Uncharted 3 celebrates birthday with a Nathan Drake figure

By: Musa Afridi

  |   November 3rd, 2012   |  

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Naughty Dog team up with Sideshow Collectibles to bring the Premium Format Figure to the gaming world and is sure to have fans of the series collecting their jaws up from off the floor.

When it comes to exclusives, Sony leads the pack with the likes of Killzone, Resistance and Gran Turismo, as well as Heavy Rain, LittleBigPlanet and God of War. However, the star of the PlayStation brand has to be the Uncharted series which has established itself as one of the biggest titles in the industry.

Not only that but Naughty Dog managed to raise the bar and set the benchmark in terms of production values for the medium, a trend that is being picked up on by other developers with Tomb Raider and Hitman: Absolution going out of their way to emulate the series.

The first game flew under the radar when it was released, with not as many people playing the game as Naughty Dog would have hoped but the breakthrough came with Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, which has been hailed as one of the finest gaming experiences ever.

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception was released to positive reviews and although it did not see the leap in visuals that the first two games saw, it still managed to have plenty of memorable moments, including that insane sequence on the cargo plane.

However, one year on and Naughty Dog are in the mood to celebrate, with Eric Monacelli, the community strategist at the studio, getting fans all excited about the game that sold nearly 4-million copies since its release.

He said, “Today we are celebrating by unveiling a long standing project. It’s a beauty.” Before continuing, “We teamed up with Sideshow Collectibles to produce this Nathan Drake Premium Format Statue.”

The competition to give one away will not be live until the 7^th of November, which will give one lucky winner the statue of Nathan Drake jumping over a relatively large rock type ruin thing.

However, everyone else can pre-order the figure next year when sideshow collectibles makes it available for advance bookings. Apart from the main prize, Naughty Dog are also giving away four Collector’s Editions of Uncharted 3 to the runner’s up as well.

At the same time the studio also teased another Uncharted project, which participants would get a look at upon entering the competition, which ends in December.

Nathan Drake has become the poster boy of the PlayStation brand and Naughty Dog seem keen to celebrate that fact.

Will you be entering the competition to win yourself the Nathan Drake figure? Or are you more interested in the announcement? Or maybe even considering pre-order the figure when it becomes available?

Let us know what your Uncharted related plans are in the comments section below.