Crysis 2 Writer: Uncharted 2 Has Best Storytelling

NG: Award-winning novelist Richard Morgan - who had nothing to do with the original Crysis - speaking exclusively to NowGamer, has revealed his belief that Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is all the proof you need to show that gameplay and great stories can and do go hand in hand...

[FangBlade]

Uncharted 2 probably has the best story, gameplay, graphics and sound this gen.
Unfortunately for him, I cant say the same thing for Crysis. I think no one can.
This dude needs to stfu he talks too much.

[hay]

Yup, too much talking, he's begging for a fail bulsh*tter when Crysis 2 comes out. Nothing justifies trash talking but this guy's story better be mindblowing or he'll soon be another Dyack or Greenberg.

[kratos123]

crysis only got graphics going fore it the game is soo boring such a bad replay valeu and no mp im still wondering to this day why it sold this much i trully dislike this game

[jimmins]

That Richard Morgan had NOTHING AT ALL to do with the original Crysis ;)

[Tachyon_Nova]

He is right, I believe. Uncharted 2's story is dished out almost perfectly, and the script is at the same level, if not even better than the story.

Why are you guys still bashing this guy when he just praised a game that I think we all know and love?

@1.0 - Why is it unfortunate for him? He didn't write anything for the original Crysis.

@1.2 - "and no mp" - Really? The only reason you could have missed the MP is if you pirated the game. Is that a confession? Or do you simply mean that you did not enjoy it?

[Syronicus]

He makes a solid point and yet a very obvious one. The PS3 owners know that Uncharted 2 is the best game on the maker to date and those who have not played it, well, I feel sorry for you.

Sure does make me wonder what Cold 2000 will say to this. He must be very upset that the writer did not mention an Xbox 360 game as being the best of anything.

[sikbeta]

Yep, UC2 is Just Awesome

[Downtown boogey]

but separately it doesn't have the best elements. MGS4 has a better story and so does Bioshock, Gears and Halo, I think, have better gameplay. Uncharted 2 is almost the ultimate mix (though the story is still shallow, yet well told). I also think that GoWIII and KZ2 have better graphics, too.

[nix]

even the girls sat and watched us play the game. it's got pretty good stroy/acting. and around that time came Demon's Souls too. i think DS was the best game i played last year.

[cayal]

What is it with the Crysis guys and all this talking?

Shut up and make the damn game.

[DaTruth]

I think DS was the best game I ever played! I had to fit in Uncharted 2 between Newgames.

[nix]

yup... i'm trying to think of other games which have had me sweat, whimper, shiver, think and cheer other than Demon's Souls.

God of War series were epic. i feel little dissatisfied with GOW3 though. maybe playing it again specially with that next dark costume might take care of it. i liked Folklore too. Uncharted 2 was brilliantly polished game though.

right now, i'm playing Yakuza 3. that's interesting too, specially with the RGP setup.

[ico92]

What Uncharted 2 lacks in complex storytelling something that is found in the MGS series it makes up for with superb voice acting and loveable , 3 dimensional characters.

[JsonHenry]

I played both of the Crysis games on the PC, and I would not hold my breath that the game is going to hold a candle to the story telling in UC2.

However! Gameplay in Crysis was incredible so at least I have faith the game will shine where it is most important - gameplay and fun factor.

[himdeel]

...so can I play this game with him? Sonic has the bluest fur & Starcraft Brood War was a Zerg Fest love in :)

Why is this news...I fault the people for approving this.

EDIT: Because all of the comments on DS. That game was a VERY PLEASANT surprise. It currently ranks tops in my list of favorite games. It clearly has pimped slapped Pitfall on the Atari 2600 off of my list :( Sorry Harry it's been fun.

[Will-UK]

I have played crysis & crysis warhead and i can truthfully say the story is crap this guy should work on improving the story line and stop talking.

[wicko]

And you should work on finding out who wrote crysis and crysis warhead, because it wasn't this guy.

Has no one seen the articles about the original crysis writer going to jail for "attacking" an american border guard?

[Will-UK]

Hence why I said "this guy should work on improving the story line"

but.. I never heard of the border police incident I will google that.

EDIT: http://www.1up.com/do/newsS... LOOOOL - I knew they employed a new writer but I never knew the other one went jail, from the article its not clear if he worked previous iterations.

[NeoBasch]

Well, he's taking inspiration from the right games at least. I'm interested to see what he does with Crysis 2. Sounds pretty epic. Stories have been remarkably absent this generation with First Person Shooters. I can recall Resistance: Fall of Man (just the original) and BioShock. That's about it. I don't know about you guys, but I really do want to see Crytek deliver on what they promise. Who wouldn't? Don't we all love gaming?

[wicko]

Well, sorry for assuming, but the way you wrote it seemed to imply that he shouldn't be one to talk, and a lot of other commentors have been saying that :p

[Darkstorn]

@1.0-
I have to disagree. Metal Gear Solid 4's story was much more involving, meaningful, and relevant.

MGS4's storyTELLING, on the other hand, was a bit confusing.

And what about Bioshock? I think that had some of the best storytelling around.

[Commander TK]

The Uncharted games have a great story, but it´s all about Metal Gear when it comes to story.

[AnttiApina]

Finally this guy isn't talking rubbish.

Uncharted's story may not have been original in an Indiana Jones sense, but it manages to capture and portray the story in an unique way.

[JL]

First off, I never got into the MGS series, just couldn't do it. The games didn't appeal to me (wasn't the game style or anything, cause I enjoy Splinter Cell and Hitman), thus I didn't play the new one either. However, I got a couple friends who were into it. One being a diehard fan of the series. And that die hard fan has told me on several occasions now that he was disappointed with MGS4. Repeatedly telling me this (it really irked him, cause he was so hyped for it). Saying the game sucked with all the extremely long cutscenes and saying the ending of the ongoing story didn't satisfy him. I'm going to take his word on that.

That being said, I don't think MGS can top UC's storyline. Maybe y'all just liked it more cause you were more invested in it after all those years of playing it? To me UC's story can't be topped by many games at all this generation. And overall, that game has to be the best all-around game this generation. Story's not topped by many at all. The gameplay is great and very few games have been more fun in that regards. And it's still one of (if not THE)best looking games this gen (that goes for both of them).

Now...how in the world are people leaving out Heavy Rain when talking about story? For me, that has to be the best storytelling this generation. It's like Memento meets Seven, just great storytelling. Though I will say the acting in UC tops HR's acting and I liked the characters better in UC as well. But in terms of sheer storytelling, Heavy Rain is way too amazing to have been completely skipped over in talking about great stories in games.

P.S. Also worth an honorable mention in my book is Valkyria Chronicles.

[sid4gamerfreak]

Im guessing you havent played crysis right? For you crysis is all about the graphics?

Talk about ignorance...

OT: Of course uncharted 2 has the best storytelling this gen, it was thoroughly engaging all the way through. I only hope devs learn from naugty dog and make great games for all of us to enjoy.

[Bolts]

Do we need a news post for each one of his comments? Stop approving this crap please because everything he said links back to the same god damn article. Someone is clearly milking this article to death.

[DARK WITNESS]

it's like he read the first paragraph in which this guy was ragging on halo and thought " cool, that is news ". so he posted it.

Then... he continued to read the article and came to the bit about killzone 2 " cool I will post that as well "..

And now he has got round to the next little bit.

[120FPS]

next on crysis 2 writer: i wipe my ass from back to front....

[gillri]

UC2 was a visual masterpiece, it was sooooooo polished and look ed fantastic

this gen I think UC2 is king of storytelling

[kraze07]

MGS4 say hello.

[duplissi]

mgs4 was great all round and is one of the best games ive ever played.
but to say it has the best storytelling is just ignorant (no offense intended) im not saying the story sucks in any way shape or form but it was bloated, there was just too much superfluous crap in it to justify that claim.

[nix]

i liked the Folklore story intriguing. probably creepier and weird than Tim Burton's movies.

EDIT:
@duplissi: i agree. the game was great, not doubt. but man.. the story just went on and on just to make us believe about the events.

@kraze (below): no dude, both of agree that the story was good but lemme borrow this line from 'duplissi' above: "...but it was bloated, there was just too much superfluous crap in it to justify that claim."

[kraze07]

So basically you guys are saying you didn't like the story because it had depth to it right? UC2's story is on the level of an Indiana Jones movie. The God of War series, Metal Gear Solid series, and Mass Effect Series all have better stories than UC2.

[duplissi]

k, now your twisting my words.... i did not say i didnt like the story in fact i loved mgs4 and the story was awesome, and i hate having to repeat myself: but it was BLOATED ie: there was too much that didnt need to be there... uncharted 2 doesnt have a better story per se but the presentation/method is better: it gets the job done well and efficiently.

and to be honest with you i didnt mind it being that way, ive been playing and loving metal gear since solid first came out in 98. metal gear wouldnt be metal gear without some of the nonsensical stuff anyway and i wouldnt have it any other way because it wouldnt be metal gear.

and btw a bloated story doesnt equate to "depth" (mgs4 was indeed deep)

[kraze07]

So how exactly does a story become better just for being simpler and more straight to the point? You see all the extra filler as unnecessary, but I see it as more depth to the story and the Metal Geat universe as a whole. The same thing happened with DBZ back in the days. People where always telling me there was too much talking involved in the show, but I always thought all the talking and filler added more life to the characters and made the story better.

That's like saying it's better to run through the main story of an RPG and just forget about the side quests because they make the story more 'bloated'. Some of us like all the extra padding added to the story.

[chidori666]

Richard Morgan"

this guy already bashed the halo and killzone 2..

is a fuk*ing troll.

[kraze07]

He didn't actually bash KZ2. Fanboys were just over-reacting to the comment he made.

[hay]

He didn't bash the Halo too for that matter.

[JL]

Yea he didn't ever slam KZ2. Not even sure that assumption came along because of fanboys overreacting. Simply that idea got passed around because of one site (a very poor writing site at that) that decided to flamebait the title saying he slammed the game. The only thing he said: At this point Crysis 2 surpasses Killzone 2 (talking about graphics).

As for Halo, he really did slam Halo (don't know where you got that he didn't Hay). He laid into it pretty good. Calling it "bullshit". Saying he didn't like the franchise at all. Saying the dialogue was crap, the characters were shallow, etc. And just that overall (from a writer's standpoint of course) the game was crap. So yes, he slammed Halo good.

He also laid into MW2 pretty good as well.

With all this talking though, he better damn well bring a great story and script to Crysis 2 or he's going to be laughed out of here.

[hay]

@x__JL__X: Here's what he said: "I don’t like the Halo series at all. Okay Halo is not actually bad, it’s just, you know, average. The reason that its fiction doesn’t work has nothing to do with the fact that you don’t get to see Master Chief’s face, it’s because of lines like ‘Okay … I’m gonna get up there and kill those guys’. Halo is full of these bullshit archetypal characters and there’s no real emotional effect."

The part he doesn't like it isn't really slamming. He's entitled to his own opinion, is asked and replies. Halo is average for him, which is hardly slamming.

@hay: "I don't like cats at all. They're average creatures. They tend to be cliched, sh*tting in the dish and their meows have no real emotional effect."

nowgamer.com: "hay the n4g user - kittens are sh*tty!"

Take that you filthy abominations! See?

[peeps]

wow theres certainly a lot of articles coming from the comments of one guy lmao can't all his comments have been summed up in a single article? instead we're getting several a day spamming this site.

it's funny watching fanboys from all sides critisise him one day and praise the next depending on what he said about what game lol

[THC CELL]

Wait till u see kill zone 3 and uncharted 3

Sony will shoot u down in flames

[kraze07]

Even though I love the KZ series I doubt KZ3 will be anything spectacular story wise. We can always hope though.

[AKS]

The rage against Crytek from some Sony diehards (and BTW I play the PS3 the most of all platforms, followed by PC) is puzzling. Crytek, one of the most technically gifted developers in the business, is constantly gushing about the PS3 and its games, INCLUDING IN THIS VERY ARTICLE. They are among the most pro-PS3 third party developers. What is so insulting or threatening that they are trying to top games like Killzone 2? They are comparing their project to Killzone 2 and Uncharted 2 because they consider them to be among the elite games that set the standards for console games, not because they hate them. It should be obvious enough by now that this author isn't shy about saying so if he had a problem with Killzone 2 or Uncharted 2. He certainly didn't pull any punches with Halo.

[Valkyre]

he trashed Killzone , he trashed Halo... but no1 can simply trash Uncharted 2 no matter how retarded he is! :P

[RagTagBnd445]

Funny, he never really said anything bad about Killzone, only about Halo.

[gillri]

@kraze07

I think MGS4 had a bit too mush baggage for my taste's, MGS1 had more skillfully woven narrative IMO

[venum]

At least, he's not killing every game.

For sure UC2 is a great game with a great story telling.

[AusWarrior]

Wasn't a big fan of MGS4's plot, it got too confusing and there was stuff put in there that wasn't really needed. Uncharted 2's on the other hand... absolutely astonishing. In my top 5 (maybe even 1) favourite games of this generation.

[kraze07]

MGS4's plot made perfect sense if you played the first 3 games and payed attention to what was going on. Not trying to bash UC2, but it was basically 'go and find this treasure before the wannabe hitler bad guy and his goons.'

[ps3hasnogamess]

Seriously is anyone still hyped for this game?

uncharted is always praised for graphics but its got the same design philosophy with the exception of linear platforming.

gears 2 looked about as good as a nextgen game could look....and that game is currently and will probably remain the best engine and textures of this gen...

you have to admit this ps3owners that gears 2 is up there with mgs4 and Uncharted, that's just my opinion.

[TheBand1t]

lol

[cyborg6971]

Seriously did you have to eat five bowls of dumba$$ cereal this morning.

[Kratos Spartan]

Your opinion will never be taken seriously. So stop trying. Just continue to be who you are, a troll in the open zone. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it is good entertainment. Be proud of who you are, you make people laugh by typing words in random order, and that's no easy task. So long as you stay in this zone.

;-)

[PS3 Supremacy]

There's a reason why it won countless GOTY awards last year....don't even remember the actual number anymore. But I guarantee you this, it was more GOTY awards than all 360 games combined since 2005.

Oh and your point of gears 2 looking as good as UC2....gears 2 can't even match UC1 so don't go there. I could pull out that website that shows screenshots for comparison, but I'm more than sure that you've seen them before. In fact, I'll bet that it haunts you in your nightmares.

Cry mooooaaaaarrr.

[el_nene_lindo]

why are you lying to yourself seriously gears of war 2 cant come even close on the graphics and textures and the gears of war story is STUPID AND CHEAP UNCHARTED 2 SH!TS ON THE QUEERS OF GAY STORY LINE EVEN THE MULTIPLAYER IS BETTER THN GEARS OF WAR 2 IT WAS LAGGY AND IN UNCHARTED IT WASNT BECAUSE IT HADED DEDICATED SERVES AND THE BEST THING IS IT WAS FREE!!!! THNX TOO PSN AND GEARS OF WAR IS P2P AND YOU PAY FOR XBOXLIVE WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWO YOU PAY FOR SH!TTY CONNECTION WOW PSN>XBL

[Convas]

This goes without saying. You're an idiot if you believe otherwise.

Uncharted 1&2, best games in the PS3 lineup, and one of my Favorite Series of all time. (How can you go wrong with the folks that created Crash Bandicoot?)

[Coffin87]

I gotta agree, the storytelling in U2 is just fantastic.
But WHO IS THIS GUY to tell us which AAA-games sucked and which didn't. o_O How dare he talk so much BS??

I think it's a pretty safe bet that the story in Crysis 2 will suck pretty much, I mean, after all, it's a graphics- and gameplay-driven Ego-shooter.

He should just shut his fu*kin face ...

[Darkfiber]

The storytelling was good, but only because they mocapped the actual actors. The story itself blew. It was almost exactly like the first one. No imagination.

[RadientFlux]

I disagree, I would easily put Mass Effect 1 or 2 above Uncharted 2 as best recent game storyline.

As for the best storyline of all time I would have to go with "Planescape Torment"

[RagTagBnd445]

Yeah, but he never said storyline only storytelling, there is quite a difference.

[bjornbear]

I agree though, U2 has some of the best STORYTELLING in any videogame i've ever seen =)

(now waits for people thinking STORYTELLING is the same as STORY to come in a disagree)

[Braid]

Seriously? Have you ever heard a game called... What was it, Metal Gear?

[TheBand1t]

I liked Uncharted's story telling better than Metal Gear's.

Sue me.

[AliTheBrit19]

Wow, sure if you say so LOL.

You know, I own Uncharted 2, and thoroughly enjoyed it, but all the damn worship this game has got, seriously like a constant barrage of fanboys with erections for the damn title calling it the best game ever... just makes me resent the game.

[mirroredderorrim]

The milks gone bad, Charlie Murphy.

[killalot100]

to me god of war has the best story telling so far. then metal gear and then uncharted on the ps3.

[TABSF]

Uncharted 2: AT is good but I preferred Uncharted: DF

All the people bashing Crysis probably have never played it, the replay value is amazing and even though I'm not a fan of the multiplayer many people are

Crysis and Crysis Warhead had and still has better graphics than any console game FACT

[PS360PCROCKS]

Finally this idiot found something to say that wasn't negative

[arakouftaian]

Is amazing and no game is this good in this department.

[Howiec30]

Get a grip with what your saying, have you actually played uc2! It's graphically superior to anything, let alone gears of war 2! Get real!!

[gtamike123]

First Crysis was bad
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[gtamike123]

Who liked the first Crysis? cause I didn't
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[RagTagBnd445]

Lol, every game has glitches.

[cmrbe]

U2 refined MGS4 storytelling with improved editing.

Lets wait and see how Crysis 2 fare. To be honest am more pumped up about Crysis 2 now than ever before. It sounds like its going to be a stellar FPS that will be a serious contender for best FPS this gen. Mark my words.

[swiftshot93]

Sure the story of Uncharted 2 isnt on the same level of MGS or Bioshocl, but the story complements the game universe perfectly. Anything more or less wouldnt be right.

Furthermore, as mentioned, its the story-telling in U2 that makes the narrative so strong. It really made me love the characters so much, which made the gameplay resonate with me even more. Oh ya, and U2 also has a perfect ending unlike most games this generation.

[ScoobyDrew]

this guy and turn 10 must be butt buddies or something

[dkgshiz]

The 1st one wasn't even that good.

[seinfan]

Crysis 2 writer: I took a sh!t just now.
Crysis 2 writer: I wiped myself.
Crysis 2 writer: Kitchens are where women should stay.
Crysis 2 writer: 2 + 2 is 4.
Crysis 2 writer: why are you still reading these articles?

[Claudinho69]

mgs more deph in story

[Reeperdotcom]

....the PS3 plays games...continue with your day, thank you.

[PSWarlord]

I love Uncharted but MGS easily has the best story in a video game evaaaaaaaaaaaaa. The story in MGS4 is better than 99.9% off movies out in the last decade.

[kraze07]

You speak the truth. Not only it the story great, but the storytelling is also top notch.