@GoblinMerchant, It came as kind of a surprise to me too, but I don't really know why. I've always known the Japanese game market was more conservative than the American, but I didn't realize that it was a hardware fix that removed gore from games.
"Uncharted has guns. And guns shoot people. Shooting people causes people to bleed. Not in Japan, apparently! When played on a Japanese PS3, Uncharted is bloodless. Sure, Japan has done this before with games like Dead Rising and Resistance. It doesn't matter where you bought Uncharted as the game's still bloodless. The origin of the disc does not matter, but rather, the hardware does."
Drake's Fortune also takes advantage of the SIXAXIS(TM) wireless controller. Players can utilize the technology to balance across logs or trees in tight, narrow, unstable surfaces and use it to arc and change trajectory of grenades in real-time. Characters express lifelike emotion using gesture and facial expression through the proprietary Wrinkle Mapping Facial Animation system.
"The imbalance between the gunplay and the platforming is jarring but forgivable--but the platforming itself works pretty well and looks fantastic thanks to the game's excellent motion-captured animation. If nothing else, Uncharted is a graphical showcase for the PlayStation 3, and it dazzles the senses at nearly every opportunity."
I think so. So people are buying a PS3 for X-Mass, consider what games they will pick up, or those who get a game for X-Mass. There isn't much high profile on the PS3 like on the 360 or Wii.
The future for this game is for December....hopefully we have all taken that into consideration. Also of consideration is that the street date is broken and more sales will now happen in November.
In Ottawa Canada I was in 3 different stores today (Superstore/Rogers/EB) and ALL of them were selling Uncharted.
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It came as kind of a surprise to me too, but I don't really know why. I've always known the Japanese game market was more conservative than the American, but I didn't realize that it was a hardware fix that removed gore from games.