Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (The Movie)

Considering this is the best game series I've ever played, and certainly the most cinematic, I decided to make them into movies. I decided that I would include every cinematic, and link them by the minimum gameplay needed to connect the cinematics without creating any plot holes. Obviously to do this I had to take out certain sections of gameplay, but doing so does not have any effect on story. As I was trying to make these as close to a real movie experience as I could, there were a few guidelines I decided to follow:

1. I would try to remove as many on screen references to this being a game as possible, such as chapter titles and button or new ammo prompts. Some of these would either be impossible or would too much negatively impact the quality of the film, such as the near constant ammo OSD, or the occasional "select" prompt for drake's journal during puzzles.

2. I would try to include as much of the puzzles, in game cinematics and cinematic gameplay elements as I could. Some areas still needed to be cut to keep the movie flowing properly or, in the case of Uncharted 2 and 3, to keep the run length shorter than it would have been otherwise.

3. I tried to keep as much in game dialogue as I could, as I believe those really help develop the characters. However, as I said, I also had to keep an eye on how much gameplay I was using to make sure it didn't make things too boring or make the movie too long.

In the end, my goal was to make a movie that would be watchable whether the viewer was a fan of Uncharted or not, and whether the viewer was a video game player or not. My initial reason was to find a way to show the story of these games to people in my family who don't play video games. I think I succeeded.

However, remember that these movies WERE created from video games that are much longer when played through, so they will be quite long to watch. Here are the run lengths for all three:

Uncharted 1: 113 minutes
Uncharted 2: 177 minutes
Uncharted 3: 195 minutes


Let me know what you think.

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[Iacojr]

I just finished UC3 and even if I find it very funny to play, I think the plot is not that exciting like the second one...Don't misunderstand me, it's an awesome game, I mean, it's Uncharted and it can't be a bad videogame, but the Dogs have put too much things in this 3rd chapter and it's hard to enjoy everything. I was guessing: there are some sort of filler between the games, like comics or books?

[Andy Gilleand]

I believe there is a graphic novel, or a short series of comics or something. Not sure about regular books.

[MexicanNickCop]

could you redo this in HD at all?

[Andy Gilleand]

Perhaps. I was planning to do Arkham Asylum next, but I had a problem while making that, which means I'm going to have to start all over in order to finish that movie, so instead I may go back and remake my Uncharted movies in HD, since I recently bought an HD capture device.

[harlembrown69]

Yo, Andy, man, I'm a real fan of yours now, my dude. Instead of me buying the games,I can just watch them as movies. That's some hot shit right here. Big shout out 2 u, my dude. Keep making more. Harlem Brown! out.

[Andy Gilleand]

Glad you enjoy them, but I highly suggest buying the games if you enjoy the movies. The movies only show you the story, there's much more to the games!

[Andy Gilleand]

Drake and Elena got married between Uncharted 2 and 3. Drake left before the start of UC3 because Elena didn't want him to keep risking his life on adventures, but Drake couldn't give that up.

[Andy Gilleand]

She said having her ring helps in that part of the world. Not sure exactly, but maybe that society treats married women with more respect than single women.

They were married some time after UC2, but then after some time they separated before UC3 started, as I said, because Elena didn't approve of Drake risking his life all the time, but Drake couldn't stop.

Sully saved Drake's wedding ring. Drake thought he lost it after he left Elena, but was glad to see Sully had kept it safe for him.

[kenny larkin]

Looks like a good game but three hours!

[Twistedreturns]

I love these games and even though 3 wasn't quite as good as 2 I still think it's an amazing game in many ways. I can't wait for TLOU.

[shairo perez]

I have the game.but damn!3hours?

[maria p]

its amazing game!!!

[MayhemRaven01]

turn on caption!

[MayhemRaven01]

i beat the game of the year edition of uncharted 3 and i'm almost done with the regular uncharted 3.