Posted on 22 April by Arne Meyer – Community Strategist, Naughty Dog

UNCHARTED 2 Siege Expansion Pack Coming This Thursday, Double Cash Weekend Returns!

Countries: AE, AU, GB, IE, NZ

UPDATE: New videos added.

The day is nearly here for our UNCHARTED fans and the multitudes who have been awaiting a new co-op game type — The UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves Siege Expansion Pack will be on sale when the PlayStation Network Store updates on Thursday, April 22nd, and will set you back only $5.99.

Look for the PlayStation Store Update blog post on Thursday to know when The Siege Expansion Pack is available for purchase.

As we announced just two weeks ago, the Siege Expansion Pack is our biggest DLC release to date: two new maps, six new multiplayer skins, one new co-op game type and 11 new online-only Trophies.

Do yourself a favor and read the full rundown of what’s included in the pack, check out the screenshots, and watch the gameplay and map fly-through videos. You won’t be disappointed.

The most significant portion to the Siege Expansion Pack is the new Siege co-op game type. You can read impressions of Siege from these IGN and GameSpot reviews of the Siege Expansion Pack. Since we started testing Siege internally, up through last week’s sessions with reviewers, I’ve really enjoyed the complexities of Siege. It’s not as simple as defending pre-defined locations against waves of NPCs: Between the different vulnerabilities of each new location and the lack (or abundance) of weapon pickups, you’ll find yourself testing out interesting new strategies to maximize your points and cash.

Apart from the Siege co-op game type, I’m really excited for the two new maps. We’ve spent our time post-release wisely and learned a lot about how to build multiplayer maps that not only offer more verticality, but make it an essential part of the navigation and domination of a particular map. I love both maps, but it is the massive verticality and need to use your traversal skills that make The Highrise one of my favorite maps. Ever. Of course, the potentially lethal helicopter assault and very real danger of jumping off the buildings to your doom takes the awesome to new heights. See what I did there?

We also revealed the contents of Title Update 1.07 this morning, prior to the release of the update worldwide. Title Update 1.07 includes the following:

Players can now choose between Hero skins for Co-op Arena matches only
Additional spawn system changes to enhance spawn point update effectiveness
Gameplay changes to prevent “airwalk” exploit
Updates to map geometry collision detection to improve prevention of players attempting to leave normal multiplayer map boundaries

And now, I’ll leave you with this announcement:

To celebrate the release of the Siege Expansion Pack, this weekend marks the return of Double Cash Weekend!

Starts: Friday, April 23, 10:00 AM PDT (what time is that in my city?)
Ends: Monday, April 26, 10:00 AM PDT (what time is that in my city?)

Tagged: dlc, naughty dog, uncharted 2

Countries: AE, AU, GB, IE, NZ

Filed: PlayStation Network, PS3 Games

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20 Comments Add Yours

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 12:07 am by JordanBlack68

Sweet! <3 Uncharted

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 12:14 am by moriarty1975

$5.99?? Copy n paste from u.s blog F.T.W!!

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 12:16 am by Pesico

Thank you for the DLC, title update and double cash weekend. It’s all awesome. Will the money cap be raised as well, to $100K?

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 12:30 am by Arne Meyer

I’m sure that was an accidental oversight. The prices for the EU regions is: RRP €5.99 / £4.79

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 12:35 am by Pesico

I wasn’t talking about real cash. I was talking about the money you earn after each game, in-game-money. Normally, you can’t earn more than $50 000. I was wondering if the cap during the double cash weekend will be raised to $100 000?

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 1:04 am by moriarty1975

@5 I think that reply was meant for me.

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 1:12 am by Battery-Acid-

Thank you Arne and Naughty Dog

I’m looking forward to playing the new maps and mode tomorrow,
It all looks good.

I’m finally going to get my level 60 this double cash weekend.

Thank you again
- B

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 1:15 am by moriarty1975

Is there any way the dlc “mess” could be patched? I have a u.k version of the game and cant use the DLC thats on the irish store. Maybe a patch so instead of DLC been country locked its (The way its meant to be) region locked?

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 1:18 am by mantez

Can We get some single player DLC please

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 9:08 am by Shifty_Geezer

Not buying this until the network code is fixed. Uncharted 2 is a great co-op experience, but sometimes the party system just messes us around, and we waste an hour trying to get the damned game working before getting the sense to give up and play a game that actually works. Tuesday night for example with three of us wanting to party up, the third player always got kicked straight out of the party whenever they joined, no matter who tried. Sometimes we can form a party but voice chat for one person is broken. There are also funny sync issues preventing connection and requiring the game data to be scrubbed and redownloaded. We repeatedly retry, log out and on, reset the PS3s and try again, to sporadic avail. U2′s been out long enough that the party code should be flawless now, but as there are no gaurantees that if I buy this I’ll actually be able to play it with my friends because of party system bugs, it’ll have to wait.

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 9:42 am by toolfan2007

Great news in one way because new maps for me to play, but bad timing as I’m starting my college exams next week… :^( so no double cash for me….

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 11:19 am by AutomaticSnake

Don’t region lock this! Or at least give us people from EU that import the game from UK the option to buy the UK DLC in our stores!!!

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 11:32 am by KylieDog

I already own two of the new skins, I paid extra for a Collector Edition in UK for them.

Now I got to pay again? Yeah I know are new maps/game mode but I already paid for part of it, whatever way it is cut I’ve wasted money.

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 11:54 am by Miss2912

I am waiting so bad that the store is updated for take it right away! Please try to hurry up today

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 1:37 pm by PenguinGlen

Awesome. Been looking forward to this since I heard about it the other week. Can’t wait to try out the new maps and Siege!

The new title update is great too. I love how you can now choose your skin for co-op arena and the new trophies are a LOT less time consuming. Nice one ND!

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 2:30 pm by OttoT

Looks nice but I don´t play the online stuff.
Any love for singleplayer content?

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 7:25 pm by andrea__14

finally i’m going to download it

Posted on 22 April, 2010 at 7:41 pm by HUYI

excellent, bring out more DLC till my trophy percentage is 0%! that would be a fantastic idea! well done naughty dog!

Posted on 23 April, 2010 at 7:10 pm by Stonesthrow

I’m not really into the new mode, but maybe that changes when i get the hang of it a little better, as for the new maps, they look amazing..

What I’m really hoping to see, however, are some new co-op objective maps and maybe a new assault rifle en handgun (new weapons in general), i really love the objective based co-op, not so much the multiplayer based types…and since there’s only 3 maps in the objective co-op, I have to replay these over and over again which gets boring..so I’d love to see some new content in that mode..(The ability to choose your multiplayer skins in the co-op objective would be cool too)