The report from the closed action in honor of the beginning of sales of game Uncharted 4

Already on May 10, the adventure game Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Uncharted 4: The Path of the Thief in Russian Localization) for the Sony PlayStation 4 game console will be on sale. It will complete the story of adventurer Nathan Drake and give the fans a lot of new vivid impressions. In honor of the start of sales of the game in Russia, Sony organized a private party for media representatives, including our website. Our freelance correspondent Vladimir Kuznetsov visited the event and is ready to tell us about what he saw and heard. I give the floor to him.

The modern gaming industry reluctantly relies on the lucrative and favorite in the people of the game series to rest, coming up with seemingly endless sequels and spin-offs, splicing games with DLC packets and unbearable microtransactions. Against this backdrop, the developers' statement from the Naughty Dog studio that Uncharted 4 will complete the story of Nathan Drake and put an end to the series, which became the main symbol of two generations of Sony consoles, sounded unexpectedly for everyone without exception. What's going to end the "thief's way", we'll be able to find out already on May 10, but now I'll tell you about the event held in the Moscow film club "Wick", where for a week and a half before the release of the game, on Friday, April 29, closed presentation of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, and we simply could not bypass this event by party!

The event in honor of the launch of the game took place in a warm enough, you can even say a friendly atmosphere. At the entrance, representatives of the media needed to register, after which they were handed a white package with the PlayStation symbols, inside of which lay a press kit with the final version of the game ("press kit" - special edition of the game for journalists). To be honest, at that moment I wanted to quit all my business and jerk home to enjoy the finale of my favorite game series, but the journalist's duty took over me, so it was decided to stay until the end of the event. As it turned out later, the decision was the right one.

In the cinematics room where the event was taking place, here and there you could meet guys in the image of the protagonist of the game Nathan Drake. Even the DJ behind the mixer console was wrapped in a drachante from Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, and on his neck hung a Nate ring engraved on him with the slogan SIC PARVIS MAGNA ("great begins with small" - lat.). Guests of the event were willingly photographed against the background of the stand with the symbols of the game, and the whole hall was decorated with screenshots from Uncharted 4, neatly inserted into the photo frames, making them look like real photos. To brighten up the expectation of the beginning of presentation it was possible with the help of free snacks and drinks. Guests all continued to arrive, and among them one could notice not the last people in the domestic gaming industry. For example, I saw idols of all 90 gamers without exception: Bonus (Boris Repetur) and Gamover (Anton Zaitsev) from the legendary program "From the Screw!".

When, at last, all gathered, journalists were invited to a cozy cinema hall, where the general manager of PlayStation in Russia, Sergei Klisho, spoke before them. Sergey sincerely was glad that the Uncharted series is loved by Russian gamers. That is why to promote the fourth part of the series in Russia it was decided to position not just as another game, but as a product created and painstakingly adapted, including for the Russian market. After all, even in the official Uncharted comic series, Nathan Drake went in search of the legendary amber room, once donated to Peter I and lost during the Great Patriotic War. After completing his speech, Sergei invited everyone to see the specially created for this event film about the Uncharted series with comments from developers and leading Russian game journalists. It felt like the film lasted about 40 minutes, but he looked in one breath. Sooner or later it will be put on the Web, so I strongly recommend that you familiarize yourself with this video. It's worth it.

Then began what for what we are all here, in fact, and gathered. Present was given the opportunity to be one of the first in Russia to try out the game not yet on sale. Nobody warned us that we played the full final version of Uncharted 4, so I did not stop and ran through two chapters. Only after that came the realization that it is almost impossible to break away from the fascinating gameplay. Immediately striking is the fact that the relationship of the protagonists of the game, the brothers Nathan and Sam Drake, will be allotted a lot of playing time. And as in the present tense, and in the distant past. The game camera has become even more cinematic and snatches away so spectacular camera angles that you want to literally scream with delight. Significantly evolved and the melee system, and the quality of the artistic setting of the game soared simply to an unattainable height. Coupled with the attention paid by Naughty Dog to the details, in the game you can spend hours and hours admiring the stunningly beautiful game environment and magnificent landscapes. In the very near future my colleague Sergey Gray will publish on our site the detailed review of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, in which he will share his personal impressions with you. So stay tuned.

After such an emotional shake-up, I again began to stir up the desire to drop everything and fly all the way home, where I could start playing the game already in the familiar surroundings, but the cunning organizers from Sony still did not want to let us go. First they arranged a competition for knowledge of the Uncharted series, and then held a lottery among all those present, prizes in which were several pairs of headphones Sony In-ear Stereo Headset and other equally interesting gifts. The surprises did not end there, and a cake made in the style of Uncharted 4 was brought into the hall of the cinema club "Wick". It was a pity to cut this beauty, but it was necessary, because the guests had already started to argue about which of them would get the right to bite off the figure of Nathan Drake.

The bright presentation came to an end and smoothly flowed into unhurried communication between fellow journalists, during which we shared impressions from the newly tested game and emotions from the event as a whole. Many of those present remembered their first acquaintance with the Uncharted series, and hardly anyone among us was indifferent to the adventures of the adventurer and joker Nathan Drake and his friends. Until May 10 there are only a few days, so I advise fans of the series to be patient. Everything will happen very soon, and you will finally find out what will be the end of the fascinating history of the Uncharted series, the development of which we have been closely following for almost ten years.

The article is based on materials https://hi-news.ru/games/otchyot-s-zakrytogo-meropriyatiya-v-chest-nachala-prodazh-igry-uncharted-4.html.