatch, Elimination, Plunder, Chain Reaction, Co-op Gold Rush and an extract from one of our Co-op objective levels
- The Machinima mode, where you can run around the levels and tweak the camera so you can create movies which you can then watch in Cinema mode
- Cinema mode, where you can watch movies of your online matches, or your performances in Machinima mode, then upload them and send them to your friends (as long as they’ve got the Beta to watch it on of course)
- Twitter option – enter your twitter account details and you’ll automatically tweet status updates of your online progress
- Store items – we’ve included a selection of the Skins, Boosters, and Taunts as well as all the Co-op Weapon Upgrades for you to spend your hard earned ingame cash on
But don’t think that you’ve seen it all if you’ve played the Public Beta. Far from it! We’ve got a more online content in the final game:
- Three more maps (which I’m not going to spoil by naming right now)
- The full set of Co-op objective levels (which I have to say are my favourite online feature)
- Three more game modes – Turf War, King of the Hill and Co-op Survival
- More skins, boosters and taunts in the ingame Store
So once the Beta’s over do not despair, as the full game will be released on October 14th in Europe, October 15th in Australia and New Zealand, and October 16th in the UK and Ireland.
Enjoy!
Dan















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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:07 pm by BalramRules
THANK YOU SONY!!
THANK YOU!!!!!
SONY IS GOD-LIKE TO MEEEE!!
THANK YOU!!! = P
Can you please reconsider delaying the beta’s closing date to possibly 6th Nov as not many of us will buy it on the first day as it’ll most likely be sold out = P
Then again it’s worth it to check the stores as this is a game you can’t afford to miss = P
Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:14 pm by Daniel Brooke
Thanks for the comments! And you could always pre-order if you don’t want to miss it on day one…
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:07 pm by Gameboys
I’m really disappointed about that “Beta” – but this is just because I don’t like any multiplayer-things…
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:08 pm by Bilbo_bobbins
excellent stuff. I have been playing this for two weeks and can honestly say it’s been amazing so far, and it’s only a demo.
People download it ASAP tonight and get on it.
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:12 pm by matty1209
im all ready in but its great for everyone else
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:14 pm by englishgolfer
great now i don’t need to watch champion’s league footie tonight!
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:15 pm by CEK111
Deadly, any news on a UK Fortune Hunters Edish ?
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:15 pm by ActuallyR
Will current beta users be able to carry on playing, or will a patch/new client download be required?
Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:17 pm by Daniel Brooke
Current Beta users can carry on playing just fine. There’s no patch or new client required.
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:17 pm by Roxas598
will us with the “beta” have to download a patch or re download this one?
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:18 pm by Aphiss
Maaaan. If I’d known about this I wouldn’t have bleedin’ preordered from Play.com. They effort it took to get them to send me a code after 9 days was just silly. No happy, I got it yesterday. WASTE OF TIME
But thanks anyway, its a great game. And now I have friends to play it with! Woo.
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:18 pm by Guillemots
Great!
The Beta will be available only in the UK store?
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:18 pm by extermin8or
y do the guys have skeloten heads? me and my mate thought it looked like tht the other day whn we did the lvl in crushing lol, im going out on release to get the special edition from game lol as it i will get it sooner than w8ing for the post
this game looks amazing!
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:19 pm by vicheous
Is twitter not taken out(and to reapear later?)….
Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:33 pm by Daniel Brooke
The Twitter option has only been disabled for level completion in single player as mentioned by Naughty Dog’s Evan Wells on the US PlayStation Blog here –
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/09/twitter-update-uncharted-2/
So the beta will be unaffected.
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:19 pm by xKillerMonkeyx
I got the beta with a code giveaway and you lot are going to love it, great game and now with some fresh meat heehee
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:19 pm by extermin8or
although i will be playing MAG agn tonight lol
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:21 pm by Shin-Ra
Woah, check out those skull masks!
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:25 pm by startazz
Thats great news about it being in the PSN store but i must admit we always seem to lose out on release dates of the better games as we are this one to,i know it’s only a couple days behind the rest of europe but what the hell are we not in europe ???
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:26 pm by Raider197
Brilliant! Although I think I’ll give it a miss, I don’t want to ruin the experience before it comes out! (Day one buy for me) Hope the online is running smoothly and that unlike most developers you’ve prepared the servers for a huge number of people playing at once, don’t forget that it’s better to expect to many people to play online than to expect to little
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:26 pm by Apnomis
Looks like they’ll be a spike in online users tonight then! When I’ve played it in previous weeks there has only ever been around 3000-4000 players online.
I wasn’t so keen on the multiplayer (only because I was no good at it and there are some seriously high ranked players in the beta) but it did look amazing and could probably get quite addictive with practice. But I really loved the co-op level – I can’t wait to play through the all of the co-op missions!
Will people’s ranks and abilities be wiped before launch or will it carry over from the beta?
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:26 pm by Carnivius_Prime
THANKS! I pre-ordered one day too late for the second beta (I had the first) so am so damn happy to get this. Uncharted 2 is easily my most wanted game. Can’t wait for the full version to arrive next month. Gonna download this demo tonight and have plenty fun.
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:28 pm by Raider197
“October 14th in Europe and October 16th in the UK and Ireland.”
Aww what! That’s unfair guys!
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:29 pm by haz360
Awesome news, can’t wait for this!
Quick question, will all of the stats, ranks, unlocks etc that are gained in the beta all be reset to 0 for the full release to make it a little more fair for anyone who doesn’t play the beta?
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:29 pm by Paranoimia
Awesome!
As a memver of the beta test scheme, I was in the original beta. But when the codes for the new beta were made available via websites etc., I didn’t get one as I assumed we’d get one through the scheme. That never happened, though, so I look forward to downloading this tonight!
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:30 pm by startazz
Yeah the skull skins look good but RFOM did it better lol
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:30 pm by KAP
To all of Naughty Dog well done on all your hard work. There are no other games devs like you all out there. Seriously
Oh and thank you Dan for bringing us the news.
PS Trust me guys the online BETA is flippin amazin’
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:30 pm by Silent_Gig
Is this from today or thursday?
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:31 pm by Apnomis
@ Aphiss – if you can I would cancel the Play.com preorder and get it from Game.co.uk instead – they have the limited tin Special Edition that comes with lot’s of goodies (in-game golden guns, XMB them etc) and they have recently reduced it’s price from £49.99 to £39.99, which is the same price as the standard version!!! (+ you get Double Reward Points and Quidco if you use them)
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:34 pm by LicensedDealer
This might sound stupid, but I think you have included way to much stuff. Kinda spoil the game. I mean 4 maps out of 7, com’on!!
Anyway the game is awesome.
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:36 pm by ActuallyR
LicensedDealer, the game isn’t JUST multiplayer
plus they haven’t included all the boosts etc.
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:36 pm by Tielo
Only in the UK store?????
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:36 pm by vicheous
Thanks for the update on the Twitter thing….
Game is okay, but i think i’ll stick mostly to single player on this.
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:36 pm by Gekidami
Surely this is a multiplayer demo, why is it being refered to as a “beta”?
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:37 pm by Deviil-Boy
THANK’S THANK’S THANK’S THANK’S THANK’S THANK’S THANK’S THANK’S THANK’S THANK’S
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:39 pm by Gekidami
And another thing; 3 more maps in the final game? 6 maps in total isnt really that much…
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:39 pm by slickjones
This is awesome. I had a code from the American PSN, and I never managed to connect to any game. Now It’s smooth sailing from here on out.
KEEP ROCKING YOU CRAZY GUNS
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:39 pm by vicheous
@Gekidami – 30
Because if we tell them about a lot of bugs they can just say it’s a beta test and not the full game, then delay it 20 days until they can fix the issues!!
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:41 pm by Nagash_MalKaVian
can this game be played on LAN? (Beta or final retail game)
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:42 pm by marcindpol
thanks for this public beta demo Sony!
because you give me so much free multiplayer content right now (4 maps out of 7!) i will not purchase this game for only 3 new maps!
Thanks Sony for helping me out!. I do not buy single player games, i will end up renting it only:)
Very very bad move Sony, now i have no reason(multiplayer) to buy this game:), you spoil your game BIG BIG time…
Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:51 pm by Daniel Brooke
Bear in mind marcindpol, we’re turning the Beta off on October 12th…
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:47 pm by LicensedDealer
So marcindpol do you play your multiplayer games for just two weeks?
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:50 pm by Carl-G
Nice 1
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:51 pm by Amedio1897
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves will be GOTY, and will be one of my favourite games ever…I’m pretty sure. Unfortunately I have to wait for more than a month after its UK release to get it. But sometimes the more the waiting the more precious the game will be.
Thank you Naughty Dog…thank you so much.
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:54 pm by marcindpol
LicensedDealer no, MW2 will last for months but thats also much much deeper mp experience.I will not need any more time for 4 maps!, and as i said before i will not buy the game for 3 spare maps:)
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:54 pm by GT-R32_Skyline
Is the beta only downloadable at 7pm and is it open even here???
Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 6:26 pm by Daniel Brooke
The Public Beta is available for download on all the PlayStation Stores in Europe with the exception of Germany due to age rating issues. And yes, it’s at 7pm UK time.
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:54 pm by almighty-slayer
UK gets it last? Great…
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:55 pm by CEK111
Can i record my own footage of recorded matches to make movies with usinng a capture card ?
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:55 pm by marcindpol
Daniel Brooke, i know, but no, thanks:)
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:56 pm by BoneCraKeR
@36 the multyplayer mode aint everything. most of the times my favorite games are the ones with single player only (as with the case of Uncharted
)
only in this console generation did people started to care and demand MP in all games. some of them dont even have any logic having it and they do :\
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and only in these cases, people actually praise Sony…. the rest is always flaming. just be glad that we have the best console with all this content they have given us.
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:58 pm by Mike Kebby
I can’t wait for all the fresh players to take the fight to tonight – you’d all better look out, I’ve gotten some practice in these past few evenings hehe
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:58 pm by marcindpol
BoneCraKeR, i am glad i can save 50 euros in this harsh recession times:)
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 5:59 pm by Roxas598
Hey mike your about early
getting started on all that store update typing huh
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Posted on 29 September, 2009 at 6:00 pm by Wild_Guns
Stats will be kept in the final game?
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