Despite some reviews giving Uncharted 2: Among Thieves embarrassingly high scores, Naughty Dog co-president, Evan Wells, is more honest in his appraisal of one of the games of last year. Speaking about the rather lumpen stealth featured in the early museum section of the game, he apologises, saying in a recent
interview, "If you listened to Flynn and saw which way he went, and you went to the right and went to the fountain...smooth sailing. But if for whatever reason you got distracted and you thought "Okay, I have to take all these guards out," or something, you could get really in a loop there where you're getting caught over and over again. And yeah, we apologize for that."
Also, while not stating anything about
UC3, he does make it clear that Naughty Dog will not be building a third-person game around the forthcoming PS Motion Controller ('Gem' or 'Sphere').
"We really don't have any interest in using the motion control to do a third-person action game. If we were going to make a motion controller game, I think we'd want to tackle it from the bottom up and make sure that we were designing the game around the motion control, the way the best Wii games are designed."
The Wii? One of the PS3's most tightly-bound developers is talking Wii? He sure is, he tells G4, "I'm not a Wii hater at all, in fact, it's probably one of my most played consoles in the house. I have a 3-year old son which might account for some of that [laughs], but I think
Wii Sports and
Wii Sports Resort are some of the best experiences of this generation, honestly. They're immensely playable and competitive, and just great fun with a group of people in the same room. Yeah, I think the PlayStation audience is totally for it, in fact, I bet you there are lot of closet Wii owners in the PlayStation community. If there is some really good software for that motion controller, I think it can be a big, big success."
Evan Wells, we salute your all-around honesty - read the full interview, it's fascinating.